In the first half of 2024, the value of new orders forfeited by the Italian shipbuilding group Fincantieri has reached a new half-year record having amounted to 7.62 billion euros, with an increase of +257.1% over the first six months of 2023. The historical peak was marked thanks to the new record in the shipbuilding sector that has totaled new Orders of €6.69 billion (+505.3%) in the wake of orders for six new cruise ships issued to the company by the American group Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, with to which a letter of intent for the construction of the four other large cruise ships, Orders for two cruise ships plus an option for a third units issued by Crystal Cruises and orders for two ships Viking. To these orders, in the six-month period in course, the relevant order has been added in recent days of the American Carnival Corporation for three cruise ships of 230 thousand tons.

In the first half of this year, orders in the Systems, components and infrastructures have increased as they have amounted to 493 million euros (+28.9%), while those in the Offshore and special vessels decreased by -6.7% having been equal to to 762 million.

In the first half of this year, the group's revenues Fincantieri remained stable at 3.68 billion of euros (+0.3%), with a contribution of €2.76 billion (-7.1%) from the Shipbuilding segment, including €1.83 billion (-7.0%) related to cruise ships and 906 million (-6.8%) to military ships, of 582 million (+20.9%) from the Offshore and special vessels segment and 647 million (+20.0%) from the Systems, components and infrastructure segment. Group EBITDA totalled €214 million (+15.6%), with contributions of 172 million (-4.9%), 26 million respectively (+36.8%) and 40 million (+498.1%) from the three main segments of activity. Fincantieri recorded an EBIT of 91 million (+26.4%) and a negative profit for the year of -27 million compared to -22 million in the first half of 2023.