CMBT (Compagnie Maritime Belge Transport)

The shipping company was founded in 1895 at the request of the Belgian King Leopold II and with the support of British investors as Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo (CBMC) to open a scheduled service from Europe to the then privately owned Leopold Congo Free State. The first ship of the new shipping company was the Léopoldville, which set out on 6 February 1895 for their first departure from Antwerp to the Congo. The Congo boats (Dutch: Congo) maintained this service from Antwerp for the next some sixty years.

When the CMBC acquired the shipping company Lloyd Royal Belge in 1930 , the name of the new company was changed to Compagnie Maritime Belge (CMB) and new liner services were opened to America and the Far East. In 1960, took over Armement Deppe, which at the time was the second largest Belgian shipping company, and turned with the purchase of five bulk carriers between 1963 and 1970 for the first time tramp shipping . In the early 1970s, the company participated in the Belgian airlines BIAS International and Delta Air Transport, In 1975, a 40% stake in the tramp shipping company Bocimar was added, which was fully acquired until 1982. In the late 1980s, the CMB outsourced all liner shipping activities to a new company, CMB Transport. In July 1991, the main shareholder of CMB, Société Générale de Belgique, sold its shares in Almabo Holding and its shipping company Exmar.

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The shipping company was founded in 1895 at the request of the Belgian King Leopold II and with the support of British investors as Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo (CBMC) to open a scheduled service from Europe to the then privately owned Leopold Congo Free State. The first ship of the new shipping company was the Léopoldville, which set out on 6 February 1895 for their first departure from Antwerp to the Congo. The Congo boats (Dutch: Congo) maintained this service from Antwerp for the next some sixty years.

When the CMBC acquired the shipping company Lloyd Royal Belge in 1930 , the name of the new company was changed to Compagnie Maritime Belge (CMB) and new liner services were opened to America and the Far East. In 1960, took over Armement Deppe, which at the time was the second largest Belgian shipping company, and turned with the purchase of five bulk carriers between 1963 and 1970 for the first time tramp shipping . In the early 1970s, the company participated in the Belgian airlines BIAS International and Delta Air Transport, In 1975, a 40% stake in the tramp shipping company Bocimar was added, which was fully acquired until 1982. In the late 1980s, the CMB outsourced all liner shipping activities to a new company, CMB Transport. In July 1991, the main shareholder of CMB, Société Générale de Belgique, sold its shares in Almabo Holding and its shipping company Exmar.

In 1995, CMB Transport, with its line operations of Compagnie Maritime Belge, was taken over half by the South African shipping company Safmarine, which relocated its headquarters to Antwerp and in 1998 took over the remaining shares in CMB Transport and later continued the CMB lines as SCL. In 1999, Safmarine was taken over by the Danish shipping company AP Møller-Mærsk, but decided to leave the Safmarine brand on its own, rather than incorporating it into the then Maersk Sealand-based Maersk Line. However, since the year 2000, Safmarine no longer continued the name Compagnie Maritime Belge and formally dissolved the line activities under the term CMB.

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