''CMA CGM Jacques Saadé'' is a

container ship A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. Container ships are a common means of commercial intermodal ...

operated by

CMA CGM The Compagnie maritime d'affrètement - Compagnie générale maritime or CMA CGM is a French shipping and logistics company founded in 1978 by Jacques Saadé. The name is an acronym of two predecessor companies, Compagnie Maritime d'Affrètemen ...

. She entered commercial operation on 23 September 2020 and is the first of a class of nine

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s which at the time of construction were the world's largest vessels to be powered using

liquefied natural gas Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the volume o ...

. She is named after

Jacques Saadé Jacques Rodolphe Saadé (; 7 February 1937 – 24 June 2018) was a French-Lebanese billionaire businessman. He was the founder and chairman of the CMA CGM, a French container transportation and shipping company, the fourth largest in the wor ...

, the founder of CMA CGM and has a capacity of 23,000 TEU). In her own category, she is the largest container ship to sail under the

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History

The ''CMA CGM Jacques Saadé'' is the first of a class of nine

s to be delivered following a decision taken by

Rodolphe Saadé Rodolphe Saadé (; ; born 3 March 1970) is a Franco-Lebanese businessman. He is the chairman of the CMA CGM, CMA CGM Group, a world leader in logistics transport, and the son of its founder, Jacques Saadé. As of April 2024, his net worth was e ...

, chairman and chief executive officer of the CMA CGM Group, to order container ships powered by

(LNG). The ship was laid down in July 2018 at the CSSC shipyard in

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, launched on 25 September 2019 and completed in September 2020. She was originally scheduled to be completed in November 2019 but was delayed by 10 months. She entered commercial operation on 23 September 2020, on the French Asia Line route and is registered at the French International Register (RIF) with a

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, where the CMA CGM Group's head office has been based for over 40 years.

Design

At the time of construction she was the largest LNG-powered vessel ever built. She has a capacity of 23,000 TEU and measures in length with a overall beam and a height of . With a fuel tank capacity of up to of LNG stored at a temperature of , she is able to complete the full round trip between Asia and Northern Europe.

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