The Port of Alicante Grants the Fish Market to the Alicante City Council for the Next 30 Years

The Alicante City Council will continue to host cultural activities in the old Fish Market. The Board of Directors of the Port Authority has approved the agreement that will allow the council to carry on with these activities in the building.

It will be able to do so for the next 30 years, with an option for a possible extension for another 15 years. This was communicated after the meeting held this Thursday by the port council. A meeting initially scheduled for November 8 but postponed due to the Valencia tragedy.

Thus, this historic building located on Admiral Julio Guillén Tato's promenade and built in 1921 will continue as a cultural space for the Alicante council. The building was renovated by the City Council in 1990, following a similar agreement.

Since then, this 3,000 square meter space has hosted numerous exhibitions and cultural events that have enriched the city's heritage. Notably, the voting for the 'ninot indultat' during the Hogueras de San Juan, Alicante's main festival, takes place in these halls.

It was not the only major agreement approved by the council. Another issue discussed was the five-year extension for JSV Logistic to continue occupying the plots of the Logistics Activities Zone (ZAL), where its logistics station has been located since 2003.

This logistics company has a strategic station in the Port of Alicante and continues to increase cargo flows in the process of consolidating its new terminal, located just meters away at dock 11. In fact, the terminal recently inaugurated a new fast connection between Turkey, Alicante, and the Canary Islands, also strengthened by its rail connections between the port, with Miranda de Ebro (Burgos) and Abroñigal (Madrid).

Another matter that received the Board of Directors' approval was the agreement with the newly created association Alicante Port INNOVA, promoted by the port, which brings together numerous key entities from the port logistics ecosystem.

As a novelty, the Board of Directors, chaired by Luis Rodríguez, welcomed new directors representing the Generalitat. Francisco Javier Sendra, Regional Secretary of Infrastructure and Transport, and Raúl Mérida, Regional Secretary of Environment and Territory.

The president of the authority took the floor to report on its matters, detailing the "laborious process that the institution has undergone in processing the Modification No. 1 of the Delimitation of Port Spaces and Uses (DEUP)."

During the same, up to six organizations at the state, provincial, and local levels intervened directly: Provincial Coastal Service of Alicante, Department of Housing and Bioclimatic Architecture, Department of Territorial Policy, Public Works and Mobility, Department of Education, Culture and Sport, Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Climate Emergency and Ecological Transition, and the Urban Planning Department.

And indirectly, through the mediation of the State Ports organization, up to five Ministries participated: Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Defense, Interior, Treasury and Public Function, as well as Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge.

After considering all the recommendations made by these organizations and making various modifications following their analysis, the document, which began its arduous processing in December 2021, received the Council's approval today, and will be sent to State Ports to continue its final processing phase.