The extraordinary commissioner of the System Authority Port of the Eastern Ligurian Sea, Federica Montaresi, has signed the Decree approving the tender documents for the assignment of the First batch of works for the construction of the new distribution of high-voltage electricity in the port of La Spezia. It is a European tender worth 36.9 million euros to carry out a work designed to meet a 110 MW needed to enable electrification of the quays and the construction of the new works of great infrastructure provided for by the Port Master Plan. The cost resulting from the economic framework is equal to 41 million euros, of which 13.3 million financed by the Green call Ports.

The works include the construction, in the locality of Stagnoni, of an electrical substation for connection to the national transmission managed by Terna Spa, underground laying of electrical cables for high voltage power distribution within the merchant port and the construction of three stations for the subsequent supply of utilities final (cold ironing and operational areas). The contractual term for completion of all the works is 455 consecutive days from the delivery of the works.

In the meantime, work continues on the construction of the cold ironing systems serving the piers of the second and third port basin and serving the Garibaldi pier, the latter independently powered with activation already provided in 2025.