Industry includes two new projects in the Perte Naval, which increase the awarded funds to 70%

The Ministry of Industry published this Friday the final resolution of the Perte Naval aid in which it has included the two projects rejected in the provisional resolution. With these new projects, the aid granted rises to 81 million euros, which means leaving 30% of the aid unawarded.. This leaves in suspense the destination of almost three quarters of the 310 million euros that the Perte includes

The subsidy plan is aimed at modernizing the sector and the offers have been structured around four driving projects that bring together a total of 107 companies that will carry out actions that will generate 3,100 jobs and allow the sector to grow by 9%.

The main winners are Navantia and Pymar, the association that brings together small and medium-sized private shipyards. The joint project, called INNCODIS, has been the best valued and will receive 57.8 million euros that will be aimed at the “development of an innovative industrial ecosystem for a competitive, diversified and Sustainable naval sector.”

Of the subsidy amount, 33 million euros will go to the companies included in Pymar, a large part of them SMEs. “The Perte Naval has had a clear qualitative effect by proposing modern innovative projects that inaugurate the best future for the Spanish shipbuilding industry,” the association points out.

Following this project is the Marina Barcelona project, which will receive 8.4 million euros for a project aimed at the sustainability and diversification of the naval value chain.

TWO NEW 'SUSPENSIVE' PROJECTS

The main novelty of the final resolution is the inclusion of two new projects that had not been estimated to receive aid in the first resolution of the Ministry of Industry. The Technology Center of the Soermar Medium and Small Shipyards will receive 7.5 million euros for a project focused on digitalization and sustainability, while Naval Repairs will receive 6.9 million euros for a project focused on the use of marine renewable energy for a more specialized and sustainable maritime transport.

However, the most striking thing about the inclusion of these two projects is that neither of them exceeds 50 points out of 100 in their technical evaluation.. That is to say, if we transfer it to a score out of ten, the Reparaciones Navales Canarias project would have obtained a 4.6 and that of Soermar a 4.1, which cannot but cast doubts on the quality of the projects presented.

Now, Hereu's new team will have to rethink how to redirect the Perte and whether there is room to allocate the more than 200 million euros of community funds that have been left in cash.