Noticias APB | Ports de Balears

The APB unveils new Inspection Plan for Aids to Navigation

07/09/2010

On September 30th the APB will organize a technical conference on aids to navigation targeting government institutions related to port activities, which have or should have navigational beacons. The agenda consists of briefings by the head of the Department of Aids to Navigation of Public Ports of the State, Juan Francisco Rebollo, and by the head of the Department of Projects and Public Works of the APB, Jorge Martin, to publicize the new Plan of Inspection and Control of Navigational Aids, which will establish a number of management protocols for making this system work in the best way. In addition, participants will visit the permanent Portopi Lighthouse exhibition. This seminar is aimed at yacht clubs, sailing and sports facilities, administrations like Coastal Demarcation and Ports IB, and companies like CLH, among others

BPA adjudicates the construction of new access to Cós Nou at thePort of Maó

26/08/2010

The technical committee responsible for assessing the tenders submitted to the open tender for the construction of a new access to Cós Nou from the La Mola highway in the port of Maó, has selected the company Antonio Gomila SA, out of the twenty-three candidates. The budget for the job is 1.9 million Euros, not including VAT, and the deadline for completion is five months. The aim of the project is to build a new road to provide access to Cós Nou, as well as a suitable surface for future passenger traffic and general cargo, away from the city center and with sufficient security guarantees. In this area they plan to build a new ferry terminal, with elevated walkways for passenger embarkation and disembarkation and install areas for boarding and unloading of cargo, as well as parking for passenger vehicles and coaches.

New record in cruise passengers and tonnage at the port of Palma

05/08/2010

The port of Palma has now broken the records of all preceding marks on cruise passengers and tonnage in a single day with the visits of six vessels, five of which weighed over one hundred thousand tonnes and with a capacity of 3,000 passengers. In total there were 21,510 cruise passengers embarking and disembarking and between 683,826 tonnes. The cruise ships which coincided today in the port were the Island Scape, the Navigator of the Seas, the Ventura, the Adventure of the Seas, the Costa Concordia and the MSC Fantasia.

A new Duke of Alba in the port of Palma for large cruise ships

15/07/2010

The APB has put into service a new Duke of Alba which was built at the extension of the western Poniente pier at the port of Palma. The Duke of Alba, which has a bollard weighing 150 tons, will provide berthing capacity for cruise ships up to 250 meters long and 8.5 meters deep. The work, which required an investment of 800,000 euros, consists of six reinforced concrete piles of 1.5 m in diameter onto which a platform is mounted. Also, to further improve the berthing of large cruise ships, the area was dredged to a depth of at least nine meters.

Work started on new APB offices in Palma

01/06/2010

Work on the new offices of the APB in Palma has begun. The work was initiated at the conclusion of the Palma International Boat Show and has a deadline of 18 months for completion. Reforms of the old building will be made by Acciona, with budget of approximately 18 million euros. The project will respect the existing facade of the old Trasmediterránea building, while the current location of the APB at the Moll Vell will be converted to an institutional building.

Improvements to the access to the ferry terminal of La Savina

27/05/2010

The Balearic Islands Port Authority (APB) has completed the work of reorganizing the access zone to the Formentera ferry terminal and the car park at the port of La Savina. Following the building of the new passenger terminal, completed in July 2007, the APB considered it necessary to improve the safety, the functionality and comfort for the traffic of heavy vehicles, cars and passengers in the area, and in addition to increase the number of parking spaces in the parking. The period of execution of the work, carried out by the company Dragados SA, was five months and the cost amounted to nearly half a million euros. The completion of the improvements arrived just in time to start the high season, a period in which the port of La Savina receives more than one million passengers.

