Chinese Prime Minister to Visit CMA CGM

 

Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang is scheduled to visit the CMA CGM Group headquarter on July 1, accompanied by France Minister of Foreign Affairs Laurent Fabius, the Minister of State for Foreign Trade Matthias Fekl and a Chinese ministerial delegation. This delegation will include the Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister Yi Wang, the Reform and Development Commission Minister Shaoshi Xu, the Trade Minister Hucheng Gao, Chinese ambassador in France Jun Zhai, and the Consul General Jinsong Yu.

 

CMA CGM said two major economic agreements will be concluded during the visit.

 

Jacques R. Saadé, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CMA CGM Group, said, "July 1 will be a milestone in our group’s history. The Chinese Prime Minister’s visit is a great recognition of the unique links our group has developed with China, a strategic country in the group’s development history. We are proud of the honor and of the confidence that this visit demonstrates."

 

Since 1992 and the opening of its first office in Shanghai, the CMA CGM has built strong relationships with China, from commercial agreements to the construction and delivery of containers and vessels, the French container shipping company noted.

 

During 2015 second semester, Chinese shipyards will deliver three 18,000 TEUs vessels to the CMA CGM Group. Those will be the group’s largest vessels and the biggest ones to have ever been built by Chinese shipyards. They will be named after great explorers, and one of them will be christened CMA CGM Zheng He, in recognition of the famous Chinese explorer.

CMA CGM has 1,700 staff members in 74 offices in China, in addition to 71 maritime services, calling 13 Chinese ports 248 times a week with a CMA CGM vessel calling China every 3 hours.