LA VOZ opens its edition this Friday with clear, concise and precise information detailing the precarious situation of the port of Los Mármoles, the gateway to the Island not only for the ...
LA VOZ opens its edition this Friday with clear, concise and precise information detailing the precarious situation of the port of Los Mármoles, the gateway to the Island not only for the goods we stock up on, but also for the tourists who arrive on cruises and the passengers who arrive through any of the regular lines currently in operation.
Without falling into gratuitous exaggeration, it is necessary to underline the undoubted and objective fact that the port is absolutely abandoned in every sense. It does not seem logical or normal that something as basic as being able to offer the ships that dock at the narrow dock all the water they need has not yet been resolved; that the many damages caused by the Delta have not been repaired; that the scale for weighing goods does not work and businessmen have to go to the centers where the ITV is done; that a second crane operates that did not win the public tender that another one did win but has not yet been installed; that the Tourist Board's office does not work to receive tourists as they deserve; that not a single one of the planned and budgeted works is executed...
It would be almost impossible to include in a single editorial all the things that are being done wrong in the port. Of course, the first thing to do is to support the suffering professionals who have to battle every day with all these deficiencies. They are the most affected by what happens and those who have to look for alternative solutions, some of them, such as transporting the goods by truck to the ITV centers, are really imaginative and costly.
With good reason, many of these professionals who operate there have raised with this editorial staff the need for the Island's politicians to get involved once and for all in solving all these problems. They do not understand why there is so much neglect, why no action is taken to put pressure on those responsible for the Port Authority of Las Palmas, that body for which there only seems to be a port in the eastern part of the Archipelago, the one of La Luz.
We also know that the sector has been asked for a little calm. The calm that in theory arrives when a change occurs like the one that has followed the dismissal of José Manuel Arnáiz at the head of the State ports in this part of the globe. However, everything has a limit, and patience is not infinite, quite the opposite. It is finite, and here the credit that could be given to the political class has run out a long time ago.
It is time to demand responsibilities, that all the blame is not put on the shoulders of those outside to avoid the issue. The changes that have been announced have to be noticed, but now, because the image that is being given is really regrettable, shameful.
