Every morning thousand of Moroccan women cross the Biutz border between the Spanish city of Ceuta, and Marocco. Ceuta has two entrances door with Africa, separeted eachother for less than hundreads meter. The first one, the Tarajal duty, is like any other duty in the world, where passports and belongings are controlled prior to entry into Spanish territory. The second duty called Biutz, however, was opened in July 2005 in order to legalize the passage of goods carried by persons.
Currently, Biutz has become the single most used passage by this class of “transporters”, better known as porters, "porteadoras" in Spanish. Daily, an estimated of 10,000 to 20,000 porters cross over Biutz loaded with merchandise and packages that previously have been collected in one of the several warehouse that surroended the border. The price and form of payment has been previously agreed between the buyer and Moroccan seller in the polygon. For each journey, loaded on Spanish soil and ground delivered in the Moroccan one, the "porteadora" may receive about 50 dirhams (about five euros).
The cues are endless, and these women carried with more than 10 kilos of goods, have to wait for at least 2 hours before crossing the border. They are usually widows or divorced women who are forced to work under these condition in order to feed their family.