Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE) of Las Palmas.
The decrease in traffic was caused by the reduction in tons of frozen fish (-29.14%), fuel (-14.40%), container movement (-11.50%) and merchandise (- 2.68%), specifies the note.
Passenger traffic, on the other hand, experienced an increase of 55.42% (20.36% on the regular line and 101.78% on cruise); ro-ro traffic units rose 9.24% and ro-ro traffic tons, 12.11%.
In the Arinaga port, in Gran Canaria, the drop in total traffic was 28.80% in January.
The port of Arrecife presented a growth in total traffic of 28.19%, that of Puerto de Rosario, of 25.33% compared to the month of January 2022, while that of Salinetas, in Gran Canaria, increased 25.01%.
Last month, the Las Palmas Port Authority, in its ports as a whole, registered a drop in total traffic of 0.42 percent of total traffic, conditioned above all by containers in transit and offset by passenger traffic on the regular line .
According to the note, there was a clear rise in traffic on the lines operated by Armas and Fred Olsen, which went from moving 83,357 passengers in January 2022 to 97,384 last month, in addition to freight and ro-ro, as well as in aviation fuel.
For the Port Authority, the statistics for January 2023 reflect the process of resizing port activity after a consolidated upward trend with a record figure of 28.9 million tons moved during 2022 and the interannual variation of December 2022-2021 with 10.95% more total traffic.
The accumulated 2022-2021 registered an increase of 2.38%, 12.03% over 2020 and 8.20% compared to the 2019 financial year, the note specifies.
The president of the Las Palmas Port Authority (APLP), Luis Ibarra, stated that “this year will mean a qualitative leap in the port of Las Palmas with the introduction of new activities that will further diversify its offer.”
The diversification of port activities, and its high qualification in the development of each of these activities, is one of the keys to the success of the Port of Las Palmas throughout its 140-year history, he stressed.
In this sense, Ibarra highlights three large projects that will be operational, under construction or awarded during 2023: the largest port esplanade in Spain with a berthing line dedicated to offshore wind power, a Nautical Services Center for Large Vessels (which will complete the offer of naval repairs in one segment, the nautical sport, which uses our ports to prepare its journey to the Caribbean) and the world’s first land-raised octopus farm. EFE