Address the speculative demand of a company with no experience in maritime navigation but an expert in reporting and a Catalan company that is based in Casablanca and is called Transcoma. That is the smoke that has generated unrest among farmers in the south of Gran Canaria because it is sold that the Tarfaya-Canarias line via Fuerteventura is to supply fresh products to tourism in the south of Gran Canaria. Canarian Coalition (CC) is partially against. The revolving doors of political life have generated that Juan José Cardona, former director of Santana Cazorla and former mayor of Las Palmas with the PP, and Blas Trujillo, former Minister of Labor in 1993 and of Health between 2020 and 2023 with the PSOE, represent the interests of the Newport and Transcoma groups in this matter.
The Transcoma group is a peninsular company owned by the Oliver and Cryns families. Since 2010 Transcoma Global Logistics took the international leap with the creation of a subsidiary in Morocco (Casablanca). This company is the one that farmers denounce that wants to invade the south of Gran Canaria with fresh products and in Las Palmas they are delighted because what happens in the south of Gran Canaria is only interesting for the purposes of extracting resources to maintain the quality of life of the farmers. medians.
On Friday, March 15, there is a demonstration in Puerto del Rosario against it, starting with farmers and ranchers, and has the regional support of the Association of Farmers and Ranchers of the Canary Islands (Asaga), the Coordinator of Organizations of Farmers and Ranchers of the Canary Islands (COAG). ) and the Association of Livestock and Dairy Industries of the Canary Islands (Aegil).
The president of COAG Canarias, Rafael Hernández, has shown his absolute rejection of the reopening of the direct maritime line between Fuerteventura and Tarfaya (Morocco)
promoted by the Government of the Canary Islands. "We cannot say that we want the same rule to be applied there as here and then open the door for what is coming from Morocco. The phytosanitary and health risk is tremendous," he said. Hernández has confirmed that street protests are being prepared and has asked for more controls on supermarkets so that the food chain law is complied with, that the payment of Posei aid be expedited and that hydraulic infrastructure works be undertaken to guarantee irrigation water. , among other measures.
