Aldo Spinelli

Aldo Spinelli (January 4, 1940, Palmi, Italy) is an Italian entrepreneur and sports executive. Aldo Spinelli was born in 1940 in Palmi, Calabria, Italy. His father Roberto died on February 19, 1958, at the age of 42, in the shipwreck of the ship Bonitas owned by Ravano off the coast of Virginia. Thanks to the American insurance compensation for his father's death and many promissory notes, Aldo acquired the Almea transport company in 1963 at the age of 23, which already had significant financial problems. He renamed it Rebora, changed the color of the trucks from blue to yellow, and gradually shifted the company's focus to logistics and container transport by adapting the company's trailers for this type of transport. On December 27, 1990, he was named Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by President Francesco Cossiga, on the proposal of the Prime Minister's Office. From 1997 to 2002, he also entered politics as a municipal councilor in Genoa for the PRI-Socialists list under the first administration of Mayor Giuseppe Pericu.