CMA CGM S.A. is a
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transportation and shipping company, headed by
Mr. Jacques R. SaadéJacques R. Saadé , a French businessman of Lebanese descent, is the CEO and founder of CMA CGM, the third largest container shipping company in the world, with 370 vessels plying 150 major shipping routes between 403 ports in 150 different countries...
. It is the third largest container company in the world, using 76 major shipping routes between 216 ports in 126 different countries.
Its headquarters are in Marseilles, North American headquarters are based in
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History
The history of CMA CGM can be traced back to 1851 when Messageries Maritimes (MM) was established. Another component company, Compagnie Générale Maritime (CGM), was founded in 1855 and renamed as Compagnie Générale Transatlantique in 1861. The two companies merged to form Compagnie Générale Maritime in 1973 as a French state-run entity.
Jacques SaadéJacques R. Saadé , a French businessman of Lebanese descent, is the CEO and founder of CMA CGM, the third largest container shipping company in the world, with 370 vessels plying 150 major shipping routes between 403 ports in 150 different countries...
, created CMA in
1977 as an intra-Mediterranean liner service. In 1996, CGM was privatized and sold to Compagnie Maritime d'Affrètement (CMA) to form CMA CGM..
In 1998 the combined company purchased
Australian National LinesThe Australian National Line was an Australian Government owned coastal shipping line that operated in Australia between 1956 and 1998, when the naming rights were bought by French shipping line CMA CGM.-Corporate history:...
(ANL). The company is still growing and has ordered 58 new vessels (owned outright or on long-term leases) to be delivered over the next four years.
CMA CGM acquired its French rival Delmas based in
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from the
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group in September 2005 for 600 million Euros. The acquisition was completed in early January 5, 2006. The resulting corporation became the third largest container company in the world behind the Danish
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and the Swiss
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On April 4, 2008, pirates seized the CMA CGM luxury cruise ship "
Le PonantLe Ponant is a three-masted, commercially operated French luxury yacht onwed by CMA CGM and operated under their Ponant Cruises brand. The ship carries up to 67 passengers in 32 cabins...
" off the coast of Somalia.
Key figures (*teus : twenty equivalent unit)
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| CMA CGM 2004 | Delmas 2004 | 2004 Total | 2005 pro forma |
|---|
| Total Revenue |
4 billion € |
900 million € |
4.9 billion € |
5.95 billion € |
| Number of containers carried |
3.9 million teus* |
520 000 teus* |
4.42 million teus* |
5.2 million teus* |
| Total fleet vessel |
195 |
51 |
246 |
242 |
| Slot capacity |
427,000 teus* |
57,000 teus* |
484,000 teus* |
507,500 teus* |
| Staff Worldwide |
9,000 employees |
1,100 employees |
10,100 employees |
10,000 employees |
| Staff in France (sedentary + seafarers) |
3,300 employees |
600 employees |
3,900 employees |
4,000 employees |
| World ranking |
4th |
24th |
3rd |
3rd |
Subsidiaries
- Terminal Link - Container Terminals developer and operator, ranked N°12 worldwide
- Rail Link (multimodal rail-bound transport solutions)
- River Shuttle Containers (Rhône – Saône axis containerised river transportation)
- CMA CGM Logistics (purchase to delivery global carrier)
- Qualitair & Sea (custom engineering air freight logistics)
- Progeco (container: sales, leasing & repairing)
- Australian National Lines
The Australian National Line was an Australian Government owned coastal shipping line that operated in Australia between 1956 and 1998, when the naming rights were bought by French shipping line CMA CGM.-Corporate history:...
ANL (Oceania, Asia, Europe & US trades)
- COMANAV (Passenger ferry and container services from Morocco to Europe)
- MacAndrews (Iberian Peninsula shipping and travel industry services)
- Delmas
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(Container and RoRo line)
- OT Africa Line
OT Africa Line is a specialist shipping line exclusively serving routes between Europe and West Africa. OTAL work exclusively in the transportation industry, operating a line of container and RoRo vessels...
(West Africa container line)
- CMA CGM Croisières & Tourisme
- Yacht luxury cruises (64-passenger Ponant, 90-passenger Levant, and 226-passenger Diamant)
- Trips onboard container carriers
- Compagnie des Îles du Ponant (leading French-flagged cruise company)
- Tapis Rouge International (luxury travel tour operator)
- CMA Ships (a wholly owned subsidiary managing all fleet-related operations)
- Cheng-Lie Navigation Co. Ltd (Intra-Asia Container Line based at Taiwan
Taiwan , also known as Formosa , is the largest island of the Republic of China in East Asia. Taiwan is located east of the Taiwan Strait, off the southeastern coast of mainland China...
)
Maritime Lines
- ECS (Europe Caribbean Service)
- ACSA (Asia Latin America)
- FAL (Europe Far East Service)
- NAF (North Africa Service)
- SAMWAF (Latin America West Africa)
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