• The Special Plan for the Port of Ibiza obsolete before being approved: Ports seeks plot for future Logistics Activities Zone

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».

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

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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La entrada APB’s impossible mission in Ibiza: 50,000 square meters of industrial land not contemplated in the DEUP se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

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

This has been confirmed by the APB to La Voz de Ibiza. In this regard, they explained that «we have put out to tender a technical assistance to analyze economic feasibility and availability of land» and that this possibility will be included in the revision of the Special Plan after the process of allegations.

Shock and disbelief

This was one of the topics addressed at the last Navigation Council of the Port of Ibiza. The explanations of the director of the APB, Antoni Ginard, generated both astonishment and disbelief among the attendees. For two reasons.

The first because everyone in Ibiza knows that it is difficult to very difficult to find land that meets the requirements of a Logistics Activities Zone.

The second is because the need to find a plot of this type is the result of the main change introduced in the Special Plan for the Port of Ibiza, which the Ibiza Town Hall has promised to approve this month, thus entering the last phase of the process: the concentration of numerous and varied uses in the commercial dock.

And especially because it is an intervention that should have been planned and included before the approval of the Delimitation of Uses and Port Spaces and the Special Plan itself.

«For now it is only a possibility that is being analyzed. It would be to move goods,» they added when asked by this media.

Therefore, a service contracting file has been initiated for the «location, analysis and evaluation of possible areas for the development of a Logistics Activities Zone in the vicinity of the port of Eivissa, including, if necessary, the drafting of the basic project».

This line of work is in addition to the to the stevedores to allocate more space for cargo in the port, taking into account the saturation of the commercial docks in the port, taking into account the expected saturation of the commercial docks as a result of the planned redevelopment of the Botafoc area.

During the meeting with the union, the director of the APB, Antoni Ginardexplained to the workers in charge of loading and unloading three measures to improve operations.

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

In this regard,an additional heel will be built at berth number 2, the one that currently presents the most difficulties for the operation of the tractor-trailers.

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

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.

Logistics Activities Zone, under study

This Logistics Activities Zone, which has been implemented in the ports of Barcelona, Valencia and Algeciras, among others, consists of a space located within or next to the port for logistics companies, transport operators, warehousing, distribution and services associated with the logistics chain.

Its main function is to improve the efficiency of the portThe main function is to improve the efficiency of the port, allowing goods to move from ship to land transport in a faster, more orderly and value-added manner.

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Therefore, the APB has launched a service contract for «Technical Assistance for the study, analysis, design and basic project of a Logistics Activities Zone (ZAL) for the Port of Eivissa», with a budget of almost 100,000 euros (99,999.98 euros excluding VAT).

The file details that «the location of the port of Ibiza, completely surrounded by the city, has historically limited its possibilities for expansion. Currently, the port has a shortage of spaces even – in certain peak periods – for the parking of heavy and light vehicles waiting to embark, as well as for the temporary storage of platforms, trailers, semi-trailers and other elements for the transport of goods and for the development of other logistics activities».

Already the Infrastructure Master Plan, prepared in 2006, recognized the «lack of programmed industrial land in areas close to the port for the storage of goods and logistics activities. The current DEUP Report also states that, subject to the needs of the logistics chain for supplying the island, a Logistics Activities Zone could be required in the vicinity of the port and well connected to it».

For this reason, the APB intends to «study and analyze in detail the opportunity, convenience and alternatives (locations, procedures, management models,…) to promote, develop and, if necessary, operate a Logistics Activities Zone (ZAL) outside the current service area«.

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The purpose of this will be to «facilitate such activities and offer space for parking mainly heavy vehicles and temporary storage of transport elements such as trailers, semi-trailers or platforms, with or without goods, with adequate services for them and their carriers».

To this end, work has been carried out over the last few years on locating possible areas near the port with the potential to improve the services offered by the port to the transport logistics chain, «with suitable and properly organized spaces to develop this type of activity».

According to the file, «needs have been estimated at a very preliminary level, requiring a more in-depth and detailed study and analysis of demand and needs, location alternatives and management models that, by means of a multi-criteria analysis (evaluating technical, urban and economic aspects, among others), will facilitate the selection and design of the most convenient solution with a basic project for the same».

Two offers

Two bidders have been submitted to this tender: Mc Valnera SL and Teirlog Ingeniería SL.

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After analyzing the proposals, the Contracting Authority has proposed the award of the contract to Teirlog Ingeniería SL. for 87,500 euros. on December 2.

However, the formal award has not yet been made for the execution of the work, which is expected to take 10 months.

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• The premonitory allegation against the Special Plan for the Port of Ibiza that warned of flooding in the area.

• Marina Ibiza denounces discrimination in the port’s Special Plan due to the reduction of buildability

• PIMEEF’s allegations to the Special Plan for the port of Ibiza: more meters of dry dock, moorings for nautical charter and another gas station.

• Clamorous failure of the Port Authority in the drafting of the Special Plan: this is how the new road that will connect the port areas of Ibiza will look like.

• Marina Ibiza asks for a third initial approval of the Special Plan for the port: it defends that the current one is null and void.

• The new prescriptions: the second initial approval of the Special Plan for the Port of Ibiza adds more controversies

• Colossal botched job by the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands in the processing of the Special Plan for the Port of Ibiza.

• New Special Plan for the Port of Ibiza: what is the substantial change that restarted the process?

La entrada The Special Plan for the Port of Ibiza obsolete before being approved: Ports seeks plot for future Logistics Activities Zone se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• The controversial engineer of the «phantom dock», future director of the ports of Ibiza and Formentera

«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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• The premonitory allegation against the Special Plan for the Port of Ibiza that warned of flooding in the area.

• Marina Ibiza denounces discrimination in the port’s Special Plan due to the reduction of buildability

• PIMEEF’s allegations to the Special Plan for the port of Ibiza: more meters of dry dock, moorings for nautical charter and another gas station.

• Clamorous failure of the Port Authority in the drafting of the Special Plan: this is how the new road that will connect the port areas of Ibiza will look like.

• Marina Ibiza asks for a third initial approval of the Special Plan for the port: it defends that the current one is null and void.

• The new prescriptions: the second initial approval of the Special Plan for the Port of Ibiza adds more controversies

• Colossal botched job by the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands in the processing of the Special Plan for the Port of Ibiza.

• New Special Plan for the Port of Ibiza: what is the substantial change that restarted the process?

La entrada Gaining ground to the sea, one of the three actions to improve merchandise operations at the port of Ibiza se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

Investments in infrastructure and operational safety

Priority actions include the modernization of the Ro-Ro ramps of the commercial docks, scheduled for completion in 2026, which will optimize the loading and unloading of vehicles and goods. In addition, the second floor of the Captaincy building has been refurbished to improve work spaces and user service.

The APB is also making progress in the renovation of fenders on the docks, an essential intervention to increase safety during docking maneuvers and ensure more efficient operations.

