The facilities of the new cruise terminal in the Los Mármoles dock, which will allow the docking of up to three large cruise ships, came into service this past weekend.
The concessionaire company, Global Ports Canary Island, is also finalizing the main terminal, which is being built in the Naos Cruise Port, and which will open in January 2025, as confirmed by its directors to the mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León.
The new public cruise passenger terminal facilities in Los Mármoles have an area of 759.39 square meters and 426 meters built.
The second terminal, which will be located at the Naos Cruise Pier, covers an area of 1,881.85 square meters.
De León, who visited the new facilities in Los Mármoles over the weekend with the Councilor for Commerce and Tourism, Eli Merino, considers that this is an advance for the port area of Arrecife, “where tourist activity linked to cruise tourism is part of its strategic strengths.”
A cruise with 3,000 German tourists
The Mein Schiff 7, one of the most recent ships of the Tui Cruises company, has made its inaugural trip through the Canary Islands, docking in the port of Arrecife, the first cruise area in the northern Archipelago where it docks with more than 3,000 German tourists.
This large, state-of-the-art ship - owned by the union between TUI Group and Royal Caribbean Cruises - has been sailing since this past summer and will visit the port of Arrecife regularly during the current cruise season, which began in September and ends in May 2025. The Mein Schiff 7 is scheduled to call at Arrecife another 12 times.
The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, attended the official reception that the ship's captain paid to the local authorities. Arrecife was thus the first port in the Canary Islands where this ship dedicated to German and Austrian tourism, mainly, premiered.
The port of Arrecife has received the call of five large cruise ships with more than 15,000 passengers during this weekend.