Port Authority of Bilbao opens registration period for lorry pre-entry notification incentives programme to access Port via Southern Metropolitan Bypass.

On June 1, registration commences on the Port Authority of Bilbao’s web page (www.bilbaoport.eus) for those hauliers wishing to benefit from the incentives for using the lorry pre-entry notification programme to access the Port area via the Southern Metropolitan Bypass.

These incentives are the result of the agreement reached between the Port Authority and Interbiak, a public corporation attached to the Department of Economic and Territorial Development of the Territorial Council of Biscay. The idea comes from a proposal made by the Port of Bilbao Association of Autonomous Hauliers (ATAP, Spanish acronym) and it has materialised now that the Port Authority’s telematics services have been developed through its e-puertobilbao electronics platform in order to achieve greater efficiency in vessels and goods passage, and the introduction of the automatic lorry-access system firstly at the container terminal. Thus, heavy vehicle traffic will enjoy quicker access and safer, more economical and more sustainable transit, which in turn will improve the Port’s land transport intermodality and competitiveness.

In parallel, the agreement will help to alleviate the problems brought about not only by the queues at accesses to the Port area, but also the high level of traffic intensity due to heavy-tonnage vehicles entering and exiting the Port’s service zone on the normal territorial toll-free roads.

In the agreement, the Port Authority has committed itself to paying 100,000 euros a year as part of its Land Transport Competitiveness Programme to provide an incentive for those heavy vehicles complying with the stipulations. In turn, Interbiak will develop the computer application that will enable the control and validation of the obtained data, and provide the Port Authority with the resulting file so that the incentive can be paid.