Betting on a unique marina

One of the projects with the greatest strategic scope is the creation of a single marina, based on a unified management model for moorings, commercial premises and parking spaces. This initiative aims to eliminate administrative and operational duplication, improve efficiency in port management and ensure uniform standards of quality and sustainability in all nautical-sports facilities in La Savina. The bidding procedure is underway and is expected to be resolved in 2026.

Special Port Plan and institutional coordination

As part of the strategic planning, the APB continues to promote the updating of the Special Plan for the port of La Savina. To this end, he proposed the creation of a joint commission with the Consell de Formentera, which will review and adapt the contents of the document to the current and future needs of the port and the island.

Environmental commitment and decarbonization

The APB stated that it will reinforce its environmental strategy through the implementation of new ordinances aimed at improving air quality and the state of port waters. At the same time, the process of decarbonization of the Ibiza-La Savina line is progressing, incorporating more demanding environmental criteria in the new maritime service tender.

Technological innovation and digitalization

During the presentation it was explained that the port of La Savina is integrated into the technological advances that the APB is implementing in all its port areas. These include the implementation of the Posidonia Operations V2 system, the digitization of maritime signals, the updating of electronic administration tools and the modernization of the technical-nautical services platform. The future improvement of the video surveillance system (CCTV) and the development of cybersecurity projects complete this commitment to a smarter, safer and more efficient port model.

Actions completed in 2025

During the current fiscal year, the APB has completed operational interventions, such as the segregation of the navigation channel, aimed at improving the safety and fluidity of maritime traffic. Accessibility improvements have also been made, including the renovation of pedestrian routes and the adaptation of spaces to facilitate mobility, especially for people with reduced mobility.

Regarding the port public domain, an agreement has been signed with the Consell de Formentera for the implementation of regulated parking, a key tool to organize the access and use of the port area by residents and visitors. Likewise, progress has been made in the agreement with the Ministry of the Interior for the installation of an integrated surveillance system in the lighthouse of La Mola, contributing to the reinforcement of maritime security on the island.

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As they have responded to La Voz de Ibiza from the Port Authority, «we have no news (about the call). In any case it will be informed in due course».

The truth is that, in recent weeks, there have been accumulated press releases and statements from political groups questioning the scope of the tender announced by the APB that, in many cases, go against the truth.A story sown mainly among Gent per Formentera, the Socialist Party and -to a lesser extent- Sa Unió, which is riddled with falsehoods.

Lies and truths

25 years of concession

Both GxF and PSOE have criticized the 25-year concession term. Alejandra Ferrer, president of GxF, has stated that this «will convert theport of La Savina into a monopoly, increasing the prices of moorings and commercial premises, and turning its back on recreational boating.»

Along these lines, also in statements made during a talk show on Ràdio Illa, the socialist Ana Juan said that «the fact of granting a single concession is to create a monopoly, and monopolies are never good».

While Hugo Martínez, councilor of Sa Unió, added that «we consider that a 25-year monopoly, a priori, is not something positive for our island and we do not know the pros and cons of what this means. Therefore, it is very difficult to position ourselves in favor of this initiative. We need the port, as the main point of entry and exit of our island, to be as fair as possible for our citizens, to have more life and, of course, that the benefits are not only for a few».

It is true: the concession will be for 25 years, as advanced by the APB. What is striking is that GxF and PSOE encouraged to give the so-called Yacht Club of Formentera the eastern dock (which accounts for 60% of the total number of moorings of the port) for the same number of years and with a practically derisory investment with the aim of promoting nautical activities and, mainly, access to affordable moorings.

At the time, both parties supported «unconditionally» this procedure under the figure of competition for 25 years in favor of the CNF, to manage 91 moorings with a total investment of 1,200,000 euros. That is, a fee of 48,000 euros per year.

The APB has justified the unification of the docks into a single one in that the greater efficiency of space and resources has allowed new mooring points and lower operating costs to emerge, which will result in lower rates than under the current two-dock model.

Investment in La Savina

The left-wing groups have also warned that the minimum investment required from the concessionaire is 18 million euros, which will cause an increase in the prices of moorings and commercial premises.

«This will automatically mean that the concessionaire will have to recover that money and, consequently, raise the prices of moorings, commercial premises, etc. And the APB already makes enough profit from the port of Formentera to make the necessary reforms and investments without the need to privatize its management for so long,» Ferrer said.

However, according to official information from the APB, the company awarded the contract will have to make a minimum investment of 15 million euros. Precisely, the long term is a response to the important disbursement that the winning company will have to make, contrary to the logic argued by Ferrer.

It is that the 25 years favor the amortization of the investment. The math is simple: a shorter concession period will inevitably lead to an increase in the price of moorings and rents for commercial premises.

Social ties

«Mooring prices have no set limit. There is no space reserved for small private boats at affordable prices. There is no dry marina area». said the GxF spokeswoman.

It is true: the contest rules do not establish a price limit for social moorings. However, the APB has advanced that «will value in its bases the reduction of rates for moorings, especially for boats up to eight meters in length. Also for the rates of commercial premises, terraces, parking, electricity supplies, lifting services, launching and launching of the dry dock.

He has also reported that the facility will have «a dry marina», another mantra repeated by the left that is far from reality.

On the other hand, the tender provides, as a minimum, a space of 55 base moorings throughout the year reserved for boats up to 8 meters in length. In addition, it must be taken into account that when a new concessionaire enters, it obviously inherits the bases, which are currently more adding both docks.

Therefore, in principle, there will be more than the 55 social moorings established as mandatory by the APB’s specifications.

Mega yachts

Ferrer also said that «the size of the vessels is not limited, which allows the entry of mega yachts«.

This is a half-truth since it is true that there is no written limitation although the same mooring rearrangement establishes it de facto.

Of the current 180 moorings on the water sheet, the mandatory distribution according to the tender is as follows:

• 75 charter berths during the high season (June-September).
• 55 base moorings throughout the year.
• 6 moorings for official organizations (Guardia Civil, Maritime Rescue, Customs, etc.).

Thus, 44 moorings would be freed for yachts and mega yachts.

The claim of a yacht club

To this is added the claim for a space reserved for a yacht club that, in practice, Formentera does not have.

«No space is contemplated for the yacht club,» said Ferrer. This in reference to the claim of the Yacht Club of Formentera to manage moorings in the port of La Savina.

It is an institution that has no sporting activity and whose registration with the Balearic Sailing Federation was rejected for failing to comply with Article 1 of Decree 147/1997, which regulates the «constitution and operation of sports clubs in the area of the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands».

Fear of foreign investors

Ferrer also said that «talking about a single marina, in addition to implying a monopoly, makes the competition much more attractive to large foreign investors, who do not care what happens in Formentera If to all this we add the absolute lack of transparency, the result is obvious».

Transparency

This is a point on which the three political forces of Formentera have agreed: GxF, PSOE and Sa Unió.

Almost in unison they have demanded that the citizens of Formentera have a voice in the process through the Consell d’Entitats.

