A modern infrastructure and communications network that have been traditionally open to African and Latin American markets positions the Canary Islands as an excellent platform for North-South exchanges.

Eight airports, six of which are international, receive more than 34 million passengers a year. Its cosmopolitan cities are just 2h 30 min from Madrid, 3h 30 min from London and 4 hours by plane from other European cities like Brussels, Berlin and Rome.

Besides hotel infrastructures and top quality services, there is a large network of commercial, fishing and sports ports which places the islands among the leaders in Spain as far as passenger and goods movement. A place of required passing between Europe, America, Africa and in the last few decades, Asia, the islands are a strategic station for supplies and boat repair on the Atlantic

2009 TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS

MARITIME TRANSPORT

Passengers: 4.724.917
Goods (Tm.): 37.304.171

AIR TRANSPORT

Passengers: 30.019.798
Goods (Kg.): 56.979.362

Source: Ministry of Public Works. General Directorate for Civil Aviation. Ports of the State.