Sure. It's my pleasure and honour to introduce Fincantieri.
Fincantieri is one of the most important shipyard groups in the world, with the background of over 250 years of history and more than 7,000 ships built. We are not only involved in the military field, but also in cruises, offshore and new technologies. We also have important structures and capabilities going over the shipyard group including infrastructure, cybersecurity capabilities, new technology and also advancing the capability for service and service support.
We have about 20,000 employees and we create around 90,000 [Technical difficulty—Editor] all over the world. Our capabilities not only relate to Italy, but as you know, we have spread to four different continents, activating different important international programs.
In the Fincantieri portfolio, we have each type of travel vessel, including submarines, cruise, offshore and even mega-yachts, so we can have a cross-fertilization from different fields and different ages of technology in order to act as a global player.
We're also active in Canada in different important activities with important subsidiaries. We're aiming to act as an important strategic partner for this country.
For these reasons, Fincantieri is really interested in discussing the future programs of the combatant ships, starting from what we proposed in the past, which are the FREMM multi-mission frigates.
We are also able to discuss with you the different concerns, questions or points that you may raise in order to clarify exactly what our proposal could be and what our understanding is in order to have a strategic approach with Canada.