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CMA CGM Fort Saint Louis is owned by the shipping company CMA CGM and sails under a French flag, with Marseilles as her home port. A container carrier, she plies a regular route between France and the French West Indies.[1]
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General information
editLaunched in June 2003 with three other sister-ships:
- CMA CGM Fort Saint Pierre
- CMA CGM Fort Sainte Marie
- CMA CGM Fort Saint Georges
Built in the Taiwanese shipyard CSBC Corporation, Taiwan. Bureau Veritas is the classification society.
The complete loop is made in 28 days and her ports of call are Dunkirk, Rouen, Le Havre, Montoir-de-Bretagne, Pointe-à-Pitre and Fort-de-France. The four vessels arrive at weekly intervals, which offers a regular supply of provisions from the French West Indies such as rum and bananas.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Flotte de navires - cma-CGM-fort-st-louis".
- ^ Desse M, Hartog T, "Les littoraux de la Caraïbe : pratiques sociales et nouvelles dynamiques spatiales", Terres d'Amérique #7, Karthala, 2006