The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, has welcomed the opening of the new Arrecife Cruise Station, inaugurated this Tuesday in an event attended by the capital's first mayor together with the Councilor for Tourism and Commerce of Arrecife, Eli Merino, the president of the Port Authority of Las Palmas, Beatriz Calzada, the director of Port Operations of the State, Pedro García, and the founder and CEO of Global Ports Holding, Mehmet Kutman, the concessionaire company of the new cruise terminal of the capital of Lanzarote.
The mayor of Arrecife, who highlighted in his speech before the authorities present, that this endowment will be a new strength of Arrecife as a port of call and base for the shipping companies that make their cruises through the waters of the North Atlantic, that the port area must be subjected to a beautification process and landscaping by the Port Authority.
Yonathan de León, who is the only public representative of Lanzarote in the Board of Directors of the Port Authority of Las Palmas, recalled this Tuesday at the event that the Arrecife City Council has requested the Port Authority of Las Palmas to finance and execute a landscaping plan in the port areas of the capital of Lanzarote where, both in the docks of Los Mármoles and in Puerto de Naos, there are no shaded areas or green vegetation that provides a better image to the thousands of visitors who access the island through the ports.
"We are seeing a passenger terminal in Arrecife that is sustainable and with the seal of Lanzarote, which is the capital of the Biosphere Reserve. And I am sure that the next inauguration we all attend will be the desired project that we have requested from the Port Authority of Las Palmas to beautify all the accesses from the city center to here with palm trees and plants, throughout its port line," emphasized Yonathan de León Machín.
"Because Arrecife, with a coastal past, looks to the future wishing to be a beautiful, healthy city with shaded areas, and with a well-kept and green image on its port front, in the same line as what we are undertaking in the interior area of Arrecife with the planning of the five ecovulevares," remarked De León Machín.
The Arrecife City Council recalls that the Port Authority has allocated about 700,000 euros to create a palm grove on the cruise ship dock of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, while in the ports of Arrecife there is not a single tree.
