For the first time in the history of international shipping, a major foreign liner, has reflagged one of its vessels under the Indian registry. The containership CMA CGM Vitoria has become CMA CGM’s first-ever Indian-flagged vessel, following Narendra Modi’s visit to the company’s head office in Marseille.
The CMA CGM Group welcomed the arrival of the first Indian flagged containership registered by a major foreign carrier at Nhava Sheva Free Port Terminal on April 28, in the presence of Honourable Minister of State for Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways of India, Shri Shantanu Thakur.
With a total capacity of 2592 TEU, CMA CGM Vitoria serves India on the Group’s BIGEX Network, one of the most comprehensive offers of direct links between India, the Gulf, and the Red Sea, performing weekly calls from Nhava Sheva and Mundra.
In addition to its first local flag registration in India, the Group will register three more vessels in the coming months.
CMA CGM also becomes the first foreign shipping line to register a containerized vessel in the International Financial Services Centre, GIFT (Gujarat International Finance Tec) City, in India.
With a 34-year presence in India and a workforce of 17,000 employees, CMA CGM is actively developing port infrastructure in India, thanks to strategic investments in terminals located at Nhava Sheva Freeport (NSFT), near Mumbai, and at Mundra Port.
CEVA Logistics, CMA CGM’s logistics subsidiary, operates across 105 sites in 31 Indian cities, managing around 900,000 square meters of warehouse space.
The acquisition of Stellar VCS in 2023 further strengthened CEVA Logistics’ role in India’s contract logistics sector.
