
Italy’s Fincantieri and France’s Naval Group said this week they will launch an alliance to incorporate a 50-50 joint venture to compete for European naval competitions.The two companies are owned, via majority shareholders, by each country’s government. During the September 2017 Franco-Italian Summit, the French and Italian governments announced an intention to start discussions to establish a Fincantieri-Naval Group joint venture alliance in September 2017.On Wednesday, the companies said they have worked “intensively” since then and in July submitted an…