Electrification of quays, infrastructure investments in Special Economic Zones, digitalization of the logistics chain: these are the three investment lines of the PNRR managed by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport as the responsible administration through the Directorate General for Ports, Logistics and Intermodality. The ministry’s budget, for all three, marks the surpassing of the targets set by the Plan.
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Cold ironing
Let’s start with cold ironing – the electrification of quays that reduces emissions in port areas – which had a target set for June 30, 2026: completion of works and acceptance of connection estimates by the Port System Authorities for at least 15 plants in at least 10 ports. The MIT reports 22 in 17 ports, compared to 23 interventions funded in 18 ports for a total power exceeding 220 MW. The allocated resources are 317.6 of the 400 million allocated, of which 195 million for new projects.
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Investments in the SEZ
Regarding infrastructure investments in the SEZs – last mile connections with ports and industrial areas, logistics digitalization, urbanization, energy efficiency, strengthening port resilience – the target was the completion of at least 46 interventions by the same date of June 30. 50 out of 52 funded have been completed, for an expenditure of 888.8 million: 625.5 to the Port System Authorities, 193.6 to the Department for the South of the Presidency of the Council, which absorbed the competences of the former extraordinary SEZ commissioners, 69.7 to RFI.
Digitalization
The third front, the digitalization of the logistics chain, is worth 176 million divided into three components. Thirty million financed the National Logistics Platform, now operational. Forty-five went to the digitalization of the Port System Authorities, with the Port Community Systems developed in all 16 AdSPs, and of the interports, where the target required the system per freight village (Freight Village System) in at least 12 realities: they reached 15. Finally, 101 million financed the Login Business call: incentives to 850 transport and logistics companies, for a value of 83.3 million, intended for interoperable management systems with the national platform and with the PCS.
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