Cantiere Navale Vittoria

Cantiere Navale Vittoria sits at Adria in the Veneto, inland from the Po delta, and has been launching hulls since 1927. The count is past nine hundred vessels. What it builds is a narrow band of the market done repeatedly: patrol boats, coastal lookouts, landing craft, small cargo ships, dredgers, tugs and fishing boats, in steel, aluminium alloy and composite. The customer base is heavily institutional. Italy's Guardia di Finanza and the Guardia Costiera are the anchor accounts, and export work has gone to the Tunisian National Guard, Croatian maritime authorities and other Mediterranean agencies. Ownership changed hands recently and not smoothly. After a financial restructuring handled through the Rovigo court in 2023, the yard was sold at auction in 2024 for 8.2 million euros to Roberto Cavazzana, ending close to a century of control by the founding Duo family. Italian investigative press has since questioned where the purchase money came from, and the Venice anti mafia directorate has looked at the transaction.

The reference build for the Guardia di Finanza is the Monte Sperone, lead ship of a pair that are the largest vessels the Italian finance police have ever operated, built at Adria to the Damen Stan Patrol 5009 Sea Axe design under licence. Below them sits the Corrubia class, roughly two dozen composite hulled 27 metre patrol boats delivered between 1995 and 1998 and still working. More recent is Osum, a 44 metre hybrid propulsion patrol vessel handed over to the Guardia di Finanza, and the corps followed it with an order for four more boats of the same length. In 2025 the yard took a 32.4 million euro contract from the Guardia di Finanza general command to design and build an offshore patrol vessel described as the fleet's first green OPV, with options held for three further hulls of the type. Hybrid propulsion appearing on police hulls is a real shift, because a patrol boat that can loiter quietly on batteries is doing a different job from one that cannot.

Coast guard work runs on a different design line. The Class 300 Admiral Pollastrini is a set of five sister ships commissioned in 2020 for offshore search and rescue, twenty metres on an aluminium alloy hull, waterjet driven and capable of holding above thirty five knots with a range near six hundred miles, and they double as maritime police platforms. Beyond the uniformed customers the yard keeps a commercial and civil line going, building dredgers and tugs for port operators and cargo and fishing hulls for Mediterranean and northern European owners. Export has mattered as well, with patrol craft delivered to the Tunisian National Guard and search and rescue boats to Croatian maritime authorities. Repair, refit and life extension of the vessels it has already delivered runs alongside new construction, which for a yard whose boats stay in service for thirty years is a business in itself.