Strait of Ormuz: After Three Months of Blocking, How the CMA CGM Has Adapted

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At the beginning of the year, the M Kithira, a 300-metre-long vessel of the Danish company Maersk, was on the east coast of the United States unloading the goods shipped the previous month in India. During the second half of January it crossed the Atlantic with new goods and empty containers (an essential operation to balance commercial transport between Asia and Europe) and, after a stopover in Tangier, surrounded Africa, folded the Cape of Goo…

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Impacted by the blockade of the Strait of Ormuz, the third world shipowner based in Marseilles quickly developed new ways to supply its customers, pending a resolution of the conflict, three months after the first American strikes on Iran.