Photo: Port of Genoa
The following article is based on an exclusive Seatrade Maritime interview with Paolo Emilio Signorini, president of Ports of Genoa.
The Morandi Bridge in Genoa collapsed suddenly in August 2018, tragically killing 43 people and disrupting access to/from the port as well as wider road transport links between Italy and France. The bridge was successfully rebuilt and opened again in August 2020, but not before Covid-19 had dealt the region a new blow.
“At the time of the bridge collapse, our traffic had been growing at the rate of 5% during the previous seven months,” recalls Paolo Signorini, president of Ports of Genoa, “but by the end of the year we didn’t register any growth at all.