FROM JANUS TO GIANO

In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus (GIANO) is the god of beginnings and transitions, thence also of gates, doors, passages, endings and time. He is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks to the future and to the past.

Janus is the oldest god of Roman-Italian pantheon, since the VIII Century B.C. he presided over the beginning and ending of conflict, and hence war and peace. The doors of his temple were open in time of war, and closed to mark the peace. As a god of transitions, he had functions pertaining to birth and to journeys and exchange, he was concerned with travelling, trading and shipping.
As a god of motion Janus looks after passages, causes actions to start and presides over all beginnings, and since movement and change are bivalent, he has a double nature, symbolised in his two headed image. Janus frequently symbolized change and transitions such as the progress to future from the past, from one condition to another, from one vision to another, and young people's growth to adulthood.
GIANO represented time, because he could see into the past with one face and into the future with the other.

Giano is the name chosen for a totally new concept of double ended tugboat, designed and built with the experience of the past to create a safer and more efficient tool for the future of this industry.‘’We have extracted the all non-necessary things out of the modern tug boats and put in all that was required to make GianoTug the most advanced towing machine available, as we are convinced that less is better, and that force without control is nothing’’