Boluda Lines dominates the league of the largest Spanish container operators. It controls more than half of all the capacity deployed by the European country’s five main carriers, equivalent to 26,000 TEU.
“Headquartered in Valencia and with the longest track record among Spanish carriers, Boluda Lines currently operates a total of 18 container and multi-purpose vessels with a fleet capacity of 14,000 TEU,” Alphaliner said.
In second place is Marguisa Shipping Lines, with a considerable difference of almost 9,000 TEU, which operates four vessels of between 250 and 3,650 TEU on routes serving the western Mediterranean and western Africa, in addition to intra-African services. Its main long-distance service is the Mediterranean–West Africa (MAS) loop, operated jointly with CMA CGM (Euraf 4).
JSV Logistic ranks third among the largest Spanish operators. It has a fleet of four container ships with a total capacity of 3,335 TEU. Its main service is the Turkey–Spain–Canary Islands route, served by three 750-800 TEU vessels.
“At the beginning of this year, the shipping company, which until then relied entirely on the charter market, acquired its first own ship,” the consultancy pointed out.
In fourth place, NISA Marítima operates two 1,036 TEU vessels that link the Spanish peninsula with the Canary Islands, while Alisios Shipping Lines completes the quintet of the five largest Spanish liner operators.
Regarding the latter, the company is positioned as “the youngest of all, it launched its first service in 2016 between the Iberian peninsula and the Canary Islands.”
“At the beginning of this year, this Huelva–Canarias service incorporated a second vessel, the 707 TEU Aquarius, doubling the frequency to two sailings per week,” it concluded.