All this despite the fact that the president of the APB, Javier Sanz, has metwith the president of the Consell Insular, Óscar Portas, and has explained the main points of the tender to the island’s political groups.

In addition, last December 9 Sanz has chaired the celebration of the Navigation and Port Council of the port la Savina, where he said that «we are in constant contact and, in addition to the Board of Directors, there is a person from the Consell de Formentera, to see their concerns and what they need, and we have collected everything they have asked us».

The contradictory position of the Consell

The president of the Consell Insular, Óscar Portas has said in the last plenary session that the island institution has hired a legal team to appeal the competition through administrative litigation.

This is a preventive administrative litigation because to date the bases are still a mystery.

However, the Consell’s representative on the APB’s Board of Directors did not skimp on praise for the bidding process.«It is a very well worked, consensual and that includes virtually all the requests made from Formentera,» Artal Mayans said at the session,

Charter

They have also raised that there is no «space reserved for recreational boating and charter boats,» according to Ferrer .

However, the tender provides for a «minimum fleet of 75 berths for charter during the four months of high season from June to September», in addition to a «dry marina for charter boats up to seven meters in length«.

La entrada Truths and lies of the fierce opposition to the redesign of the port of La Savina se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• The surprising praise of Artal Mayans to the bases to which Sa Unió opposes the unified concession of the port of Formentera.

Sa Unió, PSOE and GxF have positioned themselves against it so openly that they have raised an all-out political battle against the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands in some cases based on surreal and contradictory arguments, if not outright false.

1. The project for the transformation of the port of La Savina

• The concession will include:
  • Moorings for boats.
  • A dry marina.
  • Two subway parking lots.
  • Operation of several buildings.
  • Fuel supply.
  • Other services for users.

2. Objectives pursued by the APB

• Promotion of competitiveness and improvement of the commercial offer.
• Optimization of resources and greater occupation of the water surface and that thanks to the unification in a single marina, 42 new moorings of up to 8 meters will emerge.
• Reducing management costs and, therefore, making it easier for bidders to submit more competitive bids.

3. Terms and conditions of the public bidding

• The company awarded the contract will have to make a minimum investment of 15 million euros.
• It will be valued in the bases:
  • Reduction of mooring fees, especially for boats up to 8 meters in length.
  • Discounted rates for:
    • Commercial premises.
    • Terraces.
    • Parking lots.
    • Electricity supplies.
    • Hoisting, launching and launching services in the dry marina.
  • Environmental improvements, including:
    • Renewable energies.
    • Ecological materials.
    • Sustainability measures.
    • Technological innovation.
• Priority to investment and tariff reduction over concession rate improvement.
• Minimum fee: 1.2 million euros per year plus 4% of turnover.
• Duration of concession: up to 25 years.

4. Scope of action and affected areas

• 26,000 m² of water mirror.
• 23,000 m² of land area, with:
  • Dry marina for charter boats up to 7 meters in length.
  • Diesel fuel dispenser and other non-polluting energy sources.
  • Buildings for:
    • Commercial premises.
    • Offices.
    • Restoration.
    • Warehouses.
    • Seamanship service.
    • Toilets.

5. Reorganization of moorings

• Current moorings in the sheet of water: 180.
• Mandatory distribution according to the contest:
  • 75 charter berths during the high season (June-September).
  • 55 base moorings throughout the year.
  • 6 moorings for official organizations (Guardia Civil, Maritime Rescue, Customs, etc.).
• Distribution of the 75 charter berths:
  • 40 moorings for boats up to 6 meters.
  • 25 moorings for boats up to 8 meters.
  • 10 moorings for boats between 10 and 15 meters.
• Expansion of the dry marina:
  • It will increase from 35 to 55 vessels of up to 7 meters in length.
  • 35 places for charter.
  • 20 places on the seventh list.

Project justification and controversy

• APB argues that it responds to:
  • Demands from the small business sector that seeks to promote chartering.
  • Social need to increase the number of base moorings for small boats.
  • Optimization of space with the unification of concessions, generating 42 new moorings.
  • Flexible use of moorings in low season.

7. Remodeling and rearrangement of buildings.

• There will be about ten buildings to be remodeled.
• Four buildings will be demolished and four others will be constructed or reconstructed.
• Conditions of the new design:
  • Maintain the original facade and architecture.
  • Do not increase buildability.
• Buildings to be demolished:
  • Casa del Mar.
  • Former fishermen’s guild.
  • A new building will be constructed in its place.
• Reorganization of services:
  • Restoration.
  • Offices.
  • Retailers.
  • Seamanship.
  • Warehouses for the fishing industry.
  • Children’s playground.

8. Implementation phases and regulatory requirements

• Phases of the works:
  • First phase: after the termination of current concessions.
  • Second phase: pending final approval of the port’s Special Plan.

9. Construction of subway parking lots

• Two subway parking lots with 200 private parking spaces.
• Prohibited for use by car rental companies.
• Location:
  • East area: almost 5,000 m².
  • West area: 2,600 m².
    

    APB guarantees lower prices in La Savina and that Port Nautic Ibiza will comply: «We are happy».

La entrada This will be the future port of La Savina that Sa Unió, PSOE and GxF abominate. se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• End of the debate on the future of nautical sports in the port of La Savina: a single concession for a period of 25 years.

It was at the session in which the bases that have not yet been approved on December 19 were approved, according to the minutes of the session of the APB that are in the possession of La Voz de Ibiza.

«It is a very worked, consensual and that includes virtually all the requests made from Formentera, which were moorings, guarantees for bases to be recognized (sic), price stability, maintaining two gas stations in the port, reduction of excursions, increase charter as business sector strength (sic) and the new subway parking, «said Mayans, as transcribed verbatim in the minutes.

Frustrated favorable vote

In addition, he expressly requests that it be recorded in the minutes that he states that, «although his vote would be in favor, unfortunately and by a large majority of the Plenary of Formentera he will have to not vote in favor«.

However, he reiterates that «the specifications are very well done, it will need control and supervision by the Port Authority for all this to go ahead».

In addition, Mayans thanked the director and the president of the APB for «listening to all the requests that Formentera has made and most of them have been included in the specifications», for «all the hours spent» and maintains that «it is a brave and very positive specification«.

A contrary position

This position raised by Mayans in the APB Board of Directors contradicts the one raised by the Sa Unió coalition of which he is a member.

The president of the Consell Insular, Óscar Portas has stated in the last plenary session that the insular institution has hired a legal team to appeal the contest called by the contentious-administrative route.

This is a preventive administrative litigation because to date the bases remain a mystery. It is known what the Port Authority announced and what the political groups have been telling about the meeting they had with the president of the entity, Javier Sanz.

«We must exhaust all options both on the legal side and with allegations to stop this process,» said Portas, who insisted that the unification of the two sports marinas of La Savina does not meet the needs of the people of Formentera.

