Trasmediterránea

Compañia Trasmediterránea SA
legal form	Corporation
founding	1916
Seat	Madrid , Spain
Branch	shipping
Website	www.trasmediterranea.es

Long-standing company headquarters in Barcelona

Trasmediterránea is a Spanish shipping company that has been operating ferry lines between mainland Spain and the islands of the Kingdom as well as the Spanish territories on the African mainland since January 1917 . The Trasmediterránea is located since 2018 in the majority-owned by Naviera Armas , a shipping company based in the Canary Islands .

Company history

The company was founded on November 26, 1916 through the merger of four shipping companies of the ship owners José Juan Dómine, Vicente Ferrer, Joaquín Tintoré and Enrique García. She started operations on January 1, 1917 and had a fleet of 45 ships. The company headquarters was established in Via Laietana in Barcelona . From 1921 the company had a monopoly on all lines that connected the Spanish mainland with the islands, as well as on the ferry connections to the territories in Africa. During the Spanish Civil War , the company's ships were used by both parties to the conflict - the Republicans and the Franquists - as auxiliary ships for their respective navies. In 1978 the company came into state ownership.

The 1980s and 1990s were marked by the acceleration of ferry traffic with high-speed catamarans and hydrofoils . The first high-speed ferries were built and they were eventually used on the Valencia – Palma and Barcelona – Palma routes. The company structure was decentralized in the 1990s and divided into three areas: Balearic Islands , Sur Estrecho , the Strait of Gibraltar, and Canary Islands . The company was ISO certified in 1996 and a subsidiary began offering cruises in the western Mediterranean and nearby areas of the Atlantic. In 1998 the monopoly was lifted and ferry services in Spanish waters were liberalized. Nevertheless, the Trasmediterránea was largely able to maintain its dominant position.

In 2002 the Conservative Government of Spain, led by the Partido Popular , privatized the company. The Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales (SEPI), German: Staatsgesellschaft für Industriebeteiligungen, sold the Trasmediterránea to a consortium, which was led with 60% by Acciona Logística . A number of transport and tourism companies were also involved, including the ferry company Naviera Armas , a competitor, and the Caja Mediterráneo Sparkasse, which later ran into difficulties . As a result, the name of the ferry company was changed to Acciona-Trasmediterranea . The head office was then in Madrid. On October 25, 2017, the Spanish shipping company Naviera Armas acquired 92.71% of the shares in Trasmediterránea , which were owned by Acciona, for 260 million euros . The new owners also had to take over old debts. On May 23, 2018, the National Competition Authority, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia , approved the share purchase. The company operates several conventional ferries that work on the principle of the displacement ship , as well as some high-speed catamarans from the Australian manufacturer Incat .

Current fleet

Catamarans	Super ferries	Ferries		Cargo ferries
Alboran ^* Alcantara dos Almudaina dos Milenium dos	Fortuny Sorolla Tinamar Volcanoes ^* Volcán de Tijarafe ^*	Albayzin Almariya Ciudad de Ibiza Ciudad de Malaga Dimonios Forza	Juan J Sister Las Palmas GC Tenacia Vronskiy Zurbaran	José María Entrecanales SF Baleares SF Levante
^together with Naviera Armas*
Catamaran Alborán in the port of Ceuta Cargo ferry José María Entrecanales in the port of Cádiz Fortuny ferry

Catamarans (as of January 2019)
	Alboran	Alcantara dos	Almudaina dos	Milenium dos
IMO number	9206700	9107203	9141833	9237644
Commissioning	1999	1995	1997	2003
capacity	868 passengers, 220 cars	575 passengers, 120 cars	714 passengers, 175 cars	866 passengers, 220 cars
length	96.0 m	76.3 m	100 m	97.2 m
width	26.0 m	23.0 m	17.1 m	26.2 m
Draft	4.0 m	2.6 m	2.7 m	3.4 m
power	60,000 hp	29,480 hp	38,500 hp	37,948 hp
speed	38 knots	30 knots	34 knots	35 knots

Lines

Trasmediterránea serves the following ferry routes (there / back):

Balearic Islands

from Barcelona to Palma de Mallorca , Ibiza , Menorca and Formentera
from Valencia to Palma de Mallorca, Ibiza, Menorca and Formentera
from Palma de Mallorca to Ibiza and Menorca

Sur estrecho

from Algeciras to Ceuta and to Tanger-Med (Morocco)
from Almería to Melilla , Nador (Morocco), Ghazaouet and Oran (both in Algeria)
from Málaga to Melilla

Canary Islands

from Cádiz to Gran Canaria , Fuerteventura , Lanzarote , Tenerife and La Palma
from Lanzarote to Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, La Palma and Tenerife
from Gran Canaria to Fuerteventura, La Palma and Tenerife
from Fuerteventura to La Palma and Tenerife
from La Palma to Tenerife

literature

Marino Gómez-Santos: Trasmediterránea. Hacia el nuevo milenio , Madrid 1997
Juan Carlos Díaz Lorenzo: Trasmediterránea. Historia de la flota , Madrid 1998
AA. VV .: Trasmediterránea 100 años: 1917-2017 , Lectura Plus 2016, ISBN 978-8408167648

Web links

Commons : Acciona Trasmediterránea - collection of images

trasmediterranea.es , official website

Individual evidence

↑ Transmediterránea, privatizada tras 24 años como compañía pública. In: El Mundo . July 30, 2002, Retrieved April 22, 2019 (Spanish).

[1] Transmediterránea, privatizada tras 24 años como compañía pública. In: El Mundo . July 30, 2002, Retrieved April 22, 2019 (Spanish).