Unity is essential to move forward, it always was, but now it is even more so. Given the exceptional situation we are going through at the moment, it is inconceivable that everyone should go their own way, sticking their finger in the eye of the person next to them. Not like that. Now more than ever it is vitally important to "stick together" because what we are seeing is not a normal crisis, it is much more than a crisis of those we were used to and our production system will take a long time to recover. I say this in reference to the measures announced by Puertos del Estado. Measures that fall too short in terms of deadlines and that will not work, since the measures should go beyond the medium term, beyond six months, to overcome the great problem that the lack of activity in the ports will cause. A large part of the fleet is moored and we are already seeing cargo ships that are at fifty percent of their capacity and this is only the beginning.
From the Chamber of Commerce of Lanzarote and La Graciosa we propose that a working group be set up, made up of the entire port community and coordinated by the Port Authority of Las Palmas, which is the governing body. A united and seamless body where all parties can sit down to design a consensus strategy capable of addressing the problem at hand.
And while we are at it, that representative body of the port community should take the opportunity to launch a tool that has been demanded for years: the marketing and promotion strategy for ALL the ports of the Port Authority of Las Palmas. A pending and very necessary issue.
Our ports need to be competitive in the current landscape and for this, another no less important need is to guarantee the plurality of services.
I trust that we will achieve it because unity has never been so necessary.
