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Orobica boating with the stern wind prepares for the season of boat shows.

With the positive wind the «flight» of the made in Italy yachts continues while the route is now oriented towards the international autumn salons real test to drive off the nightmare of turbulence in a sector returned in recent years brilliant and healthy. The Italian marine industry and therefore also the Bergamo one, toast to a more than positive 2019, with a projection of + 5% on the long wave of a consolidated growth which in 2018 reached a +9.5 compared to 2017.

A sector dedicated to luxury that guarantees employment of just under 17,500 workers in the shipbuilding industry and 106 thousand in subcontracting to construction sites, accessories and components, with the province of Bergamo surprising for a sixth national place (a record for a territory non-marine and only lapped by a lake, compared to the traditional strongholds of the construction sites) with 6,600 employees in the whole sector.

And Luciano Paissoni, managing director of Foresti & Suardi and councilor of UCINA (Confindustria Nautica) based in Genoa, spoke on the prospects for the coming months: "We are increasingly a vital sector for the country's economy and the general outlook is interesting, but market trends will be strategically marked by autumn saloons that will sail in the fall starting from the Cannes Yachting Festival, from 10 to 15 September, at the 59th Genoa Boat Show with 180 thousand visitors, scheduled from 19 to 24 September, then Montecarlo, with the Monaco Yacht Show from September 25th to 28th and finally the Dusseldorf Boat Show, from January 18th to 24th 2020, the four main references able to open up perspectives on orders for shipbuilders and suppliers ". Riva at Cannes but not at Genoa is among the Top Bergamo player dominates among the shipbuilders Riva di Sarnico (Ferretti Group), which once again turns its back on Genoa sailing for Cannes, where it will moor with 26 Ferretti boats, including the Riva 90 Argo (just under 30 meters) for the first time on the catwalk on the French Riviera.
While in Montecarlo, 6 hulls will dock, including the 50-meter Riva «Race» launched this year in the Superyacht Division and produced in Ancona.
In Genoa, Sessa Marine's Cividate al Piano boats from Bergamo will not be missing, and Chiuduno's Rio Yachts will be present, with Sessa presenting the project for the new KL37 Open sports model in Duesseldorf in France. While Rio Yachts, will bring 4 boats under the Lantern, including the new Sport Coupè 56, a 17 meters. Paola Barcella, Marketing Rio intervenes on the prospects «We want to continue the sales growth trend for the nautical year 2018-2019, marked by a + 10% compared to the previous year and with increasing attention to the foreign market, United States in 2020 first and foremost. "

The news from the accessories.
Stern even among the accessory manufacturers and orobic component manufacturers, many of whom besides Cannes and Genoa, will be on the catwalk at the Mets in Amsterdam from 19 to 21 November.
"Besenzoni, CEO of Besenzoni di Sarnico, explains in Cannes, we will focus on the revolving staircase" SP 600 G a revolutionary solution with automatic movement that combines the function of a catwalk ".
Then Foresti & Suardi Predore, focused on furnishings in general, ideas for lighting and deck accessories, with CEO Luciano Paissoni, who emphasizes: "We are waiting for the Salons aware of the positive trend that has allowed us to store 2018 up, + 16% compared to 2017 and with the prospect of closing 2019 with + 10% of the business on 2018, for a total turnover of around 13 million euro for 50% linked to exports Claudio Belotti, Telgate's owner of Italian Propellers, concludes which produces marine propellers: "Unthinkable not to exhibit at the Genoa Boat Show, a crossroads to present to the professionals quality propellers also for large yachts".