The new boarding walkways come into operation at the Port of Ibiza’s Botafoc Quays
Eivissa
06/11/2013
On Friday 8th November, the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) will begin to use the new boarding walkways at the Botafoc Quays which aim to provide passengers and shipping companies with improved services, security and amenities at the Port of Ibiza. This constitutes yet another service at the port’s new facilities which began to cater for regular goods and passenger traffic on 1st July.
In parallel, the temporary passenger terminal, which was built to provide an interim service until the permanent facility comes into operation, began to operate at the end of October. As of next Friday, two permanent walkways and four mobile gangways will be available for ferry passengers boarding and disembarking at the 1500 square-metre temporary passenger terminal, which will be used by the Acciona-Trasmediterránea y Baleària ferry operators.
The tender for these walkways was €7.5 million. However, the work is not totally finished as a section of one of the permanent walkways is still to be completed and a fifth mobile gangway still to be installed on the Ribera del Botafoc Quay.
Port reorganisation
On 1st July, the APB moved commercial traffic to the new Botafoc Quays, thus freeing up the Levante Dock. This new area has facilities for embarking and pre-embarking goods and vehicles, as well as car parks for cars, coaches, taxis and buses.
