Today, the Port System Authority of the Adriatic Sea Centrale and Fincantieri have signed a program agreement to promote the development of the port of Ancona through the Strengthening of the local plant of the Navalmeccanica Company with the upgrading of its infrastructures - quays of equipment, dry dock, technological and lifting - in order to allocate them to the construction of larger ships and tonnage both in the cruise and merchant shipping.

The value of the investment project is €80 million €40 of which came from public funding and (€20 million) for the construction of a new quay and (20 million) to extend the dry docking, including through the securing of the breakwater ( of 21 September 2020). The remaining €40 million will be invested by Fincantieri as part of the procedure for the issuance of the new concession for the next 40 years and will cover the development of the shipbuilding industry in the port of Ancona. In In particular, the company's investment consists of aimed at achieving the highest production and quality levels, in the light of the best standards international trade unions, and this within the framework of the principles of better environmental sustainability and greater protection of the job security.

Today's programme agreement, which has been signed the Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Fincantieri, Pierroberto Folgiero, and the President of the Port Authority, Vincenzo Garofalo, Follow-up to the Memorandum of Understanding for Infrastructure Investments for the development of shipbuilding in the port of Ancona in 2018 signed between the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Transport and the same Authority which was followed by the Ministerial Decree approving the public funding of €40 million.

Garofalo stressed that it is "an agreement and a investments that will have a strong impact on development prospects future of the port of Ancona, with positive economic and on the city and the territory. Fincantieri, one of the The main protagonists of the airport - he pointed out - confirms this its confidence in the possibilities for growth and Upgrading of the Dorico plant and the entire infrastructure port'.

"This agreement," commented Folgiero, "underlines the our ability to invest in the Italian system and to create value for the territory and for the entire shipbuilding sector naval'.