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CMA adds East Med calls

CMA CGM has added new calls at Samsun (Turkey), Novorossiysk (Russia) and Constanta (Romania) on its FEMEX service between North Europe and the Mediterranean. Import transit time into Thessaloniki will also be improved by five days, as this will be the first port of call of the southbound rotation beyond Malta. The service calls in Southampton and other North European ports, then Tangiers, Malta, Thessaloniki, Gebze, Ambarli, Haydarpasa, Samsun, Novorossiysk and  ... [+]

CMA CGM goes back to Somalia

CMA CGM has launched a new feeder service from Jebel Ali to Mogadishu in Somalia. It will also connect at Khor Fakkan with CMA CGM long haul services and the service also calls at Salalah . The Noura Express will operate every 21 days wiuth a 1,850teu ship. CMA CGM's ... [+]

More options to Mozambique

CMA CGM is offering feeder service from Durban to two new ports in Mozambique - Quelimane and Pemba. The Rhino express will also provide a faster and reliable connection from Europe and other places, as well as offer cabotage service within Mozambique itself. It also serves Maputo, Beira and Nacala. [+]

CMA CGM offers Tilbury-Lagos link

CMA CGM Group will make a major reorganisation of its services between North Europe, the Med and West Africa from mid-December including the addition of UK and Nigeria calls on its PC Weekly service. The seven 3,500teu vessels on the service will call at vessels of 3, 500 teu Tilbury ... [+]

Alliances could control four fifths of some trades, warns ESC

The European Shippers' Council (ESC) said that the two major shipping alliances – the G6, which announced in early December that it will expand its cooperation to the transatlantic and Asia-North America West Coast and trade lanes and the planned P3 cooperation between Maersk, MSC and CMA CGM would have ... [+]

US regulator calls for P3 to be put under the microscope

The Federal Maritime Commission , which regulates ocean transport in the US has joined other industry groups in calling for a careful scrutiny the proposed 'P3' alliance between Maersk Line, MSC and CMA CGM. FMC chairman, Mario Cordero, has called other regulators in the European Union and China, to join ... [+]

P3 plans revealed

P3 plans revealed CMA CGM has revealed details of its planned P3 network that it plans to set up with its new partners Maersk and MSC. Claiming the most comprehensive network on the three main East West Trades, there will be 13 weekly services on the Asia-Europe/Mediterranean trades, five weekly Transatlanticservices ... [+]

P3 plans alarm shippers

Plans by Maersk Line, MSC and CMA CGM to form a new global shipping alliance have alarmed shippers' representatives. At a joint meeting in Brussels on 18 June, the European and Asian Shippers’ Councils expressed their deep concern at the P3 plans. They said that the cooperation should in no ... [+]

Global shipping lines join forces

Three of the world's major container shipping lines - CMA CGM, Maersk and MSC – are to join forces in a long-term operational alliance on East – West trades from next year. The P3 Network will operate a total vessel capacity of 2.6 million teu (initially 255 vessels on 29 ... [+]

Jules Verne sets off around the world

The CMA CGM Jules Verne, at 16,000 teu the world’s largest containership was officially inaugurated at a special call in Marseille by President François Hollande, on 4 June. The occasion also marked the 35th anniversary of the group, which was founded in Marseille by Jacques Saadé in 1978. The ship ... [+]

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