Noticias APB | Ports de Balears

THE PORT AUTHORITY OF THE BALEARIC ISLANDS IS TO EXTEND PEDESTRIAN ACCESS FROM THE PROMENADE TO THE HARBOUR STATION AT THE PORT OF ALCUDIA

16/01/2019

The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) is to extend the promenade of the Port of Alcúdia to the Harbour Station. It will be done by improving the sections of the streets Teodor Canet and Gabriel Roca that are allocated to public port domain. The individual work projects involved will soon be put out to tender with a budget of 880,843.30 euros. The project entails improving the urbanisation of the streets Teodor Canet and Gabriel Roca at the Port of Alcúdia by widening the pavements for pedestrians to enjoy, improving street furniture and road signalling, and incorporating garden areas and a new drainage and lighting network system that adapts to the current requirements of the new walkway. Another point worthy of mention is the removal of some road traffic lanes, making it into a one-way road to the commercial port, and the construction of a roundabout that will help to direct vehicle traffic between the commercial quays and the Station Harbour. The sea-side of the street will also be used for single lane parking. The total surface area of the urban improvement works is 4,800 square metres and the envisaged completion period is three months. Joint action with the council This action of the APB has been agreed to with the Council of Alcúdia, which will take charge of the urban improvements of the section of Calle Teodor Canet under its control. Reducing the traffic speed in this area, improving the street furniture and cutting vehicle noise are the measures that will be undertaken to improve the tourism offer and the promenade throughout the year. Statements by the president of the APB, Joan Gual de Torrella.

A LENS LOCATION CHANGE DUE TO IMPROVEMENT WORKS IN THE PERMANENT MARITIME SIGNALLING EXHIBITION AT PORTOPÍ

11/01/2019

The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) has moved a lens that was located at the Maritime Signalling Exhibition at the PortoPí Lighthouse to a different location due to the improvement works to be undertaken in the exhibition area. The disassembly and assembly works of the lantern have been meticulously carried out by a specialised company. The Valencian company, Mediterráneo Señales Marítimos, was entrusted with moving the Capdepera lighthouse lens, dated 1924, from the first floor to the ground floor of the PortoPí Lighthouse at the Port of Palma. With great care, the specialists manually disassembled the glass and base elements, as well as the clock mechanism, of the lantern that was on show at the exhibition. Extracting the mercury, which was used in these types of lanterns to facilitate the rotation of the lens, as well as to aid the flashing or concealment of the lighthouses' own light, was one of the most critical moments. As the material is of a toxic nature, the specialists used the protective means, such as protective masks, outfits and gloves, required under the law on handling hazardous products. The mercury was subsequently removed by Adalmo, a Mallorcan company authorised to recycle and destroy the product. The elements of the lens were moved to the ground floor using a forklift and reassembled in the new location. This task was carried out in order to be able to undertake the improvement works on the building and in the exhibition area of the lighthouse. The works are expected to commence in mid-January and they should last around two months. During this period, the Maritime Signalling Exhibition at the PortoPí lighthouse will be closed to the public. The works will be undertaken by Sydca XXI Construcciones, S.L., with a budget of 55,491 euros.

THE PORT OF MAHON INSTALLS A DRAINAGE SYSTEM AND A NEW SEWAGE NETWORK FOR DEALING WITH RAIN WATER AND WASTE WATER IN THE DOCKS OF COS NOU

08/01/2019

The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) has installed a new drainage system for rain water in the boatyard and a new drainage system for waste water in the Cos Nou docks of the Port of Mahon. The aim of these is to prevent pollution of the environment due to contaminants being washed away by water. In the boatyard (Colarsega area), the APB has an esplanade of about 17,500 square metres, dedicated to winter storing and repair of recreational vessels, where different work with paints, oils and solvents, among other products, is carried out. To prevent these products from reaching the sea when the rain washes them away, the APB has built a new drainage system to contain and treat the waters which flow off this surface. This means that this water can be treated and returned once again to the sea when it meets the set parameters. The company responsible for the work is Servicios Profesionales Marinos, S.L., with an assigned budget of € 277,946. In addition, work has also been performed to install a new network for waste water in the Cos Nou docks. Currently, these docks have different tanks which are periodically emptied by tank trucks. At these two docks, the sanitation water from the Maritime Station, the dockers’ offices, the warehouse and the projected Cos Nou boatyard will be collected by this water network and pumped to a sewage hole located at the Colarsega dock. The adjudication budget for this new network for waste water is € 204,930 awarded to the company M Polo, S.L. These two projects for the treatment of rain water and waste water fall under the environmental policy of the public body which is committed to conserving and protecting the natural resources and environment.

