The "Maritime Technologies" specialization area includes traditional sectors of Friuli Venezia Giulia that have woven, over time, strong ties and interdependencies with other sectors of the regional economy and specifically: naval and shipbuilding, offshore, including its specialized supply chains, transport, logistics, services for sailing and yachting. This sector, while maintaining its traditional character, has been able to develop and implement, within its activities, technologies and knowledge that allowed to place itself among international excellences and to represent a specialty in the regional economies.
In 2015, in the Region, the active companies in the blue economy sector were accounted for 3.6% of the total active businesses: in the province of Trieste blue economy companies account for 11% of total local business. With regard to entrepreneurship, between 2011-2015, the North East has seen an increase of 1.5% of the companies in the sector, although, in the context of maritime technology shipbuilding has registered a decrease of -3.9%. Companies operating in movement of goods and passengers have increased by 1.7%.
In 2015, the province of Trieste had 14.400 employees in the blue economy sector, that means 13.5% of total employment at a provincial level. With 1 billion euros of added value produced, the sector of the blue economy in the province of Trieste, represented the 16.5% of the whole local economy.
The capability of activation of other activities of maritime technology sector confirms the strategic value of this production segment: it is enough to consider that, on a national scale, for each euro produced on the rest of the economy, 1.9 Euros are activated. The biggest contribution is given by the shipping industry, with 2.8 Euros per each Euro produced, and shipbuilding sector, with 2.4 Euros per each euro produced. In terms of activation capability, the North-East and North-West of Italy have the highest multipliers, respectively equal to 2.3 and 2.1 per Euro produced by blue economy.
In 2015, referring to the production of ships and boats, within 3 billion euros of exportation, 573 million euros of sales came from the province of Gorizia and 375 million euros from the province of Trieste.
In terms of shipbuilding, the major sectoral specializations in foreign trade underline what already highlighted in absolute terms: Gorizia confirms itself at first place, with an export of 39% on the total of the province and Trieste at second place with an incidence of 18% on the total of the province.
The development of the sector could enjoy the presence of different actors and stakeholders, by number and type, with great interaction capacity. As an example, we can identify the Maritime Technology Cluster FVG (formerly DITENAVE), commercial and touristic ports (first of all Trieste and Monfalcone, then Grado, the Aussa-Corno area, the Foci dello Stella Reserve, Marano Lagunare, Aprilia Marittima and Lignano), national and regional research centers and the Universities of Trieste and Udine, the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), and the Technical Professional Pole of the Sea (PTP ECOMA) which groups the education and training system.
With respect to the future, this positioning can be maintained and improved only through: - Strengthening of the competitive position by developing new solutions with highly challenging cost / performance mix and expanding shares in its markets, with continuous investments in research and development activities. - Development of already possessed specific skills by creating synergy between the education institutions and businesses of the area and enhancing collaboration between scientific and industrial skills in order to transfer knowledge from research to enterprises. - Development of new financing paths using private capital (i.e. Venture Capital) or public capital and promoting enterprises’ financing capacity. - Promotion and strengthening of a capacity building cooperative model within a European framework of cohesion policies.
fonte : ARIES-CCIAA Trieste - https://www.cruiseindustry.it/en/home.htm
The FVG cruise industry cluster database has been set up by the Chamber of Commerce of Trieste, along with the Regional Chamber System, thanks to a project called “FVG cruise industry cluster” funded by the FVG Region.
The aim of the Chamber of Commerce of Trieste and the Chambers of Commerce of Friuli Venezia Giulia and of the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, along with other bodies and institutions is to support the local SMEs in becoming stronger and more competititve on the international market, promoting their products and services abroad, helping in making contact with counterparts abroad.
The aim of the project and of this website is to present a sector of excellence of the Friuli Venezia Giulia and Italian economic system, highlighting the companies which are part of it and which distinguish themselves for the competitive edge they are able to guarantee in terms of project planning capabilities, technological content, quality of production and design.
The economy of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region is based on many different sectors, but the sea is one of the most important, specially in Trieste, the regional chief city, and in Gorizia, where the shipbuilding industry has a relevant weight in the local GNP.
The main Italian shipyard active in the construction of passenger ships, Fincantieri, operates in Friuli Venezia Giulia, forming a pool of induced activities involving 400 enterprises active in the field of naval engineering, project planning, mechanical-naval carpentry, fittings, supplies, material, furnishings and equipment for all areas of cruise ships.
Friuli Venezia Giulia region, located in the Eastern-North part of Italy, can fully take advantage from East/West and North/South trade flows and play the role of a natural bridge between East and West as an ideal logistic interchange platform between Central and Eastern Europe and the Far East.
Trieste is at the centre of global sea transport dynamics: the geographical position of the town is very advantageous to sea operators, since it lies between economically mature areas and strongly expanding ones. The shortest way to connect Europe with the most dynamic Asian countries is through the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea, thus favouring the ports of the Upper Adriatic Sea. Let us make an example: a container coming from Shanghai and destined to Munich would take via Trieste about six days less than the journey through Rotterdam.
The main Italian shipyard active in the construction of passenger ships, Fincantieri, operates in Friuli Venezia Giulia, forming a pool of induced activities involving 400 enterprises active in the field of naval engineering, project planning, mechanical-naval carpentry, fittings, supplies, material, furnishings and equipment for all areas of cruise ships.
Shipyards and subcontractors, all in one cluster, excelling in its capacity of clearly delivering the highest level of competence on issues such as project planning, technological content, production and design quality. In short, a center of acknowledged skills for quality and know how.
80% of the value of the ships coming out from the Fincantieri Shipyards is generated by the work of companies operating in the shipbuilding sector other than Fincantieri. During the last decades, a large number of specialized companies, about 550 in the whole Friuli Venezia Giulia region, with a 350 millon euro turnover, helped the entire shipbuilding sector create a success story in this field. Around 70% (average) of the turnover of these companies is generated by Fincantieri’s orders. The strategy pursued is therefore to increase the number of their clients. Along with manufactured products, a wide range of services are also covered by Friuli Venezia Giulia’s companies: large scale import-export activites, transport of oversized loads (propellers, engines..), tailormade insurance, naval engineering and software.
The Fvg Cruise industry cluster companies are: