(Finance) – At the Cristoforo Colombo airport in Genoa The new east wing of the passenger terminal was inaugurated, in the presence of the deputy minister of transport and infrastructures Edoardo Rixi, the president of the Liguria Region Marco Bucci, of the deputy mayor of the Municipality of Genoa Pietro Piciocchi, of the president of Enac Pierluigi di Palma and the president of the Genoa airport Enrico Musso. The expansion to the east of the airport, for an area of 5,500 square meters which also includes a duty free, required a year and a half of work and an investment of 15 million.
In the new area 4 safety control lines have been located Equipped with latest generation machinery and 3 new gates with a new boarding pier equipped with a lift for access to the aircraft square. Genoa airport has scheduled additional restyling interventions for 12.6 million which will be completed by the end of 2026 and will allow you to add 10 check-in stations and create a new luggage sorting system.
At the end of the works the airport will have an area of 20 thousand square meters more, 22 check-in compared to the current 12, with the gates will pass by 9 (including those just inaugurated in the east area) at 10, and will have a new lounge of 200 square meters. In addition to the 27.6 million euros of investments for the restyling of the erostation, the airport will enjoy external works concerning accessibility, including the construction of the new Genoa Airport railway station equipped with treadmills that will allow you to travel the space with the terminal in 6 minutes