The Genoa Boat Show kicks off tomorrow, with a boom in exhibition attendance

The 61st edition of the Genoa Boat Show kicks off tomorrow. The traditional flag-raising ceremony, scheduled at 10.30 at the Terrace of the Blue Pavilion, will be embellished by the homage of ‘Nave Rizzo’, a Fremm unit of the Italian Navy recently employed in anti-piracy activities that will parade along the harbor channel. This will be followed by the Inaugural Conference ‘Made in Italy, the country that drives the country’ which sees the nautical, fashion and design as protagonists, to explore the opportunities for revitalization offered by the sectors of beauty and well-made and the structural reforms to accompany them, from restructuring of the Genoa waterfront to the infrastructures planned in the Pnrr. After the greetings of Carlo Bonomi, President of Confindustria, the interventions of Enrico Giovannini, Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility, Saverio Cecchi, President of Confindustria Nautica and I Saloni Nautici, Giovanni Toti, President of the Liguria Region, Carlotta de Bevilacqua, are expected. President and CEO of Artemide, Renzo Rosso, President of the Otb (Diesel) group, Carlo Maria Ferro, President of Ice Agenzia. The journalist Maria Latella moderated the meeting. There is a boom in exhibitors. The additional demand for space has led to the need to expand and redesign the layout of the Sailing, Motor Yacht and Maxi Rib Area; sold out also for the Accessories Pavilion. The induced supply for the territory rises to 65 million.At 3.00 pm, at the Sala Forum of the Blue Pavilion, the expected appointment with the 4th edition of the Boating economic forecast will be held, with the presence of Saverio Cecchi, Stefano Pagani Isnardi, Office Director Confindustria Nautica Studies, Marco Fortis, Vice President of the Edison Foundation – Professor of Industrial Economics and Foreign Trade at the Catholic University. The round table will have as guests Carlo Maria Ferro, Barbara Beltrame Giacomello, Confindustria Vice President for Internationalization, Mauro Alfonso, Simest CEO, Carlo Mescieri, President Assilea, Alessandro Mazzoni, Senior Broker & Business Developer Equinoxe International. presented the new edition of Nautica in Figures, the Statistical Yearbook created by the Research Office of Confindustria Nautica in partnership with the Edison Foundation, which boasts the patronage of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport. The report, now in its 42nd edition, provides companies, institutions and operators with sector data and fundamental analyzes to deepen the economic picture of the Italian yachting industry. Following in the Forum Room, starting at 4.45 pm, the Conference ‘Yachting, the new Italian flag – From the reform of the Code to that of the Implementing Regulation, to the sector decrees, the simplifications aimed at making the national flag more competitive’, by Confindustria Nautica with the Director General of Maritime Transport, Teresa Di Matteo, the Commander General of the Port Authorities, Nicola Carlone, and the Vice President of Confindustria Nautica, Maurizio Balducci. Also on 16 September the appointments of the schedule of events will begin at the Breitling Theater, starting at 2.30 pm with the press conference of the Port Authority Corps – Coast Guard and, subsequently, the Conference of the Guardia di Finanza. The Boat Show will start the RoundItaly Genoa-Trieste, the longest non-stop regatta in the Mediterranean with 1,130 miles of navigation – organized by the Italian Yacht Club, Società Velica di Barcola and Grignano, Barcolana and Confindustria Nautica with the involvement of the Italian Sailing Federation – which will unite the two cities, the 61st edition of the Genoa Boat Show with the 53rd edition of the Barcolana, two major events that have collaborated for years for the culture and defense of the sea. All the appointments of tomorrow 16 September. Breitling Theater | Theater of the Sea. 10:30 am: Streaming inauguration | Inaugural conference; 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm: Press conference: “Operation Safe Sea: To protect safety and the environment. Data for summer 2021” – by the Port Authority Corps – Coast Guard; 16:00 – 17:00: Conference “The role of the Guardia di Finanza as the only” Police of the sea “- by the Guardia di Finanza Blue Pavilion: 10:30 – 11:00: Inaugural Ceremony – Blue Pavilion Terrace ; 11:00 – 12:00: Inaugural Conference “Made in Italy, the country that pulls the country” – by Confindustria Nautica – Terrazza Pad. Blu; 3.00 pm: Boating economic forecast – IV edition – by Confindustria Nautica in collaboration with the Edison Foundation – Sala Forum; 4.45 pm: Pleasure boating, the new Italian flag – by Confindustria Nautica – Sala Forum.