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Shippers is a French company that was founded in 1872 as a shipping company Chargeuse Réunis and works in the fields of film and textiles. The company is listed on the CAC Small.
History
The company was founded 1872/1886 as Compagnie Française de Navigation à Vapeur Chargeuse Réunis in Le Havre. In 1888 the company was renamed in Compagnie Maritime Shippers Réunis. Starting from the base port of Le Havre to the trade from West Africa, across the South American east coast stretching to the United States. 1891, the Company had prepared about 35 ships that 470,000 tons of cargo and 13,600 passengers were transported annually. In 1916 Chargeuse Réunis took over the majority of shares in the Compagnie de Navigation Sud competitors -Atlantique, which ran a passenger liner service from Bordeaux to the ports of the South American east coast on behalf of France and state-owned ships.
About a decade later, in 1927, the shipping company Chargeuse Réunis was in turn means hostile takeover by the Fabre family dependent. Léon Cyprien Fabre and his business partner Alexis Baptifaut held the Presidency of the Chargeuse Réunis. After a failed attempt Chargeuse Réunis ' to take over the airline Aéropostale, 1933, the competitive society Aéromaritime was founded, the first from July 7, 1935 Post flights between Cotonou and Niamey conducted and subsequently expanded its operation to the whole of West Africa. In 1937 Chargeuse Réunis was separated from the parent company Fabre.
After the Second World War, now of Francis Cyprien Fabre led Chargeuse Réunis their fleet was reduced to about 15 units. In the years 1964-1976 Chargeuse Réunis acquired a number of other French shipping companies, including Fabre, Fraissinet, Société Générale of Transport Maritimes, Paquet and Union Navale. 1979 Chargeuse Réunis diversified its business. This is now the third largest European cruise line grown shipping company operating 64 vessels ( 40 owned and 24 in cooperation with Delmas frequent Jeux ). This in container, ro-ro and bulk (including gas transport ), passenger shipping, and the working of port agencies. In the aviation business, it was initially with 63 percent involved ( in 1990 at 82.9 percent) in the airline Union de Transports Aériens (UTA ). The company part UTH operating 17 international hotels.
As of January 1980, the company's " Chargeuse Réunis " began under the direction of Jérôme Seydoux to disassemble and sell their parts. By 1990, the entire fleet was repelled and the UTA was sold to Air France. The shipping company, in 1988 as Chargeuse SA renamed, still existed until about the year 2000 and was then deleted from the Commercial Register. As Shippers, the company now employs in the areas of surface protection ( protective film ), technical textiles and raw materials processing.