Vado Ligure (), in antiquity Vada Sabatia, is a port town and ''

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'' in the province of Savona,

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, in northern

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. The town despite its size has become one of the largest ports in Northwest Italy.

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. In 1919 it was taken over by Tecnomasio Italia Brown Boveri and, since 2001, it has been part of

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. It currently produces the FS Class E.464 locomotives. The town's territory also includes an electric power plant, whose two towers, high, are visible for kilometres in the neighbourhood.

Twin towns

* La Ravoire, France, since 2002

References

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