Lugano's LAC Conference Centre provided the stunning backdrop to the fifth edition of the forum "Mare di Svizzera", offering landlocked Swiss shippers and supply chain service providers the unique opportunity to exchange data and opinions with the Italian local authorities and port operators.
The Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority President Paolo Emilio Signorini, keynote speaker at the conference, provided the audience with a Ports of Genoa roadmap for the future and an update on the major infrastructure works underway across Genoa, Savona and Vado Ligure. "We have now reached the fif...News
A Ports of Genoa working group at the HR Wallingford Ship Simulation Centre for real-time vessel navigation simulations of the future newbuilds planned at the mega-drydock currently under construction at the Genoa-Sestri Ponente shipyard.
21 October 2022 - On a return visit to the Ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado Ligure after 4 years, the European Coordinator for the Rhine-Alpine core network corridor, Pawel Wojciechowski was invited to inspect the infrastructure construction sites underway, central to the investment programme designed to relaunch inland connections between Liguria and Central Southern Europe.
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It ranks as the largest caisson to have been constructed to date with this range of equipment by Fincosit, pioneers of the industry: up to 25.6 metres high, 31 metres long, 22 metres wide and weighing up to 9340 tons. The reinforced-concrete cellular caisson was precast on the floating dock Dario, deployed by the company at the service of the breakwater extension in the Port of Vado Ligure.
The Port of Genoa's Terminal San Giorgio inaugurates a new automated gate designed to ease congestion and improve heavy vehicle access in/out the terminal facilities. Equipped with two 300-metre auxiliary storage lanes and three entrance and two exit lanes, the terminal gate can cater for all commodity sectors, ranging from containers to ro-ro and heavy-lift and oversize cargo.
Ongoing dredging operations at Calata Massaua in the Sampierdarena Basin to cater for the next-generation ships.
With the installation of the deck, the final highly challenging phases of the on-site delivery of the new Pionieri e Aviatori d'Italia Viaduct, across via Siffredi between Cornigliano and Sestri Ponente, reached its conclusion at 5am Wednesday morning 28 September. By the end of the year, the new facility is scheduled to open to heavy vehicles to/from the Port of Genoa without the weight restrictions prescribed by the previous bridge.
Port security upgrade works continue across the summer to optimise secure access control solutions at the 14 gates across the Port of Genoa. Giano Gate will be closed from 23 August for approximately 30 days for construction works.
Site inspection for forthcoming installation of shore power facility in Genoa's cruise and ferry passenger hub.