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Italian Maritime Review

GENOA:

ITALY'S MAIN

CRUISE TERMINAL

In only a few years, Genoa has become one of the cruise capitals of the Mediterranean, with a throughput of over 400.000 passengers transiting into its Cruise Terminal, operated by "Stazione Marittima Porto di Genova S.p.A.", that is considered one of the most efficient, safe and functional structures all over Europe.

Genoa's Cruise Terminal geographic position offers its ferry passengers excellent opportunities to discover the city and its surroundings. 16th & 17th century aristocratic palaces,

LANDSCAPE

With Cinque Terre, its Rivieras and Portofino, ou'll never be tired of Genoa, a unique landscape, rising up from the green Appennines down to the sea.

Stazione Marittima Porto di Genova s.p.a.

Genoa's Passenger Port Information

Access harbour 24 hours service

Mooring for cruise vessels

Lenght up to: 300 mt

Width: no limits

Draught up to: 11 mt

Volume: no limits

Mooring location for cruise vessels

Berthing places: 5

Overall length: 1,260 mt

Depth up to: 11 mt

Passenger terminals: 2

Roasted mooring: avaliable

Shuttle boats for ship/harbour connection available

Terminal mooring: available

Mooring time allowed (*): 12 hours

Additional time for ship approach: 30 min

Compulsory pilotage: for ships exceeding 500 GT

Mooring services: available

Available tugboats: 30

Ude range: 30/40 cm

Services Ship repairs, Barges for refuelling,

Garbage collection, Water supply,

Various supplies, Bank, Garage

Location 44° 24'15" N - 8° 54'20" E

City centre:

Airport:

Railway station:

Transport Bus, Tube, Taxi, Private bus service (*) Longer periods allowed upon prior programming when moored. .miI.J . mi in... II. J i.i .ip.111

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Company Profile:

Uniservice

Singapore, Turkey, Israel,

Denmark, Belgium and

Greece. Today, Uniservice maintains service network capability in more than 700 ports worldwide.

Uniservice's product line includes a full range of water treatment, maintenance, tank cleaning, fuel treatment, sani- tation treatments, and envi- ronmental and specialty prod- ucts. Its boiler water treat- ment program is comprised of three separate and distinct concepts: one shot treatment; standard treatment; and organic treatments. The com- pany's cooling water treat- ments reportedly carry approvals from leading engine manufacturers and offer effec- tive protection within vessel engine internals. The compa- ny's Unitrend is a program which enables vessels to log test results and create long- term data utilizing both graphs and numerical information.

For more information on

Uniservice

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Maritime Reporter/Engineering News

MSC Puts New

The new flagship of

Mediterranean Shipping Cruises (MSC Cruises), the cruise branch of the Mediterranean Shipping

Flagship To Sea

Company Group (MSC Group) recently left Genoa for a seven-day cruise in the Mediterranean.

Built in 1982, Melody, which

MSC purchased last January from Premier Cruise Line for $70 million, measures 672 ft. (205 m). The vessel can report- edly accommodate 1,600 passen- gers. The vessel joins the MSC existing fleet of cruise ships

Monterey,

Rhapsody and

Symphony. "With the purchase of

Melody,

MSC

Cruises con- firms its

Melody spedfications length 672 ft. (205 m)

Breadth 90 ft. (27.43 m)

Engines diesel 22,070 kW

Speed 21 knots

Gross tonnage 36.5

Passenger capacity 1,600 positive trend, as MSC Chairman the compa- Dr N" Coccia ny in 1997 has increased both fleet and turnover," said Nicola Coccia, chairman of MSC Cruises in

Naples.