THE APB PUTS OUT TO TENDER A CONTRACT TO MANAGE MOORINGS AND COMMERCIAL PREMISES IN BOTAFOC HARBOUR STATION AT THE PORT OF IBIZA

18/12/2018

In yesterday's meeting, the Board of Directors of the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) approved the public call for tenders for the contract to manage moorings and commercial premises in Botafoc Harbour Station at the Port of Ibiza for a one-year period, extendable for a further 12 months. This notice of call for tenders will be published soon for the purpose of selecting the most cost-effective proposal for an administrative concession to manage and operate this public domain area at the port covering 97,915 m2 at the north bank of the Port of Ibiza. The total surface area is divided into 45,089 m2 of land space on which a number of buildings for commercial use will be built, and 52,826 m2 of water surface area, where mooring services will be provided for 432 boats distributed across 5 piers. The annual occupancy rate to be improved by the tenderers amounts to 2,307,533.78 euros per year.

THE APB TO AWARD A CONTRACT TO DESARROLLOS CONCESIONALES INSULARES S.L. TO MANAGE THE SMALL BOAT DOCK AT THE PORT OF LA SAVINA

18/12/2018

In yesterday's meeting, the Board of Directors of the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) approved to propose the company Desarrollos Concesionales Insulares S.L. to manage the small boat dock at the Port of la Savina for a one-year period, extendable for a further 12 months. This company's proposal was considered the most cost-effective solution by the APB and was granted administrative approval to operate a total surface area of 12,492,80 m2,service building A, the control tower building and the adjoining changing rooms and toilets in the public domain area of the port linked to the fishing dock at the Port of la Savina. The water surface area currently allows for 91 moorings. Two bids were submitted to the tender and the rate plus improvements proposed by Desarrollos Concesionales Insulares S.L. comes to a total of 813,936 euros per year.

THE APB TO AWARD CONCESSION TO MAHON MARITIME CLUB TO MANAGE THE MOORINGS AT THE D'EN REYNÉS BOATYARD IN THE LEVANTE DOCK AT THE PORT OF MAHON

18/12/2018

In yesterday's meeting, the Board of Directors of the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) approved to propose Mahon Maritime Club to manage the d'en Reynés boatyard in the Levante Dock at the Port of Mahon for a one-year period, extendable for a further 12 months. Its proposal was considered the most cost-effective by the APB and was granted administrative approval to operate a total surface area of 10,900 m2, with 224 metres of mooring line and 48 mooring points with a capacity to secure boats up to 30 metres long in the water surface area. Four bids were submitted to the tender, three of which were accepted. The rate plus improvements proposed by Mahon Maritime Club come to a total of 166,373 euros per year.

THE PORT AUTHORITY OF THE BALEARIC ISLANDS SIGNS THE PROTOCOL WITH THE REGIONAL GOVERNMENT, THE ISLAND COUNCIL AND THE TOWN COUNCIL OF IBIZA FOR THE CREATION OF THE SEA AND FISHING MUSEUM OF IBIZA

12/12/2018

The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) has signed the protocol of actions with the Government of the Balearic Islands, Ibiza Island Council and the Town Council of Ibiza for the creation of the Sea and Fishing Museum in Plaça de sa Riba in Ibiza Town. The minister of Culture, Participation and Sports of the Regional Government, Fanny Tur, the chairman of Ibiza Island Council, Vicent Torres, the mayor of Ibiza, Rafel Ruiz, and the president of the Port Authority, Joan Gual de Torrella, were responsible for signing the protocol that will turn the Sea and Fishing Museum into a reality, a proposal that has also been promoted by the Cultural Maritime Association of Ibiza and Formentera, with the main aim of recovering traditional boats and making part of the history of Ibiza known to the citizens. All of the organisations involved in this project have agreed to carry it forward with these actions: the APB will hand over the area of the port of Ibiza where the different traditional boats are to be moored, Ibiza Island Council will be in charge of the management, the Town Council of Vila will hand over the old Foreign Health building and, finally, the Balearic Government will make a financial contribution. Preliminary project of the Museum The Sea and Fishing Museum aims to be an innovative centre, given that the graphic and exhibition elements will be distributed among the Health building, the breakwater dock and the promenade of the port of Vila, according to the preliminary project designer, historian and museologist Antoni Nicolau. The building will be used as the museum venue and will distribute its contents over the three floors: the first floor will contain the reception and an audiovisual exhibition, while the second and third floors will have thematic exhibitions that will change on an annual basis. These spaces will be complemented by the exhibition of traditional boats that will be moored in front of the Plaça de sa Riba and the pedestrian promenade at the port of Vila will be used to create a route with exhibition stations.

