Presentation

Ligurian coastline (150 km) hosts the three ports of Genoa, Savona and La Spezia, being the main italian port system and one of the most important in the Med.

Following to the 1994 port reform law, the Port Authorities of Genoa, La Spezia and Savona were assigned to manage the ports and they are now fully aware, together with the Regional Administration, that they must join forces and act as a single port-logistics system, in order to effectively satisfy the market’s need and offer efficient services for goods transport.

Aiming to this, a constant cooperation in ports planning, railway transport, links with the hinterland and international promotion activities is necessary.

This way, Ligurian Ports have become over the last years a point of reference for the main international ports management companies and for the world’s most important shipowners groups.

Thanks to the strengthening of the port infrastructures and the Italian railway service’s liberalisation, logistic has developed as well, allowing the Ligurian Port Authorities to efficiently link the ports with the inland markets through dedicated railway services.

Because of their geographical nearness to the heart of Europe, the terminals modern equipments and the efficient transport services, Ligurian Ports are able to serve an inland area from Northern France to Eastern Europe, being competitive for the markets serve by north European ports as well, which was quite difficult to imagine just a few years ago.

Port development joins environmental responsibility: in 2005, after a long work substained by Regione Liguria, Ligurian Ports Authorities obtained, first in Italy, the important UNI EN ISO 14001 certification, prooving the efficiency of the environmental policies applied.