CMA CGM container ship to call at southern Iranian port
Marseille, France based shipping group has scheduled its container ship's first call to an Iranian port after lifting the sanctions. CMA CGM Andromeda will call at the southern port Shahid Rajaei on its Asia-Europe loop, Iranian PressTV said quoting an Iranian official as saying.
Ebrahim Idani, director general of Hormozgan Ports and Maritime Department, told reporters on Wednesday that CMA CGM is the world’s third biggest shipping company which transports container goods and its first container ship will berth at Shahid Rajaei port in early August.
CMA CGM Andromeda's key specifications: LOA - 363.00 m, beam (moulded) - 45.60 m, maximum draft - 14.00 m, DWT - 128,550 tonnes, GT - 131,332 tonnes, box capacity - 11,388 TEU with 800 reefers, YB - 2009, shipbuilder - Hyundai Heavy Industries' Ulsan, South Korea.
Marseille-headquartered CMA CGM was founded in 1978 by Jacques R. Saadé. Today the French company has become the world’s third largest container shipping group and number one in France operating across the world’s oceans. It is also one of the first global shipping operators to have control over the whole logistics chain offering a door-to-door service that integrates both inland waterway transport (River Shuttle Containers) and railways (CMA Rail), as well as port handling facilities and logistics on land.