Vado Ligure

Vado Ligure
Country	Italy
region	Liguria
province	Savona  (SV)
Coordinates	44 ° 16 '  N , 8 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 16 '0 "  N , 8 ° 26' 0"  E
surface	23 km²
Residents	8,307 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	361 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	17047
prefix	019
ISTAT number	009064
Popular name	Vadesi
Patron saint	John the Baptist
Website	Vado Ligure
Beach promenade in Vado Ligure

Vado Ligure ( Ligurian (Romanic) Voæ , in the local dialect Vué , called Vada Sabatia in Roman antiquity ) is an Italian municipality , port and industrial city on the Ligurian Sea with 8,307 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). It belongs to the Italian province of Savona in the Liguria region .

geography

The neighboring municipalities are Bergeggi , Quiliano , Savona , Spotorno and Vezzi Portio .

The distance to the northeastern Savona is about seven kilometers, to Genoa , the provincial capital of Liguria further east, it is about 55 kilometers (road kilometers in each case).

economy

Vado Ligure is an important port and industrial location on the Ligurian coast.

port

Vado Ligure (SV): View of the port from Forte San Giacomo

The port of Vado Ligure is administered by a regional port authority in Genoa , which is responsible for all major port facilities in western Liguria .

Vado Ligure is the largest fruit terminal on the Mediterranean (2004: 500,000 tonnes of goods handled ), and containers and RoRo goods are also handled (2004: 800,000 tonnes). Mainly coal is unloaded at the bulk material jetty at Terminal Rinfuse Italia . Along with Trieste, Vado Ligure is the most important oil port in Italy. The ships can be unloaded at three piers and in a buoy field.

Ships to Corsica and Sardinia leave from the Forship ferry terminal (2004: 350,000 passengers). Also Corsica Ferries has settled here and has a terminal built.

A new container terminal went into operation in February 2020. For this purpose, a 250,000 m² multifunctional platform was built into the sea. There was resistance from environmental circles because the new terminal would increase the dust pollution in the settlements.

Thermal power plant

Power plant in Vado Ligure

In the sixties, Enel began building a thermal power plant that went into operation from 1970–1971. The four blocks with the two chimneys over a hundred meters high could be fired with either heavy fuel oil or coal and together had an output of 1320 MW. From 1997 to 1999, units “3” and “4” were equipped with flue gas desulphurisation systems , denitrification systems and electrostatic precipitators for environmental reasons .

The power plant was taken over by Tirreno Power in 2002 - a company that was created as a result of the liberalization of the Italian electricity market imposed by the EU.

From 2005, the conversion of units 1 and 2 into natural gas -fired gas turbine units began, which are to be operated together with the existing coal units as a combined cycle power plant . The first gas turbine block went back into operation in 2007. When the conversion of the entire power plant is completed, it will have an output of 1420 MW.

Locomotive factory

Westinghouse opened a factory to manufacture electric locomotives in Vado Ligure in 1905 . In 1919 the plant was taken over by Tecnomasio Italia Brown Boveri - a company that became the Swiss company Brown, Boveri & Cie. -Group belonged. After the merger of Brown, Boveri & Cie with Asea in 1988 and the merging of the rail division with AEG , the plant became ABB Daimler Benz Transportation Adtranz Italy , which, like the other activities of Adtranz, was transferred to the Canadian Bombardier Transportation in 2001 . The locomotive factory mainly produces E.464 locomotives for the Trenitalia and Traxx locomotives.

Town twinning

The partner municipality of Vado Ligure has been the French municipality of La Ravoire in the Savoie department since 2002 .

Sons and daughters of the church

• Valerio Bacigalupo (1924-1949), football player

Web links

Commons : Vado Ligure  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Forship - operator of the ferry terminals
• Terminal Rinfuse Italia - operator of the coal terminal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ Port of Vado on the website of the regional port authority in Genoa (English)
3. ↑ Autorità Portuale die Savona (11.2007) ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Giancarlo Bertolazzi: Piattaforma Multipourpose Vado Ligure - Sviluppo o "fregatura"? - Obiettivo Nordovest
5. ↑ Brochure Centrale Termoelettrica Vado Ligure by Tirreno Power (11.2007) ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Who's Who Sutter's International - Bombardier Transportation Italy  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.