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maritime and coastal freight transport

CMA CGM

Compagnie maritime d'affrètement - compagnie générale maritime

#3 container line by published capacityOcean Alliance

Headquarters: Marseille
Founded: 1978
Employees: 110,000

Official website

Photo: Bahnfrend · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

723

Published by the industry · Alphaliner Top 100 (via Wikipedia) · as of 2026-04-30

Container capacity

4,273,202 TEU

Published capacity · Alphaliner Top 100 (via Wikipedia) · as of 2026-04-30

Gross tonnage on record

5,481,548

Summed over 47 ships reporting tonnage

This company reports 723 ships while this registry holds individual records for 49. That gap is coverage, not a contradiction: open reference data documents a minority of the world fleet ship by ship. The list below is what can be named and verified.

In brief

What CMA CGM is

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Compagnie maritime d'affrètement - Compagnie générale maritime, commonly known as CMA CGM is a French ocean transportation and logistics company. Headquartered in Marseille, France, company operations include maritime transportation, port operation, supply chain management, and warehousing.
The company has a presence in 160 countries with 400 offices, 750 warehouses, 155,000 employees, and a fleet of 593 vessels. CMA CGM serves 420 of the world's 521 commercial ports and operates 257 shipping lines. CMA CGM is the third-largest container shipping company in the world. For the 2024 fiscal year, the company reported an annual revenue of US$55.48 billion.
The company was founded in 1978 by Jacques Saadé, and the name is an acronym derived from its two predecessor companies, Compagnie Maritime d'Affrètement (CMA) and Compagnie Générale Maritime (CGM), which translate to "Maritime Freighting Company" and "General Maritime Company", respectively.

Quoted from CMA CGM on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin

Who founded it

CMA CGM was founded in 1978 by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

Jacques Saadé

1937–2018

Lebanese businessman (1937–2018)

People

Leadership on record

Officers and directors as recorded in open reference data. This reflects the most recent statement in the source, not a filing date — check the company's own disclosures before relying on it.

Board

Board member

Merit France SAS

holding

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: Compagnie maritime d'affrètement - compagnie générale maritime
Industry: maritime and coastal freight transport
Legal form: public limited company with a board of directors (n.o.s.)
Country of registration: France
Headquarters: Marseille
Formed in: —
Founded: 1978
Dissolved: —
Employees: 110,000
Head office coordinates: 43.2967, 5.3764

Ships on record here: 49
Vessel types operated: 2
Flag states used: 7
Average vessel age: 13.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1973
Newest vessel on record: 2025
Largest vessel by tonnage: 236,583
Average tonnage: 116,629
Market share: 12.6%
Parent company: —
Alliance: Ocean Alliance
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Reported financials

Financial year 2025

All figures in USD

Published company figures for a single reported year, shown together so they are comparable. Figures from other years are not mixed in — a page that pairs one year's revenue with another's assets misreports both.

Revenue

54.4bn USD

Reported for 2025

Net profit

2.4bn USD

Reported for 2025

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 49 vessels this registry attributes to CMA CGM. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Hanwha Ocean12

HD Hyundai Samho9

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries3

HD Hyundai Mipo3

Samsung Heavy Industries3

Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Heavy Industry, China2

CSBC Corporation, Taiwan2

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. 12 deliveries fall inside this window.

Year	Ships delivered	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	4	228,164	41
2018	2	190,512	43
2019	0	—	43
2020	0	—	43
2021	1	236,583	44
2022	1	153,907	45
2023	1	60,284	46
2024	2	28,468	48
2025	1	59,052	49
2026	0	—	49

Vessel records

Ships on record · Unclassified

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Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Marion Dufresne	7208388	Unclassified	Malta	1973	—	—	112.5 m	Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How CMA CGM compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 49 vessels attributed to it here, CMA CGM is the 16th largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

France is the country of registration for 53 commercial operators in this directory, among which CMA CGM ranks 1st by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 128 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in France.

Founded in 1978, CMA CGM is 48 years old. This directory holds 90 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.

Provenance

Where this page comes from

Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q1023867, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from CMA CGM on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Published fleet figuresAlphaliner Top 100 (via Wikipedia), as of 2026-04-30. These are the industry’s numbers, not this directory’s.