The Italian nautical sector continues to gallop showing a boom in orders and a help could come scrappage fund of engines intended for nautical use and the purchase of electric thrustersthe. The Productive Activities Commission of the Chamber approved, with the consent of the opposition, an amendment to the art. 9 of the Legislative Decree "Organic provisions for the valorisation, promotion and protection of Made in Italy“, “highly awaited in the sector”, said Confindustria Nautica, which will arrive in the Chamber next week and then move on to the Senate for consideration.
Criteria and methods of disbursement of contributions will then be established by decree of Mimit itself. Finally, we will await the implementing decree in which sector experts hope the operating instructions and power limits relating to the engines will be included. However, their prediction is that they will be excluded from the AI provision superyacht since the amount to be allocated would be too high. If anything, it could be to their advantage tend. The provision also includes the provision that provides for the shortening of the deadlines to 7 days registration of pleasure boats and vessels in order to make the Italian flag more competitive.
The previous government had already approved a similar provision by the Ministry of the Environment, but it never came into force because the implementing decree, which was so awaited this time, had not been issued. The amendment, filed by Ilaria Cavo, vice president of the Commission, accepting the proposal of Confindustria Nautica, informs the association, provides for a reformulation of the initial text (by Alberto Luigi Gusmeroli and Silvio Giovine) and the allocation of the necessary resources by the Minister of Business and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso.
The nautical business is looking for new suppliers
Meanwhile in La Spezia, the nautical business was taken stock of the situation, which continues to be booming, so much so that the shipyards now have to go looking for new suppliers. The occasion was the event, organized by Confindustria La Spezia with the support of the local Chamber of Commerce, the Cna and the support of Confindustria nautica, now in its second edition.
“We want to expand the supplier base: we have already sold our yacht production until 2026-2027 and now we need new suppliers, because those we have are unable to keep up with our ever-increasing requests, underlined Daniele Bellotto, CFO of the Baglietto group, expressing the common feeling of the large shipyards present at the B2b Mare della Spezia. “And then we want to find new transversal technologies to be used in the nautical sector, perhaps coming from different sectors, such as automotive” . “Our sector, echoes Ivan Polidoro, director of the Riva shipyards, is doing very well and the supplier chain is at saturation”.
This year, recalled the vice-president of Confindustria La Spezia, Ettore Antonelli, "there are 180 companies registered, of which around 60 are from La Spezia and 120 from the rest of Italy", in a scenario, recalled Stefano Pagani, who leads the research office of Confindustria nautica, where "half of the global superyacht orderbook comes from Italian shipyards".
