Alternative Fuels

Alternative Fuels

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 Alternative Fuels

Today’s major global ports are no longer purely seen as links in the transport network: their strategic role as modern logistics platform, offering a wide array of diverse highly energy intensive activities, has emerged forcefully and has accelerated broad investment in the clean energy transition. Within this framework, the Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority pledges its full support to the shipping lines in their effort to decarbonise maritime freight by shifting to renewable fuels, and to pave the way for the Ports of Genoa to fulfil its rightful ambition as a future hub of clean energy.

Genoa and Savona-Vado’s environmental policy is fully aligned with EU legislation which requires all ports to phase in the decarbonisation of port operations and to shift to the use of renewable fuels.

Genoa
 Liquified Natural Gas (LNG)

Ports are key nodes in the European freight sector’s decarbonisation process and are required to comply with the EU Directive 2014/94, with the objective of minimising dependence on fossil fuels and mitigating the environmental impact of transport. The Directive establishes a common set of measures for the deployment of alternative fuel infrastructure, including the provision of refuelling points for natural gas (LNG and CNG) and hydrogen.

Within this framework, the Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority pledges to offer LNG stationery or mobile refuelling points to serve ships, road vehicles and terminal handling equipment alike. To date, the Port of Genoa has benefitted from EU funding, allocated across the GNL FACILE project within the Interreg Italy-France Maritime Programme, for the installation of a LNG mobile refuelling point for heavy vehicles and, subsequently, for barges.

 GNL Facile / Fonte Accessibile
Completion Date: 31/12/2021

Vado Ligure
 Regasification Facilities/LNG Terminal Project

Over the next few years part of the PNRR fund (the EU Italian Recovery and Resilience Plan) will be allocated for the installation of regasification facilities in a multi-modal effort to decarbonise the freight transport network. Plans are afoot to offer LNG and Bio-LNG storage plants, barges and regasification facilities in Vado to serve carriers.

Ammonia
"ENGIMMONIA Project", funded across the EU Horizon 2020 Programme, it kicked off in 2021 and focuses on research in the deployment of ammonia as fuel for ships. The project, which has a duration of 48 months, is coordinated by RINA and groups together partners from various EU countries: Italy, Spain, Greece, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Cyprus.

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Projected completion date: 30/04/2025

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