Port of Las Palmas (also called La Luz Port]) (Spanish: Puerto de Las Palmas or Puerto de La Luz) is a port for fishing, commercial, passenger and sports boats in the north-west of the Las Palmas, Spain, European Union. For five centuries, the Port of Las Palmas (La Luz Port) has been the traditional base for scale and supplying ships on their way through the Middle Atlantic. La Luz Port is not only the first port of the Canary Islands, but also the first port in the Mid-Atlantic, and handles the most traffic at the crossroads between Europe, Africa and America. In turn, it constitutes one of the main ports of Spain and the first of the geographical area of West Africa. The port in 2007 handled a total of 907,782 passengers, 16.26% more than in 2006, and the growing cruise passenger traffic rose 21.23%.