The Port Authority of Santa Cruz of Tenerife yesterday transferred to the City Council of the capital its commitment to cede the surrounding land to the Maritime park and to Palmetum so that the city can develop a future leisure space in that area, at the same time that the local Corporation expressed its desire to “recover certain roads for the city, such as José Martí avenue, Andrómeda street or the transfer of the Miguel Pintor school ”, Highlighted the mayor, José Manuel Bermúdez, an extreme that Carlos González, president of the Port Authority, confirmed“ that there is already a formal request and progress is being made in this line ”.
During the meeting, in which the councilors of Works and Urbanism, Dámaso Arteaga and Carlos Tarife, respectively, as well as municipal and port technicians, as well as the director of the Port Authority, Aitor Acha, have also participated, a review of the different works currently underway and that will mean generating new spaces for the city’s relationship with the coast and its port in a few months.
Both Bermúdez and González highly valued this quarterly commission and reported that one of the works on which there is monitoring is the one that has to do with the exit and entry of port traffic, which the president of the Port Authority announced that “In the Auditorium area there is a tunneling project for this section thanks to an agreement with the Ministry of Public Works of the Government of the Canary Islands”, an action that the mayor understands that “it is one of the investments raised today in the Puerto -City, which also includes others ”.
The first mayor stressed that in the investment chapter “some very important are those that the Port must do in the Port-City link, so we appeal to invest its own public funds or the Government of Spain, the Canary Islands or the Cabildo to that this important link be completed “and remember that” all the part that Santa Cruz had to do has already been done and now there is the part that the Port has to do, for which we have expressed the maximum collaboration and also the maximum urgency to that things that have to do with the city begin to happen there ”.
On the other hand, the European investment funds were also addressed at the meeting, where a line of collaboration has begun that may bear good results, “especially –Carlos González advances- in those that have to do with the electrification of the Port, projects that affect the decarbonization of port activity that has a clear positive impact on the citizens of Santa Cruz ”, an extreme that José Manuel Bermúdez understands that“ it is an excellent idea, since in this city low emission zones cannot be planned of CO2 if the Port is not included ”.
“Since the Refinery stopped being active –Bermúdez abounds-, possibly the Port is the industry that pollutes the most in Santa Cruz, so this initiative to electrify the different docks by the Port Authority is undoubtedly an excellent action ”and affirms that“ it is a very important environmental project for the city and its air quality ”and highlights that“ when the cruise ships arrive they do not have to have the engines running because they are served electricity, it will be noted in lower emissions of CO2, but also in noise; in short, a more sustainable city ”.
For their part, those responsible for the State Ports entity explained how the works of the port-city link, started this summer, as well as the future Valleseco beach, whose execution began last June, are being developed. . He also became aware of the state of the administrative file of the reform project, on the same beach, of the areas of El Bloque and Acapulco, whose works will be financially assumed by the City Council and which, predictably, would begin at the end of next summer, to do not interrupt the enjoyment of this part of the coast during the summer.
At the end of the meeting, both José Manuel Bermúdez and Carlos González highlighted the “excellent degree of affinity between the two administrations, which will allow us to advance quickly in numerous improvement projects in the city.” The mayor has indicated that the objective of these meetings “is to recover and dignify the physical relationship between the port and the city, because it is a value for which Santa Cruz must make every effort to recover.”
Likewise, during the meeting the mayor revealed “the concern of the municipal Corporation regarding the remains of hydrocarbons that have appeared in recent weeks in some areas of the coast of Tenerife” and has requested that “all available surveillance systems be maintained to know their origin and avoid their recurrence in the future ”.
