New port development in Tenerife

The majority of this would be spent on creating a breakwater, with some work to the quay.

Nevertheless, he emphasised that Granadilla was not viewed as an alternative to the existing port at Santa Cruz, which gets €16m of state development money, but rather as a complementary facility.

The minister declined to give exact dimensions for the new port, other than to say that it would be a bespoke facility, designed in line with traffic requirements.