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the Liguria Region makes the point on the works in progress in the ports of Genoa and Savona I go
Teasing: "in Liguria, transhipment excluded, 60% of the goods pass that enter by sea in Italy"
March 6, 2015

"The portualità is a strategic field, a piece more hard of our economy and what it goes better. In Liguria, transhipment excluded, 60% of the goods pass that enter by sea in Italy. We will put again to the center this topic also with the government and will claim the right that to this point, after the conclusion of the first and more urgent tasks, is put to the center of the action of Palazzo Chigi also the issue portualità". The president of the Region Liguria, Claudio Burlando has said today, making the point on the series of works in progress in the ports of Genoa and Savona - I go.

For the port of call of the capital of Liguria the participations, illustrated with the president of the Harbour Authority of Genoa, Luigi Merlo, regard the functional recovery of descent mineral Oils and the widening of Bettolo descent, the requalification of the harbour zone from Benghazi descent to English descent, the widening of the terminal containers of the piers Ronco and Canepa and the activities of dredging of the harbour area.

Teasing and Merlon they have remembered that the descent recovery mineral Oils and the widening of Bettolo descent is commissioned by the Harbour Authority genoese and financed with 144,6 million euros coming from deep civil servants (91,2 million) and deep of the Harbour Authority (53,4 million). Work, begun in June 2009, will conclude 2017 in May. The project comprises marine structures, civil and system and allows the birth of a great terminal for handling of the container. The work, in fact, realizes a new dock to south, that it closes the watery mirror comprised between Rubattino bridge and Canzio descent, using beyond two millions and a half of cubic metres of coming detritus from the harbour dredgings, and a series of docks in the area the west, that they form the new technical dock, the dock south and the rear large square. The widening of Bettolo Descent will realize a large square of 180 thousand square metres and will be able to per year accommodate a containerized trade volume pairs to 800 thousand teu. The new one I approach of the terminal container it will be along 760 meters and it will afford the berthing of the container vessels of last generation, that they measure 330 meters. To work concluded the port of Genoa will be able to have also of new watery mirror dedicated to the technical dock/pole of bunkeraggio of 22 thousand square metres.

The requalification of the genoese harbour zone from Benghazi descent to English descent is commissioned by the Authority Harbour and financed with 21,8 million euros coming from deep civil servants (3,6 million) and deep of the Harbour Authority (18,2 million). The work, begun to November 2011, will conclude 2017 in February. The participations regard the commercial port of Genoa Sampierdarena, the historical port, and consist mainly in a complex of works for rearrange and the potenziamento of the system of road and railway infrastructures and in the increment of the technological systems. The work is behind schedule for the tempering of a weapon in the areas of Tripoli descent. From March 2014 it has been a partial suspension of the work in order to proceed to the war reclamation prescribed the Corps of Engineers. The work still is partially suspended.

The widening of the terminal containers of the piers Ronco and Canepa is commissioned by the Authority Harbour of Genoa and financed with 45,7 million euros coming from deep civil servants (27,8 million) and deep of the Harbour Authority (17,9 million). The work, begun to February 2011, will conclude 2017 in September. A new dock aligned to south with the piers Ronco and Canepa will be realized, situated to the extremities of West of the harbour basin. The dock, with the new obtained rear large square from the filling of the current watery mirror, will allow to obtain approaches of 640 meters and an increment of the areas to earth until about 64 thousand square metres. The useful surface of the terminal will be of 303 thousand square metres and will afford to operate with container vessels of greater dimensions, thanks to the before backdrops the dock that, after the dredging not previewed in the project in course, will be able to reach the -15 meters. The material being necessary for a part of the filling behind the new dock will be proceeds from the dredging of the river mouth of the Polcevera torrent, neighbor to West of the Ronco pier, facilitating so the outflow to sea, now difficult.

The dredgings of the genoese harbour area are commissioned and entirely financed with 67,4 million euros from the Harbour Authority. The work, begun to July 2009, will be concluded within December 2015. The marine structures of digging for the watery mirror serve to the maintenance of the navigable depths of docks and harbour channels. The dredging activities and I re-use of sediments for the filling of Bettolo Descent are authorized by the Liguria Region and their environmental monitoring is entrusted to the University of Genoa. The dredgings will involve digestion of material for 3,5 million cubic metres. The backdrops will be carried to compatible quotas to navigation of mercantile ships of elevated tonnage and to the berthing of the most modern cruise ships. The areas interested from the dredgings are: the channel of Sampierdarena, the area of the super basin, descent Health, the dry docks, the basin of evolution, the Ancient Port, Massawa descent, English descent, descent Coat, the Port oils, the settling tank of the Polcevera torrent, the zone between Ronco Bridge West and the dock Italsider of East, the mouth of West of the basin of evolution and the before channel of calm the Italsider dock south.

