Inaugurated I go Gateway, the new container terminal of the port of Vado Ligure



Today in the port of Vado Ligure the new container is inaugurated Goes Gateway terminal managed from the APM Terminals Vado Ligure Spa, society whose capital is stopped to 50.1% from the APM Terminals of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk, to 40% from the COSCO Shipping Ports of shipowning group Chinese COSCO Shipping and to 9.9% and from the Chinese Qingdao Port International Co.

Initially a first part of dock of 450 meters of the new seed-automated terminal will be operating, but by the next July the 700 meters will be taken advantage of all that compose the harbour platform. With grounds to thread -17,25 dock meters and a height very 4,5 meters over the sea level, I go Gateway will be able to ultra receive and to operate without limitations also portacontainer of the last generation (ULCS - large Large Ship Container).

I go Gateway counts moreover on a series of equipments to the vanguard and in particular on a fleet of cranes that operate thanks to the most modern technologies. The large square for the warehouse and handling of the container is first in Italy to being completely automated: the cranes of large square ARMG (Automatic Rail Mounted Gantry Crane), will operate independently and will be supervisionate remotely by operators highly specialized. This will allow to guarantee also the highest standards than safety in the field, from the moment that no person can be physically anticipates in this specific area during handling. The access to the large square will be possible only for maintenance activity during the arrest warrant of the cranes.

The container that will disembark to I go Gateway immediately will be recorded by an installed dynamic video camera on the cranes of dock (STS, Ship-To-Shore), means with operator on board that they send to the information to the operating system of terminal (TOS - Terminal Operating System). The TOS, avant-garde and completely integrated with all the other equipment, will allow to anytime trace the position of every single container. Handling of the container from the dock to the internal areas of exchange, from here to the large square and therefore to the areas of exchange with the street transport (exchange grid), will happen through the employment of the cranes to knight (Straddle Carrier), means to hybrid feeding with operator on board that they will receive instructions from the TOS directly.

I go Gateway has evidenced moreover that the new terminal will have of one of the systems of access for the trucks between most technological of Italy. The arrival to the terminal will happen in fact thanks to the presence of 14 reversible lanes to high content of automation, necessary for the management of the flows through a system of "appointments" called Truck Appointment System. The haulers who will arrive to the access gate will have previously reserved their arrival and received confirmation through an interface web connected to the computer science systems. Once arrived in port, they will cross an optical reader in a position to recognizing the conveyor thanks to the plate of means and to the number of the container.

APM Terminals aims a lot at the rail shipment for own connections with the markets and the objective of the company for I go Gateway is to enliven on track 40% of the containers. Initially they will be the five trains weeklies magazine that they give I go will reach launches unwind intermodal in the North and East North of the Italy, between which Milan and Padua, but their number is destined to go up progressively.

The realization of the terminal has involved a total investment of about 450 million euros, of which 180 million by APM Terminals, 43 of which in project financing. The outsourcer of the work is the Authority of Harbour System of the Ligurian Sea Western, than now of it own to APM Terminals for next the 50 years will entrust the management.

APM Terminals Vado Ligure controls also the contiguous Reefer Terminal of Vado Ligure, the largest hub for the logistics of the fruit in the Mediterranean. Operatively the annual ability to containerized trade of I go Gateway will be of about 900 thousand teu, than sum to the ability to 250 thousand teu of the Reefer Terminal.

The new container from Liguria terminal already is included between the ports scaled from two marine services of the company Maersk Line of the Danish group: beginning from the next February the ships of service ME2, that it connects the Mediterranean with the Middle East and India, and of service MMX, that it connects the Mediterranean with Canada, will call at Go Gateway(on 29 November 2019).

Initially the dependent of I go Gateway and Reefer Terminal will be respective 240 and 150, figures that will be reached soon more than a month when the last training courses are concluded, while to end 2020, when the completion of the terminal totally is realized, the occupied ones of I go Gateway will go up to about 300.

It goes back to the 2005 inclusion of the new container terminal in the Town development plan Portuale of Vado Ligure and the publication of the European ban of interest in order to characterize the disposed operators to being involved in the project. "A long one has been attended - the managing director of APM Terminals Vado Ligure has commented, Paolo Cornetto - has had to face many difficulties, but I am pleasing to my colleagues and my company for to have always continued to believe us. Now we will have to be good and to guarantee to the customers an excellence service. There are still many games opened on the external infrastructures that must be capacities to term. I hope that the great determination of all does not be exhausted the institutions that have allowed us to arrive to this day: I go Gateway will have to be able to count on efficient infrastructures for being able to express all its potential one in the next few years".

In occasion of the today's ceremony of inauguration of I go Gateway the mayor of Vado Ligure, Monica Giuliano, has emphasized that "the inauguration of the new terminal represents for our territory the birth of a new model of economic development that has which foundation the sea. We have exceeded a phase of decrescita and industrial desertification thanks to the engagement of the local institutions and the involved operators. Now the auspice is that the new one I walk can regenerate territories and occupation premising the perseguimento of an indissoluble binomial between social well-being and productive development".

The president of the Authority of Harbour System of the Ligurian Sea Western, Paolo Emilio Signorini, has evidenced that, "graces to a job along 15 years, today the port of Vado Ligure can boast the terminal more advanced container for technology in the Mediterranean. To little days from the opening of the renewed terminal cruises of Savona, it is a satisfaction particular to testify the great strengthening of the ports of call of West, that they contribute in determining way to improve the efficiency and the ability to from Liguria and national harbour system. In sight of the commercial opening and the full operativity of the terminal - it has added Gentlemen - we are all engaged to assure integration of Vado Gateway with the net of national railway highway transport and. This is the challenge key because our their ports and our operators can put to yield all potential to the service of the economy of our Country and Europe".

The president of the Region Liguria, Giovanni Toti, has remembered that "the platform of I go will give job from quickly to 390 people, of which beyond 70 formed with the project "Blue economy" of Liguria Region, to demonstration of as the formation aimed and specific online with the requirements of the companies and the market he gives turned out concrete and aids our young people to find occupation. Our region, with its ports, is already the main logistic platform of the Mediterranean: the cut of the tape of the new platform of Vado Ligure upgrades our ability to handling and confirmation the more strategic marine field as that and nodal one for the Liguria system".

"The completed choice of the project financing in 2005 - it has found Salvatore Margiotta, senator and undersecretary to the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports - has been revealed effective, and is also with Italian times a little too much long, the structure has become truth. To APM it goes recognized determination and patience. I like to emphasize me that - rare case - the public contribution has been reduced from 300 to 270 million. A terminal without a strong railway member could not moreover be imagined, and for this the action of concession of 2008 imposes the use of the railway modality for 40% of the enlivened volume. The RTI that manages it - Serfer and Trenitalia Cargo - of it will make cargo assuring a service to the height of the challenge. Regarding the transport on rubber - it has specified Margiotta - it still remains to realize the highway tollbooth of Bossarino; Freeways of the Flowers are completing the definitive planning with the objective to arrive within end 2020 to the contract of the work. The government will make its part of stimulus, of control and vigilance so that the objective is picked in the short possible time”.

Besides Margiotta, Toti Giuliano, Gentlemen and Cornett, have participated to the inauguration ceremony, between the others, admiral Nicola Carlone, commander of the Marine Direction of the Liguria, chief the executive officer of APM Terminals, Morten H. Engelstoft, and the member of parliament Franco Vazio.