The APB puts out to tender the development and urban planning of Cala Figuera at the Port of Mahon
20/03/2018The Official State Gazette (BOE) has today published the resolution of the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) announcing the public tender of preliminary plans for the development and urban planning of Cala Figuera at the Port of Mahon. The aim of the tender is to select the most cost-effective proposal outlining a preliminary plan for the development, urban planning and definition of infrastructures and superstructures of the port area of Cala Figuera at the Port of Mahon. According to the Delimitation of Port Spaces and Uses (DEUP), it is an area intended for nautical, sporting and additional facilities. The APB has established several pre-requisites for this call for proposals. These stipulate that the total implementation budget must not exceed 15 million euros, and there must be provisioning for approximately 60 moorings for boats measuring between 15 and 100 metres in length. Additionally, another 80 moorings under 8 metres in length are expected to be dispersed at the other end of the Cala, the side closest to Mahon. The project also involves building a public loading dock and a dry dock ramp for small boats. This project will culminate with the complete remodelling of the port, which will be equipped with a walkway over the sea, a public-access esplanade covering more than 5000 metres, new parking spaces, forested areas and updated street furniture, taxi and bus stops and a pedestrian path with elevator connecting the port with the city. This initiative is in line with the Port of Mahon Action Plan that the APB launched with the administrations and other local entities at the beginning of this parliamentary term. Proposals may be submitted within a three-month period and the contract will be awarded two months later. More information on the Public Domain bulletin board on the website.
Mahon welcomes exhibition of the 8th APB Painting and Photography Contest
16/03/2018The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) will exhibit, from 19 March, the winning art pieces and those submitted by participants in the Painting and Photography Contest in Menorca. The contest, now in its eighth edition, receives a high level of interest, with over 300 works entered from all of the islands. The challenge consisted of depicting one of the ports of general interest in the Balearic Islands or one of their lighthouses. The winning pieces, specifically the second prize in the Other Painting Techniques category, is inspired by the Port of Mahon and is titled Casa Venècia. Port de Maó, by Josep Plaja López, a piece that will be on display together with the others at the Caixabank Exhibition Hall in Mahon between 19 and 30 March. The works are divided into three categories: Watercolour, Other Painting Techniques and Photography. Out of those that entered last October, one hundred works were short-listed and exhibited in Palma at Christmas, with a warm reception from the public. Cultural heritage For the eighth consecutive year, the APB has sponsored this competition dedicated to the lighthouses of the Balearic Islands and to the ports of general interest of Palma, Alcudia, Mahon, Ibiza and La Savina, with the aim of capturing, by means of visual art, the popular interest that is aroused by places as ordinary and unique as ports and lighthouses and paying special tribute to them as parts of cultural heritage. Hours Sala de Exposiciones de Caixabank C/ Nou de Maó. 19 - 30 March 2018. Monday to Saturday 10:30 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 20:00
The APB organises workshop on electronic procurement
15/03/2018The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) has organised a workshop on electronic procurement to explain to providers how its new Electronic Procurement Platform works. As of now, the Platform will be used to process procurement records, in accordance with new Law 9/2017 of 8 November on Public Sector Contracts. The programme for this meeting between the APB and its providers covers information on new Law 9/2017 on Public Sector Contracts and the applicable legal framework, APB actions to improve Electronic Management, as well as new working methods by the port authority. In addition to APB managers, the workshop will have participation from Public Lawyer, Olga Peñalver, and representatives from the company Pixelware. To this end, three sessions are planned: * Palma. 15 March 2018 from 11 am to 1 pm. Cambra de Comerç Mallorca. c/ de l’Estudi General, 7 * Mahon. 20 March 2018 from 11:30 am to 2 pm. Sala Roja at the Recinto Ferial de Menorca. c/ Alqueria Cremada s/n – POIMA) * Ibiza. 21 March 2018 from 11 am to 1 pm. Sala de Formación, APB. Acceso Muelles norte s/n
The APB commences its Strategic Plan
08/03/2018The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) commences the drawing up of its Strategic Plan. The aim is for the plan to be a useful tool for the functionality of the port body, while also being a tool for transparency that explains the APB's projects to different social agents, seeking dialogue and collaboration with each one of them in order to offer a better service. To draw up the Strategic Plan, the APB has engaged the services of a joint venture that comprises Teirlog Ingeniería and Estrada Port Consulting. The work is expected to last approximately 15 months and the Plan will be valid for 10 years. During those 15 months, a participatory process will be launched in order to bring together and listen to the input of the whole port community and stakeholders regarding the ports of general interest and the lighthouses on the Balearic Islands. The idea of the public participation arose from the desire to achieve more efficient and competitive ports, and that their lines of activity –freight and passenger traffic, recreational boating and the cruise market– are in keeping with the needs of users and with the sustainable growth of the environment.
