The Sociedad Gestora Cetis, licensee of the bus station of the city of Ibiza, is requesting the the payment of a debt of 1.4 million euros in fees from the companies for the use of the terminal. Since the Cetis bus station reopened its doors in March 2019, the licensee has only collected the fees (for arrival and departure of buses from the terminal, including for the use of the stops outside on the street, and for the number of passengers) for that first year. Since then, only the companies Herederos de Francisco Vilás and Autobuses San Antonio, which belong to the Sagalés group, licensee of the Cetis bus station, have paid.
As a result, the licensee is claiming the payment of invoices amounting to one million euros corresponding to the use of the station from 2020 until this year, plus 384,000 euros from 2013 for the months in which the terminal was operational until it was closed by court order from Voramar el Gaucho, of the Alsa group. Voramar el Gaucho is the company with the highest activity on the island. The debt of Lucas Costa stands at 32,000 euros, as explained by a representative of Sociedad Gestora Cetis, who stresses that the situation is already “unsustainable” and that they are forced to “go one step further.”
Charged to both enter and exit bus station
The problem lies in the fact that Voramar el Gaucho does not agree with the invoices presented by the Cetis licensee because it obliges it to pay the fee for each arrival and departure at the station (also the stops outside), with a cost for each movement of 3.74 euros plus VAT. However, the company interprets that it is “absurd” to charge twice for the “same movement”. “The buses do not stop there,” justifies the spokesman for Voramar el Gaucho, José María Cardona, who insists on the high cost of Cetis. “It is an outrage. There is no station that charges these rates,” he criticizes.
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