ROMA (ITALPRESS) – Concentrate the incentives on the shipyards that produce more complex platforms, promoting innovation and digitization, avoiding that EU resources disperse in more revelous; explicitly write down the underwater technology between the segments to be supported, because of the advantage gained from Italy in this particular dimension and maximize the contamination between military shipbuilding and civil shipbuilding, promoting dual applications, cutting-edge supply chains. These are the objectives of the national contribution to the drafting of the European maritime industrial strategy, drafted by the Interministerial Committee for Sea Policies and forwarded to the EU Commission, illustrated today by the Minister for Civil Protection and Marine Policies, Nello Musumeci, at the Rome office of the European Parliament.
“Italy can play a priority role in the European context. Everyone must work together, starting with the Italian Parliament, so that Italy can arrive in Europe with the certainty of defending its interests, which are the interests of a world that allows our country to have over a million people employed and a turnover of hundreds of billions, of which our economy needs so much,” explained the minister. The shipbuilding and shipbuilding industry contributes €9.4 billion to national economic growth, representing, together with maritime transport, one of the main sectors that generate added value within the sea economy, also thanks to its high multiplier effect. It is important that Europe – and Italy – concentrate efforts to compete where it is reasonable to expect results, in particular in the segment of high-complex constructions, such as military ships, cruise ships and specialists, as well as the underwater industry as a whole, where it retains a significant technological advantage. “It will be a challenging challenge, what the Commissioners before and after, will have to face in the coming months to give concreteness to an industrial strategy that Italy has never worried about giving itself,” added Musumeci.
Unlike other countries, Italy benefits from a particularly resourceful shipowning component and, in the shipbuilding industry, boasts in Fincantieri a champion with global ambitions in navalmeccanica and underwater. For Italy it is therefore important to connect the needs of shipbuilding and armament, encouraging and supporting the first but avoiding protective measures that would penalize the second. “That of the sea is the winning game that we have never played: there is still distrust, it is necessary to recognize it, even at high institutional levels”, added the minister, claiming the progress made in these years. “We arrive at the end of the legislature with a backpack full of not only hopes, but also certainties” as “the having finally realized a programming pole to which everyone looks, which is the plan of the sea, and being able to make the underwater a dimension not only open to the military forces, but able to stimulate the attentions of the civil world and of the same industry. In these three years our ministerial structure has managed to create around it a pole of attention that needs further support and further development, even in terms of international policy”. For Musumeci, “ prudence is a must, but we will win this game.”.
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