1.15 million in aid to the taxi sector in the Canary Islands
The Canary Islands Governing Council approved this Friday the extension of credit that will allow 1.15 million euros to be allocated to help the fleet or radio taxi management system of the different companies, associations and taxi cooperatives of the Islands.
Thanks to this approval, the Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and Housing will now begin the process to start paying these aid to taxi drivers in the first half of November, they have advanced from the Executive.
In order to distribute these 1.15 million among the sector, a subsidy was convened last August in free competition aimed at associations and taxi cooperatives in the Archipelago.
14 associations that represent the vast majority of taxi professionals working in the Archipelago were presented to this call, to which 60 percent of the fleet management expenses will be paid through the radiotaxi from the month of July and until December.
The objective is “to provide financial aid to the different companies or cooperatives to face the losses suffered during the state of alarm and collaborate in the reactivation of the activity at the same time that the economic recovery of the Canarian society takes place”, they detailed .
«The taxi sector, with some 6,000 families dependent on its activity in the Canary Islands, has been one of the hardest hit during the health crisis as taxi drivers had an income lower than 80 percent of their normal activity, a reduction in income that it directly affected the payment of the radiotaxi fees ”.
1.15 million in aid to the taxi sector in the Canary Islands
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