The competition for the management of the port of La Savina

The public tender approved by the APB will define the management of the port of La Savina for the next 25 years. This process includes a minimum investment of 15 million euros by the company awarded the contract, with the aim of modernizing the facilities and improving accessibility.

Among the measures planned are the construction of a dry marina, two subway parking lots and the remodeling of several buildings. The use of renewable energies and sustainable materials will also be promoted, in line with APB’s environmental objectives.

Sa Unió’s position

Not as belligerent as GxF and PSOE, formations that have openly positioned themselves against the Savina model, Sa Unió has expressed in the last hours its reticence.

In a discussion with the rest of the representatives of the Plenary, the spokesman of the government team, Hugo Martinez, rejected that the concession was to 25 years, although it is an old claim of Formentera’s businessmen insofar as it allows the concessionaire to amortize the costly investments proposed. «It is not something positive,» he said surprisingly.

However, the main focus of the criticism is an alleged lack of transparency and that contradicts the explanations given by Sanz in the Navigation Council of the Port of La Savina, in the meeting with the political groups and in the meeting with the new president, Óscar Portas. So much so that Llorenç Cordoba, former president and former representative of the Consell in the Board of Directors of the APB, said in the same talk show that Javier Sanz could be going too far with so many explanations about a tender whose content is confidential until it is published in the BOE.

«It has been explained as much as possible about a contest, more would be prevaricating,» Cordoba said.

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• The future of the port of La Savina at stake: Artal Mayans urged to stop the bidding process

• Formentera rejects the concession model for the port of La Savina and demands changes

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• This is the innovative floating dock that will place Ibiza at the forefront of maritime engineering in the world.

Earlier this year, the Balearic Islands Port Authority (APB) had awarded the project to the Mallorca-based engineering and integrated installations company Sampol.

However, the beginning of the works has no date yet. According to what the APB has informed La Voz de Ibiza, a special appeal has been filed before the Central Administrative Court of Contractual Resources (TACRC) and the signing of the contract is pending. At the moment, «the award is suspended by the Court». The appeal, which is common in tenders of this type, has been filed by Spark, which came second in the bidding.

«We are optimistic in carrying out the works, we believe that the appeal will not move forward. We hope that it will be resolved in the short term,» Pedro Andreu Llull, responsible for the project, told La Voz de Ibiza.

The works

In the event that progress is made with the original contractor, Sampol’s work plan involves a 12-month execution period (from the time of TACRC’s decision) and an estimated budget of 4,689,400 euros.

The project consists of building and installing two OPS substations that will supply electrical energy with higher power (50 or 60 Hz) and with the possibility of providing service at each dock at both low (400V) and medium voltage (11kV). This will allow supplying fast ferry and ferry type vessels respectively.

While each of these stations will be able to supply power to both types of vessels, one substation will be assigned for fast ferries and one for ferries. However, this may change depending on the dynamics operating in the port.

«It has that flexibility depending on the use that is going to be given in the Botafoc South Marsh. Each of these substations will have a specific use in principle, but will serve as a reserve for other types of vessels,» said Andreu Llull, who is a civil engineer.

In addition to the installation of the two substations, the works also involve theextension of the 15kV medium voltage electrical network, theinstallation of a Transformer Station on each of the alignments of the Botafoc South Jetty and the installation of the conduitsand wiring to feed the necessary switchboard next to the jetty.

Despite the fact that the original wording of the APB project also talked about electrical connection to land for cruise ships, these large ships have been left out of the initiative. Even when it comes to the ships that generate the most maritime pollution. «Today the infrastructure on the islands to provide the necessary power to serve cruise ships is not viable. It is a logistical issue,» the port authority had clarified.

Reduced impact on the port

The specialist explained that «these substations are standardized ISO-type containers, inside which the electrical equipment is assembled, such as transformers, switchboards, voltage and monitoring systems. All this is integrated into a container, which once it arrives at the port only needs to be planted».

This, said Andreu Llull, results in «a much lesser impact on the port», since «only the port is affected in the civil works of pipelines and foundations, works that we will coordinate with the port’s operations».

In fact, in Palma, where three years ago Sampol installed a pioneering OPS system in Spain, «the dock was in constant use throughout the work». In other words, the works are in line with the normal operation of the port.

In order to be able to use the OPS system, ferry or fast ferry type vessels must have certain technology. Several of the vessels are not ready, but, according to Andreu Llull, «simple adaptations can be made, which do not imply a great cost».

Emission savings

As Sampol explained on its website, the emission of sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrous oxides (NOx), primary particulate matter (PM), volatile organic compounds (VOC) and carbon dioxide (CO2) «from the national grid generators is much lower than that of the ship’s auxiliary engines.»

At the same time, the OPS system «allows the generators to remain off, avoiding the generation of noise and vibrations».

Can the emissions savings from such a project be quantified?

According to the Sampol specialist, values can vary greatly depending on the activity of each shipping line. «For example, it depends on whether they spend the night in port. In Palma, a Balearia vessel is connected all night long. If this were not the case, the ship’s engine would be on all night with much higher emissions.»

Although the values, as mentioned, are variable, the consulting firm Inova Labs has estimated the reduction of emissions that the implementation of the OPS system can imply: 96% of nitrogen oxides, 36% of sulfur oxides, 68% of particulates and 45% of CO2.

Lessons

While OPS installations are already recurrent in Nordic countries and Germany, and one of the strategies promoted by the World Ports Climate Initiative for the decarbonization of ports, this type of system is still incipient in the rest of the continent.

In Spain, Sampol installed the first medium-voltage ship shore power infrastructure in a commercial port when it brought the OPS system to the Port of Palma in 2021. It then began work of the same type in Las Palmas, and recently the company has been awarded the contract to provide electrical connection to ships in the Port of Valencia.

In turn, within the framework of the «OPS Master Plan for Spanish Ports» project, works have been carried out or are being executed in ports such as Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Alicante,Algeciras, Barcelona and Cadiz.

Andreu Llull believes that the experience in Mallorca has taught lessons for the implementation of the new project in Ibiza. «We learned a lot from the works in Palma. Not only did we have to learn about European regulations, because they are relatively new facilities, but it has also taught us the execution of working on a working pier. Luckily we have experience in airports and that has served us well, as both are environments with traffic of people and vehicles.»

For the project manager, «the most important thing is not to interrupt port operations. The shipping lines have scheduled departures and arrivals. The important thing is to adapt the work plan so that the impact is minimal. And once the work is finished, coordination with the shipping lines is extremely important to evaluate the operation of the facility and make the necessary adjustments.

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• Work begins on the new Sant Antoni jetties: how long will it take and how much will it cost?

