Vado Ligure, in antiquity Vado Sabatia, is a town and comune

Comune

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in the province of Savona

Province of Savona

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, Liguria

Liguria

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, in northern Italy

Italy

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Economy

Vado has a large industrial and commercial port.

Vado Ligure is home to a Bombardier

Bombardier Transportation

Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Canadian firm, Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Transportation is one of the world's largest companies in the rail-equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. Its headquarters are in Berlin, Germany....

 railway construction plan, founded in 1905 by Westinghouse

Westinghouse Electric (1886)

Westinghouse Electric was an American manufacturing company. It was founded in 1886 as Westinghouse Electric Company and later renamed Westinghouse Electric Corporation by George Westinghouse. The company purchased CBS in 1995 and became CBS Corporation in 1997...

. In 1919 it was taken over by Tecnomasio Italia Brown Boveri, since 2001 it is part of Bombardier Transportation

Bombardier Transportation

Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Canadian firm, Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Transportation is one of the world's largest companies in the rail-equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. Its headquarters are in Berlin, Germany....

. It currently produces the E464 and TRAXX

TRAXX

Bombardier TRAXX is a modular product platform of electric and Diesel-electric mainline locomotives built by Bombardier Transportation, built in both freight and passenger variants...

locomotives.

The town's territory also includes an electric power plant, whose two towers (with a height of 200 meters) are visibile for kilometers in the neighbourhood.