On July 7, Luigi Merlo, president of Genoa Port Authority, and Claudio Burlando, president of Liguria Region, carried out an inspection on the site where Genoa port's new container terminal is to be built.
The new container terminal will have a 640-meter mooring length and will cover a 300,000 square meter inshore surface area, created by filling the gap between the Ronco and Canepa docks. A sea depth of 15 meters will allow the mooring of cargo ships of the latest generation.
Mr. Merlo stated that, together with the existing infrastructure and with other upgrades, the port will reach its goal of an annual capacity of 3.5-4 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs).
The port of Genoa is - both in terms of traffic and surface area - Italy's biggest industrial and commercial port, competing with Marseille and Barcelona for leadership in the Mediterranean.