Genoa: “Dredging already called”

Genova - “The dredging of the channels to allow MSC’s new cruise ships - which will have greater draughts – entry into the cruise terminal has been called for in the three year Operational Plan for 2019. We will evaluate the time frame, and we are ready to accelerate it.”

This is how Marco Sanguineri, the new General Secretary of the Port System Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea, that is, of the ports of Genoa and Savona, responded to MSC Cruises’s C.E.O.

Gianni Onorato, who surprised him by raising the alarm over the fact that his future ships might not be able to call at the port unless the channel depths were increased and LNG refuelling facilities were built. The new flagships ordered from STX France are LNG powered: “In terms of the LNG distributors,” Sanguineri continued, “we conducted in-depth studies when the Strategic Plan for the Port of Genoa was being drafted and identified a series of alternative sites for them, now all that must be done is to make a clear choice.”