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CMA CGM Group

Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global leader in shipping and logistics, serves more than 420 ports around the world on five continents. Backed by a fleet of 566 vessels, in 2021 the Group transported 22 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) containers. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a world leader in logistics, which transports 474,000 tons of air freight and more than 21 million tons of land freight each year, and its air freight division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is continually innovating to offer a range of new shipping, land, air and logistics solutions.

Port of Koper receives CMA CGM LNG ship

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) September 22, 2024 – Last Thursday, the Port of Koper car terminal received its first CMA CGM liquefied natural...

EDECS starts work on Ain Sokhna container terminal project

Ain Sokhna, Egypt (Ports Europe) August 9, 2024 – The local EDECS construction company has started work on construction of the new Ain Sokhna container...

CMA CGM partners with Google for AI-based solutions

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) July 19, 2024 – French shipping and logistics giant CMA CGM has signed a partnership with California-based Google (part...

CMA CGM launches EMED 1 service linking Turkey, Egypt & Lebanon

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) June 25, 2024 – The French shipper and logistics group CMA CGM will launch the new EMED1 service on July 8, 2024. The...

Alphaliner Top 100 container market ranking

Paris, France (Ports Europe) June 23, 2024 – The June 22, 2024 Alphaliner Top 100 global container market figures list 6,986 active ships, 30,046,280...

Tahya Misr terminal in Alexandria with 410,000 TEUs in first year

Alexandria, Egypt (PortSEurope) June 19, 2024 – The new multi-purpose Tahya Misr terminal in Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Alexandria, put into operation...

Top 10 companies in port infrastructure – ranking

Washington, United States (Ports Europe) June 13, 2024 – Top 10 companies in global port infrastructure according to Verified Market Research report...

Kalmar supplies cranes to Med Europe Terminal, Marseille

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – Kalmar has signed an agreement with Med Europe Terminal for the delivery of six Kalmar hybrid straddle...

CMA CGM to open Tangram innovation centre, Marseille

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 5, 2024 – Rodolphe SaadĂ©, Chairman and CEO of CMA CGM, will inaugurate Tangram, a training and innovation centre...

MSC set to purchase Genoa newspaper “Il Secolo XIX”

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe)- March 28, 2024 – The Gedi publisher has announced the signing of a preliminary agreement with the MSC group to sell the Il...

Lebanese minister presents Beirut reconstruction plan

Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe)- March 13, 2024—Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has delivered a speech presenting initial ideas on a reconstruction and...

CMA CGM resumes Red Sea transit

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 29, 2024 – Yesterday, the French shipper CMA CGM said that it had reviewed the situation in the Red Sea and...

Update: OCEAN Alliance extended until 2032

Shanghai, China (Ports Europe) February 29, 2024 – The four leading ocean carriers, founding members of the world’s largest shipping network OCEAN...

OCEAN Alliance extended until 2032

Shanghai, China (Ports Europe) February 28, 2024 – The four leading ocean carriers, founding members of the world’s largest shipping network, extended...

CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd commit to Augusta, Sicily

Augusta, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) February 24, 2024 – International shipping lines CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd have both committed to using the port of...

Commission clears acquisition of Bolloré Logistics by CMA CGM

The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the proposed acquisition of Bolloré Logistics SE by CMA CGM S.A. The approval is...

Lebanon’s Tripoli port expansion

Tripoli, Lebanon (Ports Europe) February 5, 2024 – An ongoing expansion of Lebanon’s Mediterranean port of Tripoli (Office d’Exploitation du Port de...

CMA CGM buys British Wincanton

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 23, 2024 – Ceva Logistics UK Rose Ltd., a subsidiary of Ceva Logistics owned by French shipping firm CMA CGM is...

Marseille’ Eurofos has reached the milestone of 10 mln containers

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 22, 2024 – Last November, Eurofos crossed the threshold of 10 million containers handled since the start of its...

CMA CGM details surcharges due to Red Sea crisis

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) December 22, 2023 – French shipper has published details of the surcharges it will apply to ships delivering containers...

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