Top representatives of the Balearic Government visit us and announce subsidies to decarbonise the nautical sector.

Yesterday we had the pleasure of receiving in our shipyard in Can Valero (Palma) the visit of the Vice President and Minister of Energy Transition, Juan Pedro Yllanes, the Director General of Energy and Climate Change, Pep Malagrava and the Director of Industrial Policy, Antoni Morro.
They expressed their support and Juan Pedro Yllanes, in front of the journalists present, set us as an example to be followed by the rest of the sector. We were told that the Government attaches great importance to this type of initiative aimed at reducing the carbon footprint and polluting emissions in the seas.
The Vice-President stressed that mobility, including nautical mobility, is one of the greatest sources of pollution, which is why measures are planned to limit these emissions, and insisted that the protection of the marine environment, especially considering that it is one of the islands' main assets, is one of the Executive's objectives. This is reflected in the Balearic Islands Energy Transition Investment Plan, which has several economic lines of action in this regard.
Juan Pedro Illanes took advantage of the visit to announce that 15 million euros will be allocated to the decarbonisation of the marine sector, as part of the Investment Plan for Energy Transition in the Balearic Islands.
For our part we convey to them that we are ready for the challenge of helping to decarbonise the fleet of boats in the Balearic Islands, especially through the conversion to electric motorisation of llauts. In this sense, we have already successfully converted a boat by means of an integral retrofit, and we are in the process of converting a traditional wooden llaut and a passenger transport llaut.
Due to the great demand we are receiving, in the next few days we will be opening our first electric boat conversion centre in the Port of Alcudia. Facilities that we will dedicate exclusively to the conversion of boats, being one of the first centres specialised in the electrification of boats (if not the first) in the Balearic Islands and the Mediterranean.
We encourage all recreational boat owners and charter companies to consider converting their boats to less polluting propulsion systems, it is a proven technology that offers multiple benefits and it seems that the administration is going to make it easier for us.
From our point of view, all of us who love the SEA are obliged to take care of it and preserve it, and to be aware of our impact on it, we owe it to it.
Both Diario de Mallorca and Ultima Hora were present at the visit and echoed the announcement of the subsidies.
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