Gaining ground to the sea, one of the three actions to improve merchandise operations at the port of Ibiza

Based on the allegations presented to the first version of the Special Plan for the Port of Special Plan for the Port of Ibiza by the Sindicato Coordinadora Estatal de Estibadores Portuarios (CEEP)The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands has proposed three specific actions to allocate more space for cargo in the port of Ibiza, taking into account the saturation of the commercial docks that is expected from the rearrangement established in the documents for one of the neuralgic areas of the port activity and the Botafoc docks.

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“A tetris put together with a shoehorn that generates enormous doubts about its viability”. Thus alerted La Voz de Ibiza last June about the plans that the APB has for the commercial docks.

These contemplate adding to the transport of goods such diverse uses as the traffic of Formentera, the fishing area and the dry dock, in addition to the rectification of centralizing the work of repairing boats in a single space. Impossible as well as a lost battle.

And it is that the APB has not planned any action to improve the area, evidence that it is impossible.

Dockworkers’ complaints

By means of a letter submitted by Jaime Esteban JuanThe Port of Ibiza, representative of the Port Stevedores of the port of Ibiza and of the State Coordinating Union of Port Stevedores (CEEP) in Ibiza, had warned that the Special Plan for the Port of Ibiza “lacks the foresight and programming of the works for the reorganization, expansion, remodeling, protection of the Port carried out with urban parameters, fundamentally in what affects the modification of the situation of the Port of Ibiza from which it is based to draw it up, being able to affirm that with the generic descriptions that are made with respect to the basic activity, will make the viability of the project impossible“.

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Regarding Area 4 for the commercial docks, the discrepancy between the proposals of the Special Plan and the uses established in the Delimitation of Port Areas and Uses (DEUP) was questioned, as well as the lack of clarity regarding the redistribution of activities and the capacity of the space to adequately accommodate them.

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Questions were also raised about the location of activities such as fishing, dry dock, loading/unloading of goods and port logistics, as well as the lack of provision for vehicle pre-boarding areas and possible traffic congestion.

Measures in folder

During the meeting with the union, the director of the APB, Antoni Ginard, explained to the group of workers in charge of loading and unloading three actions to improve the operation.

According to La Voz de Ibiza, the first of them consists of gaining some land to the sea for maneuvers and port operations in one of the docking points in the Botafoc area.

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An additional heel will be built at berth number 2, which is currently the most difficult berth for the operation of the tractor-trailers.

In addition, the current parking lot used by car rental companies will be used for loading operations .

These will be relocated in a parking lot in height. What used to be a long-term forecast has now been transformed into a programmed action by the APB in response to the dockworkers’ demands.

This high-rise parking lot is the third project planned: the ground floor will be used for port operations related to goods traffic.

APB’s explanation

In the answers to the allegations -which is in the possession of La Voz de Ibiza-, the Port Authority explains that “the Special Plan includes a summary of the main traffics that operate in the port of Ibiza, as well as their evolution and growth forecasts”.

In this sense, he remarks that “this issue is a general aspect of the strategy and development of the port of Eivissa defined by the APB and is not a specific object of the Special Plan, although logically it has been taken into account in the proposed planning”.

Although at that time he rejects the “possibility of dedicating part of the parking lots of the esplanade of the Botafoc Maritime Station to parking space for goods”, he advanced that “the Special Plan has enough flexibility to allow such rearrangements to meet the needs of demand at any given time“.

On the other hand, the APB pointed out that “in principle, the proposal for new landfills is not the object of the Special Plan (which should be limited to ordering the existing land service area), although the design of the Botafoc docks included in the PDI effectively had an area of landfill greater than that currently executed, a proposal that could be studied and recovered if necessary with a specific project and evaluation”.

Therefore, it determines “toincrease the growth margin for the expansion of the facilities, in order to meet the needs of passenger and cargo traffic and the energy improvement of port facilities and the electrical connection of ships on land, unifying in a single category these reserves, specifically reserving the square meters necessary for a quarantine infrastructure for goods potentially susceptible to contain invasive species, and maintaining the reserve for pergolas”.

Meanwhile, it clarified that, regarding the zoning of the uses in the Commercial Docks, “it is considered convenient that the Special Plan, although it sets the urban parameters for the facilities and buildings, leaves open for its definition in the corresponding projects the location, delimitation and specific dimensions of the surfaces for these activities/uses to be able to adapt to the changing trends of port operations“.

This flexibility, according to the APB, to relocate, redefine boundaries and resize “does not unnecessarily compromise the development of port activities and will allow maximum compatibility of uses and adapt to the requirements of a demand, which is also changing over time, on a very limited surface area. All this, in short, for the benefit of port operations”.

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