The House warns that the new Law on Ports "sentence to the second division" to the Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
For the president of the Chamber, Ignacio Gonzalez Martin, the decision to leave out of the category of international transshipment port in the capital of Tenerife is "an act of extreme gravity because not only hampers the development and growth under conditions of equality, but , Also, emphasized the costs of double insularity and reap the possibility of making tri logistics platform. "
In this regard,, tera gold, the Chamber of Commerce has called on Members of the Canary Islands from all political groups represented in the Congress to prevent discrimination in the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, promoting their inclusion in the group of domestic ports that can set bonuses international maritime traffic, among which include Las Palmas, Algeciras, Barcelona and Valencia, among others., darkfall gold for sale,
Martin Gonzalez reminded the State that the Canaries is a fragmented territory and away from the continent that can not apply the same criteria for qualification in the Peninsula port. As he explained "is not merely a question of rivalry between islands, or to promote the lawsuit island, but to dnd and promote the possibilities of development of the Autonomous Community as a, ffxiv gil, whole."
In his view, "both ports should have the same potential for development against fierce international competition, and which thus have a huge Canary more likely to become a hub for business and the trade between America, Europe and Africa" .
The forecast of the development commission is to have adopted the reform of Law 48/2003 this summer. According to the vice president of the Transport Committee of the Chamber of Commerce and director of the Association of Stevedoring Companies and ship port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Luis Falcon, "if approved as expected this new article 19 of Law only the port of Las Palmas will be able to discount their port charges, which will allow you to compete with hub ports such as Tangier-Med, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya. "
For Luis Falcon, "this possibility is essential for any port that wants to be competitive in the international arena, and which is completely excluded the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the future Granadilla logistics platform."
But gaps
Another major gap that opens the Bill Puertos del Estado is the loss of economic resources to the canary port infrastructure. While the current text, bonuses will keep the port taxes, does not create a mechanism to compensate the island port authorities for the shortfall in revenue it poses.
A situation which is to deepen even more, in the loss of competitiveness of the port of Tenerife that will have little leeway to take on projects to improve their infrastructure or provide services, says Commission Vice Chairman of the House Transportation Trade, Luis Falcon.
To prevent this from happening, both the Chamber of Commerce and various economic and social agents in the port community of Tenerife have been submitted to the Government of the Nation and the various parliamentary groups formulas. One of them is that Europe offset the revenue lost through funds from the outermost regions and other serious option, the Compensation Fund between ports is responsible for filing this imbalance, a prospect that has already been rejected by the other Spanish port system on the grounds that each port authority must meet its own funding.
The third way that is targeted, according to Luis Falcon, "is that the Law on State Budget provides for a specific item to ensure full financial maintenance of the port authorities in the Canaries.
According to Commission Vice ChairmanTransport of the Chamber of Commerce "if not accepted any of the proposals, port authorities, and especially that of Santa Cruz de Tenerife lose their investment capacity and delay the implementation of vital infrastructure for competitiveness not only ports, but the island economy as a whole. "
Luis Falcon adds, further, that all this would be a departure from Tenerife in relation to competing ports in their geographic area, which already have projects approved or in development and execution, such as Las Palmas or Morocco. "