The maritime routes that run between Huelva and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Lanzarote, declared of public interest, have closed the first quarter of 2025 with a decrease of 26.41% in the number of passengers in relation to the same period of the previous year.
According to data from the port of Huelva consulted by EFE, these regular lines have registered a total of 13,157 passengers in these four months compared to 17,879 last year.
For its part, the number of vehicles transferred has gone from 10,694 from January to April 2024 to 8,002 in the first four months of this year, which is 2,692 less, that is, a decrease of 25.17%.
Despite this decrease compared to the same period last year, if the year-on-year data is analyzed, it is the second month since April 2024 -when the line covering the Huelva-Canarias route was left alone after Armas stopped operating after the shipping company's decision to take its services to the port of Cádiz- in which the difference does not increase, thus breaking the negative trend.
Since then, only the one launched in October 2018 by the shipping companies Fred Olsen Express and Baleària remains, through their alliance Canary Bridge Seaways (CBS); it is a triangular route between the ports of Huelva, La Luz in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
These lines were declared in February 2022 by the Council of Ministers to be of public interest, establishing Public Service Obligations on them consisting of maintaining a minimum frequency of one weekly trip on each of them.
