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Genoa Port Ferry Overview
Genoa is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria. The flag of Genoa is a St. George's Cross flag, a red cross on a lime white field, identical to the Flag of England.
The Port of Genoa, with a trade volume of 58.6 million tonnes it is the first port of Italy, the second in terms of twenty-foot equivalent units after the port of transshipment of Gioia Tauro, with a trade volume of 1.86 million TEUs. Several cruise and ferry lines serve the passenger terminals in the old port, with a traffic of 3.2 million passengers in 2007. MSC Cruises chose Genoa as one of its main home ports, in competition with the genoese company Costa Cruises, which moved its home port to Savona.
The quays of the passenger terminals extend over an area of 250 thousand square metres, with 5 equipped berths for cruise vessels and 13 for ferries, for an annual capacity of 4 million ferry passengers, 1.5 million cars and 250,000 trucks. The historical maritime station of Ponte dei Mille is today a technologically advanced cruise terminal, with facilities designed after the world's most modern airports, to ensure fast embarking and disembarking of latest generation ships carrying thousand passengers. A third ruise terminal is currently under construction in the redesigned area of Ponte Parodi, once a quay used for grain traffic. |
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