Municipality and Harbour Authority of Savona and Costa Crociere have signed an agreement for sustainable development in the crocieristico field to Savona



Today Common and Harbour Authority of Savona and Costa Crociere, the company that manages the terminal Palacrociere cruises of the port of from Liguria city, has signed a protocol of understanding of the duration three-year-old for sustainable development in the crocieristico field to Savona. The main areas of participation comprised in the agreement regard environmental protection, social and economic impact and communication of the reached results.

Besides the control of the emissions of the ships in port, forehead that Costa Crociere engaged in a series of initiatives sees times to a careful management of the energetic resources and to the control of the impacts, the participations in environmental matters previewed in the agreement will regard also the traffic of the vehicles that reach and leave from the Palacrociere, for example through ulterior communications directed to the passengers in order to privilege, by who it arrives in automobile, use it of the tollbooth of Go regarding that of Albisola.

They are moreover already in course relative monitorings to the acoustic impact of the ships during the port of call operations and is previewed an ulterior improvement of the current process of coming recycling and waste disposal from the ships.

In social and economic within initiatives in order to consolidate the relations with the local communities are previewed. According to terminal of the Palacrociere, inaugurated to November 2014 and for which Coast has invested nine million euro, an ulterior increase of the crocieristico traffic will allow in the next few years, with the consequent creation of new opportunities of employment to local level. It will come moreover commissioned to a advising society a study in order to measure the economic impact of the cruises on the territory.

It will be worked also on the formation through the organization of professional internships to the Palacrociere dedicated to the savonesi young people and course for the tourist acceptance turned the already operating staff. Moreover educational programs for students of the local schools and cooperations with university and institutes of second degree for research projects legacies to the cruises and tourism are previewed.

The combined management, already formalized by Municipality of Savona, Harbour Authority, Chamber of Commerce of Savona and Costa, the Point Info situated in the adjacent Dock to the terminal, will allow an improvement of the services of tourist acceptance and information turned the hosts, for which they are in program also projects of development together with the local associations.

Moreover the Palacrociere will open its doors to the city for visits of students, "cultural opens day", events and conferences. It will come also estimated the support and the sponsorship of local initiatives with high content legacy to the sustainability and the involvement of Coast and its employee in voluntary service projects legacies to the territory.

The advance of the sustainability program undersigned today will be guaranteed by constant encounters of update between Municipality, Portuale Authority and Costa Crociere, than they are engaged also to communicate to the city the reached results.

"Today - the mayor of Savona has asserted, Federico Berruti - the municipal administration signature a protocol of understanding with Authority Portuale and Costa Crociere whom a strong unit of attempts for a tourist development of the really sustainable city testifies. It is an important action that he engages the underwriters to work on a fan of strategic topics, that they go from the environmental respect to the promotion and valorization of our city and its crocieristico landing place through shared actions and instruments. The document that we agree - has emphasized Berruti - it is the symbol of the change of the city over two decades, through the new potentialities that Savona and its tourist port, placed side by side from that commercial one, have demonstrated with own autonomy to be able to offer to the future of our territory".

The general manager of Costa Crociere, Neil Palomba, has evidenced that "thanks to the grip collaboration between Coast, Municipality and Harbour Authority, Savona will become an example of sustainable development of the cruises, that he favors the value creation on the economic plan, social and over the long term environmental of the territory. During the last few years - Palomba has remembered - we have carried out important investments to Savona, for example for the construction of according to terminal of the Palacrociere, and want to continue to grow in responsible way together with the city".

"The signature of this protocol of understanding - it has specified the president of the Harbour Authority of Savona, Gian Luigi Miazza - formalizes a series of mutual engagements of the underwriters with the clearly objective one to continue to improve and, if possible to implement, this that it is constructed by 1996 today: important infrastructures, a model of service offered to the crocierista and the ships of high level, creating numerous places of work that arrive in the days of tip to being very beyond the 200 units. From the beginning also it has been tried to facilitate who decides to know Savona and today the infopoint in front of the Palacrociere it is a determining reference for the crocieristi. In synthesis - it has concluded Miazza - it is wanted to be worked all entirety in order to pick new challenges in terms of future investments and of increment of the numbers to realize over the long term leaving from today and already a lot that the crocieristico system to Savona has created".