The APB puts running of bar-cafeteria at the port of Alcudia out to tender
06/03/2018In the last Board of Directors meeting, the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) approved the specifications and conditions that are to govern the public tender to run, under the administrative concession system, the bar-cafeteria at the maritime station of the port of Alcudia. This tender will involve the most favourable bid being chosen and the subsequent granting of said public concession. The winning bidder will be granted, under an administrative concession, use of an area of public domain at the port with a surface area of 108.61 m2. In the same way, the tenderer is authorised to provide business services as a bar-cafeteria-restaurant, along with other optional services (to be proposed by the tenderer) which are to be authorised by the APB. The annual occupancy fee to outbid by the tenderer is €14,470.44 excl. VAT and the maximum term for the concession is 10 years.
The tender for ideas of Cala Figuera at the Port of Mahon gets the green light
28/02/2018The Board of Directors of the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) has approved the specifications of the ideas tender for preliminary projects regarding development and urban planning activities at Cala Figuera, Port of Mahon. The aim of this tender is to select preliminary project proposals for the development, urban planning and definition of infrastructures and superstructures of the port area of Cala Figuera, which, according to the Delimitation of Port Spaces and Uses (DEUP), is intended for nautical, sporting and additional facilities for the port and city. This preliminary project will be used for a future tender process for the use and execution concession of the winning proposal. This ideas tender meets the requirements of the Port of Mahon to have a creation nerve point of economic activity relating to recreational boating. As such, the construction of small and large size moorings at Cala Figuera is envisaged. This project, along with the future boat repair yard at Cós Nou, will serve as a trigger for recreational boating at the port. This initiative is in line with the Port of Mahon Action Plan that the APB launched with the administrations and other local entities at the beginning of this parliamentary term. The specifications were approved yesterday after agreement was reached between the APB and the Official Association of Architects of Menorca.
APB to equip the Port of Mahon with 154 new moorings for recreational boats
15/02/2018The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) will begin the building works on 5 jetties at the Poniente dock at the port of Mahon in order to install 154 new moorings for recreational boats. The works have a budget of €416,000 and the company awarded the contract is the joint venture made up of Estructuras Condal, Ciomar and Antonio Gomila. The project consists of installing the 5 jetties that will offer water and electricity supply services to 154 moorings, 5 of which will be designated for boats that are 15 metres long, 44 for those that are 12 metres long, 17 for those that are 10 metres long and 78 moorings for boats up to 8 metres long. In addition, there will be 10 moorings designated for repair shops: 5 for boats up to 10 metres long and 5 for those up to 12 metres long. When allocating these 154 moorings, consideration is being given to prioritising any recreational boats with expired mooring permits. With these works, the APB aims to reorganise and improve the offering of moorings for recreational boats at the Port of Mahon and, above all, respond to the requests for mooring points directly managed at this port. The manager of these moorings will be the winner of the tender put out for this purpose, which will be announced when the Board of Directors of the APB chooses the most beneficial proposal in the meeting scheduled for the end of February.