PRIZEWINNERS ARE SELECTED FOR THE APB's 9th PAINTING AND PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST

04/12/2018

The prizewinners of the popular Painting and Photography Contest run by the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) have now been selected. The contest is organised annually by the port authority in collaboration with the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Palma de Mallorca and is very well received by the public, with €8,000 in prizes up for grabs. Over one hundred works were entered in this year's edition, divided into three categories: watercolour, other painting techniques and photography. The winning works were carefully selected from among those entered and will be placed on display at the Military History &amp Culture Centre of The Balearic Islands from Wednesday 5 December. The exhibition will be on here until 3 January. Afterwards, as is tradition, it will tour the neighbouring islands making a stop in Ibiza, at the Ses Coves Blanques lighthouse in Sant Antoni de Portmany (from 8 February to 2 March), and in Mahon, at the Caixabank exhibition hall (from 11 to 23 March). A national contest This edition had entries from all of the Balearic Islands as well as other mainland cities including Granada, Málaga, Girona, Tarragona and Madrid, among others. First prize in the Watercolour category went to Pablo Rubén López from Madrid for his work Alcúdia. The winner of the Other Painting Techniques was Ana del Valle Ojeda, an artist from Alcúdia, for her pieceAlcúdia Junio 2018. Last but not least, the first prize for Photography this year was awarded to Eva Abril from Menorca for her work Serenor. With the contest's national scope, the APB ensures that the objective set at the very beginning—to capture, by means of visual art, the popular interest that is aroused by places as ordinary and unique as the ports of interest and the lighthouses in the Balearic Islands—is met and grows with every new edition of this contest. Check out the winners and dates of the exhibitions.

LARGEST TRAVEL LIFT IN EUROPE UNVEILED AT STP FACILITIES AT THE PORT OF PALMA

03/12/2018

The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) and Servicios Técnicos Portuarios (STP) today presented the new 1,000-ton travel lift, the largest boat hoist in Europe measuring 26 metres long, 12.5 metres wide and 25 metres tall, making the Port of Palma the European benchmark in the vessel repair and maintenance sector. At the ceremony held at midday today in the STP facilities at the Port of Palma, president of the APB, Joan Gual de Torrella, highlighted that the repair and maintenance of boats is a strategic activity for the port authority, "an investment we intend to roll out at the ports of Alcudia and Mahon". Along the same lines, the Minister of Labour, Trade and Industry of the Government of the Balearic Islands, Lago Negueruela, said that "today is a day to feel proud, because thanks to the public-private cooperation, the Balearic industrial sector is growing and the maritime sector is establishing itself as an emerging sector on the Islands". "This industry brings 250 million euros to the Islands –said the Chief Executive of STP, José Maria Campuzano, during his speech– and successfully reduces seasonality, not only in the maritime business but also in the tourism sector". Campuzano also pointed out that it is estimated that 800 direct jobs, 1500 indirect jobs and 600 related jobs are created in his facilities at the Port of Palma, without taking into account the crew on board. In other words, 6 indirect jobs are created for every direct job. In this sense, the president of the APB, Joan Gual de Torrella, said that thanks to the Dual Vocational Training offered by the Government of the Balearic Islands and private collaboration, local skilled labour in the maritime sector may see a significant increase. The largest in Europe The new travel lift, capable of hoisting and beaching boats weighing up to 1,000 tons, also allows works on larger vessels to be carried out simultaneously and speeds up manoeuvre times. On top of this, being able to beach vessels that until now had to undergo refits in the water and subsequent completion on dry docks, frees up space along the mooring line for more boats. Another major advantage is that its height means that large sailing boats can be hoisted without any need to dismantle their stays or backstays. The acquisition of the travel lift was one of the conditions to extend the administrative concession that the APB approved in March 2017 for STP. The modification consisted of the inclusion of a land maritime public domain surface area of 24,422 m2 in the already existing license, 14,743 m2 of which are the land surface area and 9,679 m2 the water surface area, and the extension of the initial term of the license by 5.4 years. By extending the term, the investment commitment by the concessionaire increases to 6.4 million euros.

