Genoa. Costa Crociere and Trenitalia have proposed a new initiative for the development of sustainable tourist mobility for the travel of cruise ship passengers. As part of the agreement active from August 2022 for the study of integrated ship-train travel solutions, which enhance the territory and its characteristics, a new service has been activated for cruise passengers on Costa ships calling at Savona, who they will be able to purchase excursions for visits to the City of Genoa and take advantage of a dedicated charter train.
Cruise passengers on holiday on Costa ships and who want to make excursions to Genoa during the day of the ships’ call in Savona will use a shuttle service that will take them from the Palacrociere to the Savona station where they will find the train service dedicated to them available. After a stop in Genoa, to admire the city or visit the Aquarium, 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 operations, which favor alternative forms of transport, such as rail transport”. – he has declared Giuseppe Carino, Senior Vice President Guest Experience & Onboard Sales Operations of Costa Cruises. “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, that integrates the transportation 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.”
“The charters from Savona are part of a wide-ranging strategic project that Trenitalia and Costa intend to strengthen – he 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 .
“The integrated ship-train services of Trenitalia and Costa have the objective of promoting sustainable tourist mobility – says the deputy and deputy minister at MIT Edoardo Rixi in a note – By using collective and energy-efficient means of transport, harmful emissions decrease. Charter trains for cruise passengers arriving in Savona and heading to Genoa are added to the connections already operational in areas such as Civitavecchia-Rome. An initiative that reduces road congestion in tourist and urban areas, a beneficial solution for the environment and local communities”.
