Today in the area behind the port of Vado Ligure was inaugurated a new plant for handling, storage and processing of green coffee by Pacorini Silocaf, structure which, with 84 cells of diversified capacity able to store different qualities of raw material for about 27,000 tons, is the largest in the world for this type of goods.

The silo is the result of redesign and redevelopment of a disused structure since 2012 and the plant is equipped to offer a plurality of processes on the raw coffee. In addition, the silo allows you to offer services that go beyond typical logistics activities, including quality control, cleaning, polishing and mixing.

"Today - underlined Roberto Pacorini, president and CEO of the Pacorini group - we inaugurate the silo dedicated to the largest and most modern green coffee in the world, equal only to its twin in New Orleans. We are sure that, through this project, Vado Ligure will become so the most important reference point in the Mediterranean for the coffee traffic'.

"The operation carried out by the Pacorini group - he noted the President of the Port System Authority of the Sea Western Ligurian, Paolo Emilio Signorini - fits in and strengthens the development strategy launched by AdSP, Municipality and Region for the port and back port areas of Vado Ligure, with synergies important among the terminal, logistic and intermodal to replace chemical, energy and Industrial. During 2023 we will complete the path of the new Master plan of the port system, further strengthening the enhancement of the airports of Vado and Savona and the areas backports, including Val Bormida, both in terms of attraction of new production activities and enhancement rail accessibility and intermodality, cable car and road transport'.

The President of the Liguria Region, Giovanni Toti, recalled that "logistics is the cornerstone of the development model of Liguria, and one of the strong points of its restart after the difficult months of Covid. Especially significant - has observed - the fact that this silo arises from the recovery of a structure abandoned years ago, a sign that the Ligurian ports, and that of I go in particular, let them be alive, vital and expanding."