Editing Las Palmas (section)

=== Seaport ===
[[File:Panoramic view over Las Palmas (port).jpg|right|thumb|{{center|The [[Puerto de Las Palmas|port of Las Palmas]]}}]]
[[Puerto de Las Palmas]] (Las Palmas Port), also known as ''Puerto de la Luz'', is a main port for fishing, commercial, passenger and sports in the northwest of the city. It has been the traditional base for scale and supplying ships on their way through the Middle Atlantic for five centuries. The Port of Las Palmas is not only the first port of the Canary Islands, it is one of the main ports of Spain and the first of the geographical area of West Africa. As the leading port in the mid-Atlantic, it serves as the crossroads between Europe, Africa and America. In 2007, the port received some 11,262 ships; it welcomed a total of 907,782 cruise passengers, a 16.26% increase on 2006. In terms of annual [[Twenty-foot equivalent unit|TEU]], the port of Las Palmas ranks as the 5th in Spain, and is among the first 15 ports of Europe.{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}}

The Port of Las Palmas is the first Mid-Atlantic fishing base, with an annual traffic of more than 4,500 stopovers and with some 400,000 tons of frozen fish processed.{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}} Despite experiencing some decline in recent years,{{when|date=March 2011}} it retains its dominance in the fishing industry over other ports in the Canary Islands. At the foot of pier, special refrigerated containers and preparation rooms for frozen products can carry out the entire chain of post-processing and storage of fish, from refrigeration and distribution, to manufacture and supply of industrial ice. The port's EU-approved border inspection post is responsible for inspecting all types of imports and exports between the European Economic Union and its trading partners.

[http://www.marina.palmasport.es/ Muelle Deportivo] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210911141246/http://www.marina.palmasport.es/ |date=11 September 2021 }} is the main yachting marina on the island opposite the commercial port with a capacity of 1250 boats. Close to the centre of the city it is popular with yachtsmen largely as a base for preparing their trans Atlantic passage.  It is the start point for the [https://www.worldcruising.com/index.aspx ARC and ARC+] ([https://www.worldcruising.com/index.aspx Atlantic Rally for Cruisers]) in which up to 300 yachts of different sizes leave in November for the Caribbean.<gallery caption="In the port of Las Palmas">
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