Louis Dreyfus Armateurs

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Louis Dreyfus Armateurs SAS

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legal form Société par actions simplifiée
founding 1965
Seat Suresnes , FranceFranceFrance 
management Phillip Louis-Dreyfus , President
Branch shipping
Website http://www.lda.fr/ (French / English)

Louis Dreyfus Armateurs SAS (LDA) is a French shipping company based in Suresnes near Paris .

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The shipping company emerged in 2007 from the Louis Dreyfus Group . The roots of shipping activities there go back to 1890.

The company is divided into the following main work areas:

  • The bulk -Schifffahrt is the core business and simultaneously the most traditional part of the company because the shipping company is active there since 1,893th Today, around twenty bulk carriers are operated under the umbrella of the wholly-owned subsidiary Cetragpa SNC . The fleet includes Handysize bulkers with and without loading gear , Supramax , Capesize and Dunkirkmax ships between 20,000 and 180,000 tons of deadweight.
  • The RoRo and RoPax services are operated by LDA, LD Lines, LD Transmanche SAS and GLD Atlantique.
    • Since 2004, LDA has operated the RoRo ship Ville de Bordeaux in cooperation with the Leif Höegh shipping company , which is used to transport components of the Airbus A380 between various Airbus production facilities. In 2008 another ship, the City of Hamburg, was put into service.
    • The ferry company LD Lines was founded in 2003 as a wholly-owned subsidiary and operates services across the English Channel , between Marseille and Tunis and between Saint-Nazaire and Gijón . The English Channel connections and the service between Marseille and Tunis are maintained in cooperation with DFDS , with LD Lines bringing in four ships and one of its own and DFDS five ships.
      On November 3, 2013, LD Lines took over the connection between the southern English port of       Poole and Santander in northern Spain with the ferry Norman Asturias, built in 2007 .
    • The subsidiary Transmanche Ferries was founded to continue the ferry connection between Dieppe and Newhaven and has been operated by Louis Dreyfus Armateurs since 2007 . GLD Atlantique , a joint venture between Louis Dreyfus Armateurs and the Grimaldi Group , operated a ferry connection between Toulon and Civitavecchia from 2005 to 2009 . Today the shipping company operates the ferry between Saint-Nazaire and Gijón.
  • The offshore shipping sector is operated with 33 ships and other units from LDA and the subsidiary shipping companies LD Travocean SAS, Alda Marine SAS, Fairmount Marine BV and LDA Seismic.
    • LDA is currently chartering five seismic research vessels to the geophysics company CGGVeritas .
    • The companies LD Travocean and Alda Marine work with their own cable layers and other units in the submarine cable laying and maintenance sector.
    • The Dutch company Fairmount Marine , founded in 1980, was taken over by LDA in 2007. It operates a fleet of six tugs and one semi-submersible ship. Five identical anchor-handling tugs of the Fairmount class are used for sea towing, salvage and offshore services; another multi-purpose tug can also be used as a supply, diving support ship and accommodation ship. In addition, Fairmount Marine has the semi-submersible offshore barge Gavea Lifter with 50,000 tonnes load capacity, with which large floating units such as oil rigs, ships and components can be towed across the sea.
  • The company has been managing the French research and supply ship Marion Dufresne since 2017 .
  • The industrial logistics area is operated by Orchard Maritime Services, based in Singapore and Jakarta , with around twenty ships and units in South America and Asia. The main thing is cargo handling and lighter services for bulk goods.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description of the Cetragpa SNC (English / French)
  2. ↑ LD Lines opens new Spain route . In: Daily port report from November 1, 2013, p. 13
  3. ↑ LD Lines website (English)
  4. ↑ Fairmount website (English)

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