The late CMA CGM founder Jacques Saade has been honoured in the company’s home city, Marseille, with a street named after him.
Boulevard Jacques R Saade runs along the waterfront from the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations to the boxship giant’s head office.
The new name was inaugurated by mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin, with the Saade family and employees in attendance.
CMA CGM described Saade, who died last year at the age of 81, as “an exceptional visionary and unique entrepreneur”.
He arrived in the city in 1978 from Lebanon and built up the company into one of the biggest lines in the world.
His son, Rodolphe Saade, chairman and chief executive of the CMA CGM Group, told the gathering: “You have honoured a man and a company by naming a boulevard after him. Jacques Saade demonstrated that, from France, from this city, you could be an entrepreneur and build a world leader.
“He gave this country one of its finest industrial flagships. Rest assured that we will always remain committed to Marseille, for a stronger, more dynamic and more inclusive territory.”
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Tanker owners’ favourite artist (John Fredriksen owns a painting by her) Anne Penman Sweet returns to London with a new exhibition during Shipping Week in September.
A collection of her work will be on show at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in Fitzroy Square from 2 to 29 September.
The Sydney-based artist gives ships that are often regarded as dirty industrial giants a sense of majesty, or even divinity, with each painting titled after a god from classical mythology.
UK-born Penman Sweet was a finalist in Australia’s Paddington Art Prize in 2014 and has had 12 solo shows round the world.
