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Tomorrow CMA CGM will celebrate its 35° birthday
On September 13, 1978 Jacques R. Saade has founded the Maritime Companies of Affrètement
September 12, 2013
Tomorrow the French shipowning group CMA CGM will celebrate its 35° birthday. On September 13, 1978 to Marseilles, in fact, the current president and managing director of the company, Jacques R. Saade, have founded the Maritime Companies of Affrètement (CMA) and have started the first service for the marine transport of container between Marseilles, Livorno, Beirut and Lattakia.
A milestone in the history of the group has been the acquisition in 1996 of the Maritime Companies Générale (CGM) ( on 23 October 1996) to which the acquisitions of various regional companies (ANL, CNC are continuations Linens, Comanav, Delmas, MacAndrews and US Lines) that they have allowed with the group, than in 1999 has assumed the denomination CMA CGM "The French Linens", to become a total carrier.
Today the French group has 650 alleviates and 18,000 dependent, of which 4,700 in France (2,400 to Marseilles), and, with a fleet of 429 portacontainer with a total cargo ability pairs to about 1,5 million teu, are to the third party place in the ranking of the main world-wide companies of the line field. The ships of the group serve beyond 400 of the 521 commercial ports of all the world.
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