Arrecife will receive between this month of September and next December 30 the call of 140 tourist cruises. This Saturday, the 7th, the winter season opens with the docking of the luxury Britannia, which will disembark more than 5,000 people.
This cruise, which has been in the capital of Lanzarote on previous occasions, has a length of 330 meters and a beam of 44 meters, transporting about 4,000 cruise passengers, attended by a crew of nearly 1,400 people. The Britannia will set sail on Saturday afternoon from the port of Arrecife bound for Cadiz, en route to the south of England, based in the British port of Southampton.
The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, has reported that, in this new cruise season, established as 'high season in the Canary Islands', the new Passenger Station in the cruise port in the Naos area will come into service. The building Global Ports Canary Islands, the concessionaire company.
The new terminal is located in the port area closest to the city center, with the area around the Charco de San Ginés as the first point of connection for cruise passengers with the island of Lanzarote.
Yonathan de León, who is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Port Authority of Las Palmas, has detailed that the forecasts, according to the communications of the shipping companies to the APLP, indicate that Arrecife will receive between this month of September and the end of the year the call of 140 cruises, making the capital of Lanzarote among those that grow the most in the arrival of tourists traveling in transatlantic ships through the Canary archipelago.
With these forecasts of calls, "it is estimated that Arrecife will reach in this 2024 the figure of 600,000 cruise passengers, a new record that reflects the strength of the capital of Lanzarote in this tourist segment," detailed the first capital mayor.
Similarly, the Councilor for Tourism and Commerce, Eli Merino, has stressed that "from the City Council are signing lines of collaboration with the entity that will manage from next winter the new passenger terminal in Arrecife for the promotion of the capital among passengers."
This summer, the mayor of the city Yonathan de León, the Councilor for Tourism, Eli Merino, and directors of Ports Canary Islands learned closely the progress of the works of the new passenger terminal of Arrecife, which will come into service in this new cruise season.
