Transcript Province of Caltanissetta

Mid-term Event Conference
PORT PVEV Project
Malta November, 29 2013.
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What?
Who?
Where?
How?
Why?
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What?
• Make Gela port area as carbon neutral as possible;
•Testing, evaluating and disseminating electromobility in
and around port areas: full electric vehicles (FEV) to
provide the first carbon neutral passengers-goods
transportation in port areas;
• Suggesting future policies for implementation of green
energy actions to further decarbonise port areas.
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Who?
Partnership:
Transport Malta
Catania Port Authority
Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure
Province of Caltanissetta
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Province of Caltanissetta
One of the nine provinces of the Sicilian Region.
22 municipalities , 250.000 inhabitants.
Main duties:
• building and maintenance of state secondary schools;
• building and maintenance of provincial streets;
• environmental protection;
• promoting local development: agriculture, handicraft, tourism,
industry, trade and professional training;
• enhancing social and cultural policies.
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Province of Caltanissetta
 Previous Financed European Projects:
• Community initiative program "Leader II“
Project name: Sviluppo Valle dell’Himera (SVH)
• Community initiative program "IANUS"
Project name: Indicator system to asses new urban services
• Interreg II B Medocc
Project name: Isolatino
• Interreg III A Italia - Malta
Project name: METIC - Mediterranean Trading and Innovation Centre
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Province of Caltanissetta
 Previous Financed European Projects:
• Interreg III B Medocc
Project name: "Emergence 2010 – Etudes en Méditerranée pour des
Energies Renouvelables Garantissant l’Electrification de Noyaux de
Croissance Ecologique en 2010”.
• Italia-Malta 2007-2013
Project name: SIBIT - Sustainable Interregional Bike Tourism.
• Italia-Tunisia 2007-2013
Project name: Agromed
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Where?
• Gela’s position plays a very
important role within the major NorthSouth and East-West sea-lanes.
Porto Rifugio
Pontile Sbarcatoio
Porto Isola and related Diga Foranea
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Gela Port
Porto Rifugio
Pontile Sbarcatoio
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How?
Agreement Province of Caltanissetta –
Comune di Gela: purchase and installation
of FEV and relative charging points.
5 Full Electric Vehicles:
3 FEV for people transport
2 FEV for people and goods transport
3 charging points
Gela’s staff entitled to drive the FEV will use these ‘0’
emission vehicles in daily activities taking place at
Gela Port and around it >> Lungomare
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Why?
Improving air quality= encouraging tourism development;
improving residents’ everyday life;
Double insularity: contributing to both countries’ efforts to
decouple economic growth from nonrenewable energy resources;
In 2009, 3,585,299 tn of goods was shipped between Malta,
Catania & Gela and 91,325 passengers embarked from Valletta to
Sicily: transport completely depending on fossil fuels!
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Why?
Reaching EU Climate Change, Air Quality & Noise pollution
targets;
Reaching Climate Change and Energy national targets
(reduction of CO2 emissions).
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Italy-Malta: a sea of
opportunity for your future!
www.portpvev.eu
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Simona Cannistraci
Ufficio Europa – Provincia Regionale di Caltanissetta
[email protected]
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