The business of goods transport in the Central Atlantic is witnessing a complete break from its historical equilibrium. The shipping company Baleària has activated an unprecedented logistical offensive on the Cádiz-Canarias line by incorporating the roll-on/roll-off ship Abu Samrah, a giant with 4,070 linear meters of rolling cargo capacity. This corporate movement, far from being a mere seasonal increase in availability, poses a direct challenge to the dominant position held by Vicente Boluda’s group over the supply and industrial distribution of the archipelago.
The introduction of this asset, announced last Tuesday by Puente de Mando regarding banana logistics, starting June 23, completely alters the rules of the game in the traffic of consumer goods and supplies. With capacity for 279 trailers and equipped with twelve cabins for professional drivers, it will become the largest roll-on/roll-off cargo ship in the contemporary history of this service. The shipping company led by Adolfo Utor uses this massive deployment to confront the export of Canarian bananas and ensure the agro-food supply chain.
The arrival of Baleària under this disruptive scheme seeks to eradicate market inertia and attract customers dissatisfied with the loss of reliability from Grupo Armas Trasmediterránea. The strategy involves establishing a permanent high-frequency maritime bridge: the new roll-on/roll-off ship will operate in combination with the Villa de Tazacorte and the ferries Volcán de Tinamar and Hypathia of Alexandria. This rotation will rotate four ships weekly between the south of the Peninsula and the Canary ports, a regularity that severely pressures the cost structures and delivery times of container transport led by the Boluda group.
