The Vigo Port Authority has held a working meeting with the board of the Teis Neighborhood Association, led by the port authority's president, Carlos Botana, and members of his management team. The meeting is part of the periodic institutional dialogue and transparency meetings that the entity holds with neighborhood groups in its vicinity to share the main actions affecting the waterfront.
The central focus of the meeting revolved around the planning of upcoming urban improvement and waterfront recovery actions in the Arealonga area, continuing the public meeting space already enabled next to the old restaurant.
In this regard, the port delegation detailed the technical aspects of the Camiño Cacharela humanization project. This intervention is designed to transform the coastal front by creating a safe and differentiated pedestrian space, equipped with protection elements against the sea, the renovation of the lighting system with efficient technology, and the landscape recovery of adjacent green areas.
With these works, the APV advances in the structuring of a continuous pedestrian itinerary that will more pleasantly connect the beaches of Arealonga and Mende, reinforcing the coastal corridor between Chapela and A Guía.
Similarly, the APV is studying, at the request of the residents, the recovery for the city of a space located in the vicinity of A Lagoa, following in the footsteps of other actions, such as those in Arealonga or the church square in Bouzas.
Acoustic Control
During the working session, the APV also addressed issues related to the environmental management system, sharing the conclusions of the noise map and propagation study, whose work concluded at the end of last summer.
Regarding the Teis neighborhood, the study concludes that the dominant source of noise comes from external industrial activity, since between the port area and the homes are the ADIF facilities and the baler, large generators of heavy traffic, in addition to a city road with high traffic pressure.
For its part, the Vigo Port Authority has worked together with the Container Terminal on various solutions to minimize the acoustic impact in the area, among which are the replacement of the acoustic systems of the machinery or the adoption of a code of good practices for crane operators whose objective is to minimize the impact produced when depositing containers in storage areas, without ruling out the search for new locations for their deposit outside the Port and away from residential areas.
Similarly, among its current projects, the Port Authority is working on the installation of a greater number of acoustic sensors in the area to more exhaustively monitor this entire area and detect any bad practice that occurs at the exact moment.
Likewise, it has recently awarded the drafting of the project for the electrification of berths at the cruise and container terminals, which will allow vessels to connect to the electrical grid and keep their engines off during their stay in port.
