On Tuesday, the board of directors of Ente Bacini unanimously adopted the 2024 financial statements, which reported a net profit of 960 thousand euros and an operating margin gross of 4.4 million. In 2024, the company, which manages five dry docks in the ship repair area of the port of Genoa, set an all-time record for revenues to 15.4 million euros.

"We have approved - underlined the president Daniela Boccadoro Ameri - the fourth consecutive balance sheet that closes in positive, after several years of difficulty. Reach this result thanks to the sharing of intentions with companies ship repair customers, with workers and trade unions and with Port System Authorities which has never failed us to support and which is preparing to renew the concession until December 2029, ensuring the stability necessary for Ente Bacini and the entire cluster of ship repairs".

"We are - added the CEO Alessandro Terrile - particularly satisfied with the results obtained. Per end of this cycle, the company has completed the economic and managerial recovery, bringing back to full operation of all basins and quays used for ship repairs. Since 2020, the company has doubled its turnover, and in the last three years it has generated profits for over four million euros. In the year of its centenary of the Institution Bacini can look to the future with serenity of the shipbuilding industry, in which he played a role as a protagonist, thanks above all to the professionalism and to the constant commitment of its workers to whom our thanksgiving".

Last year, 58 ships, for an occupation of 1,374 days. In the same period they moored at the quays managed by the company 112 boats, for a presence of 3,003 days.

On June 26, the shareholders' meeting of Ente Bacini, the whose share capital is almost entirely owned of the Port System Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea, will be called upon to approve the budget and to renew the governance of the company.