Rome green cruise achievements

It is the largest cruise port in the Mediterranean Sea and the ports of Rome and Lazio are centrally located in the second largest Italian trading area – the fifth largest in Europe.

The ports consider LNG as the fuel of the future and believe it will replace residual oil (RO) and marine gas oil (MGO).

“We consider that LNG technology constitutes at the moment as the best way to improve air quality in the port and the area adjacent,” said a representative from the port.

Gaeta, Fiumicino and Civitavecchia are all part of the Port Network of Rome and Lazio, which is the foundation of a logistic hub.

The Port of Civitavecchia is the first in Italy to focus on LNG bunkering and it considers providing LNG to vessels calling at Civitavecchia an obligatory service, rather than a business opportunity.

Rome is also designing turbines, both aeronautic and hydraulic, to convert waves into electric energy. This is in order to make the port area energy independent.

The Port network of Rome and Lazio works to bring value to the city, region and country through employment, as well as its environmental stance.

It said that the amount of people working in the cruise business on the shore side is huge and can certainly be compared with an industry of considerable size. It is one of the few industries that during tough economic times did not suffer from the recession at all.