SeaFuture has officially begun: this morning the opening ceremony was held inside the Arsenale della Spezia, the ribbon cutting gave way to the event that will last until June 8th. The first to intervene with institutional greetings was the mayor of La Spezia Pierluigi Peracchini, who underlined the relationship between SeaFuture and the city: “La Spezia excellences are exclusivity that have no equal in Europe and in the Mediterranean; Diving is an example, but in our past we count many inventions such as the hyperbaric chamber. Today we host consolidated realities linked to fundamental challenges for our future. We are a city that collects different experiences and that with shared objectives. A city in a development process that can offer great opportunities. La Spezia – concludes the mayor – can be in a concrete way the capital of the navy in the Mediterranean”. SeaFuture is now a point of reference for companies and Marinas all over the world, an exchange and dialogue capable of attracting investors and capital to our territory.
The CEO of Italian Blue Growth Cristiana Pagni thanked all the supporters and companies that chose to participate: “The sea is our first resource, it produces 25% of our GDP, Italy is a hub on the Mediterranean with a strategic geopolitical role of which it is not yet fully aware – continues Pagni – It is the gateway to Europe and a strategic bridge with the East. SeaFuture is one of those qualified and qualifying events to consolidate our country in the Mediterranean. This event aims to enhance the different aspects of the Blue Economy, the sea at 360 degrees: from shipbuilding to Marine technologies, cyber security, energy transition, artificial intelligence and much more; It is an event of meeting and comparison, but above all of design.”
The synergy relationship with the Italian Navy allows us to have a support and a great capacity for intervention on an international level. The Chief of Staff of the Italian Navy Enrico Credendino took the opportunity to recall the diplomatic role of the Navy: “La Spezia is unimaginable without the Italian Navy, in this edition of SeaFuture we have a total of 76 international delegations. Right now we have 11 ships that are operating outside the Mediterranean, even the Vespucci will have a role as ambassador in the two years of navigation during which it will touch 29 countries and 5 continents, for over 40 thousand nautical miles. It will be an opportunity to spread Italian culture in the world.” The strategic position of La Spezia and its tradition linked to the Navy have allowed a particular development in our territory of companies related to Defense, making La Spezia a reference place for the sector.
The president of the Liguria Region Giovanni Toti expressed support for the event and wanted to highlight its importance in the contemporary world: “The times suggest to everyone that, if we live in a continent where fortunately we enjoy so many individual and collective rights, it is because someone fought in the past to obtain them, but also because someone fights and defends those rights every day. I believe that there should not be that veil of reticence that I sometimes feel in saying, that we want an increasingly strong defense sector.”
The Minister of Defense Hon. Guido Crosetto retraced some stages of the history of the relationship between the Sea and the country: “The future of the Arsenal is linked to its past: for years this has been a flagship, not only for the Navy; in fact we have put together a team to target this Arsenale in the future, because we want it to be an Italian model of efficiency, technology and research; they are not a point of reference for Liguria, but for Italy and Europe. The world is less secure than a few years ago, so Italy tries to play a role as a mediator, remaining faithful to the Atlantic pact and operating in the long term.”
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