🔥Breaking: CMA CGM +TotalEnergies LNG Alliance: Fuel Security or Maritime Domination?

❓Did CMA CGM just find its long-term fuel partner — or lock in maritime power for decades?

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🔥 Greetings, Maritime Mavericks!

Two French giants just shook the LNG world.

CMA CGM and TotalEnergies have launched a 50/50 joint venture to supply LNG bunker fuel in Europe’s busiest maritime hub — the ARA region (Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp).

On the surface, it’s about decarbonization. But underneath, it’s a fuel infrastructure power play.

This deal could give CMA CGM control over not just ships, but also the energy pipelines of European shipping.

• 🛢️ What Just Happened?

• 🔥 Why This JV Really Matters?

• 🧠 What Are the Risks?

• 🔮 What Comes Next?

Let’s unpack what this really means for container shipping industry.

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🛢️ What Just Happened?

• 📦 New 50/50 JV between CMA CGM and TotalEnergies

• 🛳️ 20,000 m³ LNG bunker vessel to operate in Rotterdam by 2028

• 📍 Covers the entire ARA region (Amsterdam–Rotterdam–Antwerp)

• 🔁 Linked to TotalEnergies’ existing Gas Agility ship (18,600 m³)

• 📦 Will fuel CMA CGM’s growing dual-fuel fleet (123 LNG vessels by 2029)

• 📅 360,000 tons of LNG/year secured until 2040

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🔥 Why This JV Really Matters?

1️⃣ First-Ever Energy-Carrier JV

For the first time, a shipping line and energy giant will jointly operate a bunker vessel. That’s vertical integration—on water.

2️⃣ Fuel Security Until 2040

CMA CGM locked in a 15-year LNG supply deal with TotalEnergies—extremely rare in a volatile fuel market.