Aug 30 - Araujo Launches Data Collection Service to Calculate Business Loss Resulting From Frontier Queues
La Linea Mayor, Gemma Araujo officially opened a service office aimed at assisting those whose business has been affected by extensive frontier delays caused by the current dispute between Spain and Gibraltar, yesterday.
Traders and business owners will be able to carry out a questionnaire, which will then be raised with authorities. The data collected will form a register allowing for officials to fully understand how badly businesses have been affected by cross border tensions.
The large Guardia Civil vessel, Rio Pas, was spotted yesterday evening approaching every tanker anchored in the Bay in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters. The Spanish state vessel went from tanker to tanker, slowing down to observe bunkering operations.
Conservative MEPS have today condemned the Spanish border control’s banning of construction material being exported into Gibraltar. Julie Girling, Giles Chichester and Ashley Fox insist that the move was ‘illegal and illogical’ and would harm Spanish citizens more than Gibraltarians.
