CETENA S.p.A. – a maritime research centre – was founded in 1962 and is a Fincantieri group company headquartered in Genoa.

CETENA supports its customers with a wide range of activities in the maritime, civil and naval sectors.

CETENA is able to manage each of these activities thanks to a team of experts with specific skills, knowledge and experience.

In order to maintain a link with shipyard activities (engineering and production), CETENA has several offices and laboratories in strategic locations throughout Italy (Trieste – Castellammare – Palermo).

CETENA also collaborates with various research centres in Italy and Europe and is involved in several research projects with universities, ministries and industries.

The dual nature of CETENA, represented by research and industry support, makes CETENA unique on the market, offering tangible advantages: on the one hand, innovative support for the industrial sector, provided by technicians involved in research activities, and on the other, an effective contribution to research, thanks to CETENA's ability to correctly direct research activities based on input received from industry.



Starting from the basic research developed by the universities with which it collaborates, CETENA transforms knowledge into solutions that meet the needs of its customers.