As advanced by La Voz de Ibiza, the APB will make a single tender will make a single tender for the two current docks of the Poniente and Levante. » We must exhaust all options both in the legal part and with allegations to stop this process,» said Portas, who insisted that the unification of the two sports marinas of La Savina does not meet the needs of the people of Formentera. In this sense, the president said that next week he will meet with the president of the APB, Javier Sanz, to reiterate the need to listen to the citizens of the island. The announcement of the judicial appeal comes in a context of political division in Formentera regarding the strategy to follow against the APB. During the plenary session, the councilors of Sa Unió rejected a motion presented by Gent per Formentera (GxF) that called for the direct involvement of the president of the Government, Marga Prohens, in this conflict. For GxF spokeswoman Alejandra Ferrer, it is essential that Prohens «show her face and react,» since, as the person responsible for appointing the president of the APB, she has the capacity to influence the situation. Portas, on the other hand, considers this demand to be a political maneuver. » What they are doing is diverting the issue to the president of the Government to try to get political mileage,» he said. Finally, the rejection of the motion was resolved with the casting vote of the president of the Consell. «Next week I have a meeting with APB president and I will move him to come to the Consell d’Entitats and can listen to associations of Formentera and the discomfort in our society,» said Portas.

The competition for the management of the port of La Savina

The public tender approved by the APB will define the management of the port of La Savina for the next 25 years. This process includes a minimum investment of 15 million euros by the company awarded the contract, with the aim of modernizing the facilities and improving accessibility.

Among the measures planned are the construction of a dry marina, two subway parking lots and the remodeling of several buildings. The use of renewable energies and sustainable materials will also be promoted, in line with APB’s environmental objectives.

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• The future of the port of La Savina at stake: Artal Mayans urged to stop the bidding process

• APB guarantees lower prices in La Savina and that Port Nautic Ibiza will comply: «We are happy».

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• Investor providing the two Isla Air Express seaplanes, behind the Yak 42 tragedy

«The deadlines are complicated, it is difficult for us to foresee them», had predicted in December to La Voz de Ibiza the delegate in the Balearic Islands of Isla Air Express, Antoni Jiménez. And he had clarified that for the company to operate, it requires that «the Government approves a mechanism for the management of hydrosurfaces, a legislation that does not yet exist in Spain». «The ball is on the State’s side,» Jiménez had said, while informing that Isla Air Express technicians were collaborating with the Ministry of Transport in the preparation of this regulation. In fact, the deadlines are difficult to foresee, as admitted to La Voz de Ibiza by the State Aviation Safety Agency (AESA) itself when consulted about the regulations pointed out by Isla Air Express. The agency under the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility of the central government has developed «a project that, among other issues, provides acceptable means of compliance of design and operation of hydrosurfaces and incorporates comments resulting from a working group with the sector». Without alluding to the contribution of the technical teams of Isla Air Express, the agency has emphasized that it is «in constant communication with the hydroaviation industry to advance jointly in the development of technical standards for the development of this sector in Spain». As they have specified, the initiative in question is «a complex regulatory project, which not only addresses issues related to hydroaerodromes.» A first draft of the initiative was submitted in November to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC), the body with regulatory competence in civil aviation matters, and is currently in the regulatory study phase. «It is a draft of technical regulations that does not address competence aspects on the authorization of such infrastructures,» AESA has pointed out.

No established deadlines

AESA has clarified that the elaboration of the regulation does not have a specific pre-established term, since the time it demands «is subject to several factors, including the technical difficulty of the text in question». «This procedure includes hearing and public information procedures, and allows the participation of citizens, potentially affected sectors and the autonomous communities, in addition to obtaining the different technical and legal reports necessary for its approval,» they have detailed.

Without time or place

Beyond the regulations in process, Isla Air Express must resolve other issues to operate in the Balearic Islands, at least in Ibiza. As Jiménez has pointed out, tests on the island have not met expectations, since «the operating area is very busy» and «even with reasonably good weather, take-off and landing are very difficult». In any case, the company has not yet resolved anything in relation to what would be the new place from which the seaplanes would depart to connect with the rest of the archipelago, which must be authorized by the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands after a report from the Maritime Captaincy.

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• Balearic Islands, chosen in a European project that seeks environmental solutions with the use of AI

He is head of the Operations and Environment area of the Balearic Islands Port Authority (APB), and the person responsible in the archipelago for the COSMIC project, a European Union (EU) initiative that seeks to find energy solutions based on Artificial Intelligence. «It is an innovation project aligned with the Green Pact, which seeks energy savings to decarbonize through the use of technology and, especially, Artificial Intelligence,» adds Martín, an engineer with 17 years of experience in the APB, the last six in areas related to the environment. COSMIC includes 21 partners with different environmental initiatives in eight countries (in addition to Spain, there are Belgium, France, Finland, Portugal, Germany, Sweden and Poland). The project has a total budget of 10 million euros, fully funded through the EU Horizon Program. APB ‘s will be one of 14 pilot cases (the only one involving port areas) that will be evaluated over the next three years. The five APB ports will participate in the initiative: Palma de Mallorca, Alcúdia, Mahón, the port of Ibiza and the port of La Savina,

-Why was APB chosen to carry out one of the pilots?
-AI requires data. APB has a smart metering network at the electric level. We have real-time consumption of all our electricity meters and this has been a handicap. Because what we are looking for is to see the future energy demand of a nautical facility, taking into account that in the medium to long term many electric boats are envisioned. These data of the meters in our five ports are those that we are going to make available to the consortium.

-The objective is to be able to prepare for the energy that is needed at any given moment.
-Exactly. And in that sense, to continue with your previous question, the APB has another advantage: we have the capacity to laminate energy demand through port tariffs. We could modify user behavior through more economical schedules, encouraging certain demand to occur in certain time slots, and modify the peaks. This would allow us to satisfy port user demand without very specific peaks.

-What other legs does the project contemplate?
-In addition to this use case of energy demand for electric vessels, the APB wants to raise in this project the possibility of planning the energy demand of maritime terminals. Having in real time information of the ships entering a port and the passengers they carry, this could help us to know the electrical demand in a terminal, for example, related to lighting and necessary air conditioning.

-How does this forecast serve to save energy?
-For example, in Palma we are currently installing a hydrogen fuel cell. And knowing the consumption of that battery according to the arrival of ships would allow us to optimize its hydrogen replenishment.

Illusion in Ibiza

COSMIC contemplates a diverse range of energy efficiency initiatives in areas beyond the port. For example, a pilot project in Portugal will explore vulnerabilities to flooding events to create inclusive coverage; another, from the Andalusian Community, will attempt to provide solutions to energy poverty in social housing. In the case of the Balearic Islands, the budget allocated for the pilot is 415,250 euros. «The planning of port cargo infrastructure presents a paradigm shift in the industry’s transition to cleaner energy sources,» justifies an official project document. Martin is excited that, from COSMIC, to be able to «demonstrate how technologies based on Big Data can provide tools, empower solutions and create systems for key applications in different industrial ecosystems, which can be replicated at the European level.» This, he points out, is especially valuable, considering the future use of renewable energies.

-How can the results of this project impact the port of Ibiza?
-In Ibiza, this project generates a lot of excitement, because the island is working on initiatives to generate renewable energy, such as wave power. So, anticipating the energy demand will be an advantage for the design of the necessary storage batteries.

