Compagnie de Navigation Mixte

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The French shipping company Compagnie de Navigation Mixte (CNM) existed from 1850 to 1981.

history

The company was founded in December 1850 by shipbroker Louis Arnaud and the brothers Auguste and Félix Touache as Société Louis Arnaud, Touache Frères & Cie. founded to set up a liner service between Marseille and Algeria. In 1855 the name was changed to Compagnie de Navigation Mixte to indicate the change from sailing to steamship. From 1873 to 1883 the service was extended to Corsica. In 1888 the shipping company was converted to a public limited company and renamed Compagnie de Navigation Mixte (Compagnie Touache).

In 1908 a tanker shipping company was founded as a subsidiary, the Société Pétrole-Transport and the first oil tanker were commissioned. Since the legislation at the time allowed no more than one tanker per shipping company, the President of the CNM and the Compagnie Internationale des Pétroles, Théodore Mante, founded their own companies for three oil tankers. During the First World War, the company lost its ship Medjerda - it was sunk on May 11, 1917, killing 344 people. After the legislation on the number of tankers per shipping company had been simplified, the three subsidiaries were merged in 1918 to form the new company Mazout-Transports . At the beginning of the Second World War, Navigation Mixte managed twelve ships, three of which belonged to the French government.

After the Second World War , the fleet was rebuilt. In 1957 nine ships were operated and in 1960 eleven ships.

1967 Navigation Mixte is taken over by the insurance group "La Fortune" in a hostile takeover. The new majority owners merge the Mediterranean services of Navigation Mixte with those of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT) to form the Compagnie Générale Transméditerrannéenne (CGTM), which in 1976 became the Société nationale maritime Corse Méditerranée .

In 1976, the shipping company received two Semi container vessels of the type Key 26 from the Seebeck Shipyard in Bremerhaven. In 1981 the two ships were sold and the Navigation Mixte company was dissolved.

literature

  • Bernard Bernadac: Petite histoire de la Compagnie de Navigation Mixte , In: L'Algérianiste , 2004–2005