European Maritime Day 2024

The city of Ravenna hosts a strong industrial sector, which is located in the port area and includes a multi-corporate production site, ex-Enichem petrochemical, in where logistics, chemicals and petrochemicals companies and energy production and waste treatment services are settled. The second strategic asset of the city is also tied to the sea, concerning one of the most important worldwide energy and offshore hubs.

Our task is to maintain the fragile balance between nature, cultural and historical heritage, industrial and commercial assets, by guaranteeing a good livelihood for all the citizens, promoting and organizing the public services and stimulating social and economic development of our area.

In a territory where the presence of Hard-To-Abate industries is so relevant, the challenge is to promote strategical projects to support the abatement of the emissions. The challenge for the city of Ravenna is therefore to be compliant with EU Green Deal objectives, to support the industrial ecological transition and to reduce CO2 emissions allowing the industries settled in the city not to relocate outside the EU, where regulations against pollution are softer, and granting therefore a fair and just industrial ecological transition.

The municipality of Ravenna has founded the Ravenna Observatory on transition pathway for the chemical and energy industry therefore supports the activation of a platform to engage public institutions and private actors on the enforcement of an industrial ecological transition path, decarbonisation and energy transition, compliant with the EU Green Deal and REPower EU objectives and commitments.

Ravenna’s strategical projects:

1.       CCS Ravenna Hub

The CCS Ravenna Hub plant is expected to capture 90% of CO2 emission produced by 6 HTA companies operating in the fields of chemical, petrochemical, steel production and waste management.

The exausted wells of methan gas offshore Ravenna coast have a storage potential of 500 million of tons of CO2: one of the biggest underground deposits in Europe that makes the CCS Ravenna hub the most relevant CCS project in the Mediterranean basin.

2.       GreenPort

The Port of Ravenna is the main logistic infrastructure of the Emilia Romagna Region and one of the most important ports in Italy concerning bulk good handlings. It is a multipurpose core port, being part of the TEN-T network within the corridors Baltic-Adriatic and Scandinavian-Mediterranean. The port is actually implementing the GreenPort project that promotes: the creation of cold ironing station at the cruise terminal; the electrification of the port terminals by photovoltaic and hydrogen power system for green-energy production and the creation of a treatment plant of dredged materials from port excavation to maintain the needed depths in the harbour channels and basins by the end of 2026.

3.       Agnes project

The project designs the installation of a power system for energy production composed by offshore wind farm (700MW) and photovoltaic plant (1000MV) plus hydrogen production. Agnes project has been co-financed by the National Resilience and Recovery Plan and is going to be in function by the end of 2026.

4.       Floating storage and regasification unit - FSRU

Mooring of FSRU, 8,5 km off the coast, able to regasify LNG to serve the national gas demand. The capacity of the unit will be 5 billion cubic metres, covering approximately the 7% of Italian gas needs (according to 2021 records) and it will contribute in replacing the 15% average of the Russian gas imports helping to diversify the origin of the Italian gas supplies.