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• The APB delays until 2027 the tender for the maritime traffic station between Formentera and Ibiza and gives «priority» to other projects.

«It is a strategic plan that we are making,» he said, although he said that «in principle there are still some points to be closed, but we have talked and we are in agreement». In addition, he said to be «very pending of the Special Plan, which is important for us, not only in the maritime part, but also in the building part. And there I have to give my most sincere good in collaboration to our mayor». «We hope that in 2025 the special plan will be approved, and then we will also raise already a restoration of the port of Ibiza to improve and it will be one of the best ports in Spain. Because my Ibiza represents 35 or 40% of the activity of all the ports managed by us, obviously because it has a privileged situation of Ibiza, «said Sanz. Regarding the deadlines and drawbacks of the Special Plan, Sanz explained that they are in a period of response to the allegations and that «on December 18 and the last ones will come out. The special plan will be approved again, and I hope that in 2025 this will be designed». In addition, he said that when he arrived a year ago «our mayor told us that we would approve the special plan in December. In return for that, we said we are going to invest in Ibiza. This has been working, it was approved, obviously in 2024 there have been allegations. These allegations have to be consulted, it has to be exposed in public because people also give their opinion.» «The deadlines are being achieved, and we are already starting to work on the approach. We are working to speed up a little bit all our studies and all our planning,» he said at a press conference this afternoon. On the other hand, Sanz has been satisfied with the meeting where he has been informed «about our management of 2024 and we have also raised all the projects we have for 2025. Then there has been a very open, sincere and frank and honest communication, which we are very satisfied with how these Navigation Councils are developing».

Port Nàutic Ibiza

During the press conference, Sanz has said that Ports and Coasts «has been complying» with the investments promised in Port Nàutic Ibiza.

«They are working, they have to make an investment, especially in a pontoon. We are following it and it seems to be working,» he maintained. «There are a series of investments that they have to fulfill them within 2025. If they comply with them, two more years will be given. And if it does not comply with them, it will not comply with the specifications, and apart from the three years there will be no TO, there will have to be a definitive long-term tender,» said Sanz.

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• Marina Botafoc is heading for a new transitory tender due to the delay in the approval of the Special Plan for the Port of Ibiza.

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The future of La Savina

Accompanied by the president himself and the only Sa Unió councilor who remains in the government as a member of the APB Board of Directors by appointment of the Plenary of the Consell, Artal Mayans, Sanz met with representatives of Sa Unió, Gent per Formentera and PSOE. In declarations collected by Periódico de Ibiza, the socialist Ana Juan confirmed the news, advanced by La Voz de Ibiza, that there will be a single concession. Next December 9 is scheduled the Board of Directors in which the bases will be approved and the details of the proposal for the future will be known.

Two concessions: bad business

In the exclusive interview published on Wednesday by La Voz de Ibiza, Cordoba admitted that«the port of La Savina has always worked badly with two concessions». Although Port Authority had warned him that «one concession» is «the best solution» in the letter sent to the entity after a Board of Spokesmen with Sa Unió, GxF and PSOE requested two. «One thing is my personal opinion,» he clarified. «Long-term concessions and allow investments, as I was approached by Port Authority, I saw it very logical and with more future and feasible to gather everything in a single marina. A place where there is only one captain, only one boatswain, you only have to pay insurance for the boats. A place where all the permits you have to do are given by one person. Where the groups of workers for the shifts are the same. One marina. It’s obvious,» he explained.

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Caminito License: «I will sit down with Urbanismo and if it has to be revoked, it will be revoked».

-What doyou plan to do with the Caminito license?

-Talk to Urbanismo to see what happened, and if that license has to be revoked, it will have to be revoked. It is scandalous the way it was done and it is suspicious.

-Were you aware that this license was pending approval?

-Yes, there had been meetings or comments from Sa Unió about this license. But no, it was never discussed that this license had to go urgently to the board of government that I could not attend because I was in the Parliament. It was the first news.

-When exactly did you find out?

-With the minutes. In addition, I was told that I had to sign the minutes, which I still question even today. The meeting was convened and chaired by the vice-president, she should have signed the minutes, not me.

That’s why I spent three days thinking about whether to sign the license.I did not see it clearly. Until Mr. Serra, by WhatsApp, in the middle of a plenary session, told me: «Llorenç, you have to sign it now because, if not…», I do not remember what would happen. I hadn’t seen anything strange, I had all the favorable reports and I signed….

It is true that I was very suspicious of the abstention of the representative of the College of Engineers in the CTA. N or it is something normal. Neither were the first secretaries nor the accidental ones…. L people in the house who know what this is all about did not want to get involved.

Javier Serra’s role in the expiration of the special plan of La Savina and the two docks

-Why do you think Javier Serra let the special plan for La Savina lapse?

-I don’t know. I know he let it expire. I have the WhatsApp messages to prove it. Why? I do not know what interest Mr. Serra may have in the expiration of the special plan for La Savina, when this special plan precisely what it does is to allow more things to be done and to invest more in La Savina.

-He had an interest in La Savina, at least at the time he let the plan lapse through his participation in Marina Formentera.

-Yes. I don’t want to think badly, but I wouldn’t want to believe it has anything to do with this. However…

The port: «With two docks in La Savina there have always been problems».

-Oneor two docks, president?

-In the letter I sent to the Port Authority, I included two docks, even though the system has not worked. They have generated conflicts day in and day out, are two docks and are physically intertwined. The Port Authority suggested to me that there should be a concession because it is the best solution. Anyway, I think competition is good.

-I think it is a mistake to raise this issue in terms of competition when it is a public concession with maximum prices. Competition will come from the bidders in the tender.

-True. The short concession model is the worst thing that has ever been done in Formentera. You don’t allow companies to invest in anything, so you don’t improve and everything becomes a disaster.

-What needs to be done?

Long-term concessions and investments must be allowed, as I was approached by the Port Authority, I saw it as very logical and with more future and feasible to gather everything in a single marina. A place where there is only one captain, only one boatswain, you only have to pay insurance for the boats. A place where all the permits you have to do are given by one person. Where the groups of workers for the shifts are the same. A single marina. It goes without saying.

The Club Nautico de Palma has 1,200 moorings. If we add all those of Formentera, we have 160. It makes sense that there is only one.

-However, you sent a letter requesting two docks to the Port Authority?

-Yes, one thing is my personal opinion and another thing is that the president is not a dictator. We had a meeting of spokespersons, in which I was despised by the opposition, by the way, and that is what they told me.

On Artal Mayans: «He is a coherent person, although I did not like the video of the chiringuitos».

-If I tell you «Artal Mayans«, what do you answer?

-A coherent person. He has shown that he does not follow the line of Sa Unió, that he has come to work.

I don’t have any inconvenience and we are in communication. I let him work and when he needs me, he knows where to find me.

I am grateful that he has stayed, he manages very important issues such as Tourism and Housing. I don’t need him to back me up as such, the fact that he is doing his job is enough.

