Canados is located in Rome, just 7 km from the international airport of Fiumicino. The Canados shipyard was founded in 1946, on an ex-hydroplane base. The Italian Navy, coastguard and Italian Harbor Masters commisioned the first the first vessels built by Canados. At the time, the master carpenters who founded the cooperative that would soon become Canados (a contraction of Cantieri Navali di Ostia) quickly achieved a revered reputation worldwide.