Asinca criticizes reducing transport compensation.

The Industrial Association of the Canary Islands (Asinca) has criticized, after analyzing the budget items that affect the Canary Islands in the draft General State Budgets (PGE) for 2015, the reduction in compensation for the transport of goods to or from the Canary Islands for industrial products.

In this sense, have shown a “great concern” so they consider a “alarming” reduction of the State's contribution to compensation for the transport of industrial goods, since they assure that “being aware of the delicate” economic situation of Spain, due to the deficit limitations imposed by the community institutions, Asinca “does not understand” that the central government “continue to decrease” your contribution.

In this respect, they add in a statement, that must be taken into account “importance” of maritime transport of goods for the Canary Islands and, thus, “offset higher costs” that has an industrial sector located in a territory “distant and divided”, They also add, “when only the same effort is required” investor than the one made in 2014.

Asinca claims not to understand “the discriminatory nature of the measure to reduce compensation for the transport of goods to or from the Canary Islands for industrial products compared to an increase of more than one 112 percent on the compensation sheet for transportation of Annex I products”, However, they point out that although they support, they believe that “must occur on the same terms for everyone” the products.

Like this, They emphasize that if this were not the case, there would be a “injustice and unfavorable treatment” to products made in the Canary Islands, affected by an additional transportation cost that “exceeds the 700 million euros.

In addition, indicate that the State's investment effort for industrial products, in the period 2014-2020, will be co-financed in a 85 percent by the European Union (EU) through a specific line of the FEDER Funds, the RUP Fund, “created specifically by the EU to compensate for the extra costs caused by remoteness and insularity. I.e., by each 15 euros that the Government of Spain puts, the European Union adds 85 EUR”.

Thus, They highlight that the central government has “decreased the investment effort made in 2014, for the compensation sheet for the transportation of Industrial Products, in 3.482.283 EUR” for 2015, which means a drop in 66 percent. To this they add that it occurs the year that the new co-financing system comes into force in which “Not only do the Canary Islands industries not benefit, but they come out unfortunately harmed”.

For all these reasons, They consider that there is a “absolute lack of sensitivity” by the central government towards a sector that “brings more than 40.000 direct jobs to the economy of the Canary Islands and that, according to the Plan that this Government has presented, It is the future sector of the Spanish Economy and key” to achieve economic diversification.

At last, they assure that “has not yet perceived” the amounts of compensation corresponding to 2013 What, However, “If you have received the agricultural sector for two months, which shows the bias” of the central government.

Finally, They demand that the PP maintain 2015 the contribution of the PGE of 2014, with which the financial sheet of this item would be 33.164.600 EUR, which would be equivalent to the levels of the financial sheet of 2010.