To the end of August 2013 the doubling of the crocieristico terminal Palacrociere of the port of Savona will be completed



The doubling of the crocieristico terminal Palacrociere of the port of Savona, that it is operated by 2003 by Costa Crociere, will be completed to the end of August 2013, when it begins the season of maximum concentration of the cruise ships in from Liguria port of call. This morning, in the course of an encounter to Palazzo Lamba Doria, center of the Chamber of Commerce of Savona, between the general manager of Costa Crociere, Gianni Onorato, the mayor of Savona, Federico Berruti, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, Luciano Pasquale, and the president of the Harbour Authority of Savona - Vado Ligure, Rino Canavese, in fact are announced at the end of the next month the beginning of the work of construction of according to passenger terminal, for whose realization Coast will invest about nine million euro.

The contest of contract of the work is completed 10th February and the allocation of the assignment to the company contractor, the procedures carried out all, will happen in the end of April. According to the forecasts, the yard will remain opened about 15 months. The involved professional studies in the planning are all from Liguria ones: Study Near Architects (architects Luigi Vicini and Andrea Piazza), that it had already worked to the planning of the Palacrociere and the Palacruceros of Barcelona; Technical study Ingg. Montaldo and Canale; QED Srl projects.

According to terminal the cruises of Savona it will have a total area of 3.500 square metres and will be a terminal "satellite" functional connected to the existing marine station, with the possibility, therefore, to use the services already you anticipate in the Palacrociere, but in a position to operating as an independent terminal, with areas of wait, areas of transit and area independent baggages.

This year to the Palacrociere they are attended about 900.000 crocieristi with 220 ports of call, results online with the numbers records recorded in 2011. The ships Coast have begun to land in November to the port of Savona 1996 with the arrival of Costa Riviera. The presence of the ships of the company generates an important economic impact on the territory: according to a study of the MIP, the School Business of the Polytechnic of Milan, the value of the generated induced one by Costa Crociere in 2010 in the port of Savona and, more in general terms, in Liguria has been respective of 5,5 million euros and almost 230 million euros, in great part, these last, represented from work executed on the ships of the fleet.

Currently they are the five ships of the fleet Coast placed in the Mediterranean, all in departure from the Palacrociere of Savona: NeoRomantica Costa, left on 31 March for a cruise of nine days in the western Mediterranean (Savona, Marseilles, Barcelona, Palm, Cagliari, Malta, Catania, Naples); Costa Deliziosa, in departure on 6 April for a minicruise of five days (Savona, Barcelona, Palm, Ajaccio); Costa Serena, that April for a route of a week in the western Mediterranean (Savona, Civitavecchia, Palermo, Palm, Valencia, Marseilles will leave 8); Costa Pacifica, 8 April, and Costa Mediterranea, on 4 April, will offer a cruise of 11 days in Greece, Israel and Turkey. Moreover, between the innovations of the season in the Mediterranean, Coast offers from April and september to November in June, with departure from the Palacrociere, a series of cruises breviums of Costa Luminosa, Costa Atlantica and Costa Deliziosa.

In the course of the next summery season the Costa Serena ships will be placed to the Palacrociere, with a new route of a week in the spiagge beautifulr of amusement, that it comprises a port of call of two days to Ibiza; Costa Magica, for cruises of a week in the western Mediterranean; Costa Mediterranea, for cruises from the 10 to the 13 days in Morocco and Portugal, Black Sea and Greece, Israel and Turkey. Next moreover the 19 neoRomantica Costa september, new ship been born in the Saint George yards of the Port of Genoa from the complete restyling of Costa Romantica, will leave from the savonese terminal for the Great Cruise of the Hemisphere Oriental who will carry the ship from fine Italy in Australia and New Zealand, crossing the more fascinating places of the Hemisphere oriental.

In occasion of the today's encounter Costa Crociere has been profitable to have recorded in the course of last the two weeks a trend of reservations for the cruises of advanced Passover to that for the cruises of Passover of 2011.