At CMA CGM, understanding our customers and anticipating their needs means innovating on their behalf. We are always looking for new ways to optimize their business-building journey while reducing the impact of the entire transport chain on the environment.
Our smart technologies and eco-innovations are shipping the entire industry into the future. As a privileged actor of global trade, we are fully aware of the complexity of import-export operations. We know that our customers’ success depends on the efficiency of their supply chain and that having maximum visibility of their cargo on a global scale with real-time flexibility has become indispensible. Thanks to the Internet of Things, we are going beyond their expectations with TRAXENS.
TRAXENS are cutting edge dry containers equipped with an electronic device that transmits near-real-time data regarding the movement and condition of any cargo in transit. Delivering transparency, safety and cost efficiency, TRAXENS is the key to logistics excellence.
Smart Containers by TRAXƎNS
Offering full traceability thanks to near-real-time data accessible anywhere and anytime, TRAXENS makes the logistics flow clearer and more efficient. Customers are rapidly notified in the case of any event and can immediately decide what action to take, such as initiating exceptional management or emergency sourcing plans.
As well as generating connectivity for seamless cargo tracking, TRAXENS comes with a user-friendly hub for efficient analytics, easy set-up of alerts and personalized notifications. Customers can analyze and evaluate the efficiency of their Supply Chain and instigate concrete operational improvements without delay. Shock tracking data, lead time identification and root cause analysis enables quality cargo management, door opening notifications enhance cargo security and key performance indicators per door to door trade boosts inventory management. What’s more, all the data generated helps our customers comply with processes, supply decisive data for insurance procedures, facilitate trade finance and improve customs clearance practices.
As a Group, we are firmly committed to reducing our carbon footprint to preserve the oceans and biodiversity as a whole. Between 2005 and 2015, we reduced our CO2 emissions per container transported per kilometer by 50% and we will have reduced emissions by a further 30% by 2025.
CMA CGM continuously upgrades its container fleet by investing in new and reliable eco-containers. Using these containers on our largest vessels reduces fuel consumption by one or two tons per day and decreases CO2 emissions by 3.6 tons. 25% of the Group’s container fleet now have bamboo floors.
In 2005, CMA CGM was the first maritime company to conceive and invest in bamboo-floor containers. Traditionally, container floors are made of wood sourced from endangered primary forests. To protect these resources, CMA CGM uses bamboo flooring for all new container orders. Bamboo grows as quickly as grass and can be cut after 4-7 years, as opposed to 60 years for tropical wood. 25% of the Group's container fleet is now made of bamboo-floor containers.
In 2008, the Group began a new era by introducing the first Light Steel containers into its fleet. These new generation containers are made from high tensile steel which saves 550 kg tare per High-Cube while retaining the structural qualities of the container. On a ship of 10,000 TEU, the use of these containers can save 1-2 tons of fuel per day and up to 3 to 6 tons of CO2 emissions.
CMA CGM was one of the first shipping companies to integrate containers using solvent free paints into its fleet because traditional paint solvents generate volatile organic compounds which have a negative carbon footprint and significant impact on air pollution.
CMA CGM has the second largest refrigerated container fleet in the world and the vast majority of our refrigerated containers are equipped with low consumption engines, which reduce electricity and fuel consumption by over 30%. All our units are equipped with energy use management software which enables the temperature of the goods to be closely monitored and minimize wastage.
Created in 2007 at our headquarters in Marseille, the Fleet Navigation & Support Center provides assistance and advice on all aspects of navigation. It’s role is to optimize routes, speeds and fuel consumption across the fleet while ensuring the safety of our crews and our vessels. Only two shipping companies in the world have this kind of facility, which enables us to monitor the Group’s entire fleet in real time. We can survey the weather conditions and geographical situation, and make rapid contact with the vessels if necessary.
The Fleet Navigation & Support Center is particularly vigilant in areas identified at risk (from pirates, tsunamis, cyclones or typhoon etc.) and ready to suggest alternative solutions to the crew. The center compiles feedback from captains in every port to produce “Port Cards” for each member of the crew. The Fleet Navigation & Support Center is run by three highly experienced captains who constantly analyse potential incidents based on their previous experience, data-recording tools (Voyage Data Recorder) and any information related to navigation, including hazards that navigators may encounter (ECDIS). Thanks to the feedback from the crews, they are also able to improve our databases and keep all shipping information up to date. The captains at our Fleet Navigation & Support Center also participate in the training plans for CMA CGM Group seafarers.
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