THE PORT OF IBIZA STARTS THE UPGRADING WORKS ON THE RIBERA DOCK

23/11/2018

The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) has commenced the upgrading works on the Ribera dock at the port of Ibiza after today signing the variation order with the company TECOPSA (Tecnología, Construcción y Obras Públicas S.A.), the company awarded the contract to carry out the renovation works on this stretch of the promenade. This project, with an allocated budget of 1,039,424.21 euros and a completion period of 6 months, consists of laying down a new paved surface on the stretch between the statue of the Fisherman and Formentera harbour station, which will be similar to that used on the Marina promenade, the works on which were completed in May 2015. The work includes the creation of pedestrian and landscaped areas, the continuation of the bicycle lane and the installation of new lighting. The improvement comes in response to the APB's port-city objective of complementing the port requirements of the dock used for goods and passenger traffic to La Savina with citizens' enjoyment of the port environment. Continuation of the promenade This work, undertaken by the APB, will be complemented by the works to build storm tankswhich are being carried out by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition to improve the channelling of rainwater in Ibiza. Once the tanks are buried, the Ministry will adapt the surface to ensure the continuity of the aesthetic finish of the paved surface. This project to upgrade the Ribera dock does not include the demolition of the current Formentera harbour station, which will remain in place until the future harbour station designed in the current fishing area comes into service.

THE APB PUBLISHES ON ITS WEBSITE THE REAL-TIME AIR QUALITY LEVEL AT THE PORT OF PALMA

12/11/2018

The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) launches a new tool that will allow citizens to find out the air quality at the Port of Palma in real time. This is nothing short of a pioneering project, as the Port of Palma is the first that has such an extensive monitoring network –with 113 sensors– with which to measure air quality, offering up-to-date information every hour. The data published on the portal www.portsdebalears.com, in the “air quality section”, forms part of the commitments the APB has made in its Corporate Social Responsibility and Transparency policy and to the community to which it provides the service. The APB has invested 87,000 euros in launching this project –acquisition, installation and maintenance of equipment– and it has collaborated with the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) in developing the tool. The collaboration started two years ago in July 2016 when the UIB took charge of defining the location and characteristics of the stations. In July 2017, the SmartSensPort-Palma pilot project was launched at the Port of Palma, when a total of seven monitoring stations were obtained to measure the air quality. Each of these seven stations has nano-sensors that measure CO (carbon monoxide), NO2 (nitrogen dioxide), O3 (ozone), PM10 (solid or liquid dust particles) and SO2 (sulphur dioxide). Furthermore, there is a total of 113 sensors at the Port of Palma that report data every ten minutes. This control panel updates itself eight times a day and collects the average hourly value of the seven stations, following the same criteria established by the Government of the Balearic Islands for stations of reference in the Autonomous Community. Last July, after several months of collecting and analysing data by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the UIB, the first conclusions of the SmartSensPort-Palma project were published. These determined that no clear correlation exists between all the activities undertaken at the port and the levels of contamination detected. This gave rise to the commitment of the APB to continue monitoring the air at the Port of Palma and to make the data public, while also extending the tool to the rest of the Balearic ports of general interest that it manages. Installation of the same nano-sensors at the ports of Alcudia, Ibiza, la Savina and Mahon is planned in 2019. This project complies with the Environmental Policy of the APB, which was approved by the body in November 2016.

THE PORT AUTHORITY OF THE BALEARIC ISLANDS PUTS OUT TO TENDER THE DEMOLITION WORK OF THE OLD NAVY COMMISSARY AT THE PORT OF PALMA SO THAT THE OCEANOGRAPHIC CENTRE OF THE BALEARIC ISLANDS CAN BUILD ITS NEW HEADQUARTERS

26/10/2018

The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) has put out to tender a contract to demolish the old navy commissary located at the Old Harbour of the Port of Palma so that the Oceanographic Centre of the Balearic Islands (COB) can build its new headquarters. The tender budget for said demolition work at the Port of Palma is 359,364.62 euros and the completion period is four months. The deadline to submit tenders is 19 December 2018. Those interested can submit their tenders via the APB's Port for Electronic Tenders. Until recently, the space was used as a warehouse and car park for APB vehicles. However, the nine buildings that make up the old commissary are now no longer used. Once the buildings have been knocked down, the APB will transfer the space over to the COB so it can build its new headquarters, as stipulated under the agreement formalised last May regarding the creation of an innovative marine science and technology hub at the Old Harbour of Palma. Subsequently, and in compliance with said agreement, the APB will transfer another plot to the Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB). Both headquarters will therefore be located at the Old Harbour of Palma, an area which will be dedicated to port and marine activities driven by the Marine Hub project. Marine Hub The aim of the Marine Hub project is to open up the Port of Palma to science and citizens, providing a port space to oceanographic and marine research. The APB will hand over this space of the Old Harbour of Palma to the headquarters of the SOGIB and the COB, driving the sector of marine R&ampD&ampI at the Port of Palma. This commitment is in line with the agreement made by the APB's Board of Directors to dedicate the Old Harbour of the Port of Palma to port and marine activities. http://www.portsdebalears.com/es/noticia/firmado-el-protocolo-para-la-creación-de-un-polo-marino-de-innovación-en-ciencia-y