The number of passengers who used the ports of the Canary Islands increases in February

30 Sea The number of passengers who used the ports of the Canary Islands increases in February

By Instituto Canario de Estadística, (ISTAC), del Gobierno de Canarias En el mes de febrero un total de 581.581 Cruise passengers used the ports of the Canary Islands.
The data of 2025 was 498.352 people. Los puertos con mayor incremento presentaron fueron el
Puerto de Arrecife y el de La Luz y de Las Palmas, con un aumento del 30,1% y del 24,6%,
respectivamente.

Regarding regular traffic, The ports of Los Cristianos and Santa Cruz de Tenerife were
those that had a greater movement of travelers. The first of them recorded the passage of 1 decade
3 travelers who used these infrastructures. Por su parte, the port with the greatest increase in
travelers was La Palma with an increase in 56,9% and the Port with the greatest drop was Arrecife with a 9,8%
less travelers.

The number of TEUS containers (the most standardized measure worldwide) who went through the
puertos de Canarias en febrero fue un 8,5 percent higher than in the same month of 2025. In total
fueron 165.734 containers those that were accounted for by 152.762 February 2025.

The Port of La Luz and Las Palmas is the one with the highest volume of entry and exit of
containers. In the Canary Islands, 7 decade 10 containers that are moved do so from this facility.
Compared to the previous year, aumentó un 21,1 percent container movement in this
puerto.

Regarding vehicle traffic, durante el mes de febrero aumentó un 2,8% with respect to the same
month of the previous year. This year they were 171.039 the vehicles that used the State Ports in
Canarias, for the 166.441 que hubo en febrero de 2025.

The data collected in this information refers exclusively to the eleven Ports of the
State that exists in the Canary Islands. These are the facilities of: Reef, The Rosary, lighter, La
Light and Las Palmas, Salinetas, Passion fruit, The Christians, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, San Sebastian
La Gomera, Santa Cruz de la Palma and La Estaca. There are other port facilities that depend on the
Government of the Canary Islands, as is the case of the Puerto de Las Nieves, Corralejo, Playa Blanca or Morro
Jable.

Source:: Noticias Económicas de Canarias