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The APB sends a team of fifty plus staff and material to help in the wake of the storm emergency

The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) dispatched its first convoy of volunteers and machinery this week to provide assistance following the storm damage in the Valencian Community. This aid is intended to help the Valencian people and ensure that resources reach the most affected areas, reiterating the APB's commitment to solidarity during this difficult time.

The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands has deployed over 50 volunteers, including Port Police officers and staff from the Conservation Department, together with the necessary machinery for the relief work. The detachment will be divided into convoys of six staff members that will work alternately over the coming weeks. Yesterday, the first unit arrived in Valencia, made up of Port Police officers from the ports of Palma and Ibiza.

 

The volunteer team will work in Benetússer, one of the worst affected areas and home to a colleague from the Castellón Port Police who died during the catastrophe. The resources included generators, pumps, support vehicles, and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), etc.

 

This specific contribution responds to the needs that the Port Authority of Valencia and the Port Authority of Castellón have made known to the APB over the last few days of ongoing contact. Their current priority is to have skilled staff and heavy machinery available to support the clean-up work and the unblocking of streets and accesses to facilitate the passage of humanitarian aid to the affected areas.

 

APB volunteers will therefore collaborate in essential tasks such as the removal of vehicles and traffic control, reinforcing security and order in this difficult situation.

 

Baleària's collaboration

Throughout the emergency response, the shipping company Baleària has helped transport volunteers and the machinery required for the relief work in the areas affected by the disaster. This collaboration has made it possible for the resources and support staff sent by the APB to reach Valencia quickly and efficiently.

The APB has awarded the concession for the management of the Ribera Norte moorings in the port of Mahón

The Board of Directors of the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) agreed, at its most recent meeting held yesterday in Palma, to select the bid submitted by the company La Azulona 2023 as the winning bid for the concession to manage the Ribera Norte moorings in the port of Mahón. It was deemed the best offer presented in a public tender process aimed at improving the facility's infrastructures and sustainability.

The project submitted by La Azulona 2023 includes a comprehensive renovation of the facilities, with an investment budget exceeding 8.8 million euros. It also features initiatives aimed at reducing water and electricity consumption, as well as the installation of photovoltaic panels to generate green energy.  In addition, advanced bilge and grey-water management systems will be implemented to enhance environmental standards in the port of Mahón.

 

In terms of mooring charges, the proposal offers a significant reduction in tariffs for Mahón-based vessels of up to 8 metres in length, a measure that will considerably benefit its users. The concession, which has a maximum term of 12 years, comprises an area of more than 57,600 square metres of water surface.

 

As for the annual fee to be paid to the APB for occupying the space, La Azulona 2023 offered 1.1 million euros more than the amount stipulated in the tender conditions. Therefore, the new concessionaire will pay the port authority 1.3 million euros per year, plus 4% of its turnover, as set out in the tender specifications.

The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands initiates the reorganisation of the port of Palma

Today, the Board of Directors of the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) met in Palma and agreed to initiate the studies and plans for a new project aimed at reconfiguring the infrastructure and uses of the port of Palma, following a participatory process with stakeholders.

The solution will have to take into account the four key areas established and agreed upon by all the stakeholders consulted over the past few months. Firstly, it must maintain the current simultaneity of the port operations on the commercial docks, the Ponent-Paraires docks and the West dock to reduce the risk of operational congestion in terms of loading and unloading goods and passengers, particularly at peak times in the morning.

 

Secondly, it will relocate the space allocated for cruise operations to the Ponent-Paraires dock. In parallel, and to the extent compatible with the continuation of port operations in each area, the proposal will also provide for the phased relocation of the repair and maintenance areas to the West dock and within the sheltered waters of the port.

 

Finally, and as an added benefit to the overall merit of the proposal, the new configuration envisages a project to improve the integration between the city and the port, using the spaces freed up by relocating the nautical repair industries that currently occupy the area in front of the Cathedral and the Contramoll-Mollet area, both of which will be earmarked for initiatives relating to culture, training and, in particular, sport, prioritising the need to increase the quantity and quality of spaces given over to public use.

 

At the same meeting, the Board of Directors agreed to initiate the appropriate procedures, including the tenders needed to further define the measures to be undertaken and estimate the amount of public and private investment required. It also gave the green light for plans for the new infrastructures resulting from the reorganisation of the port to be drawn up based on the requisite economic and environmental studies.

 

Broad consensus

Last summer, the APB began a series of meetings with representatives of its stakeholders to comply with the requirements set out by its Board of Directors and State Ports, which stipulated that it would support any port development solution fully aligned with the economic, environmental and social sustainability of Palma and the island of Mallorca, and which emanated from a broad consensus between all the political, institutional, economic and social stakeholders within the sheltered waters of the existing port.

 

As a result, between June and October 2024, the port authority conducted a participatory process in which the main themes of the proposal to reorganise the operations in the port of Palma were presented to more than 65 representatives of various collectives.

 

Thus, meetings were held with the nautical sector through associations and concessionaire companies such as APEAM, STP- Servicios Técnicos Portuarios, Astilleros de Mallorca, Balearic Marine Cluster, ADNEA, FANMED, Club de Mar, Naviera Balear, Pantalán del Mediterráneo, Marina Puerto de Mallorca, Marina Cuarentena, La Llotja Marina Charter, the Association of Balearic Nautical Clubs, AENIB and ANADE.

 

In the financial sector, meetings were held with PIMEM, PIMECO, CAEB, the Chamber of Commerce, AFEDECO, and ACOIPAM.  While in the social and environmental sphere, the APB met with the Association of Friends of the Maritime Museum, the Ran de Mar Association, the Palma Neighbourhood Association, the Royal Spanish Naval League, the Alzinaires Association, the Palma Fishermen's Guild, the Federation of Fishermen's Guilds of the Balearic Islands, the Passeig Marítim Neighbourhood Association, the Civil Society Forum and ARCA.

 

On behalf of professional associations, meetings were held with the Professional College of Architects, the College of Naval Engineers and the College of Civil Engineers.

 

Lastly, the series of meetings concluded with talks in the political sphere, meeting with several parliamentary groups, including the Partit Popular, PSIB-PSOE, Unides Podem/MÉS per Mallorca, VOX, and the Government's Delegate in the Balearic Islands, Alfonso Rodríguez.

 

A change of course

The Board of Directors of the APB unanimously agreed, at a meeting held on 5 June this year, to abandon all environmental procedures related to the 2020 approved plan, which envisaged the concentration of regular traffic in the West dock and the use of the commercial docks for the nautical maintenance industry, and to suspend the contract for drafting the construction projects.

 

The decision was taken after it became clear that some stakeholders, such as the shipping companies and the maintenance industry, disagreed with the substance of the 2020 plan because it failed to address long-term needs.

 

After the APB's Board of Directors decided to halt the implementation of the plan, the president of the APB, Javier Sanz, promised to put forward a new proposal for the configuration of the port of Palma in the coming months, a commitment he fulfilled today and which received unanimous approval.

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