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Alla Spezia conference on the environmental GNL and challenges in the marine transport
Study of the Harbour Authority spezzina in order to verify the technical feasibility and the sustainability of a fed logistic chain to GNL
May 27, 2016
Today near the Military Arsenal of, in the within of the event SEAFuture & Maritime Technologies 2016, the conference has held "the environmental GNL and challenges in the marine transport: from the "policy issues" to concrete projects of sustainability", in the course of which the Harbour Authority of has remembered the study developed from the agency, in collaboration with the terminal net, inland participated terminals and intermodal operators from the group Contship Italy, in order to verify the technical feasibility and the sustainability of a fed logistic chain to which liquified natural gas.
Opening the work of the conference the president of the authority, Lorenzo Forcieri, has remembered that "the Harbour Authority of works for a long time, thanks to the communitarian projects, on the topic LNG, involving various strategic actors that they take part of the cluster of, is to institutional level that private. The attempt - it has explained - is to activate a net of synergies and to make system, working and promuovendo sets in action times to improve a greater efficiency and environmental sustainability, doing so as that La Spezia can on a national level represent a best practice on the topic LNG". Best practice in which the initiatives of electrification of the docks with cold ironing and projects POSEIDONMED re-enter, GAINN4CORE and GAINN4MOS for the new technologies tied to it use of the GNL in the naval transport and harbour within and for the realization of studies for the construction of four ships prototype fed to LNG.
"When we speak about LNG - it has emphasized Forcieri - we speak about innovation, innovation in the field of the transports in the alternative fuel use, the technologies applied to the propulsion of the ships and the street engines and therefore consequently is spoken also about know-how-how, new professionalities, training and high specialization. In such sense, the Harbour Authority wants to play a role of first floor for the development of politics green of the port and detail attention to the relationship port-city, promuovendo also the research centers and specialistic companies".
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