🔥How Did CMA CGM Earn $13B in Q2-25 Amid Global Chaos?
🌍The World Was Shaking — CMA CGM Stood Firm. Here’s How! 👇
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💥 Trade war tensions
🪖 Geopolitical instability.
🚫 Red Sea disruptions.
🚢 Global overcapacity concerns.
Yet CMA CGM remained steady posting $13.16B in revenue in Q2-25, with just a 0.2% drop in volumes.
It’s stable group performance, driven by diversified revenue streams—terminals, air freight, media, and logistics stepped up while shipping margins came under pressure.
Here’s the secret behind the French shipping giant’s resilience in a volatile world:
📊 The Performance: What the Numbers Say?
🚢 Shipping: Still the Core, But Under Margin Pressure
🚛 Logistics: Slow Revenue, Strong Margin Growth
🚀 Other Activities: The Quiet Engine of Growth
🌱 Decarbonization: Scaling Green at Speed
🤖 Innovation and AI: A Future-Proof Bet
🏗️ Strategic Projects That Changed the Game
🌍 CEO Rodolphe Saadé: What He Said?
🪙 CFO Ramon Fernandez: What He Said?
🔮 Maritime Analytica Insight - Big Picture
Let’s break it down.
📊 The Performance: What the Numbers Say?
🚢 Shipping: Still the Core, But Under Margin Pressure
CMA CGM moved 5.97 million TEUs in Q2 2025, nearly identical to last year.
Even with a 40% collapse in China–US trade, the company managed to reroute capacity to other lanes—like Asia–Europe, intra-Asia, and Latin America—maintaining near-stable volume.
Revenue: $8.16B (−1.5% YoY)
EBITDA: $1.58B (−19.9%)
EBITDA Margin: 19.4% (−4.5 pts)
Avg. revenue per TEU: $1,367 (−1.2%)
👉The shipping unit suffered from lower freight rates and rerouting costs, but its global footprint allowed swift redeployment of vessels, protecting volume even as the most profitable trade lanes declined sharply.