He is an example of how we could govern with Sa Unió: we don’t have to be friends and have coffee together. What we have to do is to work, as we are doing with him and me now.

-Did youlike the video that Turismo took to the World Travel Market?

-No, not at all. I hadn’t seen it before. I didn’t like it. I think it is a mistake on the part of the Consell. The Consell should avoid advertising private companies and less in this case, when it is seen that it is with full intention.

You can promote the kiosks as part of our offer, but you do not have to promote private businesses.

We should have been more cautious, with everything we know so far.

Formentera has much more to offer. And I do not think that public funds should be used to make a video of something that next year may not be so. Surely there will be kiosks, but we do not know if they will be these or not, or what names they will have or under what figure they will operate.

So I was surprised that the Tourism Councilor did not show it to me, at least as a detail. I don’t know if it was Mayans’ idea and I don’t know what led him to give that message.

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The approval of the new tender for the exploitation of the port of La Savina is imminent. And unless there is a major surprise, it will be a single concession. Previous movements attest to this, since the Port Authority is working so that the two current temporary authorizations end at the same time, in October next year. The plan is to put the new tender out to tender in the coming weeks, probably at the last board meeting of the year, award it before the summer, a period in which the two current operators, Port Med Formentera and Puertos y Litorales Sostenibles, will continue to operate the facility unchanged, and in October the new concessionaire will take possession of the facilities.

Social moorings in s’Estany

In private conversations with the port community of La Savina and that have been reported to La Voz de Ibiza, the president of the APB would have described as fictitious the debate on social moorings in the port of La Savina. In his opinion, the need for social moorings is amply covered in Formentera with the covert marina of s’Estany des Peix. Sa Unió, Gent per Formentera and PSOE have joined forces on this issue to express «their concern» and to ask, through a joint letter, «to refrain from processing any decision that mortgages the future of the port of La Savina without a prior meeting to know the political groups signing their proposal». Accompanying the letter, plenary agreements in favor of reserving space for social moorings and against the expansion.

Córdoba, more explicit

President Cordoba went further in the letter sent after meeting with the spokesmen of the opposition groups in a Board of Spokesmen convened for this purpose. «First, from the Consell proposes the creation of two docks for recreational boating. This measure aims to promote healthy competition and provide benefits to both users and operators.» It is also suggested to the APB to be given greater weight when drawing up the specifications to the sections of project quality and level of investment. The maximum percentage of moorings up to eight meters, affordable rates, space for charter and excursion companies, for large lengths, the Civil Guard and Maritime Rescue, a parking lot and long-term concessions are the requests made by Cordoba.

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Investment and royalty

Now that the term of the concession has been revealed, the structure of the bidding documents that will determine the criteria to be met by bidders and the weight of the fixed fee to be paid by the concessionaire, a sort of rental of the facilities, is yet to be determined. the technical proposal and the investments to which the concessionaire may commit.

This model is the same that has been used in the case of the facilities that had been occupying the Club Nautico de Ibiza and are now in the hands of Port Nautic Ibiza, of Ports and Sustainable Coasts. The nautical employers Pimeef, with its president Ramon van der Hooft at the head, had redoubled its pressure in recent weeks to avoid a new patch in the form of temporary authorization. To no avail. «The port has deficiencies in sanitation, electrical and lighting networks,» lamented from the nautical employers, stressing that the pavement is also in deteriorated condition, adversely affecting stores and restaurants operating in the area. The skyrocketing prices are also in the spotlight. If the concessionaires pay a lot to the Balearic Port Authority to take the concession, it is inevitable that this amount will be passed on in the rates of moorings and premises. » It is essential to prioritize the adequacy of the sanitation and lighting networks, the improvement of the pavement and pontoons, as well as the general cleanliness and commercial aspect of the port, above the economic fee offered,» insists the association.

Millionaire royalty

The current concessionaire of Marina Botafoch is Ocibar under a Temporary Occupancy Authorization for 18 months, extendable for a further nine months, as it will be. The company pays 9.6 million euros a year to the Port Authority for the operation of the area, plus 4% of all revenues. Ocibar itself was the company that won the previous authorization, in this case another 2+1, starting on December 30, 2022. It was an illegal award, according to a ruling by the High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands. It should have won Servicios Portuarios Botafoch, SL, whose sole administrator is the lawyer Francisco Javier Jiménez de Cisneros, who is also behind 12 Millas, the company that denounced the rigging of the Ibiza Yacht Club investigated under the case ports. And is that the offer of Ocibar breached the bases as it contemplated more transit moorings, the most lucrative, than those authorized. Incomprehensibly, the Port Authority did not exclude the offer for this reason and gave it for good with corrections, which was key to its nullity.

Area 6: demolition and parking

Marina Botafoch is one of the areas that will undergo a major transformation once the expected Special Plan has been approved. The current nautical-sports, catering and commercial uses and the current building will be maintained, although the two current apartment buildings will be demolished, as residential uses are prohibited in the port area, except for own staff. New ones will be built for port services. In addition to the remodeling of the port infrastructure, the plan calls for a subway parking garage.

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Bustos’ role in beach bars

Currently, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Marina Formentera is Julián Bustos Ferrer, son of the businessman. Ángel Bustos is a delegate board member. Ángel Bustos is one of the businessmen who was awarded, in this case, two beach kiosks in the contest under suspicion. Bustos, through his lawyer Francisco Javier Jiménez de Cisneros, managed to get the president of the Consell, Llorenç Córdoba, to withdraw from the tender after requesting his recusal. Bustos’s beach bars would not have been winners if the criteria established in the bases for scoring the bids had not been modified, with the envelopes opened. And, like all the others, they also fail to comply with the requirements of the bases.

Incompatibility of Javier Serra

The president of Compromís, a party that forms together with the PP the coalition Sa Unió, and former vice president of the Consell de Formentera, Javier Serra, was a shareholder of the company when the events occurred. At the time, he was in the opposition of the Consell de Formentera. Javier Serra’s link with Marina Formentera is another of the pieces that the president Llorenç Córdoba has brought to the attention of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. According to La Voz de Ibiza, Javier Serra would have breached the Law of Incompatibilities throughout the period in which he was part of the island government by not having divested 22.5% of the shares in the company. And this is because it maintains contracts with the administration. In this case, the concession of the exploitation of premises and offices in Building B of the port of La Savina. Serra has stated that it has divested itself of the shares to comply with the law. However, sources of the Consell have clarified that «nobody has seen it».

