First meeting between Formentera Council and Balearic port authority

visita de torrellesNoontime today at the seat of the Consell de Formentera, CiF president Jaume Ferrer received a visit from the president of the Autoritat Portuària (port authority) de Balears, Joan Gual de Torrella. As President Ferrer explained at the close of the meeting, it was an opportunity for the two officials to put on the table all the issues that link their respective administrations.

The devolution of usage rights for the lighthouse in la Mola was one issue of particular importance. The port authority president assured the transfer to the Formentera Council of administrative responsibilities was in its final stages, something our local council has awaited in order to give the space a use that is both “social and cultural”.

La Savina port remodel
President Ferrer also used the opportunity to request the regional Balearic authority oversee a comprehensive remodel of the la Savina port. For his part, de Torrella was noted as praising the good-working order of the blue zone parking system in the port, which since springtime has been under the management of the Formentera Council. In the port authority president's words: “Such services, when properly run, will only continue to be successful”.

De Torrella relayed his own hope that construction of Formentera's long-planned port parking terminal would start in the coming months and that its management be put up for public tender. According to the president of Autoritat Portuària de Balears: “We all agree about the importance of these requests”. President de Torrella indicated his desire to draft a four-year plan aimed at successfully carrying out the different projects.