DELMAS
Type
Founded	1867
Headquarters	Le Havre, France
Industry	Transport
Products	Shipping Cargo Freight distribution
Revenue	Euro 850 million (2004 turnover)[1] $1. Le Havre is a city in the northwest region of France situated on the right bank of the mouth of the Seine River as it outlets into the Bay of the Seine This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" Transport or transportation is the movement of people and goods from one place to another In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need Shipping is physical process of Transporting goods and Cargo. Cargo (or freight) refers to goods or produce transported generally for Commercial gain by ship, aircraft, train, In business revenue or revenues is Income that a company receives from its normal business activities usually from the sale of goods and services Please update other articles as well to avoid contradiction within Wikipedia e "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " 24 billion (2004 turnover)[2] £632 million (2004 turnover)[2]
Employees	727 (2006)
Website	http://www.delmas.com/

Delmas Shipping, based in Le Havre, France, is a containerized-freight and ro-ro shipping company, mainly carrying trade between western Europe and Africa. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " See also Pound (currency.The pound sign (" £ " or " ₤ " is the symbol for the Pound sterling —the currency of the "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Le Havre is a city in the northwest region of France situated on the right bank of the mouth of the Seine River as it outlets into the Bay of the Seine This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Containerization (or containerisation) is a system of Intermodal freight transport Cargo Transport using standard ISO containers See also Merchant ship Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro Ships are ferries designed to carry wheeled Cargo such as Western Europe at its most general meaning means 'all the countries in the West of Europe ' It is the largest cargo carrier between European and African ports, and Europe's oldest extant shipping line.

The company operates a fleet of 49 vessels with a collective capacity of 63,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU),^[3] on 15 routes between Europe, Africa and the Indian Ocean. Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (often TEU or teu) is an inexact unit of cargo capacity often used to describe the capacity of Container ships and Container The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's Oceanic divisions covering about 20% of the water on the Earth 's surface It is part of the CMA CGM group of transportation firms, having been acquired from the Bollore Group for €470 million in 2005. CMA CGM SA is a French container transportation and shipping company headed by Mr

History

Delmas Freres was founded in 1867 to transport coal and raw materials from the French port of La Rochelle. La Rochelle is a city in western France, and a Seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. In 1910 the company was renamed Delmas Vieljeaux after its president, joint owner and Mayor of La Rochelle, Leonce Vieljeux. Léonce Vieljeux ( 12 April 1865, Les Vans, Ardèche, France - 12 September 1944, Struthof) was a ^[4]

The first Delmas shipyard opened in 1922 and international shipping began in 1925 with imports of mahogany from the African state of Gabon for use in boxes for storage of butter and cheese. The name mahogany is used when referring to numerous varieties of dark-colored wood originally the wood of the species Swietenia mahagoni, known as West Gabon (gəˈbɒn or /gaˈbõ/ in French) is a country in west central Africa sharing borders with Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Republic ^[4] After World War Two the company relocated to Le Havre and began to specialise in Africa-European trade. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including It was acquired by the Bollore Group in a hostile takeover in 1996, but a series of restructures led to a loss of market share and the sacking of 140 staff. In business a takeover is the purchase of one company (the target) by another (the acquirer, or bidder) ^[5]

In September 2005 the company was sold to CMA CGM for €470 million. CMA CGM SA is a French container transportation and shipping company headed by Mr The sale was supported by the Delmas workforce after CMA CGM agreed to a package including no forced redundancies and the retention of the Le Havre offices and Delmas branding. ^[6]

External links

• Delmas official website

References

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