The Mastatic Pequebote JJ Sister who served between 1917 and 1964 in the TransMediterranean

It is 100 years of the signing of the constitution of the TransMediterranean Company. Coinciding with the beginning of his swords, "in 2017 we will commemorate the Centenary of TransMediterranean that we want to share with all the people who have formed and are part of the company, workers and customers, the maritime sector and institutions that collaborate day to day with the development of our activity", the CEO of the Company, Mario Quero, highlights. For a century, the Company has sailed parallel to the history of Spain and has been present in all the great maritime events of the country. On November 25, 1916, the four directors of the foundational shipping companies, Jose Juan Dómine (African Post Company), Vicente Ferrer Peset (Ferrer Peset Hermanos), Joaquín María Tintoré (Line of Vapores Tintoré) and Enrique García Corrons (Navigation and Industry) set their signature in Barcelona. The new shipping company began operating in January 1917 with a fleet of 44 ships. In the following three years, other shipping companies were incorporated: the Maritime, Mahonesa de Vapores, Iscala Marítima, Barcelona and Anónima Vinuesa de Sevilla, and in 1930 the Inter-island Canaries. In addition to the fleets that contributed the ships, a plan of new constructions was added between 1927 and 1929, in which ten new ships were incorporated into the TransMediterranean Company, part of them built in the Naval Union of Levante shipyard, founded in 1924 and whose main shareholders were the promoters of TransMediterranean. A hundred years later, Transmediterranean maintains its regular passenger and cargo connections between the main ports of the peninsula, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, Morocco and Algeria. The book dedicated to the Centenary of Transmediterranean, directed by Juan Carlos Díaz Lorenzo, historian and naval researcher, with the collaboration of the retired captain Francisco Font Betanzos and Laureano García Fuentes, will soon see the light.