{"id":141219,"date":"2026-08-06T07:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T07:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/141219\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T07:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T07:30:13","slug":"cnmc-approves-dfds-acquisition-of-armas-activities-in-the-strait-of-gibraltar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/141219\/","title":{"rendered":"CNMC approves DFDS acquisition of Armas activities in the Strait of Gibraltar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/f992709a9f0b21d3e68ea6bec57a9698_870x1000.jpg\" alt=\"VOLCAN DE TAMASITE \u00a9 Frank Lose\" width=\"770\" height=\"460\" title=\"VOLCAN DE TAMASITE \u00a9 Frank Lose\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>VOLCAN DE TAMASITE \u00a9 Frank Lose<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">FinanceThe Spanish competition authority, CNMC, has approved DFDS\u2019 acquisition of Naviera Armas\u2019 assets in the Strait of Gibraltar. DFDS announced the acquisition in August 2025, but completion of the transaction had since been awaiting final approval from CNMC, which was granted on 29 July this year. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition includes two vessels and their approximately 200 crew members, as well as the existing route permits issued by the authorities on both sides of the strait for the Algeciras\u2013Tanger Med and Algeciras\u2013Ceuta routes.<\/p>\n<p>In a stock exchange announcement in August 2025, DFDS stated that the purchase price was DKK 240 million. At the time, the Danish shipping company expected the transaction to close in the first quarter of 2026, but this did not happen until the third quarter of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The vessels included in the acquisition are the 2004-built RoPax <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shippaxdatabase.com\/free\/ship\/11300\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VOLCAN DE TAMASITE<\/a> and the 1999-built, 96-metre Incat catamaran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shippaxdatabase.com\/free\/ship\/71605\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VILLA DE AGAETE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DFDS has already been present in the Strait of Gibraltar since acquiring FRS Iberia in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>CNMC\u2019s approval of the DFDS transaction on 29 July marks the third and final stage in the sale and break-up of Armas Trasmediterr\u00e1nea\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n<p>In May this year, Bale\u00e0ria\u2019s acquisition of Armas Trasmediterr\u00e1nea\u2019s Canary Islands activities was approved. This was followed in early July by approval of Bale\u00e0ria\u2019s acquisition of Armas Trasmediterr\u00e1nea\u2019s activities in the Alboran Sea, as well as those parts of its operations in the Strait of Gibraltar not included in the DFDS acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Shippax<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; VOLCAN DE TAMASITE \u00a9 Frank Lose &#13; &#13; FinanceThe Spanish competition authority, CNMC, has approved DFDS\u2019 acquisition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6052],"tags":[1357,6057,1358,1356,1359],"class_list":["post-141219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dfds","tag-cruise","tag-dfds","tag-ferry","tag-ro-ro","tag-statistical-data"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}