To Trieste it is under consideration the resource to the cold ironing in order to tackle to the possible future increase of the emissions generated from the ships in port



In order to diminish the level of the emissions of the ships that reach in the port of call the port of Trieste it will probably entrust to the cold ironing, the system that allows with the ships to be connected to the net terrestrial electrical worker in order to provision of electric power and to extinguish the auxiliary engines in order to reduce the emissions in atmosphere, emissions that however currently do not arouse reasons of worry to Trieste.

He is that is emerged last night by the organized conviviale from Propeller Club of Trieste with the participation of experts of the field, in the course of which is specified that the agencies you premail are already studying the cold ironing as a solution if the traffic increases had to carry to a meaningful increase of the emissions.

Professor Giorgio Sulligoi, of the Department of Engineering of the University of Trieste, has confirmed that an participation hypothesis exists already, against an impact that the ships in dock can have on the surrounding atmosphere, citing also the problem of the noise between the criticalities that could be called to resolve.

To ingegner Massimo Carrat ù, director Energia Electrical worker of AcegasApsAmga (society of the Hera Group that manages the supply on the territory), is touched instead to attract the attention on the realization of defined projects feasible, but not simple to realize. Studying hypothetical houses history for the supply of electricity to a terminal cruises in the Old Port of Trieste (where it exists, in fact, the hypothesis that MSC can create in the Adriatic to a hub to service of the routes), Carratù has made a hypothesis of cost (around two the million euro), mentioning to the difficulties to manage large energy flows.

About the level of currently provoked atmospheric pollution from the ships that moor in the port of Trieste, it is Carratù that Sulligoi has cited in their relations a study of ARPA FVG (regional Agency for the protection of the atmosphere) that it attributes to the ships a percentage of about 20% of the total pollution of the city area of Trieste. Pierluigi Barbieri, university professor of Environmental Chemistry to the University of Trieste and member of the scientific Committee of ARPA FVG, has emphasized that in the polluting zone of Trieste the relative ones to the naval emissions are near at the best inferior of measure for the survey stations (beneath of which the presence is too much lowland for being found) and that, therefore, at the moment not sussistono worry reasons. "It is not a measured data, is an estimated data - he has explained Barbers - that brought back from the ARPA. An esteem that have carried to estimate between 20% and 30% the contribution of pollution reported to the activities of the port". Barbers however have found that, since an increment of the activity is wished, is reasonable to define some scenes, with particular attention to new residential takeovers in proximity of intense industrial activities, considering however the cold ironing as an important option.

To close the participations ingegner Silvio Casini di Fincantieri integrated Systems and Alessandro de Pol, president of the Association Agenti of the Friuli Venice Julia. First he has made the point on norms IMO for the reduction of the naval emissions and on the necessity, for the cruise ships, of specific systems to be able to use dock electric power. Alessandro de Pol has instead cited some flops of already available but not used the projects of cold ironing, wishing as a solution - of a situation that at the moment does not appear critical - a stiff national plan to avoid single projects and the risks of "money waste".

"With the solution of cold ironing - he has commented in Fabrizio Zerbini closing, president of Propeller of Trieste - the draft however to produce other energy. Attention, therefore, not to only move the problem. It goes sure taken into consideration the vivibilità and of the healthiness of the citizens, but the harbour traffics go favorite also that create important fallen back economic and occupational on the territory and consider that the cold ironing it is from deepening as hypothesis and to jointly estimate to hypothesis alternatives of feeding for the ships".