Platform against Megacruises you take place in relation to the transparency of the grill and participation of citizens in updating the agreement of the Government of the Balearian Government with cruise Rens operators Restrictions on cruise liners in palmField
They demand that there be no more than one large cruise airliner per day and no more than 4,000 passes; The current agreement is intended for three ships and 8000 passengers. Particular attention is paid to pollution. According to data from a network of sensors deployed by the platform itself, emissions are four times higher World Health Organization.
At the press conference on Thursday, Jaume Garau from the Palma XXI association said: “One cruise liner per day should be the maximum resolution until further research will not be available. This The problem of public health That the government should study, but not
Rearched agreement in 2021 expires at the end of 2026; It will be considered this year from the planning of operators. Garau insisted that the decision -making process should be Transparent And take the views of civil society to the account. Margalida Ramis from GOB ecologists noted that in 2021 “excluded citizens”. She argued that port control in Palma should focus on transporting goods and travels, and not on tourism.
They stated that 546 cruise liners predicting that they would arrive in a palm tree in a palm tree. Since January it has been 158, which projected An increase by about ten percentThe field of the cruise industry said that the arrival will be about 500 and indicates that in 2024, a total of 1.8 million passengers of the cruise amounted to 1.5% of the decision marked with 2023.
The platform disguised that she has support for the amount of tracer sector, which traditionally always played for cruise liners. “We talked with many enterprises, and they inflicted us Alleged wealth These cruises bring not so cool. “
