Here are the first details on Tankoa's four new dry docks in Genoa Sestri Ponente.
The shipyard has initiated the authorization process for the expansion project of the facility for the outfitting of pleasure boats at the Ministry of the Environment.
Sketched From the company's top management to the latest Cannes Boat Show, Tankoa Yachts' plan to expand its Genoa pleasure boat building facility took concrete shape with the authorization request (for the so-called "preliminary environmental assessment") submitted to the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security.
The documentation published by the shipyard, specializing in the construction of yachts over 45 meters, explains that the current configuration of the yard, equipped with two 90 x 18-meter reinforced concrete warehouses and a floating dock for hauling and launching yachts up to 100 meters, does not allow for the outfitting of more than three boats at a time. However, "the company's acquisition of important new orders makes it necessary to expand the current outfitting space, allowing for a new production of 5-6 vessels simultaneously."
According to Tankoa, the location in Genoa's Sestri Ponente district, next to the Fincantieri shipyard, should ensure that, while imposing, from an administrative standpoint, the project would only require a technical and functional upgrade, as it would not disrupt the area's functions. Furthermore, from an environmental standpoint, it would not add any additional burdens to the existing ones.
The heart of the project is the construction, at the head of the pier currently in use at Tankoa, of four reinforced concrete basins, placed side by side and resting on the seabed, equipped with removable and floodable openings, and behind them a four-story reinforced concrete building founded on piles to be used as offices, showrooms, and warehouses.
All 8 meters high above the water (plus a polycarbonate-covered metal roof), the four docks would have different dimensions (82 x 18, 76 x 16,6, 70 x 16,6, 64 x 15,6), while the building is planned to have an "elongated rectangular plan measuring 66 x 12 meters and a height of approximately 15 meters." The study submitted to the Mase explains that "since the docks are used solely for ship fitting out, the bare steel hulls arrive at the shipyard, are moved inside the dock, appropriately moored, and fully fitted out. Once the fitting out is complete, they will be launched directly by flooding the space, i.e., by opening the door in the facade. The facade will be completely closed using a folding door connected to the roof superstructure."
The published documentation does not reveal the financial amount of the investment planned by Tankoa, while the timetable only refers to the three years of work carried out in Cannes by Guido Orsi, Tankoa's marketing and communications manager.
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