Algeciras (Cádiz), (EFE)
According to the data provided by Civil Protection, until Saturday, July 8, a total of 414,713 passengers have embarked in Spanish ports bound for North Africa.
Most of them have done so in the two Cádiz ports managed by the Algeciras Bay Port Authority (APBA), those of Algeciras and Tarifa, which accumulate 302,732 travelers, 73 percent of the total.
Algeciras and Tarifa, key in the Passage of the Strait
With regard to on-board vehicles, the national total already amounts to 100,882 units so far in operation.
In the case of the ports of Algeciras and Tarifa, they absorb 72.4 percent of embarked vehicles, with a total of 72,997.
Only on Saturday, more than four thousand vehicles embarked from these two ports and this Sunday a high level of activity is maintained, with the arrival at both facilities of more than two thousand vehicles until noon, according to data from the APBA.
Regarding the port of Tarifa, the Algeciras Bay Port Authority (APBA) has announced that on July 25 it will hold the celebration of the twentieth anniversary since its authorization as a Schengen External Border and began to operate the link with Tangier, two decades in which it has reached twenty million passengers. EFE