This morning, firefighters from the Consell Insular de Menorca (CIME) and the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) took part in a simulated terrorist attack on board a ship in the port of Maó belonging to the Trasmed shipping company, which was docked at the Cós Nou docks. In the drill, they had to extinguish a fire in the holds of the ferry caused by a bomb explosion and evacuate two injured people who required urgent medical assistance.

Since yesterday, visitors strolling through the port of Maó will be able to refill their water bottles thanks to the installation of a filtered water fountain financed by Menorca Preservation, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) and the Cleanwave Foundation.

Transforming ports into agents of environmental regeneration and the fight against climate change is the objective of the OASIS project, developed by the Spanish company Ocean Ecostructures and which the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) will implement in the general interest ports of Eivissa and soon in Palma.

The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands and the Gravity Wave association have a clear objective: to live in a world with plastic-free seas. In this quest they have joined forces under the PLASTIC FREE OCEANS movement to restore the health of the oceans.

The president of the Consell de Eivissa, Vicent Marí, the mayor of Eivissa, Rafel Ruiz, and the president of the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands, Jaume Colom, met this week to address the needs arising from the arrival of several cruise ships at the same time in the port of Ibiza.

With the conference “The sea through the eyes of women: fishmongers, skippers and fisherwomen”, on International Women’s Day, the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) is highlighting the importance of women in the fishing community, especially in the selling of fish.

The Board of Directors of the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) has given the green light to the signing of the agreement for the management of spaces and facilities at the Cap Salines lighthouse in Mallorca, concluded between the Department of European Funds, University and Culture of the Government of the Balearic Islands and the APB.

The Board of Directors of the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) has approved the specifications for the public tender for the management, under administrative authorisation, of a dry marina facility for small charter boats in the port of La Savina.

The 754.5 square metre operating area has been put out to tender, of which 247.4 square metres is water and 507.1 square metres is land. The services to be provided include the hoisting and launching of boats, storage, surveillance and safeguarding of boats on land, as well as the supply of water and electricity to them.

The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) has responded to the different requests made by the stakeholders of the Palma seafront remodelling works at the last two meetings held on 31 January and 9 February. Therefore, all requests that complied with the necessary safety measures in each case have been incorporated into the remodelling work phases.

According to the traffic statistics of the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB), during the past financial year of 2022, 15,429,553 tonnes of goods passed through the ports of general interest of the Balearic Islands, resulting in an increase in traffic of 12% with respect to 2021.