Teasing, with the mayor and to the city council member to the Public works of Vado Ligure, Monica Giuliano and Sergio Verdino, to the president of the Harbour Authority of Savona, Gian Luigi Miazza, and to the managing director Italia of APM Maersk, Carlo Merli, it has introduced moreover the three participations for the port of Savona that regard the new platform of the port of Go, that Terminal of the Maersk group will be managed by the APM, the new center of the Harbour Authority and the bridge for the tourist marina of the Old dock.

The new multifunctional plate of the port of I go from Liguria, commissioned by the Harbour Authority of Savona, is financed with 350 million euros from deep civil servants (289 million), a quota at the expense of the concessionaire (50 million) and from another at the expense of the Harbour Authority (11 million). The work, begun to september 2012, will finish to December 2017. It is the more important work of the town development plan of the port of Savona: in order to realize it has been indetto an European ban of project financing. The platform is situated in the oadstead of Goes, between the terminal you ferry and the river mouth of the torrent Sign. A terminal will find place to you container, with ability anniversary of handling of 800.000 teu and two present activities in oadstead from years ‘50: the terminal bulk and the disembarkation of producing oil and fuel oil. The work will be equipped of a road connection, will not interfere with the city traffic and will be, moreover, directly connected to the highway system and the plate of railway interchange of the retroporto.

The new center of the Harbour Authority of Savona is financed with 8,4 million euros from deep civil servants (5,2 million) and deep own (3,1 million). The work, begun to July 2011, will end to August 2015 and the structure will be operating for the next December. The new operations headquarters answers to the requirement to unify the offices, now partially decentralized, and to find a more suitable accommodation to the institutional role and of representation. Situated between the area of transformation of the old dock and commercial the harbour area, the building has a surface of 1.500 square metres, is wide 23 meters and it is developed for about 63. It is composed of three bodies of factory: a volume to double width (10 meters) that it accommodates the main income and the services of acceptance, connected to the part central, composed of a long bridge structure 28 meters that the railway tracing of access to the port climbs over, with local insides and outdoors of I use municipality. The space leads to the third volume, constituted from a tower to square base of 23 meters of side that accommodates the more representative spaces and that it is developed on seven plans. Al ground floor the staff and technical premises find themselves according to classified income to. The total surface is of about 5 thousand square metres. The building is completed in the structural parts, finishes and systems are about to completion.

