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Rare honour for CMA CGM chief

CMA CGM founder the late Jacques Saadé has achieved the rare – for a shipping man – accolade of having a main city thoroughfare named after him. The city of Marseilles has bestowed the title Boulevard Jacques R. Saadé on the road stretching along the Mediterranean a from the famous MUCEM museum to, appropriately, the group's head office. The new name was inaugurated on 27 June by Mayor of Marseilles, ... [+]

CMA CGM raises its game in medicine transport

CMA CGM has launched a Reefer Pharma division for temperature-controlled pharmaceutical products. The shipping line will provide its customers with a dedicated team to monitor shipments 24 hours from its head office in Marseilles, as well as on board its ships and from the company's operational centres in Singapore and ... [+]

Fort de France bolsters West Indies trade

CMA CGM has christened the Fort de France, the first of four new ships for its service to the French West Indies. The 3,504teu vessel will be followed by its sister ships in the next few months. [+]

Ceva slashes debt

CEVA Logistics, which recently rejected a bid for the remainder of the company from existing shareholder CMA CGM, said its net debt was down 43% to $1,190 million, in its preliminary results for 2018. It added that it has been a year of structural changes for CEVA, including ... [+]

Ceva rejects fresh CMA CGM bid

Ceva Logistics has rejected a CHF30 per share offer from CMA CGM for the remaining shares in the company, saying that it was too low. The shipping line already holds a major stake in the forwarder, under a deal in which Ceva also acquired 100% of CMA CGM Log, the ... [+]

Shipping line gets into farming

CMA CGM Group is supporting the financial and industrial development of urban farming company Agricool, which uses old shipping containers for its operations. Founded in 2015 in Paris, aims to produce fruit and vegetables without pesticides, picked and sold on the same day and to customers in the neighbourhood and ... [+]

New Caribbean ships for CMA

CMA CGM has taken delivery today of the 3,500teu Fort de France, the first of an order for four container ships dedicated to the French West Indies. The ship is equipped with 850 reefer plugs for refrigerated containers. The group will take delivery during 2019 of three identical vessels for ... [+]

Container shipping moves into the digital age

CMA CGM has become the first ocean carrier to be listed on the Freightos online freight marketplace. It has signed a pilot agreement with online bookings, guaranteed pricing, and secured capacity on CMA CGM China-US trade lanes available on the platform. Extension to additional lanes is planned in the near ... [+]

Ceva to take over new shareholder’s logistics arm

CEVA is to acquire 100% of CMA CGM Log, the shipping line’s freight management service for $105 million, subject to regulatory approvals and due diligence. It forms part of a new strategic partnership between the two companies in which CMA CGM will itself take a stake of up to a ... [+]

Container lines to forge common IT platform

IT executives from MSC, AP Moller–Maersk, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, and Ocean Network Express plan to set up an association that will create common information technology standards for the container shipping industry. Members of the group identified a need for a neutral and non-profit body for ocean carriers that is driven ... [+]

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