Fincantieri

Fincantieri is a company of Naval construction Italy whose seat is located at Trieste. It belongs to the company Fintecna (controlled by the Italian ministry of the economy), heiress of the public industry group IRI (Istituto per the ricostruzione industriale).

Its activities are the Naval construction: military ships, special ferries and ships, naval repair and the transformation of any type of ships as well as the manufacture of diesel engines, harness and system of weapons.

The Fincantieri building sites are distributed on several sites depending on three directions:

Direction cruising ships: Monfalcone, Marghera (Venice) and Sestri, district of Genoa;
Direction ships of transport: Ancône, Castellammare di Stabia and Palermo
Direction military ships: Muggiano and Rivetted Trigoso.

Fincantieri was established under its current form in 1959. It entered the Années 1980 in the market of the cruising ships of which it holds approximately 40% of the worldwide market (of many beds). In addition to the cruising ships, of which it is one of the world leaders, the company built all types of ships for the Italian navy, of which the Porte-aéronefs Garibaldi .

The building site of Monfalcone, which employs approximately 2.000 people, is one of the shipyards largest of Europe, with a Cale dries 350 meters length, 56 meters of broad, able to receive ships up to 300.000 deadweight tonnage.

Some figures

2002

Effective: 11.000 employees
Turnover: 2,2 billion euros
Bottom line: 77 million euros

See too

Fincantieri, official site

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