From RTVAC:


The Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and Housing awarded for 160,000 euros works to install the new swamps of the port of El Cotillo.

The new facility will provide the dock with 50 berths that will replace the current anchorages with fishing chains based on this town of La Oliva.

The Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and Housing of the Government of the Canary Islands, through the public entity Puertos Canarios, has recently awarded the works to equip with s

I thought I had posted about this a few weeks back but can't find the thread.
La Lonja café, the original fisherman's café down by the harbour, has been knocked out during lockdown (not before time as it was pretty manky inside) and is being refurbed. I've used this place for around 20 years and I preferred it in the earlier of those days when it was mainly locals (fishermen) drinking coffee and arehucas, discussing their catches and sharing a newspaper. Many a coffee and tortilla did I consu

After our trip to Cofete & Villa Winter we dropped down in to Morro Jable harbour and saw 3 or 4 Stingrays swimming at the quay side - 

Radio Sintonia:

El Cotillo will have a ramp stranded in its port facilities.

The Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Housing of the Government of the Canary Islands, directed by Sebastián Franquis, puts out to tender in the State Contracting Platform an action of Puertos Canarios to execute a ramp stranded in the port facilities of El Cotillo, in the municipality of La Oliva. This action, which has a budget of 130,517 euros, will restore the old ramp already demolished, providing the

Radio Sintonia:

The Harbour Master of Las Palmas inspected 1,160 vessels in 2023.

The Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, through the Harbour Master of Las Palmas, under the General Directorate of the Merchant Navy, inspected a total of 1,160 ships last year, most of them national vessels in service (1,110), but also foreign vessels, within the framework of the Paris Memorandum (50), to check that the vessels arriving on our coasts comply with international environmental and sa