World
leader in the construction of cruise ships, Fincantieri is also a major
player in other sectors, ranging from cruise ferries to megayachts and
naval vessels. With a record 7,000 vessels built in over two hundred
years since the company was founded, the company is heir to the great
tradition of Italian shipbuilding.
Fincantieri Group comprises two design centres, (Trieste, Genoa), eight
shipyards in Italy (Monfalcone-Gorizia, Marghera-Venice, Sestri Ponente-Genoa,
Muggiano-La Spezia, Riva Trigoso-Sestri Levante, Ancona, Castellammare
di Stabia-Naples, Palermo), four yards in the USA (in the region of
the Great Lakes), and a number of subsidiaries, including: Fincantieri
Marine Group, Isotta Fraschini Motori, Orizzonte Sistemi Navali, Cetena-Centro
per gli Studi di Tecnica Navale, Seastema, Delfi.
Fincantieri works in a range of different sectors as one single company
where technologies and solutions from activities in the military and
merchant fields are brought together to develop cutting edge, innovative
products. Indeed, transfer of know-how between one sector and another
is strategic and constitutes one of the company’s strengths. In-company
synergy and a flexible production system enable Fincantieri to contain
production time scales and balance workloads among the Group’s
shipyards thereby strengthening the company’s competitive edge.
Furthermore, Fincantieri, with an autonomous business unit, focused
solely on designing and building yachts over 70 metres with the complete
spectrum of skills needed to develop and deliver first-class luxury
yachts.
Fincantieri Yachts has delivered last year the “Serene”,
a 134m yacht, considered a masterpiece for level of luxury, quality
and technical challenge.
Fincantieri Yachts is currently working on another mega yacht of 140
meters in length, the “Victory”.
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FINCANTIERI
In the Naval Business Field
In the military field, Fincantieri is a reference
operator worldwide offering a wide range of ship types including
surface vessels, submarines and special ships. In Italy the company
is the reference partner of the Italian Navy, the Coastguards and
other public bodies for the design, the construction and logistic
support of the surface fleet, main auxiliary vessels and submarines.
Fincantieri follows the ships built by the company throughout their
working lives by planning maintenance work and execution of ordinary,
extraordinary work or refitting either at Fincantieri’s yards
or at the customer’s facility. The customer is provided with
full logistical support including crew training,
technical assistance and supply of spare parts.
Technology, innovation and customization are the cornerstones of working
in the military field. There has now been an upturn in this sector
and the time and resources Fincantieri has invested in marketing and
design work have been successful in terms of orders with naval work
making up approximately 50% of the Group’s activities compared
to 20% previously. The company’s success is also due to the
fact that it offers both well proven designs and new concept projects
in which many foreign Navies (India, Iraq, Turkey, UAE, USA)
have expressed interest.
In general many Navies need to renew their fleets and accordingly
there are signs of recovery especially in nations which are unable
to meet their needs given the absence or unsuitability of the local
shipbuilding industry.
This is why Fincantieri has doubled its efforts putting in bids for
numerous tenders some of which have already been highly successful
– as in Algeria, that has ordered a Landing
and Logistical Support Vessel – whilst others have still to
be adjudicated (Brazil), in order to increase its
share of the international market, thereby carrying on the company’s
great tradition in this sector.
However there are still difficulties in executing the orders as budget
constraints in defence spending often lead to expenditure reviews,
delays and postponements both for new national and foreign programmes.
This means it is necessary to monitor alternative fields of work and
improve the competences available by gaining orders in contiguous
sectors. In this respect Fincantieri recently gained important orders
for a series of multi-purpose tug, supply and support vessels for
offshore platforms for German and Italian owners and a ship to transport
nuclear fuel and radioactive waste from dismantling Russian submarines
ordered on the back of agreements between G8 nations.
Since the beginning of 2009, the group has also been working in the
USA through its subsidiary, Fincantieri Marine Group
(FMG). Through FMG Fincantieri has consolidated its
strategy to internationalize its military business, thereby enabling
the company to enter the most important defence sector worldwide,
the USA, which alone develops 60% of the total value of military orders.
Fincantieri, the preferred supplier of the US marines and Coast Guard,
has put in bids for important military orders. At the end of 2010
Fincantieri, in partnership with Lockheed Martin, gained a 4-billion-dollar
contract for the construction at the Group’s US shipyards of
a further 10 Littoral Combat Ships in addition to the two vessels
which have already been built.
Fincantieri and a team including also General Electric Marine has
put in bids to build the new fleet of hovercraft for the US Navy (80
units for a total value of 4 billion dollars) within the framework
of the Sea Base-to-Shore Connector (SSC) program to be assigned by
June 2012.
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Fincantieri
is partner to several of Europe’s leading defence companies within
the framework of supranational programs. The most recent
agreements include cooperation with the German Submarine Consortium
to build submarines for the Italian (4 vessels: 2 delivered yet and
2 under construction) and German Navies respectively and with DCNS,
France, in the programs “Orizzonte” (2 destroyers) and FREMM
(multimission frigates).
The program, developed by Orizzonte Sistemi Navali S.p.A (51% Fincantieri)
for Italy and Armaris (DCNS + Thales) for France, provides for the construction
of a series of differently configured multi mission frigates for the
two Navies (each industry builds for its own Navy, at the Fincantieri
shipyards there are 6 units under construction).
What is new about the FREMM program is that the customer interacts with
one single interlocutor who acts as Warship Design Authority and Prime
Contractor.
In addition to building naval vessels, Fincantieri also designs and
builds ship components and highly complex systems in the field of naval
propulsion and generation, stabilizer and dynamic positioning by developing
the related system engineering which guarantees components are integrated
correctly. The company also produces turbines and plant for use on land,
in particular diesel engines for industry and traction of up to 35,000
Kw.
Visit Fincantieri during DIMDEX 2012 on stand N-122
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