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Ceva’s team on its marks for Paris 2024

[ April 17, 2024   //   ]

CMA CGM and its Ceva Logistics arm expect to deliver 1.3 million items of furniture and over 900,000 pieces of sports equipment to Paris Olympics venues.

As the official logistics partner for the Games, the CMA CGM Group is mobilizing its 180,000 employees to help meet the challenge of organizing the world’s biggest sporting event.

Working closely with the games organizing committee, Ceva Logistics is offering a full range of solutions for the event, including freight services, customs clearance, storage, delivery, site logistics, special freight, and IT systems integration.

Now 100 days before the opening ceremony, as Paris prepares to receive over 10,500 athletes and welcome nearly 10 million spectators, the CMA CGM and CEVA Logistics teams are already in action, setting up the logistics chain and all the equipment necessary to ensure the games run smoothly.

 The 900,000 items of sports equipment to be delivered include trampolines, poles, firearms, boats and surfboards.

The Group will also transport more than 250 containers of stands and seating and deliver 1.3 million items of furniture, fixtures, equipment, and merchandising material, along with 17,000 beds for the athletes and their teams in the Olympic Village which will be delivered, assembled, and dismantled.

Ceva Logistics is also responsible for the storage, assembly and transport of nearly 650 advanced mobility vehicles and 2,745 electric vehicles for getting around the venues.

As the opening looms closer, CMA CGM will move 68,000 pieces of luggage from airports to Olympic venues as well as the logistics for the world’s largest audiovisual network.

The Group will move over 170,000 pallets and make more than 7,000 last mile trips to deliver equipment needed for the competitions with a fleet of more than 300 vehicles, ranging from vans to trucks for the Paris 2024 Games.

CMA CGM and Ceva Logistics are also hiring 700 new employees, trained for the occasion, creating opportunities for the long-term unemployed in some cases.

It will also be relying on vehicles and aircraft powered by LNG, biofuels, electricity or sustainable aviation fuel to reduce carbon impact. For example, at least 50% of deliveries between the storage warehouses and the Games venues will be made by CEVA Logistics using low-carbon vehicles powered by biofuels.

As Official Partner of the Paris 2024 Games and Paralympic Torch Relays, 90 employees, representing the Group’s various subsidiaries, were also selected by the Olympic Committee to carry the Torch in the relay around France.

Group executive vice-president, Tanya Saadé-Zeenny, said: “As the official partner in logistics solutions of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, our 180,000 employees are in the starting blocks to deliver low carbon and more responsible Games. Thanks to our subsidiaries CEVA Logistics and CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is fully committed to ensuring the success of the Games and keeping the Olympic spirit alive.”

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