The mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, has announced that next Friday he will present to the consideration of all the political groups with representation in the Municipal Plenary, UPY, CC, PP, PSOE, Lanzarote en Pie and Ciudadanos, an institutional declaration that will later be addressed to the Cabildo of Lanzarote expressly asking the first island corporation to express to the Government of the Canary Islands its support for the operation of medium-sized cruises in the Port of Playa Blanca, whose expansion works must be completed in November of this year as estimated by the Executive chaired by the socialist Ángel Víctor Torres.
“The Government of the Canary Islands, through the Minister of Public Works, Transport and Housing, Sebastián Franquis, already warned last June in Parliament that the cruise operation depended on consensus with the Cabildo of Lanzarote, so we ask the Cabildo to take a favorable position before the Autonomous Community”, says Noda.
The mayor also emphasizes that “the Canarian Executive, this and the past legislature when the works began, always considered the cruise operation in Playa Blanca as a possibility since the port has the capacity to dock cruises of up to 240 meters, said by the same entity Puertos Canarios”.
"If the market sees Playa Blanca as a destination for cruises, which we know is interested, we will not be the public administrations that close the doors to the economic development of this segment of quality tourism, taking into account that the technical conditions of the new port prevent, due to the length of the berthing line and its draft, the berthing of large cruises. Yaiza therefore defends the port facility of Playa Blanca as a complementary offer for the cruise market in Lanzarote”, says Óscar Nodal.
Yaiza also states that “a 40 million euro project must be made profitable in the best possible way”, also highlighting that “85 percent of the financing comes from European ERDF funds, marking among its objectives the improvement of competitiveness through infrastructures linked to transport and local economic development, as is the case”.
"After 20 years of delay in the modernization of the port, Yaiza led the unblocking of the new dock project in order to offer security to the ferries that connect Lanzarote and Fuerteventura with its operation in the new outer dock destined for the shipping companies Armas and Fred Olsen. and security also to the fishing and sports boats that will operate in the current shelter, no longer sharing space with the ferries, but aware that the project also offers another 300-meter-long mixed-use line with the capacity to dock medium-sized cruises, reasons why we said and defended from minute one that the port would allow the docking of medium-sized cruises, as corroborated by Puertos Canarios”, recalls the first mayor of Yaiza.
