Today the Management Committee of the System Authority Port of the Eastern Ligurian Sea has unanimously approved Requests for maritime state concessions in the hands of San Lorenzo, Baglietto and The Italian Sea Group shipyards that represent a world excellence in the nautical sector of luxury, with a production of super and mega yachts with lengths from 50 up to 140 meters.

The harbour authority has specified that the approval of the Concessions takes into account business plans concerning future investments of over 75 million euros to be carried out by 2030. In addition, the total investments made in the territory in a coastline of 30 kilometers from Marina di Carrara to La Spezia (infrastructure, basins, docks, technologies and energy efficiency) amounted to over 114 million euros.

The occupational repercussions - it has emphasized again the AdSP - have seen a significant increase in the labour used, not only numerically, with about 1,000 direct employees employed in today from the three construction sites and about 2,900 generated in the related industries, but also from the point of view of the high specialization achieved that has put in the field new and increasingly sought after professionalism specifications that led companies to engage with activities dedicated training. Estimated direct employment growth at the end of the new business plans envisaged is around to 600 units in total.

The president of the AdSP, Mario Sommariva, has expressed "great Satisfaction with today's result, which represents a step important for the industrial development of the territory and for the economy of our country in which shipbuilding excellence represents an increasingly important slice. Give certainty and perspective to such an important sector - he added - it means creating new opportunities for our young people for which it is essential to develop training initiatives in all levels. Training is the real keystone of the future'.