The APB postpones the study for the expansion of the Port of Palma

The Board of Directors of the Balearic Port Authority (APB) unanimously agreed in a session held at the Port of Palma to postpone until its next meeting the decision to initiate the drafting of the relevant studies and projects for the proposed reorganization of the Port of Palma.

The plan includes boosting the ship repair and maintenance industry at the Western Dock, easing congestion of regular cargo and passenger traffic, and increasing spaces for port-city interaction.

One of the agreed points is to urge collaboration with other administrations and organizations involved to improve land access to the port. Regarding the subsequent superstructures and facilities for the operation and functioning of the public port domain, they should be carried out under the best conditions of efficiency, service quality, safety, and environmental respect.

In this way, the Board of Directors aims to ensure the operability and logistics of freight and passenger transport.

As reported by the APB yesterday, the reorganization and modernization of the Port of Palma, which aims to balance port uses, optimize space for improving maritime traffic, and boost the ship repair and maintenance industry, is in the study, consensus, and approval phase by public administrations, business and union entities, the port community, and other stakeholders.

In the same session, the Board of Directors unanimously agreed to abandon the environmental processing of the plan approved in 2020, which envisioned concentrating regular traffic in the dock of the Western Breakwater and dedicating the Commercial Docks to the nautical maintenance sector.

Similarly, it decided to suspend the technical assistance contract for drafting the construction projects and the corresponding environmental processing of the berths and esplanades for ferry traffic in the Western Dock for one month and to settle the work carried out to date resulting from the previous port reorganization plans.