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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.

Unions concerned about future TEU volumes at Port of Taranto

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) January 25, 2022 – The Southern Italian Port of Taranto has benefitted so far this year from over-capacity at Malta...

CMA CGM and TotalEnergies carry out Marseille Fos’ first ship-to-containership LNG bunkering

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 24, 2022 – French global logistics company CMA CGM and TotalEnergies have launched Marseilles’ inaugural...

Port of Taranto welcomes vessels diverted from Malta

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) January 5, 2022 – From December 31 to January 14, new container ships will have arrived in...

“Russian tsar of Thessaloniki” now owns 71.85% of city’s port. Russia and China via proxies now control Greece’s second largest port

Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) December 24, 2021 – Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) has reported that Belterra Investments Ltd., owned by a Russian...

HHLA’s Piattaforma Logistica Trieste welcomes first container vessel.

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 9, 2021 – Piattaforma Logistica Trieste (PLT), operated by Germany’s Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA),...

CMA CGM and Shell perform first bio-LNG bunkering operation in Rotterdam

The CMA CGM Group, a world leader in shipping and logistics, and Shell “AMS:RDSA” have performed the first Bio-LNG bunkering trial in Rotterdam....

The improvement of the Valencia-Teruel-Zaragoza railway line will attract more traffic from the north of Spain to Valenciaport

The works to improve the Zaragoza-Teruel-Sagunto-Valencia railway line are progressing at a good pace, a strategic infrastructure to link the Cantabrian...

CMA CGM reports strong Q3 2021 results

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 22, 2021 – The French logistics group CMA CGM has reported strong financial figures for quarter three of 2021....

CMA CGM to start Duisburg-Marseille intermodal rail service

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 22, 2021 – The French logistics group CMA CGM has announced a new block-train service between the inland port of...

CMA CGM and ENGIE: a strategic and industrial partnership to decarbonize shipping

The CMA CGM Group, a world leader in shipping and logistics, and ENGIE, global player in the field of renewables and energy solutions, have committed to...

CMA CGM reopens its headquarters in the port of Beirut

Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) November 11, 2021 – The French shipping and logistics company CMA CGM has announced the official reopening of its...

Brittany Ferries and CMA CGM form a partnership in passenger and freight transport

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) September 14, 2021 – CMA CGM Group, a world leader in shipping and logistics, and Brittany Ferries, the largest ferry...

CMA CGM signs contract to use Alexandria Container & Cargo Handling Co. terminals in Damietta port

Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) September 7, 2021 – The French shipping and logistics group CMA CGM has signed a two-year contract with Alexandria...

CMA CGM: Second quarter 2021 financial results: very strong operating and financial performance

Second quarter revenue totaled USD 12.4 billion, up 77.2% as compared to the second quarter of 2020, which was marked by the sharp slowdown in international...

CMA CGM to launch a new Ro-Ro Short Sea Med service connecting Marseille & Barcelona with Casablanca

July 26, 2021 – Because BETTER WAYS are meant to be executed, CMA CGM is pleased to announce the launching of a new RORO Short Sea Med service,...

Analysis – Shipping container crisis – open ports 24/7, free-up stranded boxes, redirect cargo to rail, road and air

Copenhagen, Denmark (Ports Europe) July 26, 2021 – The global container shortage has been a problem waiting to happen and the COVID pandemic has only...

Italian record at Trieste Marine Terminal on project cargo

A bright beginning of July at Trieste Marine Terminal, as far as project cargoes are concerned: 2 items weighing 95 tons each were discharged from a CMA-CGM...

Yilport’s San Cataldo Container Terminal to welcome Maersk vessels

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) July 16, 2021 – On 1 August Maersk, the Danish integrated shipping company, will land, for two ad hoc calls, at the San...

The Coalition for the Energy of the Future launches the feasibility study of its first major project and welcomes three new members

Launched in late 2019, the Coalition for the Energy of the Future aims at accelerating the development of future energies and technologies to sustain new green...

The Coalition for the Energy of the Future launches the feasibility study of its first major project and welcomes three new members

Launched in late 2019 initiated by Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman and CEO of the CMA CGM Group, the Coalition for the Energy of the Future aims at accelerating the...

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