Special Border Measures Implemented in Ceuta for Eid Al-Adha Travel Surge

The provincial commission of the Marhaba operation in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta intends to accompany the "strong increase" in the number of people expected to cross the border between Ceuta and Morocco until next Sunday. In this sense, the civil protection department of the Spanish government delegation accepted, during an extraordinary meeting held on Thursday, July 7, attended by representatives of the local authorities of the enclave, the Spanish port authority, the state security forces and bodies, and the maritime captaincy of the city, to implement a series of measures, reports the Spanish agency EFE.

Implemented from Thursday at 5 p.m. until Sunday at 1 a.m., this special system is a "dynamic waiting system" with the capacity to manage up to 1,500 vehicles, "a circuit that starts at the port of the enclave, which will be followed by a guided route of 5.5 kilometers and then by the final section preceding the border, where the diversion to the respective authorized lanes begins," it is explained.

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The work of the maritime captaincy of Ceuta is to ask the shipping companies not to activate any extraordinary rotations during these three nights, in order to guarantee the fluidity of passenger traffic on the Algeciras-Ceuta line. Residents of the enclave who wish to go to Morocco in the next three days or want to spend Eid al Adha there are invited to do so at night or to organize their trip in advance.