The Minister of Public Works, Housing and Mobility of the Canary Islands Government, Pablo Rodríguez, announced this Friday that the ports of La Graciosa and La Restinga are emerging as the first sustainable ports of autonomous competence.
Before participating in a session of the Sustainable Mobility and Connectivity Forum on the challenges and opportunities of the relationships of ports with their cities, Rodríguez estimated that the network of ports in the Canary Islands has to be aligned with the sustainability strategy, as corresponds to all structures.
This is, he said, a matter that affects all areas of the Government and of governance itself and, on this occasion, they will analyze the sustainability projects that each port has within its own strategy.
In the field of the public entity Puertos Canarios, the Canary Islands Government is developing the first strategy of what it has called eco-ports, announced the Minister, who stressed the need for the network of Canary Islands ports to be "sustainable, self-sufficient and generate clean energy for its own consumption".
What is sought is that these ports of autonomous competence are neutral from the point of view of their emissions, he said.
Rodríguez is confident that this strategy will bear fruit as soon as possible in a port, which could be that of La Graciosa or that of La Restinga, given their dimensions and the environmental fragility of the environment in which they are located.
"We want to know what the energy consumption of each one is to see how we can generate it cleanly so that it is neutral," he said.