The coalition Sa Unió de Formentera has warned on Wednesday in a statement of the loss of the first and last boat that connects loss of the first and last boat that connects the Pitiusas islands by sea.
The formation has registered a proposal in the October plenary session to request that the administrations and shipping companies reach an immediate agreement in order to avoid “this loss of rights” for the citizens of Formentera.
The last boat between Ibiza and Formentera now departs at 10 p.m., when last winter it did so at 10.30 p.m., and the first boat from Formentera to Ibiza, which until now departed at 5.30 or 5.45 a.m., will depart at 6.30 a.m. as of November 1st. From Sa Unió they demand that the first hour boats (5.45 or 6.00 hours) from Formentera to Ibiza and the last hour, from Ibiza to Formentera (22.30 or 23.00 hours) continue to provide service outside the tourist season. As they have recalled, in 2010 the Parliament approved the law of maritime transport management of the Balearic Islands that contains a chapter and an additional provision dedicated to the specific rights of Formentera that because of its geographical location “depends exclusively on maritime transport” to ensure its connectivity and supply of goods. However, after 14 years “still has not been approved” the decree that should regulate the special regime for the provision of maritime transport between the Balearic Islands. The formation points out that these claims “are not whims, but real needs” of connectivity for health, administrative or educational issues, and insist that the first and last minute boats help to “mitigate the triple insularity” they suffer.
