The data released at the Italian Cruise Day in Taranto points to a cruise boom at the Ports of Genoa in 2023. The throughput projections presented by the organiser of the leading biennial Italian cruise industry event, Risposte e Turismo, firmly establish the Western Ligurian Sea Ports amongst the leading Mediterranean hubs, with an annual passenger count of approximately 2.3 million.
A focus on regional and national trends across the industry identifies the Liguria Region as the top Italian cruise destination, with 3.1 million passengers, ahead of Lazio (Rome) and Sicily, and Italy as the Mediterranean and Europe's premier cruising area, with a total of 13 million passengers. T...News
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Record passenger throughput in the first nine months of this year at the Ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado: 4 million cruise and ferry passengers, a +24% upturn on 2022, and with the prospect of reaching the 5-million pax threshold by the end of 2023.
Full planning permission has been granted to the Vitali & Roncello Group which has the mandate to redevelop the Port of Genoa's Hennebique grain silos. At this juncture, by the end of the month, the preliminaries in the planned construction works are due to start, including stripping-out and construction site safety management, which will pave the way towards the resurrection of a masterpiece of Art Deco industrial architecture, in compliance with the added recommendations prescribed by the National Heritage Council during the local planning approval process.
The CLIA European Cruise Week disembarks in Genoa from 11 to 14 March 2024, firmly establishing Genoa as cruise capital of Europe.
The Ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado rank as the major logistics platform in the Mediterranean serving the southern-northern supply chain route across Europe, in particular, land-locked Switzerland, which this year hosts the sixth edition of the Forum, Un Mare di Svizzera, at the LAC Conference Centre In Lugano.
"The driving force behind our ports is represented by the united and vibrant local maritime cluster at the heart of the Ports of Savona-Vado", declares Paolo Piacenza, in his first public opening speech as Government Commissioner, at the Savona&Vado Ports Focus held in Savona's Confederation of Italian Industry headquarters.
The construction of the 850 columns is in its final stages, with a total of 370,000 tons of gravel laid on the seabed. Work on the second block of columns is now set to commence.
The new programme agreement for the industrial redevelopment of Savona, with the allocation of 50 million euros, was signed this morning at the local Confederation of Italian Industry headquarters.
Paolo Piacenza was officially appointed today, 8 September 2023, Government Commissioner of the Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority by Decree n. 217 of the Italian Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini.
The second quarter (April – June) 2023 statistics released by the Port Authority reflect the ongoing overall slowdown in international trade registered globally. Total throughput dropped by -6.7% compared to the corresponding period in 2022, whilst container traffic fell by -1.8%. In the first six months of the year the Ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado Ligure reported total tonnage of 32,443,265 (-5.2% vs. 2022) and total box traffic of 1,400,009 TEUs (-1.7% vs. 2022).