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Beautiful and well done, in Genoa the made in Brescia rides the wave.
Eight exhibitors from the province present at the Boat Show. Sector with the wind in its sails Genoa. We return to "flying", with the awareness that we can all, at least at the five days of the Salone. You can do it by opening your eyes to the long wave of "pearls" of the sea on the catwalk anxious to get in the sea and sail, fascinating boats, capable of highlighting skill, innovative skills and quality of "Made in Italy", in one sector, the nautical one for pleasure, now for four years freed from the winds of crisis and the shoals that held its business prisoner. In short, we are back to growing with the wind at our backs, in the knowledge that in the superyacht sector, Italian shipyards collect 46% of world orders. He lifted sails yesterday in Genoa and will continue until September 24, the 59th edition of the Boat Show inaugurated by the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Paola De Micheli, the most visited in the Mediterranean, with 8 companies from our province on the catwalk under the lantern a shipbuilder and seven companies specializing in accessories and components.
These are the Besenzoni of Paratico, the Catenificio Rigamonti of Travagliato, the Foresti & Suardi of Adro, the Italian metal Work of Corte Franca, the Marco of Castenedolo, the Maxi Dolphin of Erbusco, Monteisola Corde di Corte Franca and Union Battery Service of Desenzano .

The figures
Numbers in hand, that of Genoa, is confirmed as an exhibition world-wide with around 180 thousand expected visitors, 968 exhibitors, of which just under 50% from abroad, over 1,000 boats, 200 thousand square meters of exhibition area of ​​which 100 thousand sqm in the water. We are therefore back on the crest of the wave, supported by more than objective numbers and double figures. "The global turnover of the sector in 2018 - explained Saverio Cecchi, president of Ucina (Confindustria Nautica - amounted to 4.27 billion euros, with + 10.3% on 2017, a significant growth for the fourth consecutive year , with an increase of 75% from 2013 and excellent prospects for the current year: white smoke also for the number of employees in the nautical sector with 184,000 total employees, of whom 17,000 in construction and 106,000 in subcontracting, as well as on the performance of the domestic market, with a + 10.7% ".

The point
The economic picture of the nautical industry therefore confirms the general state of health of the sector, with good sales performance for Italian shipyards. "The marine industry confirms to be one of the most important levers of development, including employment, even if it has no access to the sea", explains Luciano Paissoni of Foresti & Suardi of Adro and director of Ucina, "and Lombardy with a value of 2 billion and 208 million euros added and 34 thousand employed, maintains the leadership among the regions in Italy. More than substantial data, made possible by the investments made by our companies to create Made in Italy products of quality, functionality and design, in short, the beautiful and well-done that the global market seems to appreciate ». And among the innovations made in Brescia on the catwalk in Genoa, the only company specializing in the construction of boats, "Maxi Dolphin" of Erbusco, stands out. It has the brand new MD62ab in super technological carbon, a sailboat of 18, in the building line 89 meters long that will be launched by the end of the year, with shopping already separated by a Uruguayan shipowner. A boat for ocean crossings born from the pencil of the Argentine naval designer Alessandro Bottino. So the calm returns to Genoa, even some clouds remain for the flat rate of Ferretti Group and therefore of Riva, the luxurious Sebino brand. Weichai is a business strategy for the Romagna-based Group flying the Chinese flag in favor of the Cannes Motor Show held from September 10th to 15th, where they put a battleship of 26 boats into the water, but it is not inconceivable that the black smoke under the Lanterna can also be traced back to the long-standing «grain» that has grown between Ucina (which organizes the Genoa Motor Show) and the alternative Nautica Italiana association, of which Ferretti and then Riva are part. Too bad, we would have had the chance to appreciate the novelty 2019, the 48 foot «Dolceriva», 14.63 meters in production in Sarnico.