Barcelona To Cut Port Terminals From 7 To 5

In consequence to an outcry from nan maritime overtourism successful Barcelona this summer, nan governing bodies of Catalonia person made a determination to trim nan number of cruise vessel terminals successful nan metropolis from 7 to five. The 3 oldest terminals – terminals A, B, and C, will each beryllium demolished and a azygous caller terminal will beryllium built wherever terminal C presently stands.

The caller terminal will beryllium Barcelona’s only nationalist entree cruise terminal, and will beryllium capable to service up to 7,000 passengers astatine a time. This effort will trim nan maximum capacity of Barcelona’s larboard terminals by 16 per cent, from astir 37,000 passengers a time to 31,000. Not only will nan effort people a caller life for nan 3 terminals that are nearing nan extremity of their useful life, nan move arsenic a full will besides amended nationalist entree to and from nan larboard terminals.

The move will beryllium an finance of astir €185 cardinal to demolish nan existing terminals and rebuild a caller nationalist entree terminal. In addition, nan metropolis of Barcelona will put €50 cardinal to adhd caller accommodation successful nan 610-metre-long conception that presently houses terminals A and B. Among nan caller features that will beryllium added to nan sustainable mobility scheme are a shuttle service, a monitoring strategy pinch information fed to nan City Council, and informational screens installed, which will amended nan distribution of group and relieve congestion successful nan busiest areas.

This task is slated to statesman adjacent twelvemonth and is presently slated for completion successful 2030, erstwhile nan caller and improved terminal C will beryllium afloat operational.

This effort marks nan first clip nan metropolis has ever put a limit connected nan maturation of cruise ships, according to Mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni. The Mayor besides expressed gratitude to nan officials of nan larboard for going up pinch nan alteration and knowing that a limit needed to beryllium placed, citing examples of different desirable European destinations that person besides shown touristic maturation while maintaining sustainability measures – Amsterdam, Dubrovnik, Mallorca, and Valencia. “The existent guidance of tourism involves mounting limits and managing better,” nan Mayor stated.

Although nan cruise manufacture is 1 of nan astir lucrative successful Barcelona, generating an estimated €1 cardinal annually, of which €562 cardinal goes straight to Catalonia’s gross home product, nan metropolis has responded to an outcry of maritime overtourism by nan residents, and person pushed to effort to make nan assemblage much sustainable and support nan citizens of Barcelona astatine nan forefront of projects. As a compensation, nan caller cruise passengers will besides beryllium encouraged to enactment longer successful nan city.