CMA CGM to launch a NEW direct service between North Europe, Greece and Turkey

04 May 2009

The CMA CGM Group is pleased to announce the launch, effective June 1st, 2009, of its new service linking North Europe, Greece and Turkey: The French Europe Med EXPRESS (FEMEX).

This reliable fixed-day service will deploy 5 vessels of 2 100 TEU providing CMA CGM customers new direct connections between North Europe and the main ports in the Aegean and Marmara Seas.

FEMEX will call Eastbound and Westbound in Tangiers, a CMA CGM strategic hub in the West Mediterranean offering new import and export opportunities between North America, Latin America, West Africa, Greece and Turkey.

The complete rotation of this new weekly service will be:

Hamburg / Felixstowe / Antwerp / Le Havre / Tangiers / Malta / Piraeus / Thessaloniki / Istanbul / Gebze / Gemlik / Izmir / Malta / Tangiers / Hamburg.

“Thanks to this new service, CMA CGM will offer its customers efficient and reliable connections between North Europe and the two main markets in the East Mediterranean. Thus the Group not only responds to customer demand, but it also reaffirms its commitment to reinforcing its services in the Mediterranean area, where the Group has a strong historical presence”, explains Bernard de Revel, Europe Mediterranean Line Manager.

The first vessel deployed on French Europe Med Express will leave Hamburg on June, 1st, 2009.

About CMA CGM
Led by its founder Jacques R. Saadé, CMA CGM is currently the world’s third largest container shipping Group. Operating a fleet of 350 vessels, including 90 company-owned, the Group serves 400 ports around the world. In 2008, it carried 8.9 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units). With a presence on all continents and in 150 countries through its network of 650 agencies, the Group employs 17,000 people worldwide.

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