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One year and a half later the CMA CGM tower has reached its 33 floors.
There already is much discussion and here is a forum and a directory dedicated to this building…
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=441119&page=1
You will also find further information about the CMA tower (“the Tour french line”) as well as about the firm itself .
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Filed by john at August 29th, 2008 under Martime news
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Schindler Elevators, found on Schindler about CMA CGM
The French city of Marseille is reviving itself, and Schindler is to provide 20 elevators for a new high-rise designed by star architect, Zaha Mohammed Hadid.
By 2009, Schindler 7000s will be shuttling passengers to the top of Marseille’s highest building – a new 145-metre tower, which is to become the headquarters of container shipping giant, CMA-CGM.
The high-rise is located in the business quarter of the city, once blighted by crime and decay, but now the site of one of Europe’s largest urban re-developments.
France’s fastest
Schindler is providing 15 high-rise elevators - which will be among France’s fastest, capable of speeds of seven m/s – as well as five Schindler 5400s.
“Success here will significantly increase our profile for future high-rise projects in France,” says François Reuter, a member of the project team, which includes Schindler Paris, R&D, and of course the Top Range Division (TRC) in Ebikon.
TRC project leader, Marco Ferroni, said this project was unusual in that Schindler had been in direct contact with the architects and builders at a very early stage. Usually such discussions take place through an elevator consultant.
Specifications
As a consequence, the team had been able to make suggestions about elevator specifications. Ferroni added that he had permanent access to the client’s server and so can look at plans and make suggestions.
“This makes contact with the client much easier and faster. Also I don’t feel like I’m simply delivering components. I am responsible for systems and part of a complex planning and building process.”
Members of the Schindler team have been attending on-site meetings since October, and the first “jump lifts” (which deliver materials) are scheduled for installation in November 2007.
Destination control
Schindler is to provide 15 Schindler 7000s in total, including ten passenger, two freight, one restaurant and two panorama elevators. Of the additional five Schindler 5400s, two will be for passengers, one for disabled people, and two for freight. All will be equipped with the Miconic 10 destination control and Schindler’s ID access system.
Iraqi-born Zaha Mohammed Hadid is one the world’s top architects. She won the 2004 Pritzker Prize (considered the “Nobel prize” of architecture), and most recently designed the Cincinnati Art Centre, the first contemporary museum designed by a woman, and a building for BMW in Leipzig, Germany.
Filed by tony at May 14th, 2007 under Uncategorized
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Jacques Saadé , President of the third world container shipping group insists on the need for social peace in Marseilles !
Jacques Saadé, usually not very eloquent insists in the French newspaper Le Monde (interview of Jacques Saadé) on the need for social peace in Marseilles port.If Marseilles wants to be able to attract the large conveyors and to take again his place in the maritime transport, there is no other choice than stability. Marseilles, the oldest city of France, was one of very first port of Méditerrannée during decades until an unbearable mixture of clientelism, trade-union ideology, and corsican stupid pride ruins the heart even of Marseilles.
Without its Port Marseilles has simply NO FUTURE.
Let us put some facts in perspective:
- Marseilles has a rate of unemployment of 18 %
- the port is blocked regularly
- during this time there the world trade knows its stronger growth since decades and it’s not going to stop rapidly.
A modern and effective international port would provide to Marseilles a great engine for its development.
The Town hall massively invests in the city, in the urban infrastructures but it seems that all the political leaders, of all edges, chose to drop the port, to let it down until dead follows.
During this time there, Barcelona, Genoa seize the appropriateness of globalization and offer to their inhabitants amazing economic development tools.
Mr. Jacques Saadé is not the only one to ring the alarm bell.
Jacques Pfister, president of the Commerce & Industry Chamber of Provence,
encase the step with Jacques Saadé and declare: “in order to attract large operators, the logistic chain has to be perfectly reliable”, itv in French Newspaper Le Figaro. We only can give him reason. The Marseilles people must understand that the port’s small trade unionists mafia is putting in danger the future of the city itself ! And just because of short-view and narrow-minded selfish corporation interests.
