Vado Construction Progress

A pre-built four-lane 140 meter overpass which will provide access to the new APM Terminals Vado terminal now under construction was installed in just four hours at the construction site on Italy's Ligurian coast. The installation, unique to Italy, will accommodate vehicular traffic as well as a coal conveyor. Another 200 meters of access ramps will complete this aspect of the project, which will include sound dampening measures and other environmentally-sustainable components. 

The Port of Vado is located in north-western Italy in the Region of Savona on the Ligurian Coast, near Genoa. The planned deep-water Vado container terminal, the first major new container facility built in Italy in several decades, is scheduled to become operational in 2018 with the ability to accommodate vessels of up to 18,000 TEU capacity, as well as bulk operations.  The Port Authority of Savona-Vado signed a concession agreement with APM Terminals and its local partners for a new container terminal in February of 2008.

Italian ports are major transshipment centers for local, regional and global cargo routes, handling a combined 10.57 million TEUs in 2016. Projected annual throughput capacity of APM Terminals Vado is 800,000 TEUs.