The APB organizes the 1st Lighthouse Painting and Photography Competition

20/05/2010

Balearic Islands Port Authority (APB) is sponsoring the First Competition of Painting and Photography of Majorcan lighthouses, organized jointly with the Centre of Fine Arts (Circulo de Bellas Artes) in Palma de Mallorca. The competition is open to all those painters and photographers living in the Balearic Islands, provided they have participated in at least one of the scheduled activities at the lighthouses organized by the APB and the Centre of Fine Arts. There is a total of six thousand euros to be distributed over several prizes and in three categories: watercolour, other artistic techniques and photography. The Jury of Selection and Qualification will consist of a representative of the APB, a representative of the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Palma de Mallorca and various persons of recognized standing in the art world who will be appointed by the APB according to the proposals of the Círculo de Bellas Artes. The contest rules are available on www.portsdebalears.com

La APB celebra el II Encuentro Informativo con los medios de comunicación pitiusos

07/05/2010

La Autoridad Portuaria de Baleares organiza el II Encuentro Informativo sobre Puertos, Logística y Transporte Marítimo con los Medios de Comunicación dirigido a los medios de comunicación locales de las Pitiusas que se llevará a cabo en Eivissa del 20 al 22 de mayo.El motivo que nos ha llevado a realizar este encuentro es nuestro interés por divulgar el papel que tienen, día a día, los puertos de interés general de las Illes Balears en el desarrollo económico y social de nuestra comunidad. Para facilitar la tarea diaria desarrollada por los profesionales de la comunicación, se tratará sobre temas como terminología portuaria, operativa, gestión, infraestructuras y servicios portuarios entre otros. Los títulos de las ponencias previstas, que irán a cargo del presidente Francesc Triay y de personal técnico de la Autoridad Portuaria, son los siguientes: «La Autoridad Portuaria de Baleares», «Reforma interior del puerto de Eivissa: un puerto para el siglo XXI» y «Los puertos de Eivissa y la Savina: ordenación y usos». Las inscripciones se pueden tramitar hasta el 12 de mayo a través del correo electrónico comunicacio@portsdebalears.com.

The Norwegian Epic will make stopovers during the entire high season of 2011 in the port of Palma

18/03/2010

Balearic Islands Port Authority (APB) has returned from the Seatrade Cruise Shipping Miami, the international trade fair for the sector of the world's most important cruise ships, with confirmation by the Norwegian Cruiser Lines (NCL) of weekly stops of its Norwegian Epic at the port Palma during the peak season of 2011. This is the new cruise ship that the U.S. company is building is set to be launched this summer. With a length of 329.5 metres and capacity for 4200 passengers, it will become the largest of its fleet and will stop every week from April to October in Palma's port. In addition, Royal Caribbean has also confirmed the weekly presence of its ship, Adventure of the Seas, with over three thousand passengers, in the ports of Palma and Ibiza during the 2011 season. Furthermore, AIDA Cruises and Costa Cruises continue their weekly ports of call through the winter of 2011-2012 in Palma.

The APB calls for tenders for extensions of the Poniente docks in the port of Palma

15/03/2010

The Balearic Islands Port Authority (APB) has tendered the works for the extensions of the Poniente (western) docks to make berths for large ships in the port of Palma, with a contract budget of more than thirty-six million euros and a maximum period of execution of sixteen months. Following publication in the Official State Gazette (BOE) and the Official Journal of the European Union (DOUE) of the announcement of the public tender for the works, the deadline for submitting applications was set for next April 29. On May 6 the submitted tenders will be opened at the headquarters of the APB in Palma.

The APB tenders the new access road to Cós Nou at the Port of Maó

15/03/2010

The APB (Balearic Islands Port Authority) has tendered the works for the building of the new access road from the highway of La Mola to Cos Nou in the port of Maó, with a contract budget of over three million euros and a maximum execution period of five months. Following the publication in the Official Gazette (BOE) announcing public tender for the works, a deadline for submitting applications was set for April 12th. The opening procedureof the submitted tenders will take place on April 16th at the headquarters of the APB in Palma.

The APB anticipates approximately 800 cruise ship visits and over 1.4 million passengers for 2010

24/02/2010

The APB (Balearic Islands Port Authority) expects 778 cruise ships and 1,475,000 visitors in transit through its facilities in the ports of Palma, Mahon and Ibiza during 2010, making this the best season in the history of the ports of the Balearic Islands. Specifically, in the port of Palma the current prediction is for 559 stopovers and about 1.3 million cruise passengers in the port of Mahon 118 stopovers and 100,000 cruise passengers and finally, 101 stopovers and 115,000 passengers in port of Ibiza.