The project for the new bridge to the mouth of the Old dock, is commissioned and financed by the Harbour Authority of Savona with deep own for a total of 1,9 million euros. Work, begun in July 2012, will finish within the next month of April. The work will allow to realize a connection between the harbour zone that accommodates the terminal cruises and the city center. The new bridge, of revolving type to two before, replaces that existing with opening to drawbridge that has shown limitations for the overcoming of the architectural feature that denies accesses to the handicapped. Every door of the bridge, realized in which sandblasted and painted steel, is long about 25 meters. The bridge is equipped of the most recent technologies in order to guarantee the incolumità of the people and safety of the passage of the boats, through the employment of television cameras, cancels automatic rifles, photoelectric cells, acoustic and luminous sensors of movement, signs. After a suspension because of the failure of the enterprise, the work is resumed for the completion works, by now completed, while the functional tests are on.
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Genoa
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Ancona
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London
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Hong Kong
An increase of +6.5% was recorded in June
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Rome
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Singapore
Historic record for half-year bunker sales
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Long Beach
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Tommaso Tanzilli confirmed as president. Gianpiero Strisciuglio is the new CEO.
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Gioia Tauro
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Brussels
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Trieste
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Keelung/Taipei
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Pescara
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Milan
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Gibraltar
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Acquisition of 70% of Mitsubishi Electric FA Industrial Products
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Milan
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London
Jadrolinija has inaugurated its new fast maritime service Ancona-Zadar
Ancona/Zara
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Hamburg
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Sandefjord
Advanced hull performance solutions will be implemented
Maersk issues first order for new containers produced in India
Copenhagen
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Ravenna
An increase of +10.6% is expected in June
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Cagliari
Achievement of the targets expected by June 30, 2026
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Melzo
Six weekly trains are scheduled that will be able to carry up to 38 cargo units
PSA to build and operate container terminal at Vietnam's Lach Huyen port
Singapore
Agreement with Lach Huyen International Logistics & Industrial Park
Sandro Bucchioni and Andrea Fontana confirmed as presidents of the La Spezia freight forwarders and maritime agents.
La Spezia
New two-year mandate
Konecranes has acquired the nuclear and port services segment of Spain's Coapsa.
Hyvinkää
The company has an annual turnover of approximately four million euros.
PSA Italy presented its 2025 Sustainability Report
Genoa
The document highlights, among other things, the employment data and the economic impact on the territory
The Central-Northern Adriatic Port Authority confirms the completion of the projects financed by the PNRR
Ravenna
Mirco Carloni has taken office as president of the Central Adriatic Port System Authority.
Ancona
The Grimaldi Group has taken delivery of the new PCTC Grande Oriente
Naples
It will be placed on the Asia-Europe route
PORTS
Italian Ports:
Ancona Genoa Ravenna
Augusta Gioia Tauro Salerno
Bari La Spezia Savona
Brindisi Leghorn Taranto
Cagliari Naples Trapani
Carrara Palermo Trieste
Civitavecchia Piombino Venice
Italian Interports: list World Ports: map
DATABASE
ShipownersShipbuilding and Shiprepairing Yards
ForwardersShip Suppliers
Shipping AgentsTruckers
MEETINGS
The conference "EU-Mercosur Agreement: The Role of the Maritime Economy" will be held in Genoa on July 1st.
Genoa
It is organized by the Casa America ETS Foundation and the Western Liguria Port Authority
The Federagenti assembly will be held in Civitavecchia on July 3rd.
Rome
Pessina: We will not discuss regulations, community relations, or the pursuit of theories and bureaucracy, but rather the challenges of Italian port infrastructure.
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
Govt does not interfere in port management appointments - Loke
(Bernama)
World's first floating fusion reactor-powered vessel could become reality with new project
(Interesting Engineering)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Intervento del presidente Tomaso Cognolato
Roma, 19 giugno 2025
››› File
The Central Adriatic Port Authority announces that it has achieved its objectives under the PNRR
Ancona
Port of La Spezia: 60 Sea Log workers rehired by other port companies
La Spezia
Pisano (AdSP): very satisfied with the positive conclusion of this dispute
A workshop on cold ironing and related risks and insurance solutions will be held in London.
London
Rossi (ADVANT-Nctm): effective infrastructure development must necessarily take into account legal and insurance aspects
Fincantieri signs an agreement in Albania for shipbuilding training.
Trieste
Skills development for the growth of the new Pashaliman naval industrial hub
Reorganization of ro-pax traffic areas in the port of Catania
Catania
Ferries will no longer be moored on the central jetty or along the eastern breakwater
Maersk raises fiscal 2026 forecast
Copenhagen
Continued growth in demand for containerized shipping and increased spot rates
Green light for the awarding of railway shunting services in the ports of Savona and Vado
New trucking area in the port of Genoa
The Italian Ports Association will hold its assembly in Naples on Wednesday.
Rome
The discussion on port governance reform will be at the heart of the proceedings.
Registration for seafarers' registers is now open to non-EU citizens residing in Italy.
Genoa
Vidotto (Foundation of the Italian Merchant Marine Academy): a step towards civilization
Project to build shipyard in Tartous port expected to accelerate
Damascus
Meeting between a delegation from Kuzey Star Shipyard and the leaders of the Syrian General Authority for Ports and Customs
Port of Gioia Tauro: Work to reactivate hauling and launching operations has been completed.
Gioia Tauro
These operations had been at a standstill since 2024
The conference "EU-Mercosur Agreement: The Role of the Maritime Economy" will take place in Genoa on July 1st.
Genoa
In Spain, €11.8 million in eco-incentives have been allocated for the use of motorways of the sea.
Madrid
163,672 shipments made by 32 companies subsidized
ABB has signed an agreement to buy Norwegian marine automation company Høglund.
Zurich
The Tønsberg-based company's integrated automation system is currently installed on over 600 vessels.
Port of Gioia Tauro: tender launched for the redevelopment of the ro-ro docks
Gioia Tauro
Worth 5.6 million euros, the works will last 210 days
Grimaldi confirms the important role of the port of Catania in its strategies
Catania
The aim is to increase services and make existing ones even more efficient.
Annual growth of +6% in cruise traffic and +2% in ferry traffic is expected in the Adriatic
Venice
It is the only Mediterranean region to have recorded a decline in cruises in the period 2019-2025
PSA Padova established to develop and manage the Padua intermodal terminal
Padua
The shareholders of Interporto Padova and Padova Hall have approved the merger plan
The Federagenti assembly will be held in Civitavecchia on July 3rd.
Rome
Pessina: We will not discuss regulations, community relations, or the pursuit of theories and bureaucracy, but rather the challenges of Italian port infrastructure.
Spediporto has opened its own representative office in Hong Kong
Genoa
Giachero: the opening of this desk is also an opportunity for young people
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