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Name Built CGT service Type Length Beam GRT Fate Notes Image Abd el-Kader (): 1880: 1880-1922: Liner: 312 ft. 33.6 ft. 1,579 GRT: Scrapped 1922: Administrateur en Chef Thomas
Louisiane of 1862 Washington, the first steamer of the company, in 1864. To meet the requirement that its fleet be built be in France, the company must find local shipyards. With the building of six ships having started abroad (in particular SS Washington, the first liner of the New York route for the company), the Péreires were well aware of the prices charge
The CGM liner services, mostly containerized but also operating a significant fleet of "Con-Ro" vessels able to load roll-on/roll-off cargoes, were re-structured from the two parent companies' main trade lanes, i.e. Western trade lanes (Americas) for Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT) and Eastern trade lanes (Asia, East Africa, Pacific ...
This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of February 2024, according to Alphaliner, ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet. [1] In January 2022, MSC overtook Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996. [ 2 ]
In 1922 the Dollar Line also acquired the Admiral Oriental Line and renamed it the American Mail Line, making Dollar one of the most profitable shipping companies in the world. [2] [10] Dollar Line continued expanding its business in the late 1920s, buying five more “535 President Type” ships in 1926.
[citation needed] Delmas was bought by CMA CGM Group from the Bolloré Group for €470 million in 2005, and fully integrated into its parent in March 2016. The company operated a fleet of 49 vessels with a collective capacity of 63,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU), [ 1 ] on 15 routes between Europe, Africa and the Indian Ocean .
CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin leaves the port of Hamburg in July 2016. CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin is an Explorer-class container ship built for CMA CGM. Delivered in November 2015, [3] she is named after Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. She is one of the largest container cargo vessels, capable of carrying 18,000 TEU.
The Explorer class is a series of large container ships built for CMA CGM.The first five ships are 365 metres (1,197 ft 6 in) long with a nominal capacity of 13,830 TEU; the last three are larger, at 396 metres (1,299 ft 3 in) and 16,020 TEU, making them the world's largest container ships until the delivery of the Triple E class.