AN €11.9 million contract to improve
Motril port has been awarded. Actividades de Construccion y Servicio
(ACS) led by Florentino Perez, current president of Real Madrid Football
Club, will carry out the work.
Its subsidiary companies, Dragados and Drace, will extend
the dyke, dredge both the Azucenas basin and the port access, and
improve Azucenas beach.
Motril Port Authority intends to extend the current dyke
by 300 metres in order to improve protection. The area to dredge in
order to expand the entrance channel is 500,000 square metres.
The project is included in the Motril Port Business Plan
and it is partly funded by European Regional Development funds. The
works will start before the end of the year and should be completed in a
period of 14 months.
