Last month the agreements reached between FerryGateway and Naviera Armas - Trasmediterránea were formalized, by which the major Spanish shipping company will participate in the work of FGWA, joining the Board as well. Antonio Armas, Vice President of Naviera Armas – Trasmediterránea Group, has been appointed as such a member of the
Board for the next two years.

This new international success for Naviera Armas is a part of its new plan for expansion and taking its responsibility as one of the European references in the ferry sector. Naviera Armas – Trasmediterránea is also a member of Interferry, and regularly attends the Shippax Ferry Conference every year.

For their part, FerryGateway Association members 2019 served 37 million passengers, with a total of about 100 ships in nearly 60 routes. To this is added Naviera Armas – Trasmediterránea with 5 million annual passengers, 1.5 million vehicles, 8 million linear meters of cargo, and 39
ships on 42 routes (Spain mainland, inter islands, and North of Africa).

Antonio Armas, Vice President of Naviera Armas Group, says: "For the Armas Group it is a true honor to be able to represent the Spanish ferry sector in this new adventure, in which we hope to contribute our best practices and expertise, together with the main European shipping
companies. The objective is none other than to grow together, contribute globally to our common sector, as well as increase levels of satisfaction and service to our clients, while improving commercial and sales relationships with our partners and agents worldwide."

Sune Häggblom, Managing Director of FerryGateway Association, says: "In Europe and globally ferries are a very common way of travel for hundreds of millions of passengers. Online sales between agents, travel organizations and ferry operators have been growing fast and showed an urgent need to be standardized and simple to handle. The FerryGateway standard and the additional FerryGateway Switch greatly help this and replace older out-dated and non-standardized solutions with excellent worldwide results."

FerryGateway Association was established in 2014 by eight major ferry companies in Europe, with the aim to develop the most innovative and new standard for communication between ferry operators and agents or other leisure organizations. The FerryGateway standard opens new opportunities for ferry operators, agents and other travel organizations and is beneficial both from a commercial and technical point of view. The two very most important benefits are that FerryGateway is one common standard and that it embraces all important products and services that ferry operators may wish to sell online.

In addition to the open source and free to use FerryGateway standard, FGWA since 2019 also offers a technical hub, called the FerryGateway Switch, in order to make communication between ferry operators and travel agents/organizations even simpler and cheaper to administrate as you reach many by just one connection.

FerryGateway Association is the legal entity that controls the FerryGateway standard and owns the intellectual property rights of it and is actually working with development, maintenance and support of the standard, Switch and other future products. The FerryGateway Association
also communicates and markets FerryGateway to other ferry operators and travel organizations with the objective to use FerryGateway as the worldwide common standard for digital communication between ferry operators and their partners.

The current members and owners of FGWA are Brittany Ferries, Color Line, DFDS, Irish Ferries, Stena Line, Tallink Silja, Viking Line, and now Grupo Naviera Armas – Trasmediterránea.

Its place of residence is Copenhagen, Denmark. The Chairman of the Board is Kasper Moos, Vice President of DFDS. Managing Director is Sune Häggblom, Finland.