Genoa Boat Show within the largest urban renewal yard in Italy

The Genoa Boat Show was hosted inside the largest urban renewal yard in Italy. Both Maurizio Caviglia, general secretary of the Genoa Chamber of Commerce and Giovanni Toti, president of the Liguria Region highlighted this in the final balance sheet press conference of the event. Visitors see today a free and wonderful area where exhibitors work, but a few meters away the works continue that will lead in two years to a huge exhibition where new canals and large spaces will host the boats. A particular commitment was therefore necessary to realize this edition. Toti, commenting on the data provided by the President of Confindustria Nautica Saverio Cecchi, recalled that the most important number is “that number that concerned over twenty-six thousand people, plus nine percent of the people who work there in this sector”. Quoting the ancient fable of the “Finger and the Moon”, “that is the moon.- said Toti-” Who for years has looked at this sector with envy and a little haughtiness, boats as toys for the rich, is like the one who looked at the finger. We have looked at the moon, that is, that number of people who increase every year and who build their lives around this sector. Those who come here come to visit dreams, but the real dream belongs to those who built that object, many women and men who work directly or indirectly around the boat and who build the dream of their own existence, life and family. This is the economy that works. The boat show is the concentrate of these dreams. “