The APB to put the Botafoc Harbour Station works at the Port of Ibiza out to tender next June
14/02/2018Joan Gual de Torrella, president of the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB), has announced that a tender process for the construction works of the new Botafoc Harbour Station at the Port of Ibiza is to be launched in June. It is expected that the construction of the new building, which has an estimated budget of 9.6 million euros, could begin towards the end of this year, during the low season so as to interfere as little as possible with the island, residents and the visitors. The new building, covering a surface area of 5,800 m2, will have all of the services required to meet the needs of passengers, making the compliance of safety and accessibility measures top priority. It will offer its users extensive waiting room areas, as well as separate boarding and disembarkation areas, and all the amenities needed to ensure that passengers receive the comfort sought. It will be a three-floor building. The passenger ticket desk at the station harbour, as well as the access gate and exit, will be located on the 4,400-m2 ground floor. The first floor, covering 700 m2, will be used for offices, while passenger boarding and disembarkation will take place on the second floor, which also covers 700 m2. The building will be eight metres high and will not exceed the current height of the boarding and disembarkation walkways in order to reduce the visual impact. Joan Gual said he was happy about the commencement of the works because: "they form part of the commitments that the Port Authority is undertaking with the Council of Ibiza, while also being a commitment to passengers." The APB president has confirmed that the Port of Ibiza needed worthy, safe and comfortable facilities that were on par with its growth and passenger influx, almost a million per year. Gual made the declarations at the Club Naútico of Ibiza during the 'Balance and Future of the Port of Ibiza Conference', where the most significant actions of the APB and the next steps it is to undertake at the port, such as the construction of the Harbour Station, were discussed. Rafael Ruiz, Mayor of Ibiza, and Joan Marí, the president of the Club Náutico of Ibiza, both attended the event. Energy saving and the use of plant materials in the construction will be considered in the project. The project won an ideas competition, the jury of which comprised the Council of Ibiza, the Business Association of Entrepreneurs of Maritime Activities on the Balearic Islands, the Association of Architects, the Association of Civil Engineers of the Balearic Islands and the APB. Finally, the project that will be put out to tender has received the approval of the Town Planning Department of the Council of Ibiza.
The APB is to build an underground car park at the Lonja Dock at the Port of Palma
12/02/2018The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) is to build a public underground car park, consisting of up to 460 spaces, at the Lonja dock at the Port of Palma. With this infrastructure, the APB will eliminate around 150 of the existing aboveground parking spaces and it will spruce up the area, converting it into a car-free zone with garden areas for pedestrians. In a meeting held on 31 January, the Board of Directors of the APB approved the rule and clause specifications that are to govern the public tender for the construction and management of the car park during a maximum term of 50 years. Tenderers will have to improve on the annual usage fee amount of €156,052, without VAT. The surface area under the tender covers the space between the head office of the APB and the concession currently held by the Pesquero restaurant at the Port of Palma. The project is to entail the creation of a car park under the phreatic level, envisage the creation of garden areas on the surface and to maintain the current access points at the dock in a similar condition as they are currently in. The planned car park must have one level (with a capacity for around 230 vehicles), but tenderers may suggest a two-level project that could amount to a total of 460 spaces. Tenderers are to propose the number and dimensions of the parking spaces, as well as their distribution. Spaces reserved for people with reduced mobility must also be considered in the project. The investment estimated by the APB, which is to be undertaken by the future concessionaire, ranges from between 9.5 to 21.8 million euros, depending on whether one or two levels are built. Open to the public Two types of user will be able to access the new public car park. Pass holders –regular employees, employees of adjacent businesses, customers or port workers–, who will have access to it with rates suiting their needs and working hours. These spaces should account for 20% of the total number, according to the tender specifications. The other type of user is the general public. These spaces will be under a rotation system, with neither reservation nor preferential rights of any kind. With the sprucing up of the area and the envisaged demolition of two obsolete buildings at Contramuelle-Mollet that do not relate to any port use, the incorporation of the port into the city is further aided, continuing the reform that the APB has already started at the Viejo Dock, which connects this area of the Port of Palma with the Antonio Maura promenade. The works are just one line of action carried out by the Port Authority in its recent activities at all of its ports. The authority also seeks to help the port integrate into the city.
