The CMA CGM Group is pleased to announce the christening of the CMA CGM ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, today, in Hamburg, in presence of her godmother, Dr. Dorothee Stapelfeldt, Second Mayor of Hamburg, Mr. Olaf Scholz, Mayor of Hamburg, Mr. frank Horch, Senator of Hamburg for Ministry of Economics, Transport and Innovation and Mr. Jacques R. Saadé, CMA CGM Group’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
During a ceremony held today, at the townhall of Hamburg, Jacques R. Saade has been awarded by the Hamburg Senator of Port and Economics, Frank Horch, of one of the highest and most honorable decorations of the City of Hamburg: "the Admiralitätsportugaleser."
The CMA CGM ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, CMA CGM MARCO POLO and CMA CGM JULES VERNE’s sistership, is the second 16 000 TEU vessel delivered to the CMA CGM Group. The three of them are named after great explorers.
Built by DSME (Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering) in South Korea, the CMA CGM ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, owned by CMA CGM, displays exceptional dimensions: 396 meters long, 54 meters wide, with a draft of 16 meters and sails under the UK flag. In line with the sustainable development policy of the Group, the CMA CGM ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT is equipped with all the latest environmental technologies. Operated on the emblematic line of the Group, the « French Asia Line » (FAL 1), the CMA CGM ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT has already called at Pusan, Qingdao, Ningbo, Shanghai, Xiamen, Hong Kong, Chiwan, Yantian, Port Kelang, Suez, Tanger, Southampton and Hamburg and will then call Bremerhaven (31 May), Rotterdam (2 June), Zeebrugge (3 June), Le Havre (5 June), Malta (11 June), Suez (14 June), Khor Al Fakkan (22 June), Jebel Ali (24 June), Port Kelang (3 July) and Ningbo (10 July).
The FAL1 operates the largest vessels of the CMA CGM fleet and offers its customers a fixed-day, weekly connection between Central and South China, the main exporting zones of the country, and Northern Europe.
* Alexander von Humboldt is a German naturalist, geographer, and explorer, born September 14, 1769 in Berlin and died May 6, 1859 in the same city. Humboldt is considered as the father of modern geography. He cleared and applied two principles that make geography a distinct science of physical and biological sciences. He is the younger brother of Wilhelm von Humboldt, Minister of Prussia and German philosopher, who, as a visionary for research and education, founded the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1810.
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