The facility will be available from this October following six months of work to install the quayside power network and adapt the company’s vessels – Kalliste, Girolata and Piana – so that their diesel generators are no longer required during port calls.
Switching to environmentally-friendly shoreside electricity will reduce noise, fuel consumption and air emissions. For each ship, the change will eliminate CO2 and particle emissions equivalent to more than 3,000 vehicles per day on the 64km route from Marseille to Aix, while NOx emissions will fall by the equivalent of 65,000 vehicles per day.
The €4.4 million initiative follows several years of studies and was part-financed by national and regional government aid.