The ports managed by APB record 15.4 million tonnes of freight in 2017
06/02/2018The freight traffic statistics for the ports of general interest in the Balearic Islands indicate that 15.4 million tonnes passed through the 5 ports managed by the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) in 2017. All of the ports have experienced an increase in traffic volume except for Mahon, which was down 3% on 2016. The ports of Alcudia and La Savina have seen the biggest increase in traffic, up 17% and 7%, respectively. The ports of Palma and Ibiza have also seen an increase, up 4% and 3%, respectively. The figures reported relating to the general goods traffic (referring to consumer goods), indicate that 12.2 million tonnes passed through the 5 ports of general interest in the Balearic Islands in 2017, up 6% on 2016. Alcudia increased by 18%, La Savina 8%, Ibiza 6% and Palma 5%. Mahon is once again the only port that did not see any growth, showing a 9% reduction in its traffic volume with regard to 2016. Referring to solid bulk cargo only (coal, grain, salt and construction materials, etc.), the records indicate that Mahon and Alcudia increased their traffic volume by 60% and 17%, respectively, while Palma, Ibiza and La Savina saw a 30%, 26% and 16%, respectively, reduction in these materials in comparison with the previous financial year. As regards liquid bulk cargo (fuel), the records indicate an increase in traffic volume at the ports of Alcudia (11%), Mahon (9%) and Palma (1%), and a 6% fall at the Port of Ibiza. Lastly, in 2017, the number of passengers at the ports managed by the APB was 8.2 million, up 6% on the figure registered in the previous financial year. Of those passengers, 2.1 million were on cruise ships, up 9% on 2016. All of the ports saw an increase in this area. The Port of Mahon saw the biggest increase (26%), corresponding to a 60% increase in the arrival of cruise passengers in 2017, followed by Alcudia (23%), Ibiza (6%) -which also saw a significant increase of 35% in cruise passengers-, Palma (5%) and La Savina (3%). Further statistical information
The APB set to adapt the Port of El Molinar, retaining its current dimensions and facilitating its integration into the city
02/02/2018The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) will update the El Molinar facilities at the Port of Palma whilst preserving its current dimensions, with the same water surface area and the same breakwater. Likewise, it is expected that the number of mooring points and type of existing boats will remain the same. This will help prevent the intensity of port use from rising, and therefore the accessibility and mobility problems that could otherwise be caused in the neighbourhood. The new El Molinar port project was revealed to the public yesterday during the conference held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma under the slogan "The future of sailing clubs in the Balearic Islands. The continuity of concessions at Ports of General Interest". According to the APB's head of infrastructure, Antoni Ginard, the main objectives of the new project include incorporating the El Molinar port as a transit area, offering citizens new landscape perspectives by constructing rock facing that will function as an observation point, and taking one step further towards the APB strategy by integrating ports in cities and engaging citizens in various leisure possibilities that the ports can offer. Another important strand of this project focuses on investment in maritime security infrastructure, with low or practically zero environmental impact and at a reasonable financial cost, providing the port with the security constantly sought by the port body in all of its actions. Lastly, this reform project covers the social element of this port, promoting the practice of and training in water sports activities such as sailing, which should remain one of the main assets of any sailing club. The project was developed by the team comprising MCVALNERA and Junquera Arquitectos, with internationally renowned engineers and architects as members. The port infrastructure has an estimated investment budget of three million euros, which will be covered by the APB. Following its input, the APB intends for a social sailing club to take over the management of the mooring points.
