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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.

CMA CGM making progress at the port of Beirut

Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) October 19, 2022 – The French logistics company CMA CGM is making progress with it work the Port of Beirut, largely...

CargoBeamer tests train between ports of Marseille and Calais

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) September 30, 2022 – CargoBeamer has tested the first intermodal train for semi-trailers between ports of Marseille and...

MSC to create air cargo division

Geneva, Switzerland (Ports Europe) September 27, 2022 – MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company is to create MSC Air Cargo. MSC says this is a response to...

CMA CGM creates fund to accelerate energy transition in shipping and logistics

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) September 5, 2022 – The CMA CGM Group announced yesterday that it is creating a Special Fund for Energies, backed by a...

CMA CGM to buy French newspaper La Provence

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) September 2, 2022 – CMA CGM head Rodolphe Saade is set to buy the French regional newspaper La Provence. Based in...

Port of Beirut experiences further collapse of silos

Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) August 25, 2022 – For the third time in a month, the Port of Beirut has experienced further collapse of silos. On August 4,...

Port of Beirut silos partially collapse

Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) August 2, 2022 – Last Sunday, part of the grain silos at Beirut Port collapsed, bringing back memories of the explosion...

CMA CGM starts new intermodal service linking Niš in Serbia and China

Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) July 11, 2022 – CMA CGM has announced a new intermodal service linking Niš in Serbia and China via the Greek port of...

CMA CGM Group and MPA Collaborate to Advance Maritime Decarbonisation, Digitalisation, Innovation and Workforce Development

The CMA CGM Group, a global player in sea, land, air and logistics solutions; and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), on 22 June inked a...

CEVA Logistics has started a new weekly intermodal service with HHLA PLT Italy, Trieste

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) June 15, 2022 – CEVA Logistics, part of CMA CGM, has started a new weekly intermodal service from Trieste to Central and...

Ports of Marseille and Beirut sign cooperation agreement

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) June 9, 2022 – The Ports of Marseille and Beirut have signed cooperation agreement aimed at strengthening cooperation...

Fagioli relocates two container cranes from Malta Freeport to Marseille

Valletta, Malta (Ports Europe) May 27, 2022 – Italian heavy lift and transportation specialist Fagioli has relocated two ZPMC Ship to Shore container...

CMA CGM becomes partner to the Jupiter 1000 project

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) May 11, 2022 – The French logistics group CMA CGM Group has become a partner in the Jupiter 1000 industrial demonstrator...

CMA CGM to reshuffle its MEDWAX, EURAF 3 & WAZZAN services in West Africa

Friday, May 6, 2022 Striving for continuous improvement in our service offer to West Africa strategic markets and to better cope with current market...

Global shippers cease business in Russia

London, United KIngdom (PortSEurope) May 2, 2022 – Leading global container shipping lines have ceased working with Russian ports. France’s...

Lebanese government orders the demolition of grain silos at Beirut port

Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) April 18, 2022 – The Lebanese government has ordered the demolition of grain silos at the port of Beirut which were largely...

CMA CGM announces acquisition of GEFCO

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) April 8, 2022 – The French shipping and logistics group CMA CGM is to acquire nearly 100% of GEFCO, a European leader in...

DP World consolidates Eurofos terminal in Fos-sur-Mer, exits Le Havre

DP World Limited and Terminal Link SA, a joint venture 51% owned by CMA CGM and 49% owned by China Merchants Port, have today reached a conditional agreement...

CMA CGM signs the Beirut container terminal management contract

Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) March 11, 2022 – Yesterday, the French carrier and logistics company CMA CGM officially signed the management contract for...

Port of Taranto sees January cargo handled down -31%

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) March 11, 2022 – The Port of Taranto has published cargo numbers for January 2022, which shows total cargo handled of 1.03...

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