Here’s how Fincantieri turns on the military
All the latest moves by the Trieste shipbuilding group led by Giuseppe Bono in the military sector.
Fincantieri goes straight in the defense sector.
We are not at the end of the first month of the year and the shipbuilding group led by Giuseppe Bono has already signed orders in the military segment.
Last week FIncantieri was awarded "by the Naval Armaments Directorate of the Ministry of Defense two different contracts for activities relating to some units of the fleet", reported ShippingItaly . “The company in Liguria has its branch dedicated to military shipbuilding and has definitively acquired the task of renovating and modernizing the major ships supplied to the Navy”, underlines the 19th Century . Fincantieri has obtained an order for "services necessary for the logistical support of the Platform System" of the Cavour aircraft carrier, worth 7.5 million euros. It also signed a 6 million contract for the "supply of logistical support for the Platform System" of the Doria and Duilio ships.
Furthermore, on 11 January Fincantieri began work on the first new generation submarine for the Italian Navy. Production activities relating to the U212 NFS (Near Future Submarine) acquisition program started at the Muggiano (La Spezia) plant.
The turn of Fincantieri (and his number one Giuseppe Bono) in the defense sector has been accompanied in recent years by the choice of managers and expert consultants in the field.
Like the last appointment. Air Force General Carlo Magrassi is the new president of the Fincantieri Foundation. Magrassi was military advisor to Prime Minister Renzi from 2014 and from October 2015 to September 2018 he held the position of Secretary General of Defense and National Director of Armaments.
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THE APPOINTMENT OF CARLO MAGRASSI AS PRESIDENT OF THE FINCANTIERI FOUNDATION
A soldier has arrived at the presidency of the Fincantieri Foundation: General Magrassi has taken the place of Andrea Manciulli, a Pd politician. From 13 August 2013 to 21 May 2014 Magrassi was Head of Cabinet of the Minister of Defense. From 26 May 2014 to 8 October 2015 he held the position of Military Advisor to the President of the Council of Ministers until 9 October 2015, when he assumed the position of Secretary General of Defense and National Director of Armaments until October 2018 .
THE MANAGERS OF BONO
But Magrassi is not the only soldier to enter Fincantieri's orbit.
Just go back in time and get to Admiral Sergio Biraghi, president of Fincantieri USA until 2018.
But before leading the American subsidiary, Biraghi held the position of Chief of Staff of the Navy in 2004. And even before that, that of military advisor to the President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. Biraghi is the one who started Fincantieri Marine Group in the United States. Fincantieri Marine Group includes three shipyards: Fincantieri Marinette Marine designs and builds military ships and in particular the Freedom class Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) for the US Navy; Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding, shipyard at Sturgeon Bay, focused on the construction, repair and conversion of merchant vessels and offshore support vessels and Fincantieri ACE Marine.
INCLUDING A FORMER FINMECCANICA
Then in 2019 Giuseppe Bono hired Giuseppe Giordo as head of the Military Ships division. The latter formerly responsible for the aeronautical sector of Finmeccanica.
A high-level assignment in "a sensitive area of the shipbuilding giant", remarked Gianni Dragoni in Il Sole 24 Ore . "Giordo is a manager with over 25 years of experience in the defense and aeronautics industry", underlined Dragoni. In fact, he spent many years in the former Finmeccanica group, up to the position of CEO of Alenia Aeronautica and Alenia Aermacchi, from 2010 to 2015.
GUARGLIAGLINI ALSO ENROLLED (FORMER NUMBER ONE OF LEONARDO-FINMECCANICA)
Finally, Giuseppe Bono also wanted Francesco Guarguaglini with him. The latter was CEO of Fincantieri for three years (1999-2002) and for nine years CEO of Finmeccanica (2002-2011. "The former head of Finmeccanica is a consultant for Giuseppe Bono. He will help maintain relations with the Emirates ” Wrote La Verità in 2018. And indeed Fincantieri has strengthened in the United Arab Emirates in recent years.
Last December the naval group and Mubadala Investment Company (the Sovereign Fund of the United Arab Emirates) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at starting potential collaborations in the field of advanced technologies and services in the naval, maritime and industrial sectors.
The agreement was signed by Abdulla Abdul Aziz Al Shamsi, Head of Uae New Initiatives in Mubadala, and the aforementioned Giuseppe Giordo. The manager Giordo had also signed a MoU the previous year of collaboration in the unmanned sector with the Emirate of Marakeb Technologies, a provider of industry-leading automation solutions, on the occasion of the Unmanned Systems fair in Abu Dhabi.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/ecco-come-fincantieri-vira-sul-militare/ on Mon, 24 Jan 2022 06:48:02 +0000.