APB’s impossible mission in Ibiza: 50,000 square meters of industrial land not contemplated in the DEUP

As advanced by La Voz de Ibizathe Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) is looking for land near the port of Ibiza to concentrate the movement of goods and decompress the already stressed commercial docks in the Special Plan in process.

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For this reason, it is analyzing the establishment of a “Logistics Activities Zone” (ZAL) to concentrate, organize and optimize all logistic-port operations associated with the movement of goods.

However, this possibility was not included in the parameters for the Delimitation of Port Spaces and Uses (DEUP)which complicates the plans.

The DEUP establishes that in Ibiza, “once the esplanades and docks of Botafoc have been completed, no significant expansion of the land area to be reclaimed from the sea is foreseen in Zone I of the port waters (beyond what is foreseen, where applicable, in the current Infrastructure Master Plan)”.

Therefore, the regulation – approved by Ministerial Order of the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda on May 20, 2021approved by Ministerial Order of the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda on May 20, 2021- points out that “it is not included in the terrestrial service area a plot that may be outside the port, whose location and extent is not yet defined but that, in the future, after the relevant actions with the administrations involved, could be subject to possible inclusion in the assets of the APB outside the port public domain”.

Although it does refer to the possibility of setting up a special area for the management of goods in a plot “located in the vicinity of the port area, and with adequate land communication with it” for the “preparation of the distribution of goods received at the port”.

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It is estimated an area that could reach about 50,000 square meters with “urban industrial determinations that would allow the provision of ZAL warehouses”, although “not necessarily adjacent to the service area of the port”.

“This, in any case, will be subject to the needs of the logistics chain for the supply of the island of Ibiza, which integrates maritime transport and loading/unloading operations of goods in the Port,” details the DEUP.

Therefore, it concludes that “in the future and if necessary”, there could be an “area for the consolidation and deconsolidation of cargo in containers, platforms and trailers that today constitute the usual system of transport of general cargo, with a minimum requirement of areas in the port, where only the strict port operation of loading, loading, unloading, unloading, stowage and unstowage would continue to be carried out, with the possibility of preparation, reception and delivery outside the port area”.

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Reclassification

Another visible impediment is that, according to the General Plan of Urban Planning (PGOU) of the Ibiza Town Hall, which was definitively approved on July 13, 2023, there is no industrially qualified July 13, 2023, there is no plot with industrial qualification near the port area.

And nowhere near 50,000 square meters.

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Therefore, in the case of finding the location that meets the needs, the land will have to be rezoned after a tortuous procedure.

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