MSC Cruises predicts that between 2024 and 2026 there will be 15 additional ports where ships in its fleet may connect to the shore electricity grid, in addition to port ports where this is already the case. With a not really veiled Exhortation to Italian ports to equip themselves by installing cold ironing to allow ships to switch off on-board engines and use electricity from the ground network, the company crocieristica of the MSC group has specified that "the new Plan 2024-26, which aims to feed ships with the network Shore electricity during the stop in ports, includes the use of the service in at least five of the main ports Italians, out of a total of 15 climbed by the company at the moment, to Condition that the electrification project is carried out of the docks, launched by the Italian Government, which provides for the financing of ground works through PNRR funds'.

The company does not specify which Italian ports are part of this list, which includes the airports of Barcelona and Valencia in Spain, Stavanger and Norfjordied in Norway, Miami in the USA, Copenhagen in Denmark, Marseille in France, Rotterdam in the countries The Netherlands, Valletta in Malta and Stockholm in Sweden. "Of course. - has pointed out MSC Cruises - the company expects to be able to use cold ironing, both in Italy and in the rest of Europe, in all ports of call that will make this available service'.

MSC Cruises has announced that since last February its ships have successfully used shore power in the ports of Southampton, in the United Kingdom, and Kristiansand, in Norway, and later this summer the company will test facilities in the Norwegian port of Haugesund. To these - announced THE COMPANY - Ships are planned to connect to the ground-based electricity grid in Bergen and Alesund, Norway, and Warnemunde, Germany. MSC Cruises will use energy electric from land also in the German ports of Hamburg this winter and Kiel in the summer of 2024.

From 2017 all new MSC Cruises ships are equipped with Ground power as standard and, along with retrofits completed on other ships, 67% of the company's fleet is equipped with this technology. Other ships - specified the company cruise - will be equipped with this technology as the ports of their sailing itineraries will make available power supply from the ground.