CMA CGM ships turn into Santa's sleigh over the Xmas holidays
Time：2014-12-25
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Be it Montreal, New York, Sydney or Shanghai, bottles of Champagne and Cognac, cheeses, chocolates and French perfumes will be on the Christmas Eve menu or at the bottom of the Christmas tree.
The world`s third largest shipping group and leader in France said in a statement that containers loaded with the most famous perfume brands left the port of Le Havre in early November on the CMA CGM Columba for a 48-day journey to Yantian in China.
The ship travelled through Beirut, Jeddah, Port Kelang, Singapore, Tianjin, Xingang, Dalian, Busan, Qingdo and Shanghai.
Reefer FEUs filled with French cheeses and chocolate arrived in Montreal on November 17 aboard the CMA CGM Montreal.
Containers filled with tens of thousands of bottles of Cognac arrived in New York City in mid-November, aboard the CMA CGM Corcovado. The ship is now on her way to the southern hemisphere where other bottles of the famous spirit will be unloaded in Melbourne and Sydney.
These products travel either in conventional dry containers or, for the most fragile products, refrigerated reefer containers.
Thanks to an advanced technology that combines temperature and humidity control, the reefer containers allow chocolate truffles as well as bottles of wine or Champagne to keep all their taste and qualities for dinner on Christmas Eve.
"The CMA CGM Group is proud to offer its expertise in the field of maritime transport to ensure, all time of the year, but especially for Christmas, the routing of the best French products everywhere in the world," the release said.
The impressive figures show that since November, CMA CGM ships have carried: 735,000 Yule logs and ice creams, among which 315,000 were transported to La Reunion, 105,000 to New Caledonia, 90,000 to Algeria, and 90,000 to Trinidad and Tobago.
Sixteen million chocolate bars, including three million to Australia and two million to Canada, have also been delivered, while 360,000 bottles of perfume left Le Havre on November 21 aboard the CMA CGM Aquila for Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.