What penalties could they receive

The crime of embezzlement of public funds is regulated in the Penal Code and contemplates different penalties depending on the seriousness and circumstances of the case. There are two types of embezzlement: aggravated embezzlement and attenuated embezzlement (misappropriation of lesser gravity or disloyal administration). The penalties vary depending on the damage caused and the intentionality of the crime. In this case, the figure of «aggravated embezzlement«, which implies a profit motive or having caused serious damage to public assets, could be applicable. This includes 4 to 12 years of imprisonment, absolute disqualification (from 10 to 20 years for public employment or office) and a fine according to the amount of the embezzled funds. Disobedience is regulated in Article 556 of the Penal Code. Here it could also derive in a serious disobedience to authority that applies in situations of active disobedience in which public order is endangered or the orders of the authority are clearly resisted. When a person seriously disobeys an officer of the authority in the exercise of his duties, a prison sentence of 3 months to 1 year or a fine of 6 to 18 months could be imposed . Finally, the usurpation of a public facility in Spain, such as entering or improperly occupying buildings, offices, or public spaces without authorization, may involve penalties under the Penal Code in different articles. Article 245 of the Penal Code states that if someone occupies a public facility or property belonging to the State or other public entity with violence or intimidation, he or she may face a prison sentence of 1 to 2 years. When the occupation is without violence or intimidation, the action may be punished with a fine of 3 to 6 months.

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Collaboration of Baleària

The shipping company Baleària has facilitated at all times the movement of volunteers and the necessary machinery for the relief work in the areas affected by the emergency. «Thanks to this collaboration, the resources and support personnel sent by the APB have been able to reach Valencia with agility and efficiency», detailed from the Port Authority.

La entrada The APB sends more than 50 troops and material to collaborate in the emergency caused by the DANA. se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

«Every day.»

«Every day we throw the prunings into the rejection container,» they have explained anonymously for fear of losing their jobs in the company Serveo Servicios, in charge of these tasks.
They have decided to raise their voices to make public opinion aware of practices that have them up in arms.
«It is outrageous that these things are done in a high-level port like Ibiza,» he adds.
The firm Serveo Services has won the tender for Lot 1 of the maintenance of the common areas of the port of Ibiza for a period of 12 months, with an extension for the same period. According to the website of the General State Administration, the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility had proposed a base budget of 1,620,007.43 euros excluding taxes. Serveo won with a bid of 1,365,014.58 euros.

All next to the landfill

Despite waste separation regulations, everything ends up in the same black container, as shown in the images in the possession of La Voz de Ibiza.
They are also often thrown in black bags which are then mixed with the rest of the waste.
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Useless recycling garbage cans

Despite the separation at source that is usually done in the offices of the APB, then everything is mixed. «Those that are taken from the separate garbage cans, all go into the same container: large black bags and into the same container,» said a Serveo worker. The same thing happens with the debris generated by gardening work. «To save money, instead of asking for a pruning container to throw the agricultural waste we are putting it in black industrial bags and then into the normal containers. This way on a daily basis,» he added.
By regulation, they should have on site a large construction site type bucket to throw there the pruning waste for then its correct deposition in the facilities enabled for its reception and / or use.
«This is an irregularity. Then you get fined for throwing garbage after hours and these people are throwing the kilos of waste in the normal containers,» he said logically.
In addition, «the foreman blames the port». The worker has detailed that «Serveo collects all the garbage from all over the port: streets, trash garbage cans, etc. Instead of recycling and separating, it throws it in black bags into the reject container.»
According to what he said, on several occasions the specialized company that then removes that waste has warned them about the irregularities.
«Many times they have not taken the garbage because they found plates, radiators, batteries…». The company contracted by the APB is in charge of cleaning, gardening and care of interior and exterior spaces.
It is a company specialized in public sector contracts that also provides services at the Can Misses Hospital, among others.

APB looks the other way

From the APB have disengaged, to questions from La Voz de Ibiza, of the malpractices denounced and documented by the worker. «It is an internal issue that the company is responsible for resolving,» said an official spokesman of the entity.
Sources from the subcontractor have denied the complaint and the malpractices.
La Voz de Ibiza has requested, as in the case of the terrible working conditions of the workers, evidence of the malpractices and even a guided tour to see how the company works.
Up to the time of publication of the news, it has not responded to our request, despite our repeated attempts.

The subcontractor of the subcontractor

Serveo subcontracts to a company «that is an ad hoc expert in waste treatment». In the case of the port of Ibiza, they have confirmed to La Voz de Ibiza that there is a contracted company «dedicated to waste management, collection and classification of waste».
La Voz de Ibiza that there is a contracted company «dedicated to waste management, collection and classification of waste». Serveo has refused to reveal the identity of this collaborating company. »
This allegation does not respond to reality, » sources close to the contracting company have exposed. However, workers contacted by this medium deny the politically correct version. » We collect the waste and throw it in the black bin: plastics, bottles, tree trimmings, etc….
It’s outrageous, a scandal and a disgrace.» .

La entrada Environmental attack in the port of Ibiza: mixing of garbage separated at source se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

In first person

«We don’t even have toilets, we don’t have a locker to change, to wash our hands after working with gardening and waste almost all day. There is a lack of everything there,» said a worker who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing his job.
Without even a bathroom, they must urinate behind a kind of hut in deplorable conditions where both work elements and some waste pile up.
In that area, weeds grow as a result of urine.

Fatal conditions

Working conditions in general are «fatal,» as he describes them. «The company is a pepe, there is no office, there is nothing.
All they have is a secret ship.»
In addition, in these days they have learned almost by chance that there will be union elections, information that had been hidden from the workers.

All in order

Serveo sources have denied to La Voz de Ibiza the bad conditions. «All the people who work in the port, who are from the Serveo team in this case, have facilities, not one or two, but there are multiple booths throughout the premises in different areas.
Even one just four kilometers from the port, where the transfer is guaranteed with cars at its disposal.
In addition, they have detailed that «there are facilities absolutely enabled for any of their needs: they have toilets, changing rooms, showers, air conditioning, water, coffee makers, refrigerators, microwaves, even have up to sunscreen«.
Regarding the hut denounced by the workers, they have argued that «it is intended for tool storage.
Obviously there is nothing there, because it is for tools. It is not a space for personal hygiene«.
Just as the worker has been asked for photos or videos to support his complaint, La Voz de Ibiza made the same request to the company that, at the time of publication of the news, had not been answered.
For their part, from the APB have disengaged, to questions from La Voz de Ibiza, of the situation. «It is an internal issue that the company is responsible for resolving,» said an official spokesman of the entity.

Serveo

The firm Serveo Services has won the tender for Lot 1 of the maintenance of the common areas of the port of Ibiza for 12 months, with an extension for the same period. According to the website of the General State Administration, the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility had proposed a base budget of 1,620,007.43 euros excluding taxes.
Serveo won with a bid of 1,365,014.58 euros. In addition to promoting itself as an environmental steward, the company says that «we work every day to promote equality and safe environments, to hire vulnerable groups, as well as a governance model that integrates our entire supply chain».
«Our track record is backed by solid management systems in health and safety, quality, lean management and the environment.
We also hold the SGE-21 certification, which accredits us as an ethical and socially responsible organization, and the efr certification, which endorses us as a conciliatory, egalitarian and inclusive company,» they say.

La entrada Urinating in the street and without changing rooms: this is how Ibiza’s port employees have to work se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.