# Schat-Harding Italy **URL:** \ **Category:** Press Releases\ **Created:** [August 27, 2009, 7:53am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/schat-harding-italy/2160 "2009-08-27T07:53:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![admin1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@admin1](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/admin1)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 7:53am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/schat-harding-italy/2160/1 "2009-08-27T07:53:17Z")
Schat-Harding is expanding its global service network with a new Italian office and service station in Livorno. It will be a branch office of USH Spain and will be managed by Enrico Venezia, who has extensive experience with lifeboat servicing, and has until recently been based in Miami servicing cruise vessels. “There is a very strong base of Italian owners who are safety conscious, and of course the Italian ports get a lot of cruise calls,” explains David Bradley, Executive Vice-President and head of Schat-Harding’s service division. “It makes good sense to have a stronger presence in Italy and we expect to expand from two to seven service engineers in Italy in the next few months.” Contact details for the Italian office are: Umoe Schat-Harding S.L. Via Delle Cateratte 92/4, 57122 Livorno (LI), ITALY [serviceITALY@schat-harding.com](mailto:serviceITALY@schat-harding.com) Schat-Harding is the world’s leading supplier and authorised service provider for lifeboat and evacuation systems for the offshore, cruise and shipping industries. With factories and offices in Norway, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Panama, Singapore, Spain, Canada, the Czech Republic, the USA and China, and agents in thirty other countries, Schat-Harding provides a global service and supply network. Brands now owned by Schat-Harding include Watercraft, Viking Marine, Waterman, Fiskars, Davit-Company, MASECO, Watercraft America, William Mills Marine, Schat, Harding, Mulder & Rijke and the Beiyang Boatbuilding Co. In addition Schat-Harding is now authorised by many of the world’s lifeboat manufacturers to provide OEM servicing in accordance with the requirements of MSC1206. For more information: David Bradley Schat-Harding +44 23 9260 3880 [david.bradley@schat-harding.co.uk](mailto:david.bradley@schat-harding.co.uk)