The debate between the maintenance of the Port of Los Cristianos (Arona, Tenerife) and the promotion of the construction of the Port of Fonsalía (Guía de Isora, Tenerife), has moved from the third largest population municipality on the Canary Island to the El rest of the western belt.
The first ally that the mayor of the municipality of Arona, where the Port of Los Cristianos is located, has found, has been the popular Emilio navarro. The first mayor from Santiago del Teide He believes that the real problem of the Port of Aronero, which supports a traffic of about one and a half million passengers a year, is on land and not operational.
“It is true that Los Cristianos has a problem on land, not in capacity del Puerto, which continues to have growth capacity “, Navarro pointed out in an interview in Hoy por Hoy Tajaraste where he also stressed that it must be consistent: “if in its day the money was requested to make the Port of Granadilla and it is as it is, right now the Port of Los Cristianos and Granadilla should be talked about and begin to function after a study and a Master Plan “.
The project
It is located in the municipality of Guía de Isora. The idea is to build a port with a 739 meter docking dock, also intended for cruise ships. A waiting area is planned for 820 vehicles and also 297 trucks. The maritime station will have 270 car parks and occupy about 4,000 square meters.
– Fred Olsen’s ship moored in the Port of Los Cristianos (Arona, Tenerife), one of the two companies that operate in these facilities of Puertos del Estado in the south of the island of Tenerife. / Getty Images
The justification for its construction, planned twenty years ago, is reaffirmed after a report prepared by State ports where they take shape four big problems in the Port of Los Cristianos: the first is the passenger volume that pass through this facility, the second is the sea station capacity that they consider “undersized”, the possibility of hosting the number of total vehicles of vessels operating in the port in the area of pre-shipment reduced by more than half and connections and traffic of all those vehicles from the TF1 highway to the Port through the urban fabric. In this Ports report, advanced by THE DAY, justifies the need for the construction of Fonsalía, which theoretically would become the fourth State Port on the island of Tenerife.
Political reactions
In the Ministry of Ecological Transition, they have expressed their rejection of construction. The head of the area, José Antonio Valbuena, has done it with forcefulness, who joins those who think that “the problem is one of communication.” To this theory they adhere in Canary Coalition and the Popular Party that, although they do not rule out its construction, they do assume that the Port of Granadilla could be a good alternative.
The popular in the Cabildo, Zaida Gonzalez, does not specify and leaves the possible ideas in the hands of the experts: “if it is not possible now to build the Port in Fonsalía, we will have to move forward and look for other solutions“. The nationalist Carlos Alonso remember that Granadilla already exists and that the population is heading towards the metropolitan area and the Arona area. But he adds another objection: “most of the movements of people who go to or come from the Green Islands, They move to the Guaza and Arona area and the Metropolitan Area. When we make an economic, social and mobility evaluation, that factor must be taken into account “.
Instead, If we can In the plenary session of the Island Council, it is emphatic in rejecting its construction and its spokesperson, Maria Jose Belda, he wonders “why is the shipping company hours not changed“to improve operability and also the influx of vehicles to the port of Aronero.
Entrepreneurs
The Chamber of Commerce Santa Cruz de Tenerife is committed to construction. They believe that it is necessary to unblock Los Cristianos as well as the construction employers. On Fepeco claim that those who oppose it are “noistas, minority and sectarian“. They believe that having expired the environmental impact statement” is a failure “and they go so far as to affirm in the construction bosses of the western province that it seems that those who govern are” nonists without democratic legitimacy “, who say they are”.embedded in the organization charts of the administrations and that make nonist reports“.
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