Genoa, 29 June 2023 - Today the Genova City Airport new Board of Directors was appointed by the company shareholders at the General Assembly of Aeroporto di Genova SpA. Alfonso Lavarello was officially nominated President, and he will be flanked by the Directors Giovanni Cavallaro, Ivan Pitto, Barbara Pozzolo and Alessandro Cavo. Piero Righi is set to remain as Director General until 31 December 2023 to assist the Board members and ensure a smooth transition under the new management.
The shareholder delegates approved the Financial Statement for the year 2022 which reached the break-even point thanks to an increase in airport passenger throughput and improved performance in terms of operational results and cost-efficiency levels. The company shareholders - Western Ligurian Sea P...News
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Planned retrofitting activities to the Cesare Imperiale Viaduct, the 300-metre waterfront promenade connecting Ponte dei Mille to Ponte Andrea Doria in Stazioni Marittime’s cruise terminal area, accessed by the over 1 million passengers yearly who choose Genoa as a cruise destination, have commenced.
Signing Ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding on the 100 million-euro Vado Ligure port and infrastructure investment plan. A focus on economic development, sustainability and employment.
President Paolo Emilio Signorini received at Palazzo San Giorgio, the historical headquarters of the Port Authority, the Ambassador to Algeria in Italy, Abdelkrim Touahria, during an official visit to Genoa.
Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority and Per Genova Breakwater Consortium led by Webuild launch the project in the presence of Italian Infrastructure and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini. The Genoa’s New Breakwater is a national strategic project to improve the role of the city, Liguria and Italy in international maritime trade. Also, it is an innovative project unique in the world for its scale, engineering complexity and benefit to the city and country: the new breakwater will be 6,200 metres long and its construction will create 1,000 jobs.
Construction works commence to expand the dockside container yard at Bettolo Terminal, the first step towards the transition from multi-quay to single quay line at the Port of Sampierdarena.
A delegation of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) of the European Parliament, led by Chair Karima Delli, visited the capital of Liguria on a fact-finding mission to receive an update on the major infrastructure projects of European significance underway in the Ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado Ligure, the southern maritime apex of the Rhine-Alpine Trans-European transport network corridor connecting Genoa to the premier seaports in Northern Europe.
Following his first official visit in 2021 to Genoa as US Consul General in Milan, Robert Needham met with Port President Paolo Emilio Signorini in the historical headquarters of Palazzo San Giorgio to receive an update on the sizable 2.6 billion euro investment programme underway for the expansion and upgrade of the Port of Genoa and Savona-Vado Ligure’s facilities, with a specific focus on the environmental sustainability policies undertaken by the Port Authority.
The Ports of Genoa consolidates its leading role in container handling, with volumes firmly back to pre-pandemic levels, up +0.6% on 2021 at 2.8 million TEUs. Total containerised tonnage rose by +3.5%, with gateway box traffic registering an increase of +4.1% compared to 2021, thereby establishing Genoa, Savona and Vado-Ligure as premier maritime hub for Northern Italy's manufacturing and consumer heartland.
Dredging operations are underway in Savona to increase the depth across the Palacrociere cruise terminal navigation channels to cater for the arrival of the next-generation ships.