After launching the €20.4 million contract for the electrification of the docks of the ports of Piombino and Portoferraio, the Port System Authority of the Tyrrhenian Sea Settentrionale has published the tender for the final design and the realization of the related cold ironing works in the port of Livorno. The intervention involves the construction of a substation within the Enel area, the former Marzocco power plant and two conversion of ferries and ferries to service respectively cruises, the first to be located within the current silos and the second cabin to be placed in the area destined for the future terminal cruises near the Calata Alto Fondale. For the Part of the facilities serving container ships is Planned construction of a cabin near the Terminal section of the main road Florence-Pisa-Livorno. The remaining part of the plants is consisting of cable ducts and cables between substations/substations and dock cabins/sockets, made completely underground and not Visible.

The call is worth 52.1 million euros and benefits from funding from the supplementary fund to the PNRR. Tenders must be submitted by next October 17 and after the award and the delivery will take 75 days for the executive design and 607 days for the execution of the works, in addition to the commitment by of the undertaking carrying out maintenance for four years to start from testing.

"We are satisfied - underlined the president dell'AdSP, Luciano Guerrieri - to bring in tender a contract strategic for the port of Livorno port. With the publication of the calls to Livorno, Piombino and Portoferraio, we make a further Step forward in the strategic planning path on the sustainable development of the ports of the System. A phase, parallel to the one that many shipowners are going through equip its ships, in which the port will equip itself with a infrastructure that will allow stationary ships to shut down engines. Once the works are done, we will be able to break down in significantly polluting emissions, also reducing noise pollution'.