CMA CGM reiterates its commitments to diversity and gender balance

To mark International Women’s Day, the CMA CGM Group, a world leader in shipping and logistics, is reiterating its commitment to diversity and gender balance. This commitment and the actions taken over the past few years are fully aligned with the Group’s core values.

This year, the CMA CGM Group gives the stage ten women who work hard every day in France and around the world to make the Group a success and who have played a crucial role in its development.

In 2020, the Group introduced several measures to support existing initiatives and to underpin workplace equality and gender balance within its teams:

• it entered into a new collective bargaining agreement based on four pillars—recruitment, equal pay, internal promotion, and work-life balance
• the CMA CGM Academy launched the “C-Box Diversity” which can be used to identify potential discrimination and to plan campaigns within teams to champion diversity and inclusion
• it made cribs available for employees’ children at the two intercompany daycare centers close to the Group’s head office in Marseille
• it established a remote work agreeement an agreement covering homeworking (outside of Covid-19 lockdowns)
   

In addition, the Group has scaled up its “We Are Shipping” program. It was launched in 2018 with the aim of promoting women’s leadership within the Group both in France and worldwide and of achieving a greater gender balance in key positions through coaching sessions, coffee break discussions, co-development workshops and networking sessions. Since 2018, the program has supported the professional advancement of 113 women in eight groups across France, Lebanon, Asia and the United Kingdom.

Tanya Saadé Zeenny, Executive Officer of the CMA CGM Group: “The diversity of the CMA CGM Group’s employees represents a key asset and will play a crucial part in its development. For over 40 years now, the Group has built its foundations on strong values enabling each and every of our employees to realize their potential. Today, we are proud to be providing increasing support to women with their decision to pursue a career with our Group at the very heart of international trade flows.”

In 2020, the Group scored 82 out of 100 on the professional equality index between men and women and intends to step up its efforts in 2021 to further improve on equality and gender balance at every level of its organization.