President Signorini: Construction works kick off in 2023. President Toti and Mayor Bucci: Momentous event set to revolutionise our port.
GENOA. Today, the bid for the design and construction of the New Breakwater of the Port of Genoa has been officially assigned to the Webuild Group. The contract has been awarded following the conclusion of a highly challenging planning, design, approval and award procedure for the implementation of ...
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 operations to position the caisson required 6 hours to be completed, assisted by a qualified team of engineers and skilled specialised workers, and 3 tug-boats used to tow and manoeuvre the massive concrete component into place. The project calls for the relocation further at sea of the existing...
The Port Authority President, Paolo Emilio Signorini, flanked by the Liguria Region Governor Giovanni Toti, PSA Italy Board Director Giulio Schenone and the Managing Director of PSA Genoa Investments Roberto Ferrari, visited the Port of Antwerp’s flagship container terminals operated by PSA, together with David Yang, Regional CEO Europe, Mediterranean and The Americas at PSA International Pte Ltd.
The site inspection was followed by a meeting with Tan Chong Meng, Group Chief Executive Office of PSA International. "Recent unprecedented worldwide events have impacted enormously upon the global chain supply, port and transport industry,” declared President Signorini, “Genoa is at the centre of ...
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.
Covering a 10,000 sqm surface area, the new facility has been designed to dovetail with the new road infrastructure planned by the Port Authority in the basin of Genoa-Sampierdarena to upgrade accessibility to the cargo terminals overland. The new gate system already in place is capable of accommoda...
4 October 2022 - The flagship purpose-built semi-submersible vessel, YACHT SERVANT, operated by DYT Superyacht Transport of the Spliethoff Group, called at the IMT-Messina Terminal in Genoa on her maiden voyage from Italy. The newbuild heavy-load carrier is scheduled to offer a regular liner service between the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, with Genoa, assisted by the Multimarine Services shipping agency of the Finsea Group, reconfirmed as the main DYT hub in Europe and in the Med.
With a LOA of 213.70 m, a 46 m beam, a 4.6 m draft and a 6,380 sqm deck, the YACHT SERVANT has doubled the capacity of her predecessors, thereby facilitating the transport of an increased number of vessels per crossing, including deep-draft sailing yachts. The ship is also 32% more fuel efficient an...
Ongoing dredging operations at Calata Massaua in the Sampierdarena Basin to cater for the next-generation ships.
The Ports of Genoa continue to excavate the Sampierdarena and Old Port seabed, with the aid of advanced dredging monitoring software on board the custom-built Annamaria Z vessel. By combining pre-survey multi-beam data with GPS, and data from sensors added to the clamshell, the 3D reconstruction of ...
The wide range of major roadworks underway in the Genoa-Sampierdarena basin, designed to upgrade overland accessibility to the cargo terminals, was the objective of the site inspection of the delegation of thirty engineers co-ordinated by the Chamber of Commerce of the Slovenian capital Ljubljana.
The group was accompanied in the port by the Director of the Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority Infrastructure Investment Programme Staff, Fabrizio Mansueto, with a focus on the infrastructure works which have already kicked off: the new Papa Bridge, the extension and upgrade of the current port fl...
Today 30 September marks the inauguration of the new plant at the Port of Vado Ligure, dedicated to the handling, storage and processing of coffee, operated by Pacorini Silocaf of the Pacorini Group, global leader in green coffee logistics and processing.
To date, the silos ranks as the largest technologically advanced facility of its kind in the world in terms of size and storage capacity - 84 cells for up to 27,000 tons of coffee -, which is shipped into Vado across Reefer Terminal. The facility offers the full range of services to the industry: th...
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.
The viaduct deck, in metallic carpentry, 75 metres long and weighing 500 tonnes, was assembled in the construction site close to via Siffredi and transported, rotated and installed in the designated location. This complex operation required the dedication and commitment of over 200 engineers and hig...
27 September 2022 - Genoa was selected as the destination for a full two-day study tour programme on the part of the CEA, the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, one of Europe’s leading players in technological research in low carbon energies.
The Ideas Laboratory of the Innovation Department of the Grenoble-based Commission invited their R&D partners to take part in a visit to the Ligurian capital: a case study to examine the roadmap undertaken by Genoa to overcome the urban vulnerabilities of today’s global cities and, specifically,...