The CMA CGM JACQUES SAADE has joined CMA CGM Group’s fleet thus turning into the biggest LNG-powered container ship on the earth. A worldwide chief in delivery and logistics, CMA CGM has made the symbolic selection of naming its new flagship after its founder, Jacques Saadé, a visionary and entrepreneur.
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A singular naming ceremony for a singular ship
The becoming a member of of the fleet of the CMA CGM Jacques Saadé was marked by a first-of-its-kind digital naming ceremony that noticed the shipyard’s representatives in Shanghai and CMA CGM Group’s administration in Marseille share an emotional landmark second of their frequent historical past. Blessed by father Francis Fang, the vessel was then formally named by her Godmother, Tanya Saadé Zeenny, who wished the ship, the captain and its crew one of the best of luck on their future voyages with the standard phrases “May God bless this ship and all who will sail on her”.
LNG, a pioneering selection geared toward preserving air high quality and driving the vitality transition
In November of 2017, Rodolphe Saadé, CMA CGM Group’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, determined to equip this sequence of container ships with LNG-powered engines – a primary within the historical past of delivery for Ultra Large Container Vessels. The CMA CGM Group has thereby confirmed its dedication in the direction of driving ahead maritime transport’s vitality transition.
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Today, LNG is probably the most superior resolution relating to preserving air high quality. It allows a 99% discount in sulfur dioxide and wonderful particle emissions, and an 85% discount in nitrogen dioxide emissions, going properly above and past present regulation. LNG emits as much as 20% much less CO2 in comparison with gas motorization. This know-how is among the first steps in the direction of reaching CMA CGM Group’s formidable 2050 goal of carbon neutrality.
Innovation-packed vessels, the results of 7 years of analysis and improvement from CMA CGM consultants
These 9 vessels are filled with improvements, the results of a protracted cooperation between CMA CGM’s analysis and improvement consultants and industrial companions. In addition to LNG motorization, the vessels provide superior applied sciences:
The cockpit boasts the most recent embedded digital applied sciences to help the commander and crew, particularly for port maneuvers;
They function a redesigned straight bow with an built-in bulb, a redesigned rudder, and a redesigned propeller all of which considerably enhance the vessels hydrodynamics, thereby decreasing vitality consumption.
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These 9 vessels bear a selected “LNG Powered” label that can be recognizable on all seas throughout the globe.
An extraordinary building venture that mobilized the know-how and experience of CMA CGM Group’s consultants and their industrial companions
From its design all the way in which to its operation, with out forgetting its building, The CMA CGM JACQUES SAADE benefited from the know-how and experience of one of the best French, European, and international business leaders. Plenty of specialised firms performed their components on this landmark building venture, together with:
- BIO-UV Group, a French specialist in ultraviolet-based water disinfection techniques who offered the BIO-SEA system, a ballast water therapy know-how,
- CSSC, Shanghai’s shipyards who developed a globally acknowledged know-how and experience in container ship building,
- Cryostar, a French skilled in excessive know-how cryogenic tools who offered the LNG pumps,
- Bureau Veritas, a French classification firm in control of guaranteeing the certification of the CMA CGM JAQUES SAADE and its sister ships,
- BLM, a French firm who offered winches and windlass,
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- GTT, a French know-how and engineering firm skilled in membrane containment techniques, chosen for the design of LNG tanks and associated technical companies,
- Schneider Electric, a French industrial group who designed the vessel’s electrical switchboards,
- Sperry Marine, firm primarily based within the United Kingdom and accountable for radio navigation and platform tools,
- Total and Rotterdam port who offered LNG refueling companies,
- Wartsila, a Finnish fuel supplier who dealt with system and auxiliary techniques,
- WinGD, the CMA CGM JACQUES SAADE’s main engine designer.
CMA CGM pioneers France’s LNG area of excellence in maritime transport
The CMA CGM JACQUES SAADE, together with its eight 23,000 TEU sister ships (twenty-foot equal unit) can be registered on the French International Register (FIR). They will bear the names of landmark Parisian monuments and different famend venues and establishments from all through the French capital (Champs Elysées, Palais Royal, Louvre, Rivoli, Montmartre, Concorde, Trocadéro, and Sorbonne). CMA CGM has chosen Total as a part of a serious industrial partnership to provide them with fuel. Thereby making CMA CGM the initiator in structuring a real LNG area of excellence in maritime transport.
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A primary journey on the biggest sea route on the earth on the coronary heart of exchanges between Asia and Europe
The CMA CGM JACQUES SAADE will begin its maiden voyage as of September twenty third on the French Asia Line (FAL), CMA CGM Group’s most emblematic line between Asia and Northern Europe. Its rotation will lead it to the ports of Pusan in South Korea; Tianjin, Ningbo, Shanghai and Yantian, China; Singapore; Southampton, Dunkirk, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Algeciras in Europe; and Port Kelang in Malaysia. This line gives a weekly service comprising 13 calls over the course of 84 days.
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On the event of the CMA CGM JACQUES SAADE’s coming into service, Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, declared:
“The CMA CGM Jacques Saadé embodies our commitment to the planet. This vessel has been enhanced with the latest technologies and is the result of 7 years of research and development. While guaranteeing the safety of our crew, it preserves air quality and will be part of our fight against global warming. It significantly improves the environmental footprint of carried goods. We have taken a big step forward. We need to go further to build transport that is even more respectful of the environment.”
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