Thanks to the SUSPORT project, the North Adriatic Sea Port Authority has started the renewal of its fleet of vehicles with an increasingly zero environmental impact and now a new plug-in hybrid car came into operation to support the operational and institutional activities of the Authority, after two full electric cars purchased in total respect of the environment with SUSPORT funds in 2021. 

The Volkswagen Multivan plug-in hybrid is available to the employees of the Authority, allowing significant savings in terms of CO2, and to further accomplish the objective to enhance the sustainability and energy efficiency in port areas through concrete actions, marking a turning point for the ports of Venice and Chioggia.

This confirms the provisions of the Energy and Environmental Planning Document approved by the Authority and this operation represents one of the elements of its strategy to improve environmental sustainability and energy saving towards decarbonisation. It should be also underlined that well one-third of the European projects in which the Authority is involved are strongly geared towards a sustainable development of the Venetian ports. Moreover, other projects financed by the NRRP foresee actions aimed at reducing emissions produced by the fleet of vehicles. 

Within the SUSPORT project, the North Adriatic Sea Port Authority has a total budget of over half a million euros (572.000,00 Euro) and in addition to the purchase of green vehicles, it also includes the installation of a new lighting system with LED, an intervention that, alone, allows to avoid emissions into the atmosphere of about 125 tons of CO2 every year.