The Cafiero family business is traced to Meta di Sorrento and to Pietro Antoniuo Cafiero’s 1629 charitable fund to release sailors captured by pirates. Family shipping interests entered Lloyd’s in 1850. Salvatore Cafiero began tug operations at Augusta in 1955, expanded to other Italian ports and developed a deep-sea cargo fleet before his death in 1982. Later generations consolidated and expanded the group. Cafiero Mattioli Finanziaria [CA.FI.MA] holds Italian supply-vessel, towage and salvage interests and controls CA.FI.MA (UK), the holding company for deep-sea interests through Blenhein Shipping UK. Subsidiaries include Scinicariello, Capieci, Synergas, Augusta Offshore and Augusta Maritime Services; Synergas is described as a Julia Finance–CAFIMA joint venture.
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