(Finance) – Under the banner of the enhancement of Made in Italy in the world, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti And Intesa Sanpaolo with SACE And SIMEST argue Fincantieri for the making of the greatest United States cruise terminal. In fact, the construction site of the Port of Miamione of the most important on an international scale.
In view of the strategic importance of the project forItalian economy and export supportCDP and Intesa Sanpaolo have structured a loan of 350 million euros in favor of MSC, which will allow Fincantieri to build the infrastructure. The project is guaranteed by SACE and also saw the intervention of SIMEST for rate stabilization and the interest subsidy.
Fincantieri, through its subsidiary Fincantieri Infrastructurewill design and build for MSC Cruiserand, the third cruise brand in the world owned by the MSC Group, a new terminal and the attached structures for the pieroffices and parking lots on the east side of the port located in Biscayne Bay in Miami by the end of 2023.
The infrastructure was commissioned by MSC to the Fincantieri Group, which will build it following the criteria set out in the Green Building Rating Systems (GBRS), a rating system for the development of eco-friendly buildings. The project will have a high percentage of energy efficiency through the use of eco-sustainable materials And innovative technologies of design and construction, limiting on the one hand the impact on the environment, as well as on the health and well-being of passengers, and at the same time reducing operating costs. The Terminal will allow the simultaneous docking of three MSC cruise ships, handling up to 36 thousand passengers a day.
“This operation is part of the broader program outlined by CDP’s new Strategic Plan for the development of the country’s excellence – said Massimo Di Carlo, Chief Business Officer and Deputy General Manager of CDP – The realization of this project, in synergy with the banking system and other partners, represents a virtuous example of infrastructural development in the name of sustainability and innovation “.
“With this operation – he declares Dario Liguti, Chief Underwriting Officer of SACE – SACE confirms its constant commitment to support the growth plans of Italian companies around the world. We are pleased to have supported Fincantieri, Italian excellence and first group in Europe in the shipbuilding sector, in the penetration of a market as important as the United States for the construction of an important infrastructural work, also favoring the expansion of the scope of collaboration between Fincantieri and MSC. This ambitious project is also aimed at supporting and relaunching the cruise sector, highly strategic for the Italian economy, but hard hit by the pandemic crisis “.
“The intervention to support the financing of an infrastructural work of strategic importance for the Fincantieri group and for the shipbuilding sector, in a key geographical area such as North America, – he declares Carolina Lonetti, SIMEST Head of Export Finance & Internationalization – confirms the constant commitment of SIMEST to support the success of Made in Italy in the world, which has always been a point of reference for our mission “.
“The project is a significant example of how two excellences such as Fincantieri and MSC can collaborate for the development of important infrastructural works at an international level – underlines Richard Zatta, Head of Global Corporate of the Imi Corporate & Investment Banking Division of Intesa Sanpaolo – The Intesa Sanpaolo Group has always accompanied and supports entrepreneurial realities in their growth plans, guaranteeing particular attention and support for operations that can combine environmental sustainability and infrastructural development “.