Rome, 10 July 2024 – With 227,975 companies and 1,040,172 employees, the sea economy in Italy generates a direct added value of 64.6 billion euros, which, if we consider the value activated in the rest of the economy, reaches 178.3 billion euros, equal to 10.2% of the national GDP.. This is what emerges from the XII National Report on the Economy of the Sea edited by the National Observatory on the Economy of the Sea Ossermare, Centro Studi Tagliacarne – Unioncamere, Informare, Frosinone Latina Chamber of Commerce and Blue Forum Italia Network, presented today in Rome, at the Sala Longhi of Unioncamere in the presence of the Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy Adolfo Urso and the Minister for Civil Protection and Sea Policies Nello Musumeci.
A sector in clear growth in all its aspects. Direct added value is growing with a +15.1%, equal to twice the Italian average growth which stops at 6.9%. The overall added value is growing by almost one percentage point compared to what was found in the XI Report of 2023. The multiplier is growing, equal to 1.8 this year, compared to 1.7% in the last survey. That is, for every euro spent in the sectors directly related to the sea supply chain, another 1.8 are activated in the rest of the economy. Employees are growing, with an increase in employment of 6.6%, equal to almost four times that recorded in the country (1.7%). The number of companies, however, remains stable.
Like every year, the twelfth edition of the Report, a national and European reference point in defining the value of the Italian Blue Economy, has put under the magnifying glass the various sectors that make up the ‘blue’ productive force: the fishing and shipbuilding supply chains, accommodation and catering services, sports and recreational activities, the marine extraction industry, the movement of goods and passengers, research, regulation and environmental protection.
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Youth enterprises in Italy are equal to 9.0% of the blue economy, female enterprises are 22.4% and foreign enterprises are 7.4%.%. The top 5 in terms of the impact of the added value of the Sea Economy on the total territorial economy at a regional level are: Liguria (11.9%), Friuli-Venezia Giulia (7.2%), Sardinia (7.1%), Lazio (6,0%) and Sicily (5.7%). At the provincial level: Trieste (18.9%), Livorno (17.6%), La Spezia (16.8%), Gorizia (13.7%) and Rimini (13.0%). This is what emerges from the XII National Report on the Economy of the Sea edited by the National Observatory on the Economy of the Sea Ossermare, Centro Studi Tagliacarne – Unioncamere, Informare, Chamber of Commerce Frosinone Latina and Blue Forum Italia Network, presented today in Rome.
Southern Italy consolidates its primacy as the area with the highest production of added value with almost 21 billion euros of direct production, equal to approximately one third of the entire national ‘blue product’. The same applies to employment, concentrated at over 37% in the South, as well as to businesses, which even exceed 111 thousand units in the South, over 48% of the entire entrepreneurial base. blue of the country. The multiplier is lower at 1.6, compared to 2 in the North-East, 1.9 in the North-West and 1.7 in the Centre. (source: Adnkronos)
