The GOB has submitted allegations against the project for new nautical facilities at the Can Picafort Nautical Club and asks Ports-IB not to approve it in its current configuration. The environmental organization considers that the proposal, with 79 moorings, 5 piers, and nearly 70 anchors on the seabed, does not offer sufficient environmental guarantees.

The Salvem Portopí campaign has started a signature collection to try to gain citizen support against the industrial uses that the Balearic Islands Port Authority plans to concentrate around the Castell de Sant Carles. ARCA, GOB, Palma XXI, and Fridays for Future are demanding that this strip of the port be destined, instead, for a cultural, heritage, and environmental park that integrates the historic port of Portopí, the Signal tower, and the castle.

The MÉS candidate for mayor of Palma, David Pujol, denounced this Thursday that the nautical bus project being prepared by the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) and the PP “will bring tourist overcrowding to El Molinar and Portitxol”. In a statement, the party criticized that the project mainly responds to the needs of tourist activity and cruise passengers, instead of addressing the daily mobility problems of residents.

The nautical bus in the Bay of Palma will begin operating on November 1st, after the project was left up in the air due to the withdrawal of the joint venture led by TUI, which had won the tender last March. The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) has now opted for a provisional solution to launch the service while it prepares a new tender that will have to guarantee its long-term continuity.

The Palma nautical bus will have to look for another operator before making its first trip. The joint venture led by TUI, selected to provide the service, announced on August 3rd that it was abandoning the procedure. It did so months after having ratified that its proposal was viable and that it would have the necessary vessels and personnel at its disposal. The Balearic Islands Port Authority (APB) is now preparing a new tender, which it plans to bring to the board of directors this September.

The Balearic Port Authority (APB) has decided to archive the tender to award the management of the Golondrines dock in the port of Palma after detecting indications of a possible leak of the procedure's bases, a fact that has called into question the guarantees of transparency in one of the most sensitive concessions on the city's waterfront.

The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) has reiterated to the Association for the Revitalization of Old Centers (ARCA) that the Palma port transformation project is based "on technical rigor and the general interest". The president of the APB, Javier Sanz, and the director, Toni Ginard, met this Tuesday with representatives of ARCA to clarify the axes of the transformation project.

The heritage protection entity ARK has asked the Balearic Islands Port Authority (APB) not to grant the concession for the future liquid waste plant planned for the port of Palma, as it believes that it would directly affect the heritage value of the San Carlos Castle"One of the most valuable elements" of the area.

The Board of Directors of the Balearic Islands Port Authority (APB) has agreed, at a meeting held in the port of Palma, to launch a public tender for the management of moorings at the local traffic terminal for vessels popularly known as "golondrinas" (swallows), which will include a ban on carrying out party boatsFurthermore, the council itself has approved granting a 15-year extension to the Portitxol Nautical Club, until 2040, and incorporating approximately 12,000 additional square meters of water surface to reorganize and expand the marina and nautical services of the facility. Regarding the management of the local traffic terminal, the concession also includes the management of two moorings designated for the Nautical Bus service. In the new concession, located on the Palma seafront, service will only be provided to vessels on the second list, that is, merchant ships for the transport of people, and those included in the tourist registry of the Island Council of Mallorca that allow them to organize parties or dances on board with music, known as [unspecified activity], are expressly excluded.party boats.

Palma's new promenade will open on November 15th and 16th with the first charity run by the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB). It will be a weekend of sporting and family fun with free activities, with all proceeds going to Projecte Home Balears.

Members of the Civil Society Forum On Wednesday, they called for a sailing school to be built in the port of Palma, specifically at the breakwater, the restoration of Muelle Vell to increase the city's proximity to the sea, and the shifting of nautical repression to the western breakwater. These are the main actions envisaged in the alternative proposal prepared by the entity to refute the preliminary draft port reorganization proposal drawn up by the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB). According to Jaume Garau, a member of the Fòrum executive committee, the APB's initiative "implies an increase in ship mobility and the need for new platforms, which is absolutely absurd."