Fanpei (CSSC): with the assistance of Carnival/Costa and Fincantieri we are equipping us of the entire industrial chain for the construction of cruise ships



"The income of Lowers Is Shipbuilding Corporation in the field of the cruises in partnership with Carnival Corporation/Costa Group and Fincantieri is a strategic decision that it has received particular attention and a strong support from the leaders of the Chinese and Italian government". She has emphasized today Fanpei, chairman of the Chinese navalmeccanico group Lowers Is Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), taking part to the forum from the title "The Lower businesses relationship - partnerships building the future" in development near the Palace of the Conferences of the Marine Station promoted Trieste and from the Foundation Italy China and the Costa Crociere group in collaboration with PwC Italy.

In last the five years, in fact, the crocieristico group Carnival American with its brand Coast and the navalmeccanico group Italian Fincantieri has signed a series of agreements with group CSSC and the Chinese authorities in order to assist China to develop a cluster dedicated to the field of the cruises and to the construction of cruise ships(on 16 October and 21 November 2014, 27 January and 21 October 2015, 4 July and 23 september 2016, 22 6 February 2017 and November 2018). "Through partnership with companies international leader as these - She has specified Fanpei - we construct an entire industrial chain that includes the design and the shipbuilding, operations and supply chain, and promuoviamo with an increase of the industrial system creating a vituous ecosystem for a sustainable increase of the crocieristico field".

"Never as in this moment - it has emphasized the managing director of Fincantieri, Giuseppe Bono, taking part to the forum - China is an important interlocutor to total level in the economic and industrial scene and, graces also to the optimal developed institutional relationships in the years between the two countries, have characterized in Italy a preferential partner. The new Via of the Silk is the way chosen from China for its expansion in the world from Asia, to Africa, Europe and in such context - Bono has explained - Fincantieri for a long time has caught a glimpse the extraordinary potentialities of partnership industrial represented by this great Country. Acting as first moving in navalmeccanico within in fact, we have credited ourselves as the group that will collaborate with China for the creation of local a shipbuilding industry and for the development of a supply chain dedicated to the crocieristiche activities, but also shipbuilding and marine in general terms. Through these joint venture in fact Fincantieri today it is able to create in China ulterior opportunity of development also for the small and averages Italian enterprises of induced own, consolidating with success the relationships with the greater groups of the field in China, and at the same time to continue to equally make in the West, taking advantage of the boom of acquired the crocieristico section and maintaining the leadership".

"It is meaningful moreover - it has continued Bono - than for this ambitious project China has chosen the two better present players on the market: Fincantieri as industrial partner and Carnival for the shipowning part, world leader in the crocieristico field and main customer of Fincantieri. Such joint venture today represents one of the main operations of industrial collaboration between China and Italy and will be able to in future allow the new development partnership between the two societies". "The Chinese project - it has concluded bono - is huge and a not to be missed opportunity for Europe because it does not go forgotten that China is a complex and interested country to the unit, the autonomy, the competitiveness of Europe and this strengthens the importance for Italy to look today more than ever in that direction".

In the course of the forum it is evidenced that in the period 2000-2017 China has invested 13,7 billion euros in Italy placing it to the third party place which European nation of destination of the Chinese resources after Reign Unito and Germany. Moreover, second the data elaborated from the Foundation Italy China, are beyond 600 the Italian companies to vital Chinese mainly in the key sectors of the Made in Italy and these companies generate almost turnover 18 billion euros and employ more than 30 thousand employee. But very advanced they are the Chinese companies to vital Italian: beyond 2.000 for a total of 160.000 dependent in China and total turnover of 25 billion euros. They do not go then underrated the benefits deriving from the commercial between the two Countries, consolidated by now over the threshold of 50 billion dollars annual and which marked interchange from a trend of increase of the Italian exports greater regarding the increase of the imports from China.

Moreover it is emphasized as in China, between the markets to greater increase, is that tourist. In particular, the crocieristico field has lived in a drawn closer span of time the huge and fastest increase, to the extent that China has all papers in order in order to become the more important pole to the world with very 20 million passengers in 2030, pairs to 10 times or those almost current ones. "The market of the cruises in China - it has specified the managing director of the group Costa and Carnival Asia, Michael Thamm - has begun to develop itself from 2006, thanks to the arrival of Coast. A company expression of the Italian excellence that they give then has contributed to a remarkable increase: in the 2018 Chineses in cruise have been 2,5 million. The potential one of future development is still enormous: the crocieristi in China represent less at the moment of 2% of the Chineses who make vacations abroad".