Alcudia’s port: Mallorca’s second most important port of the island
Palma
23/08/2016
Alcudia’s port is Mallorca’s second most important one. It is located on northeast part of the island and since last 1992 is one of the integrated ports of Balearic Islands’ Port Authority (APB).
There are two areas in the port: the smaller vessels’ dock, where fishing port is located and Alcudiamar sports marina, equipped with 800 moorings and commercial seaport where goods and passengers’ traffic is located.
Alcudia is also the main connection between Mallorca and Menorca islands and also counts with a ship line connecting with Barcelona. There are 250.000 passengers a year embarking and disembarking there, and 200.000 of them are coming back from or going to Ciutadella.
As a secure and effective answer to this huge amount of passengers’ traffic, APB has expanded Poniente dock and has built a modern and functional maritime station.
Together with that, Alcudia port is linked to energetic resources transportation. Thermal power plant has been working for decades, substituted by electrical power plant of Es Murterar. Coal for the power plant is disembarked at Alcudia port coming from far away countries such as South Africa. Coal is 75% of total amount of goods’ traffic, reaching a million tones per year.
40.000 gas tones also reach Alcudia port and 35.000 scrap metal tones leave every year. Agro-alimentary products reaches 50.000 tones a year and 34.000 tones of the same goods leave from Alcudia.
APB manages this port with the aim of adapting it to energetic model changes, thus respecting the natural environment all around.
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