The shipbuilding society genoese Friend & Co has inaugurated one covered and which air-conditioned basin of 102 meters



Today, to fulfillment of a cycle of investments in seven infrastructures million euro in the last year and means that sum to the precedence for a total of 13 million in four years and means, planned, realized and put in production in 16 months, with the potenziamento of the system electrical worker passing from 1,9 MW to 5,3 MW of installed power, graces also to the contribution of the resources of "POR CRO Region Liguria 2007-2013".

In occasion of the inauguration the company, than with the two Yards of Genoa (Friendly & Co) and Loano (Friendly Loano) work in refit and the service to the yachts from the 30 to the 140 meters, has explained that refit and the service constitutes only a part of the operating services that can be supplied to the mega-yachts and that they represent world-wise a market the much wide - of the value of about 20 billion euros and in constant increase - comprising shipbuilding one, the services to earth, the professionalities of edge and tourism. The president of Friend & Co, Alberto Amico, and the managing director of the society, Bruno Guglielmini, has evidenced that therefore the opportunities of market for the activity of Friend correspond to concrete and remarkable occasions of development for all the genoese and regional productive row, which has least the important potentialities today taken advantage of: to pick such occasions - they have found - means to approach a market that, for the complementary activities to the refit, can generate a volume of transactions pairs to about eight times the value of the refit same.

"The prelocated institutions to the government of the territory, Region, Municipality and Harbour Authority - they have observed Friendly and Wilhite - would have to our warning to place detail attention to the necessities of a field that is able to guarantee job and development and can, therefore, to represent a strategic factor for the entire from Liguria economy".

"Genoa, inside this system - they have continued - can become a home port of absolute excellence in Mediterranean area: today we have an occasion important in order to achieve this objective through the choices that will have to be made, for example, on topics which I redesign of the waterfront of East and I use it of the nautical dock. To win on a total market as this is very more than a possibility: all it depends on the answers that we will be able to debit".

Explaining that Friendly & Co is beginning to pick the opportunity of the world-wide market of refit and the service of megayacht, ships from diporto between the 60 and 140 meters, and that from september today 50 meters from the company are the already 17 store clerks on acquired ships over, Friend and Wilhite but have denounced the sparsity of areas on hand in order to support this development: we are forced - they have specified - "in a space much limiting regarding the productive necessities, our main competitors in the world have spaces from two to four advanced times. We have ready - they have announced - new an important cycle of investments in infrastructures, and we have already partially introduced to concrete proposed Harbour Authorities on basins, new productive areas and nautical dock".

"But future ours and of the field - they have said the managers of Friend & Co - it depends on the choices and from the decisions of politics, or better of the local institutions, which we ask: to recognize the strategicità of this field; translate in facts this appraisal, that in concrete terms it means - for Harbour, Common Authority and the Region - to find the points of balance between the various present activities in the waterfront of East. Contrasts between construction and repair of commercial ships, construction and repair of yacht, nautical circles do not exist in fact - they have found - and exhibition manifestations dedicated to the nautical one".

"Always they have existed and they will continue to exist - they have supported Friendly and Wilhite - attempts of instrumentalization of what it would have to be a healthy one I confront, that they hide solo from weaknesses, or attempts to hold all arrest warrant to advantage of little, to defense of a situation rent that does not exist more, or to prevent than to grow to who of it has the ability. They are decades that the world is changed and is continuing to change, not to Genoa. We depend on the will to give a sudden turn to this system and to put to I yield the more precious good that we have, the territory and the productive areas, measuring the various projects that are proposed with the meter of the enterprise plans, of the real market. We expect - they have concluded - than the proposals of the institutions for the management and development models, on important topics which I redesign of the waterfront, I use it of the nautical dock and the privatization of the dry docks, is sustainable regarding the rules of the total market, gives certainties for uses it of infrastructures, affords to the companies to carry out the necessary investments".