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All about Tankoa, the Genoese mega yacht company (like the one just bought by Carlo De Benedetti)

All about Tankoa, the Genoese mega yacht company (like the one just bought by Carlo De Benedetti)

Income statement (in red), shareholders and administrators of the Genoese company Tankoa from which Carlo De Benedetti bought – according to Dagospia – a 72-meter yacht worth approximately 63 million euros

According to Dagospia, Carlo De Benedetti , 86, has just purchased a 72-meter yacht from the Tankoa shipyard in Genoa worth around 63 million euros. It is certainly a company little known to the general public, but very well known to scroogeers from all over the world since, together with a few other Italian yachting excellence, such as Benetti Yachts, it produces dream ships for a select few.

WHAT TANKOA DOES

And it is from Benetti Yachts (of which he was helmsman for a quarter of a century) that the current CEO, Vincenzo Poerio, came aboard the rival Tankoa Yachts at the beginning of 2020 alongside the current CEO Euro Contenti . A boarding in the middle of the pandemic tsunami, which however should not concern those who make super yachts for the very rich. “Production has slowed down a bit and we close at a loss, albeit slightly, one million and something, but contrary to what I hear, I think that even when things go wrong, you have to invest to do well,” Poerio recently commented.

THE EXPANSION TOWARDS PISA

And in fact, Tankoa's plans are to expand: Genoa is tight, in the true sense of the word since it does not geographically allow the construction sites to be enlarged, so we look at the acquisition of the Cantieri di Pisa . "The goal is to grow Tankoa, building a few units in Pisa, since in Genoa there is only room to build two at a time, and to restart the Cantieri di Pisa brand, which is a beautiful brand, to retire it as I had done for Benetti when I worked for Vitelli in Azimut Benetti ”, explained the CEO Tankoa Yachts .

WHAT TANKOA WOULD LIKE TO DO WITH THE PISANI

The two brands would remain separate and the range of the offer in maxiyachts would be widened: Tankoa would build boats over 45 meters and Cantieri di Pisa between 30 and 45 meters. “In Genoa we have a small shipyard, well organized, but close between Fincantieri and some small boat repairers. To grow, we started looking at the Tuscan district area and I found Cantieri di Pisa ”, Poerio always explained. Tankoa has invested 15 million on the plate, including acquisition, restructuring of the yard, product and processes.

GOODBYE TO GENOA?

“The goal – the company reassures – is not to move Tankoa. But if in 5 years we realize that to optimize it will be better to transfer everything to Pisa we will. Unless answers arrive to grow here: if we could agree with Fincantieri for a space of 7 thousand square meters it would be enough. We could expand where we have structured our company and develop the other brand in Pisa: two distinct areas and two brands that are not overlapping but complementary ”. In short, Genoa risks losing its nautical excellence in favor of its historic Pisan opponent.

WHO IS IN TANKOA

Currently, Eva Luna Wally Orsi is the chairman of the Board of Directors, while as Vincenzo Poerio used to say she has joined the La Spezia Euro Contenti in the role of CEO. The director Alfredo Delli closes the review of the directors. As for the corporate composition, the majority shareholder is the Luxembourg-based Rivas International, followed by Iniziative Toscane Finarno. With posting Contenti Euro , Eduardo Ratto and Orsi Immobiliare. As for the income statement, against revenues exceeding 19 million euros, in 2019 costs reached 20.6 million, with a loss therefore of around 1.3 million, in any case down on the previous year when it exceeded 2.7 million euros (2017 instead ended with profits of 156 thousand euros ).


This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/tankoa-carlo-de-benedetti-yacht/ on Fri, 26 Feb 2021 12:17:58 +0000.