{{Short description|Moroccan shipping company}} {{Infobox company | name = Comanav| logo =File:Mistral Express ferry.jpg | type = [[Subsidiary]] | company_slogan = | foundation = 1946 | location = [[Casablanca]], [[Morocco]] | key_people = Taoufik Ibrahimi (PDG)| parent = [[CMA CGM]] | num_employees = | industry = [[Transport]] | products = Ferries<br>Port services<br>Passenger transportation<br>Freight transportation | passengers = | vehicles = | freight units = | revenue = | routes = | result = | homepage = {{URL|http://www.cma-cgm.com/}} | }}
The '''Compagnie Marocaine de Navigation''' or '''Comanav''' ({{Langx|ar|الشركة المغربية للملاحة البحرية}} ; Moroccan Navigation Company) is a [[Morocco|Moroccan]] shipping company and wholly owned subsidiary of [[CMA CGM]]. Currently, it is the leader in the Moroccan market for maritime transport of passengers and freight, as well as port operations. In 2009, the company sold its ferries and passenger transport subdivision to [[Comarit]] which has since gone bankrupt.
== History == [[File:House flag of Franco-Cherifian Navigation Company.svg|thumb|The [[house flag]] used by CFCN when Morocco was a French protectorate and Comanav in independent Morocco.]] Compagnie Franco-Chérifienne de Navigation (CFCN) was founded in 1946. After the independence of Morocco in 1956, it changed its name to Comanav in 1959.
For the numerous Moroccan emigrants in Europe who returned to the country for the summer, the company decided in 1975 to offer a passenger [[ferry]] line between [[Tangiers]] and [[Sète]]. In the same year, it acquired five [[container ship]]s to pursue its development along with its [[bulk carrier]]s.
In 1993, a [[roll-on/roll-off]] (ro-ro) increased the companies capacity for the transport of lorries.
Five years later, Comanav became the first Moroccan [[Ship-owner|shipowner]] to serve the [[Straits of Gibraltar]], strengthening its position in the field of passenger transport in the [[Mediterranean]] region.
In 2007, the Moroccan state privatised the company, which was leased to a consortium represented by [[CMA CGMM]] for 2.2 billion [[Moroccan dirham]]s, equivalent to 200 million [[euro]]s. The French company was interested above all in the port sector and yielded the passenger business to the Spanish company [[Balearia]], which itself sold its share to a Moroccan operator, [[Comarit]], for a sum of 80 million euros in February 2009.
== Activities == * [[Bulk transport]] * Passenger transport * Container transport * Ro-Ro * Port activities (Somaport, Tanger Med,...)
== Some statistics == Comanav's fleet consists of 14 vessels of which 10 are owned. Its capacity is for {{formatnum:3300}} [[Twenty-foot equivalent unit|teu]], {{formatnum:7400}} passengers and {{formatnum:2200}} vehicles. Volumes transported annually are {{formatnum:60000}} teu, {{formatnum:45000}} units [[Ro-Ro]], {{formatnum:200000}} [[Tonne (unit)|tonne]]s of various goods and {{formatnum:800000}} passengers.
==Regular links== === Principal services (cargo)=== * Atlantic : {{MAR}} [[Casablanca]] {{FRA}} [[Le Havre]] {{FRA}} [[Rouen]] {{FRA}} [[Dunkirk]] {{BEL}} [[Antwerp]] {{NED}} [[Rotterdam]] * Western Mediterranean : {{MAR}} [[Casablanca]] {{ESP}} [[Valencia]] {{ESP}} [[Barcelona]] {{ITA}} [[La Spezia]] * [[Ro-Ro]] lines : ** {{MAR}} [[Casablanca]] {{FRA}} [[Marseille]] ** {{MAR}} [[Casablanca]] {{ESP}} [[Cádiz]] ** {{MAR}} [[Casablanca]] {{ITA}} [[La Spezia]] {{ITA}} [[Genoa]]
=== Principal services (passengers)=== * {{MAR}} [[Tangier]] : ** {{ESP}} : [[Algeciras]] ** {{FRA}} : [[Sète]] ** {{ITA}} : [[Genoa]] * {{MAR}} [[Nador Port|Nador]] : ** {{ESP}} : [[Almería]] ** {{FRA}} : [[Sète]]
== Sources == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20130809054627/http://www.comanav-voyages.ma/ Comanav official website] * [http://www.cma-cgm.com CMA-CGM official website]
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[[Category:Ferry companies of Morocco]] [[Category:Companies based in Casablanca]] [[Category:1946 establishments in Morocco]] [[Category:Transport companies established in 1946]] [[Category:Container shipping companies]]
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