New charter trains between Savona and Genoa. It’s theinitiative for the development of sustainable tourist mobility for the movements of cruise ship passengers proposed by Costa Crociere And Trenitalialeading company of the Passenger Hub of the FS Italiane Group.
It is part of theagreement active from August 2022 for the study of integrated ship-train travel solutionsThe new service for cruise passengers on Costa ships stopping in Savonawho will be able to purchase excursions for visits to Genoa and take advantage of a dedicated charter train.
The new service
Cruise passengers on holiday on Costa ships who want to make excursions to Genoa during the day of the ships’ call in Savona will use a shuttle service who will accompany them from the Palacrociere to Savona station where they will find the train service dedicated to them available. After a stop in Genoa, the train will take cruise passengers back to Savona, to return to the ship via the shuttle service. The connection became fully operational on 8 June.
“This new offering reinforces our commitment to the development of more sustainable ground operationswho prefer alternative forms of transport, such as rail transport – he declared Giuseppe Carino, senior vice president guest experience & onboard sales operations of Costa Crociere -. With Trenitalia we continue to work to offer our guests increasingly comfortable and sustainable transport solutions, but also to create value in the destinations in which we operate, promoting local tourist excellence and developing sustainable mobility networks with a dual use system, which integrates the transport needs of local residents with those of ship passengers. We are pleased to expand our offer of sustainable passenger transport, focused on some connections with the destination ports of Costa Crociere ships, which joins the similar Civitavecchia -Rome connection already available today”.
A wide-ranging project
“THE charter from Savona they fit into a wide-ranging strategic project that Trenitalia and Costa intend strengthen – he has declared Mario Alovisi, marketing director of Trenitalia –. Intermodal transport is one of the pillars of Trenitalia and we intend to build a multimodal experience in each port that accompanies cruise passengers from the first to the last mile on a green journey that includes the train. It is a commitment that we have undertaken both in Italy and in the ports of other Mediterranean countries, thanks to our foreign subsidiaries and Frecciarossa, Eurocity and Euronight; so that customers can travel in an increasingly efficient, sustainable and comfortable way.”
Costa Crociere and Trenitalia continue to add new opportunities linked to the strategic project of sustainable passenger transport, focused on some connections with the ports of destination of Costa Crociere ships, with the involvement of national, regional and local institutions. Among the various initiatives there is also the study of local electric feeders that connect the port and the station, with the contribution of other companies of the “Passenger Hub” of the FS Italiane Group, and of “last tourist mile” railway connections port-city-airport .
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