The Board of Directors of the Ports of Tenerife It has been agreed grant an administrative concession to Tenerife Shipyards for the installation of a floating dock in the new portthe second of the island port system.
At that meeting, the president, Carlos González, was empowered to sign said concession in these days, a signature pending only that Palumbo floating dock abandon facility from the port of Granadilla.
This is the only condition that prevents the formal granting of said administrative concession. after Tenerife Shipyards has accepted the specifications corresponding to the occupation, for fifty years, of 41,155 square meters of water surface and 19,895 of land surface of the port public domain intended for the installation of a floating dock and an investment of 20.5 million euros.
Once the granting of the concession has been signed by the president of Puertos de Tenerife, the concessionaire company must present the construction project within a maximum period of six monthsa project that, once approved by the Port Authority Tenerife, will have to start running in the next six months.
González has always defended the configuration of Granadilla as a large ship repair center, an activity that requires trained professionals and that would serve as support for the assembly and installation of wind turbines on land and sea, and even the manufacture of parts for export.
The installation of a floating dock in the Granadilla port It already has the approval of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, which, on April 30, 2021, declared that the installation of said infrastructure in the new port “does not require to be submitted to the ordinary environmental evaluation procedure”.
This is reflected in the project’s environmental impact report in response to the simplified procedure requested by Puertos de Tenerife for the installation of a breakwater whose request was initially submitted by Palumbo Shipyards, SL, Puertos de Tenerife details in a note.
However, Tenerife Shipyards also submitted to the call for project competition procedures prior to the concession, a company that finally won said request as its project, according to Puertos de Tenerife, was “of greater port interest” than that of the Italian company, both due to the size of the infrastructure and the turnover provided.
