Pérez y Cía.

Maritime agency and port logistics

Pérez y Cía. is a Spanish business group specializing in maritime agency and port logistics. Founded in Santander in 1853 by Ángel Bernardo Pérez, it began as a vessel agency and has grown into a network of more than 50 offices in 15 countries, with a presence across mainland Spain, the Balearic and Canary Islands, Morocco, the Caribbean, North and Central America, South America, and China.

Core services

• Representation of scheduled shipping lines
• Tramp vessel agency
• Cruise ship and yacht services
• Vessel and crew services
• Customs services
• Project cargo and chartering
• Port operations and technical office services
• Cargo handling and transportation

International presence

The group has offices in Spain, including Madrid, A Coruña, Algeciras, Alicante, Arrecife, Avilés, Barcelona, Bilbao, Cádiz, Cartagena, Ceuta, Ferrol, Gijón, Huelva, Tenerife, Las Palmas, Málaga, Santander, Seville, Tarragona, Valencia, and Vigo, among others. It also operates in Portugal, Morocco, China, and several Caribbean and American markets, including Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, the United States, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba, Curaçao, Guyana, Belize, and Barbados.

At a glance

• 650 employees
• 45 company-owned offices
• 15 countries
• 7,000 vessel calls a year
• 140,000 metric tons of project cargo transported
• 225,000 TEUs a year

History and expansion

Since its founding in 1853, the group has been involved in milestones including the establishment of Compañía Transatlántica Española in 1881 and Remolques Unidos in 1962. International expansion began in 1979 with an office in Puerto Rico, followed by offices in the Caribbean and Central America. In recent decades, the group has added businesses and operations including M.P.G. (1994), Copitrans (2001), Almacenes Pérez Noreste (2008), cruise terminals in Vigo (2010), A Coruña (2011), and Cádiz (2013), Panamá Service Center (2015), Insignia Shipping (2016), Caribbean Feeder Services (2018), Carmar Maritime Services (2019), MPG Logistics China (2020), SPC and Burmester & Stüve (2021), ATELDE (2021), Barcelona Container Depot Service (2023), and Martrans Logística y Transporte (2023).