Port of Barcelona and Grimaldi Group sign an agreement to connect ships to the electricity grid

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 28, 2022 - The Port of Barcelona and Italy's Grimaldi Group have signed an agreement today in Rome to connect the ships of Trasmed GLE, a company belonging to Grimaldi, to the OPS (Onshore Power Supply) electricity supply system to be installed at the San Beltrán dock in Barcelona. The agreement was signed by the President of the Port of Barcelona, Damià Calvet, and the CEO of the Grimaldi Group, Emanuel Grimaldi. The agreement has three main objectives: to establish a roadmap that defines the action plan to implement the OPS pilot test at the terminal, in response to the Grimaldi Group's interest and commitment to connect the ships; to carry out a compatibility study to ensure the connection between the quay and the ships, and to define a joint operating procedure that sets out all the connection/disconnection actions together with the agents involved. Nexigen Project Last Tuesday, the Port of Barcelona presented its Nexigen project to electrify the docks of the port area. This is a key project to decarbonise port activity and improve air quality and will involve an investment of 110 million euros. The Port of Barcelona's objective is to have electrified by 2030 all the cruise ship docking points, the Prat quay, and the ferry terminals of the Sant Bertran dock and the Costa quay, eliminating 66,000 tonnes of CO2 and 1,234 tonnes of NOx emissions from port activity, reducing 38% of the NOx and CO2 emitted by ships during their stay at the quay. As part of phase 0 of Nexigen, the pilot project for the electrification of the Muelle San Beltrán in Barcelona, where Trasmed GLE ships operate, will be put out to tender next April, with the idea of being able to connect the first ferries at the end of 2023 or the beginning of 2024. "The Port of Barcelona is an active agent in the decarbonisation of maritime, port and logistics activity. But to achieve climate-neutral maritime transport we need the complicity of our customers and concessionaires and the signing today of this agreement with the Grimaldi Group is a clear example of this complicity and the commitment of the entire sector, including shipping companies, to improve the quality of the air we breathe", said Damià Calvet after the formalisation of the agreement. The President of the Port of Barcelona thanked Grimaldi for his continued commitment to the projects being developed in the port area to reduce emissions. Emanuel Grimaldi stressed that "the agreement signed today with the Port Authority of Barcelona is a further step on the path towards the decarbonisation of maritime transport that our shipping companies have been taking for some time now. The Grimaldi Group has always been committed to the continuous reduction of emissions from its ships and today its fleet includes several ships with Zero Emission in Port technology, thanks to the installation on board of mega batteries that do not emit harmful substances into the atmosphere when they are docked at the quay". And he adds that "the collaboration with the Port Authority of Barcelona aims to extend this possibility also to Trasmed GLE vessels through the OPS system, thus allowing the Group and its fleet to confirm its leadership in the sustainable transport sector". Copyright (C) Ports Europe. All Rights Reserved. 2022.

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