Italian shipbuilding group Fincantieri held a metal reducing ceremony to mark the beginning of building on a brand new Hydro-Oceanographic Ship (N.I.O.M.) for the Italian Navy.
Scheduled for supply from the built-in shipyard in Riva Trigoso-Muggiano in 2026, the brand new vessel is meant for mapping and scientific monitoring actions, in addition to in help of the initiatives of the Hydrographic Institute, occurred at present on the Riva Trigoso shipyard.
The ship will characteristic applied sciences to comprise emissions, a diesel-electric propulsion system to optimize gas consumption and hull shapes to scale back drag.
Amongst these current on the occasion have been Dario Deste, Basic Supervisor Naval Vessels Division of Fincantieri, the Director of the Hydrographic Institute, Rear Admiral Massimiliano Nannini and the Director of Naval Armaments, Chief Inspector Admiral Giuseppe Abbamonte.
The renewal program of the naval items of the Navy’s hydrographic service is a part of an modern European challenge involving the Ministry of Protection. Throughout the scope of this challenge, a funding settlement has been reached between the European Funding Financial institution (EIB) and the Italian Ministry of Economic system and Finance (MEF).
(Photograph: Fincantieri)
