Maltrato del motor de la provincia de Las Palmas que representan Fuerteventura y Lanzarote sigue sin comprenderse en Gran Canaria, cosa lógica porque es donde se origina. The management of port infrastructure in the province of Las Palmas faces a tough test of financial accountability. The Fuerteventura Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Services and Navigation has filed a request for transparency addressed to the Port Authority of Las Palmas regarding the technical submission of its Business Plan 2027. The Majorera business body considers it essential that the budget planning document differentiates the funding allocated to genuinely new projects from the financial commitments rescheduled from previous years that have accumulated repeated delays in their physical implementation.
The president of the Fuerteventura Chamber of Commerce, Juan Jesús Rodríguez Marichal, argues that the credibility of investment commitments by public administrations is measured by the material execution of capital spending, not by the amount of annual announcements. The employers’ organization stresses that the archipelago’s productive fabric needs operational terminals and piers, not administrative promises that are reproduced statically in successive drafts of the Business Plan. Continued delays in delivering major infrastructure block the capture of new logistics routes and curb the development of key sectors of the blue economy on the island.
This stance by Fuerteventura’s business community follows the presentation of the framework for the Business Plan 2027 to Puertos del Estado by the president of the Port Authority of Las Palmas, Beatriz Calzada, and the entity’s director, Francisco Trujillo. The draft investments received approval from Gustavo Santana, president of the state public body. However, the business associations of the eastern islands warn that approval of the overall investment framework masks structural shortcomings in the physical execution timelines of the items specifically allocated to Fuerteventura.
The Chamber’s criticism is based on an analysis of the historical accounts of the Puerto del Rosario port. The chamber’s management says that a high share of the total investment volume the port authority reports in its appearances corresponds to items that have been listed for several annual periods in public budgets without materializing on the ground. This discrepancy between planning on paper and actual civil works distorts local market development expectations and penalizes the industrial competitiveness of Canarian companies.
The technical file points to delays in two strategic infrastructure projects for Fuerteventura’s commercial diversification. The first is the comprehensive upgrade of the port facilities intended to serve the future international maritime route between Puerto del Rosario and the city of Tarfaya in Morocco. Funded with an allocation of two million euros, it has been included successively in the annual plans of the Port Authority of Las Palmas without contractors having started the works. A similar situation affects the expansion of the commercial pier’s breakwater by 250 linear meters, a project budgeted at 44.2 million euros and backed by financing from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
The Port Authority of Las Palmas’ Business Plan 2027 includes some technical updates that the business organization considers valuable for modernizing the port of Puerto del Rosario. The main development is the project for onshore electrical connection for ships, an infrastructure designed to provide electrical supply to inter-island transport vessels during their berthing periods at the quay. This port decarbonization initiative has a budget of two million euros and aims to meet European Union environmental standards. The plan also includes a three million euro item for building a new ro-ro ramp to speed up the movement of goods by road.
The Fuerteventura Chamber of Commerce has proposed a reform of the methodology for presenting the port authority’s financial plans to prevent information distortions in the market. The proposal calls for the inclusion of an analytical section in future Business Plans of the Port Authority. This document will need to break down three categories of data: new investment projects, financial credits rescheduled from previous years, and the percentage of fulfillment of the investment targets for the current year.
The economic analysis services of the Fuerteventura Chamber of Commerce are currently developing a comparative audit report on the investment plans of the Port Authority of Las Palmas. The goal of this technical analysis is to cross historical planning data with execution reports from the regulatory body to determine time deviations in the works in Puerto del Rosario. The tool seeks to provide companies with a rigorous information base to assess the feasibility of their investments associated with the island’s maritime connectivity and logistics.
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