Although Jacques Saadé is not an angel, but he is right and Marseille’s people should give him a form of homage to have created and have kept in Marseilles the third world shipping company. It is a formidable chance for the city, to take part in the rebirth of a large international commercial port, generating quantities of jobs and cash and returning to Marseilles its statute of capital of Mediterranean sea.
TG
More links in french about Jacques Saade and CMA-CGM:
Jacques SAADE biography
About Marseille port and Jacques SAADE
The future Jacques SAADE tower
Marseille news
More about the Jacques SAADE tower
Jacques SAADE in Martinique
CMA-CGM Jacques SAADE and the rail
Filed by tony at April 27th, 2007 under Port
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“Half of the goods which should come to Marseilles are discharged elsewhere. If reason does not come back, the Marseilles port is condemned “.
Jacques Saadé is well placed to know how much the port is a strategic asset in the city business.
CMA CGM that Jacques Saadé directs with a tough hand became in ten year the third world shipping company !
Whereas politics lecture people with their depressing litanies on the globalization fate and so on … delocalization, loss of jobs, euro vs dollar etc. Marseilles is losing a major strategic advantage in the world competition.
The explosion of the international trade could recover quantity of delocalized lost jobs. Indeed what leaves in production elsewhere returns fatally on Europe to be consumed. What we lose on a side can be recovered on the other. We have to adapt ourselves, to change minds and to give to Marseilles port infrastructures that it deserves.
In addition it is time to put the pressure on those which block the port regularly, to render comprehensible to them that they are responsible for a very powerful economic tool which it would be wise to use with the profit of all the Marseille’s people and not of a small corporatist clan.
Jacques Saadé and other economic persons in charge for the area ring the alarm bell, if nothing changes, if the port is not reliable, the unloading of the goods will leave elsewhere, where the boats are not at the thank you of an idiotic and dangerous social sudden crisis. We must take with serious the warning of Jacques Saadé and put the pressure on the politics and the press so that, finally, the port becomes again the heart of the Marseilles economic life.
Filed by tony at April 27th, 2007 under Port
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Jacques Saadé, dans l’éditorial du magazine CMA CGM, disponible sur le site web de la CMA CGM, donne quelques informations sur la stratégie du groupe pour l’avenir.
- Investissement dans la flotte
- Modernisation des systèmes d’infos (partenariat IBM)
- Investissements dans l’immobilier
Le patrimoine immobilier de la CMA CGM est très important. Vient s’ajouter la tour CMA CGM, Jacques Saadé l’a voulue élégante et les plans tiennent leur promesses. L’architecte Zaha Hadid est la conceptrice de la tour, dont on devine qu’elle incarne les ambitions de la CMA CGM et de son président, Mr Jacques Saadé.
L’information est au coeur des métiers du transport maritime. On a tendance à penser que le maritime se réduit à du cabotage de marchandises, mais l’information est stratégique. Une logistique moderne suppose un tracking efficace des marchandise, et CMA CGM s’est dotée d’outils puissants de gestion des flux, leurs clients en profitent et font confiance à la CMA CGM.
Jacques Saadé rappelle souvent qu’on a pas atteint la taille limite des porte conteneurs, mais aime à rappeler que la limite sera le tirant d’eau des infrastructures portuaires (25 m actuellement).
Il reste néanmoins soucieux de préserver l’environnement dans la culture de la CMA CGM.
Filed by john at April 5th, 2007 under In French
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Elle à pour nom “La chineuse” et vous permet de chiner tranquillement à partir de votre micro pour trouver des idées de décoration pour vous-même ou pour faire des petits cadeaux qui font toujours plaisir. Elle n’oublie pas les voyageurs…
En effet cette boutique en ligne d’objets de décoration vous propose notamment des boussoles et bagua Feng Shui pour voyager comme autrefois sur la terre comme sur la mer…
Filed by john at April 4th, 2007 under In French
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