Economy Minister Silvio Schembri posted a video to social media to announce some of the facility’s offerings, including “parking spaces for people with disabilities, and charging pillars for electric vehicles.”

The three-storey complex covers a surface area of around 5,000 square meters. One floor will be allocated for use by MFC workers while the other two will be available to the visiting public and Birżebbuġa residents.

The video posted by Schembri claims that by building this complex, the “corporation helps the community of Birżebbuġa with an investment of €3.2 million”.

The Birżebbuġa community has long made appeals for more parking spaces – and anyone who has passed by seeking a spot in summer can attest to their plight. Hopefully, two floors provided through this project will ease parking anxieties for residents, first and foremost.

Unrelated to the parking complex announcement, the video posted by Schembri discusses the Freeport’s investment in a ‘shore to ship’ project to drastically decrease aquatic pollution.

This separate MFC investment of €‎13 million in shore-to-ship power, announced earlier this year, will see cargo ships connecting to Malta’s national power grid and prevent the emissions of up to 4,000 tons of carbon dioxide.

Few communities in the world are compelled to celebrate the introduction of more parking complexes into their infrastructural landscape. Malta can consider itself to be amongst those prestigious few.

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