Venice, the Boat Show lands at the Italian Pavilion of the Osaka Expo
Vattani: 'A partner to promote high technology and Italian shipbuilding'
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"The Venice Boat Show will be one of the protagonists of the forthcoming Expo 2025 Osaka (to be held from 13 April to 13 October, ndr): one of the initial events of the first week of the opening of the Italian Pavilion will be dedicated precisely to the boat show in the lagoon". This was announced yesterday by Mario Vattani, Commissioner General for Italy at Expo 2025 Osaka, during the presentation of the sixth edition of the show, which will open next 29 May and close on 2 June 2025, organised by the Vela company, on behalf of the Venice City Council, in collaboration with the Italian Navy.
The event, hosted in the spaces, on land and in the water, of the Municipality and the Marina, will have over 260 boats on display (30 sailing boats, 40 electric boats, 35 inflatable boats from 6 to 17 metres, 30 wooden boats, 50 day cruisers from 5 to 19 metres, 37 yachts from 15 to 50 metres - Sanlorenzo's flagship - and over 40 pleasure boats), with 15 world premieres. As well as 5 thousand square metres indoors and 3 thousand outdoors of exhibition space for accessories, engines, It technology, nautical furniture, official merchandisig, and products from local shipwrights.
The event launch was attended by, among others, Fabrizio D'Oria (operations director of Vela and the Venice boat show), Alberto Bozzo (commercial director of the kermesse) and Vattani, the mayor Luigi Brugnaro, Rear Admiral Domenico Guglielmi commander of the Military and Maritime Studies Institute and of the Venice Military Presidium, Alberto Galassi, ceo of Ferretti group (one of the first shipyards to support the boat show), Massimo Perotti, patron of Sanlorenzo, Federico Gambini, vice-president of the Solaris shipyard, and Massimo Zanon, president of the Venice Rovigo Chamber of Commerce.
Objective: to strengthen Italy's image in Asia
.The Venice Boat Show, Vattani continued, "is a natural partner" of the Italian Pavilion at Expo Osaka 2025, "because of the location, because of the sea, but also because our goal is to update and expand the image of Italy in a very important area of the world, i.e. Asia, the so-called blue region, always on the subject of the sea, which is today the one with the greatest growth, and is the place where there are those markets that, even in a period of international tensions and challenges, must open up to our companies".
And what is, Vattani asked himself, 'the best way to update this vision of Italy, if not also through the blue economy? With the opportunity of a government that, for the first time, has appointed a minister of the sea, who is Nello Musumeci. Who, in July, will be in Osaka, because the Japanese Day of the Sea is on the 21st of that month and we will celebrate it, in our pavilion, with the minister, with the Sea Federation and with companies. So there will be various moments when we can, again, talk about these issues'.
