The CEOE Tenerife and the Círculo de Empresarios del Sur (CEST) jointly demand “the urgent impulse” for “the numerous pending infrastructures” in the area. The presidents of the employers, Pedro Alfonso, and from the southern entity. Roberto Ucelay, met to “strengthen collaboration ties” between both business organizations.
Alfonso and Ucelay agreed that the general problem of the business world has a special focus and a specific problem in the south of the Island.
They both consider that “infrastructure solutions tend to be delayed.” Among them it relates the terminal of the South Airport; the port of Fonsalía; the closure of the insular ring; the bidding for the work of the TF-1 between Guaza and Los Cristianos or some business projects such as Cuna del Alma.
The criticism is specified in “the serious structural retentions that damage not only the mobility of the entire Island but also affect the external image of Tenerife in terms of tourism.”
Both presidents agreed to maintain a “constructive collaboration” to seek and demand public-private solutions. According to Alfonso, “there are some projects that could be advanced with financing through figures such as the REF where businessmen could complement the financing of the projects, but they would have to go out and guarantee their execution in the short term.” Ucelay and Alfonso stressed that the delays in the projects are consolidated and the problems accumulate and grow. They not only affect the south, but they “paralyze all of Tenerife”.
