Naviera Armas was established in 1941 and has become the most important shipping company in the Canary Islands. It has used more than 50 vessels over the years. It began in Lanzarote, thanks to the work of Antonio Armas Curbelo, who started working with wooden hull boats, pure sailing boats and motor sailers, and legendary names in the history of cabotage in the islands dedicated to salt transport and freight. Armas Curbelo later on included steel hull ships with diesel propulsion and steam engines into the fleet, thus expanding the commercial activity of the company beyond the borders of the islands, gaining importance in the old province of Spanish Sahara.