The PP president in Málaga, Elías Bendodo, has called upon the Junta de Andalucia to include provision in the 2014 budget to begin the first phase of work on the planned marina for the eastern Axarquia to be located between Nerja and Torrox.
Bendodo and other PP mayors and representatives from the Axarquia district gathered at the site proposed for the marina to call for immediate action.
The PP president recalled that the current project has been around since 1990, at which time the Public Ports Authority of Andalucia (APPA) declared the need and feasibility of this important infrastructure, adding that former leaders of the Junta de Andalucia, including José Antonio Griñan, pledged to push through the marina project.
Bendodo continued to say that it then came as a great surprise that the project is now being considered for inclusion in the Ports Master Plan 2014-2020, an action he considers would to all intents and purposes condemn the project to oblivion.
He noted that if the regional government had good management and commitment, the gathered group would not be standing on the banks of the Arroyo Frontiles but in the marina of the Costa del Sol East, a very necessary first-class facility that could establish itself as the major sports infrastructure of this area of the coast.
Finally, Elias Bendodo pointed out that there are currently more than 3,200 berths in Málaga province with a turnover of €750 million in 2012, but only 10% of these moorings are in the Axarquia.
The Mayor of Nerja, José Alberto Armijo, stressed the need to unblock this project as this area of the province needs an infrastructure of this scale and importance.
For his part, the President of the Association of Municipalities of the Costa del Sol , Axarquia , Oscar Medina, considered that the objective of constructing a marina would be a ‘significant breakthrough’ in the PP model of tourism for this part of the coast, a model that involves dynamic generation of employment and wealth.