The Owners Association of Marina Puerto Calero has publicly denounced "the magnitude of the operation perpetrated" by the company Puerto Calero Marinas SL, Ports of the Canary Islands and the Government of the Canary Islands to facilitate the extraordinary extension made "to measure". The owners of this marina have indicated that the concessionaire could earn more than 166 million euros.
According to an analysis of the economic-financial report, which is on public display on the electronic headquarters, the owners have pointed out that "the concessionaire plans to earn close to 300 million euros with the exploitation of all the business premises, moorings and homes existing in the Port that it sold to third parties at the time and that it plans to recover with the granting of the extension."
According to the business plan that the concessionaire wants to carry out with the extension, it would obtain a net profit of €166,344,294, estimating an occupancy of 75.5% of premises, 60% occupancy of homes and 55.6% occupancy of moorings. Some disproportionate numbers if we take into account that the investment it offers to make is €7,399,200 (€4,462,202.35 of relevant investment and €2,936,997.65 of non-relevant investment or maintenance and replacement expenses). All this, thanks to a law made to measure (amendment 8.8), introduced by surprise and in an opaque manner in the General Budgets of the Canary Islands, which not only allows Puerto Calero Marinas SL to evade the investments required to extend the concession, but also opens the door to a perfectly orchestrated real estate scam: recovering premises, moorings and homes that they already sold, to then resell them to foreign investment funds such as Buenavista Capital and Nauplia Capital, which have just acquired Marina Lanzarote. All this with the protection of the Government of the Canary Islands and Ports of the Canary Islands, which act as silent accomplices in a speculative operation that transforms public infrastructures into private spoils, at the cost of stripping more than 100 families, 50 companies and 200 users of their historical rights.
The Association, which brings together numerous owners of premises, homes, moorings and businesses in the port, has offered Ports of the Canary Islands and the concessionaire to take charge of the amount of the investment in the port offered by the current concessionaire to obtain the extension so that all the operators who have been in the port for decades can benefit from the extension, but both Ports of the Canary Islands and Puerto Calero have rejected the proposal.
From the Association of owners of Puerto Calero, all those affected are encouraged to consult the Economic and Financial Report carried out by the concessionaire that bases the entire extension business on the "recovery of all the premises, homes and moorings that it sold to third parties", benefiting from the "law made to measure" made by the Canary Islands government to prevent the assignees from also benefiting from it. The Report and its Annex can be consulted at the electronic headquarters of Ports of the Canary Islands until July 12, the date on which the deadline for those affected to file allegations to the extension request concludes.