The maritime routes that run between Huelva and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Lanzarote, declared of public interest, have closed the first seven months of 2025 with a decrease of 17.3% 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 in this period 27,322 passengers compared to 32,928 last year.
As for the number of vehicles transported, the number has gone from 19,341 from January to July 2024 to 16,525 in the first seven months of that year, which is 2,816 less, that is, a decrease of 14.56%.
In this way, this is the second consecutive month that, although slightly, the figures have fallen again after they began to rise in March, breaking a negative trend that began in April 2024, when only one line covering the Huelva-Canarias route remained after the Armas line stopped operating, as the shipping company decided to take its services to the port of Cádiz, where the difference decreases.
Since then, only the one launched in October 2018 by the shipping companies Fred Olsen Express and Baleària, through their alliance Canary Bridge Seaways (CBS), remains in operation; it is a triangular route between the ports of Huelva, La Luz in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
These shipping companies, between July 1 and September 30, 2024, offered twice as many connections as last year, with an additional departure to the three they usually make, to meet the demand of the summer period, both for passengers and for the transport of rolling cargo between the Peninsula and the Canary Islands.
A reinforcement that is being carried out again this 2025, between July 15 and September 18.
These lines were declared in February 2022 by the Council of Ministers of public interest, establishing Public Service Obligations on them consisting of maintaining a minimum frequency of one weekly trip on each of them.
