the Harbour Authority of Savona visits the container terminal of APM Terminals to Shanghai



The port of Savona is in mission in China, where it participates to the fair Transport Logistic China in development to Shanghai, in order to introduce own harbour system. Leaving from the consideration that the harbour system of the Tyrrhenian North, from Savona to Livorno passing for Genoa and La Spezia, is the easier, economic way and ecological in order to reach the markets of the Europe center, Savona has carried to the attention of the Chinese marine operators and of their associations of shippers the new multipurpose platform under construction to Vado Ligure, where they give the 2017 will be able to berth the great container vessels of ability until 18.000 teu, that it will have a annual ability to traffic of 800 thousand teu and will be managed by society APM Terminals of shipowning group A.P. Møller-Mærsk.

"Savona - it has emphasized the president of the Harbour Authority of Savona, Gian Luigi Miazza - is constructing the future with the project of the platform multipurpose of Vado Ligure. We will value the high backdrops that allow the access with the great ships and the geographic position, completing from Liguria system in order to succeed in to compete with the European ports of call of the North".

In occasion of the mission in China, with the objective to verify the activity of a terminal very similar to that in phase of construction to Vado Ligure, the Harbour Authority of Savona has visited the Shanghai East Container Terminal (SECT) of the port of Shanghai, that the greatest state Chinese operator is managed in joint venture from Shanghai International Port Group () and from the APM Terminals. Also with various numbers - it has found from Liguria harbour agency - the structure realized in the port of Shanghai remembers that planned for the oadstead of Goes: the four docks, long about 1.250 meters for ships of fourth and fifth generation (large carriers), with backdrops that arrive to 14 meters and a terminalistica area of 155 hectares.

"He has been particularly interesting - Miazza has explained - to see in direct way as are carried out the harbour operations and which equipments are employed. Now they are operating with 14 cranes of dock, 40 cranes for handling on large square RTG of last generation and eight E-RTG electrical workers with the objective strategic for company APM Terminals to reduce the environmental impact continuously. Memory - it has specified Miazza - than to I go some are previewed six crane of dock and 24 RMG electrical workers, semi-automatic".