The Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife will invest 269 million euros in its facilities until the year 2027, with a clear commitment to advance in the construction of the port of Granadilla and close the Link Dock operation with an inter-administrative agreement that allows its financing, as announced yesterday in a statement.
Said initiatives have been defined in the meeting corresponding to the negotiation of the Business Plan 2024 of Puertos de Tenerife, held at the headquarters of Puertos del Estado, in an act attended by Carlos González and Javier Mora, president and director, respectively, of Puertos de Tenerife, and their counterparts in Puertos del Estado, Álvaro Dapena and Manuel Arana, respectively.
From said document, the Port Authority highlighted the contribution of 47 million euros in Feder funds, 85% of its total cost, for the execution of the closure works of the Ribera Dock of the port of Granadilla and annexed landfills whose execution is priority for the processing of applications for occupancy that this dock already has.
From Puertos they recalled that the Granadilla dock stands out for its great potential as a hub or concentration pole for new emerging energies. More specifically, the strategic position with respect to the wind resource makes Granadilla a fundamental support point for the massive deployment of renewable energy in the Canary Islands, they highlighted.
Also the reinforcement of measures for the supply of electricity to ships in port (OPS) will have European financing under the same modality, but with an amount of 47 million euros.
reduce pollution
The Ports of Tenerife recalled that it is a pioneer at the state level in the implementation of measures that reduce noise pollution and gas emissions into the atmosphere, the Tenerife entity having already allocated more than 2.5 million euros, 935,000 of them in the port of Tenerife, to different measures in this regard.
Thus, since the end of 2022, the entity applies an ordinance to its ports that is mainly applied to the berthing of regular line ships, cargo loading and unloading operations and land operations in port terminals.
Approval of the State to an agreement to finish the works of the Link Dock
Puertos de Tenerife also advanced yesterday that, during the meeting held to publicize the details of the Business Plan, the highest officials of Puertos del Estado gave viability to the initiative that the president of the port entity, Carlos González, has been defending, to process an inter-administrative agreement in which the Tenerife Port Authority, the Government of the Canary Islands, the Island Council and the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council jointly finance the works of the Link Pier project, as was done with the works for the planning of the coastline of Valleseco.
It should be remembered that, at the end of last year 2022, the Tenerife Port Authority proposed a cost reduction for the cruise terminal building and inter-island traffic of the Link Dock project, by eliminating spaces and uses that today do not have much sense.
In this way, as indicated by Carlos González “of the 82.5 million euros that the execution of the original project for the Link Pier would entail, the design changes applied respecting the first-born idea have allowed costs to be reduced by more than 22 million euros with which its current execution budget is 60 million euros”.
A project that includes the Navy building, whose design has already been approved.
