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CMA CGM signs Cuba deal

The CMA CGM Group has signed an agreement to operate a logistics platform in cooperation with Cuban company, AUSA. The deal, the first of its kind involving an international company, was signed by vice-chairman, Rodolphe Saadé in the presence of French president François Hollande, the President of the French Republic. It includes operation and development of a logistics platform at the port of Mariel and will be part of ... [+]

First Suez transit for CMA CGM’s biggest ship

CMA CGM’s largest vessel passed through the Suez Canal for the first time on 2 May. Suez Canal Authority chairman, Admiral Mohab Mameesh, boarded the 17,722teu CMA CGM Kerguelen to mark the occasion. The canal is in the midst of an upgrade programme that will allow it to regularly handle ... [+]

CMA CGM opens Cameroon hub

CMA CGM has officially opened a new Cameroon logistics platform, the 3CTC Terminal (CMA CGM Cameroon Container Terminal). The two-hectare 3CTC platform, which has been operational since 7 January offers a complete range of logistics solutions including full or empty containers and land transport in Cameroon, Chad and Central African ... [+]

New deal brings UASC onto North Atlantic – but upsets shippers

Middle East-owned container line UASC has signed another partnership – with CMA CGM and Hamburg Süd, to bring it onto the North Atlantic service for the first time. Under a vessel sharing agreement, the service will call at north-west Europe, Southampton, New York, Norfolk, Charleston and Savannah and vice-versa, with ... [+]

More joint routes for CMA CGM and Hamburg Sud

CMA CGM and Hamburg Süd are to widen their existing cooperation to include a new pendulum service between Asia, the Caribbean, the US East Coast and North Europe, together with United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) on the transatlantic leg. For details will be made available soon. The new service will ... [+]

London Gateway gains West Africa link

CMA CGM is reconfiguring its Europe and Mediterranean to West Africa services into two separate routes, including one calling at London Gateway from 22 January. It will improve reliability and London Gateway will be linked to strategic ports in Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Senegal, it says. The Euraf 1 service ... [+]

CMA CGM buys another short-sea specialist

CMA CGM is to acquire German-based shortsea line company OPDR (Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei), subject to regulatory approval. OPDR is currently owned by the Bernhard Schulte Group and operates door to door logistics services between North Europe and the Canary Islands, the Iberian Peninsula, Morocco and Scandinavia. In late 2014, OPDR relocated ... [+]

CMA CGM set to join new box grouping

CMA CGM is to join forces with United Arab Shipping (UASC) and China Shipping in a new east-west trade vessel sharing agreement, according to recent reports. The new CUC Alliance will operate on all major trades, but particularly on the Asia/Europe axis, along with Transpacific services to and from the ... [+]

M2 less worrying than P3, say European shippers

The European Shippers’ Council (ESC) described the proposed M2 vessel sharing agreement between MSC and Maersk on the East-West trades as “less worrying for shippers than the now cancelled P3 consortium between MSC, Maersk and CMA CGM. Ot pointed out, however, that the two carriers would have a market share ... [+]

P3 becomes 2M as Maersk and MSC sign new deal

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company has signed a ten-year vessel sharing agreement (VSA) with Maersk Line on the three main east-west trade lanes: Asia-Europe, Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic. It will be known as 2M and will provide about 185 vessels operating 21 strings, with around 2.1 million teu total capacity. It comes in the ... [+]

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