The CMA CGM Group announced the launch, effective June 1st, 2009, of its new service linking North Europe, Greece and Turkey: The French Europe Med EXPRESS (FEMEX).

This reliable fixed-day service will deploy five vessels of 2,100 TEU providing CMA CGM customers new direct connections between North Europe and the main ports in the Aegean and Marmara Seas.

FEMEX will call Eastbound and Westbound in Tangiers, a CMA CGM strategic hub in the West Mediterranean offering new import and export opportunities between North America, Latin America, West Africa, Greece and Turkey.

The complete rotation of this new weekly service will be:
Hamburg / Felixstowe / Antwerp / Le Havre / Tangiers / Malta / Piraeus / Thessaloniki / Istanbul / Gebze / Gemlik / Izmir / Malta / Tangiers / Hamburg.

'Thanks to this new service, CMA CGM will offer its customers efficient and reliable connections between North Europe and the two main markets in the East Mediterranean. Thus the Group not only responds to customer demand, but it also reaffirms its commitment to reinforcing its services in the Mediterranean area, where the Group has a strong historical presence,' explains Bernard de Revel, Europe Mediterranean Line Manager.

The first vessel deployed on French Europe Med Express will leave Hamburg on June 1st, 2009.