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The president of the Association of Consignees and Ships of Lanzarote, Tomás Fajardo, denounced this Thursday the situation of "total abandonment" suffered by the Port of Los Mármoles, in Arrecife, after the damages caused by the passage of the tropical storm Delta last morning of November 24.
The one who also holds the presidency of the company Lanzarote Shipping, described the current appearance of the dock as "catastrophic" and "unknown".
Fajardo explained on Radio Lanzarote that "the manhole covers have disappeared - with the consequent danger that this implies -, the doors that flew off the new maritime station or the counter box of the breakwater have not been placed, and the dirt is such that the port looks like a henhouse".
The security fences are also in very bad condition but, however, while politicians "only know how to talk about the PEPA and the PUPA, for the moment nobody here is doing anything to fix" the current situation of the port, he added.
Papers, cans, plastics and seagull droppings have been flooding the dock for several weeks. "The representatives of Lanzarote on the Board of Directors of the Port Authority fill their mouths with cruise tourism, but they have all shrugged their shoulders and none of them cares about fixing this real disaster" after the passage of Storm Delta.
"Passivity" of the Port Authority
Regarding the work of the Port Authority of Las Palmas (APLP), Fajardo assures that the invoices of the state institution in the port "are one hundred percent, but its services are twenty percent".
According to the president of the Consignees, despite the recent change of president, the Port Authority "ignores everything" and on the Island it does not have a delegate, but rather "an exploitation manager".
The port authority "does nothing and we are the ones who have to remove the seagull droppings so that the 1,500 tourists from each ship can pass", concluded Fajardo.
