Vado Ligure ( lij, Voæ), in antiquity Vada Sabatia, is a town and ''
comune
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'' in the
province of Savona,
Liguria
Liguria (; lij, Ligûria ; french: Ligurie) is a Regions of Italy, region of north-western Italy; its Capital city, capital is Genoa. Its territory is crossed by the Alps and the Apennine Mountains, Apennines Mountain chain, mountain range and is ...
, in northern
Italy
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.
Economy
Vado has a large industrial and commercial port.
Vado Ligure is home to a railway construction plant, founded in 1905 as
Società Italiana Westinghouse
The Westinghouse Electric Corporation was an American manufacturing company founded in 1886 by George Westinghouse. It was originally named "Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company" and was renamed "Westinghouse Electric Corporation" in ...
. In 1919 it was taken over by
Tecnomasio Italia Brown Boveri
Tecnomasio was an Italian scientific and precision instrument company founded in the 1860s. By the beginning of the 20th century the company has begun to produce electrical equipment. After financial problems in the early 1900s the company was acq ...
and, since 2001, it has been part of
Bombardier Transportation
Bombardier Transportation was a Canadian-German rolling stock and rail transport manufacturer, headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
It was one of the world's largest companies in the rail vehicle and equipment manufacturing and servicing industry ...
. It currently produces the
FS Class E.464
The E.464 is a class of Italian railways electric locomotives. They were introduced in the course of the 1990s for hauling light trains, especially for commuter service. They were acquired by FS Trenitalia to replace the old E.424 and E.646, d ...
locomotives.
The town's territory also includes an electric power plant, whose two towers, high, are visible for kilometers in the neighbourhood.
Twin towns
*
La Ravoire
La Ravoire (; Arpitan: ''La Rovouère'' or ''La Ravouère'') is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 8,530. It is part of Grand Chambéry.
Population
Tw ...
, France, since 2002
References
Cities and towns in Liguria
Roman towns and cities in Italy
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