CMA CGM Group has launched its new short sea service ADRINAF. With this weekly service, the container shipping line is offering the first direct connection between the Adriatic Sea and Algeria.
It thus opens up new development opportunities for its customers located in Central and Eastern Europe thanks to rail and road intermodal solutions, mainly via Koper. It also allows connections to the rest of the world via its port hub in Malta, thus reaffirming its local commitment and its desire to develop it.
With the ADRINAF service, the Group reinforces its intra-Europe and Mediterranean “CMA GM short sea” offer, which is comprised of 33 services operating 63 vessels and making over 300 calls per week. The Group also confirms its strategy aimed at densifying its regional network.
Facts and figures ADRINAF
-) Rotation: Koper, Venice, Rijeka, Bar, Malta, Skikda, Malta, Catania, Ancona, Koper
-) Launch: May 13th
-) Transit time: 21 days
-) 3 vessels of 1,300 TEUs
Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group is a world leader in shipping and logistics. Its 509 vessels serve more than 420 ports on five continents around the world and carried nearly 21 million TEUs in 2018. With Ceva a world leader in logistics services, CMA CGM handled more than 500,000 tons of airfreight and 1.9 million tons of overland freight in 2018. Present on every continent and in 160 countries through its network of 755 agencies and 750 warehouses, the Group employs 110,000 people worldwide, of which 2,400 in Marseille where its head office is located.
