CC backs with Clavijo the creation of port authorities for Fuerteventura and Lanzarote
The leader of Coalición Canaria (CC) in Fuerteventura, Mario Cabrera, confirmed the request for a formal meeting between economic, social and institutional agents from those islands and Fernando Clavijo, the President of the Canary Islands Government, to move forward with the creation of a Lanzarote and Fuerteventura Port Authority as a tool to boost and strengthen the islands’ economies. Cabrera said to Canarymaritime that the idea is not aimed at Gran Canaria, but instead is based on financial logic and on improving the competitiveness of these islands.
CC expects that in Las Palmas, there will be no obstruction of the disconnection—especially since the presidency of Puertos de Las Palmas is in the orbit of CC and there are Gran Canaria port businessmen who have advocated for a greater nationalist Canary presence in the Congress and Senate, pushing for greater Canary island sovereignty in decision-making.
As this outlet revealed, the union of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote already breaks the argument that it would not be viable. It would immediately surpass Cádiz, Pasaia, Sevilla, Huelva, Avilés, Tarragona, Almería, Alicante, Gijón, Marín and Ría de Pontevedra, Castellón, Ferrol-San Cibrao, Vilagarcía, Cartagena, Ceuta, A Coruña, Melilla and Motril. Those are the figures. The combined total of 103,130.31 tonnes recorded by the Port of Arrecife and 83,341.94 tonnes recorded by the Port of Puerto del Rosario yields a joint balance of 186,472.26 tonnes in January 2026. The volume would place the alliance of the eastern islands immediately at number 11 in the national ranking of Puertos del Estado, overtaking 18 of the 28 traditional port authorities in the country.
“For months we said we were going to establish a common front between Lanzarote and Fuerteventura; clearly, that also involves the port sphere,” Cabrera said.
Fernando Clavijo gave the green light for the creation of the Lanzarote Port Authority in 2016, and 10 years later, adding Fuerteventura, even each of those islands separately, has the capacity to self-finance and not depend on Las Palmas. “This is not against anyone; it’s a future issue in the short term, because we will be able to have routes that are currently being lost or that from Las Palmas have not been promoted,” Cabrera said, without mentioning the Tarfaya line with Fuerteventura, when from Agadir there is a line connecting with Las Palmas.
The Lanzarote and Majorera business groups are drawing up an agenda to push forward the 2016 agreement of the Canary Islands Government when CC was governing with the PSOE, especially as the President of Puertos del Estado is the Majorero Gustavo Santana (PSOE). From Las Palmas, there are Canary entrepreneurs, not intermediaries, generating a support platform for Fuerteventura and Lanzarote in support of this demand. “All support that comes helps; we are totally complementary, there is nothing to fear,” Cabrera said. He added that Fuerteventura needs its own voice before Puertos del Estado and cited, as an example, the loss of the connection with Fuerteventura from Cádiz. “Only on islands where work is carried out on the ground can these errors be avoided, the ones that do so much damage to our economies,” he added.
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