On 22 December, the Italian shipbuilding group Fincantieri signed an agreement with the Marine Arms Department of NAVARM (Direzione degli armamenti navali) of the Italian Ministry of Defence (Ministero della Difesa) to build a hydro-oceanographic vessel NIOM (Nave Idro-Oceanographica Maggiore) for the Hydrographic Institute of the Italian Navy IIM (Istituto Idrographico della...