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Genoa has been honoured by the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) with the prestigious title of "The Lighthouse of the Year 2024" Award during the annual conference held at the historic Port Authority headquarters of Palazzo San Giorgio.

Terminal facilities overall performed strongly at the Ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado Ligure in April 2024, with an increase in cargo throughput of +11.3% on the corresponding period of the previous year to a monthly total of 5,759,747 tons.

Genoa, 24 May 2024 - The Port of Genoa's New Breakwater unfolds along the Sampierdarena basin, opposite the landmark 16th century Lighthouse. The first of the over 90 caissons, set to form part of the initial 4 km of the large-scale maritime infrastructure facility and which, upon overall completion, will stretch along a 6 km coastline, was positioned at a depth of 25 metres.

The Cesare Imperiale waterfront promenade, which cuts along Genoa's cruise port, officially opens to passengers following the completion of extensive refurbishment works.

The New Open-Sea Breakwater takes shape as the fast-paced construction of the caissons takes off, with the near-completion of the first of 100 caissons set to form the 6,200 metre port facility.

The Genoa Blue Agreement, the voluntary agreement designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from passenger and freight ships calling at the Port of Genoa, has been renewed. Amongst one of the first ports in the Mediterranean to have promoted a pact in full support of accelerating the clean energy transition, since 2019 the protocol agreement represents a further major step towards the mission, shared by local public authorities and shipping lines and agents, to reduce the environmental impact of port activities across the city of Genoa which sits alongside the passenger and cargo terminals.

The Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority and a selected group of stakeholders meet with Swiss shippers and forwarders at the Swiss Shippers' Council annual assembly.

Genoa, 15 April 2024 – The revolutionary integrated mobility plan, to fast-track connections between Genova City Airport, the railway network and the Passenger Ports of Genoa and Savona, was unveiled today at the Port Authority headquarters of Palazzo San Giorgio. The new hub is designed to intercept and integrate the multiple modes of transport used by the cruise passengers embarking from Liguria to access the terminals, with the added objective of activating a seamless sustainable mobility system with minimal environmental impact on the city-ports.

The cruise industry's premier event provided the fitting backdrop to the announcement that the Sun Princess is scheduled to make its inaugural call at the Port of Genoa next 16 May. The US Princess Cruises' newest addition to the fleet, built in Italy by the Fincantieri Shipyard in Monfalcone, at 345 metres in length is set to rank as the longest cruise vessel, to date, to have ever docked in Genoa's passenger port.

The construction of the first of 100 caissons, which will form Genoa’s New Open-Sea Breakwater, takes shape on board the “Dario” floating dock positioned in the Port of Vado Ligure.