The Board of Directors of the Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has approved this Wednesday the annual accounts of the body corresponding to the 2021 financial year, figures that reflect a turnover of 50.6 million euros, 7% more than in 2019 when, as In the pre-COVID year, a total turnover of 47.3 million euros was reached.
Of these 50.6 million, 36.8 of them invoiced in the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 16 million correspond to profits before taxes, 3.7 million more than in 2019 or, what is the same, an increase of 8.12%. These figures now require the corresponding report from the IGAE, although no changes are expected on the document presented, explains the Port Authority.
At the Council meeting, its president, Carlos González Pérez, highlighted the improvement recorded in the collection of occupancy fees for the port public domain, vessel fees and passenger fees. Of the 47.2 million euros received as port taxes, 9.05% more than in 2019, 12.4 come from the occupation of the port public domain, which shows a particularly notable increase of 22% compared to 2019. two years, and shows the good management in this regard that has been carried out, explains the Port Authority.
No less representative are the income from the ship tax, what they must pay for their access or stay in port waters, which exceed 12 million, 3.5% more, and this despite the reduction in said rates and of merchandise by 12.5% compared to 2019.
Carlos González told the members of the Council that the private investment planned for our ports in the 2023 Business Plan, a document that is currently being negotiated with Puertos del Estado and covers investment planning until 2026, reaches one billion euros, an amount of which practically half would be generated, precisely through private investment, in the port of Granadilla.
Memorandum with PLOCAN
The Council also learned about the conditions of the Memorandum of Understanding recently signed between Puertos de Tenerife and PLOCAN, with the aim of accelerating the roadmap for offshore wind power and energy from the sea in the Canary Islands, thus promoting the decarbonisation of the blue economy, in particularly that related to the port area and maritime transport.
It will be the waters of Zone II of the port of Granadilla that will host this development by hosting R&D projects and demonstrative initiatives related to offshore wind power and sea energy, thus favoring investment in the value chain associated with renewable marine energies and including energy vectors such as green hydrogen.
For Carlos González, president of Puertos de Tenerife, this collaboration with PLOCAN “allows the port of Granadilla to be the protagonist of all the experimentation necessary to achieve the deployment of wind power offshore in Spain at a commercial level”. Likewise, it will be “a great opportunity for the entire network of local companies to have a first phase of training and fine-tuning of knowledge that allows them to integrate into the supply chain of the wind sector”.
