Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman and CEO of the CMA CGM Group, has announced that the company will no longer transport any plastic waste aboard its ships from the start of June.
Speaking at the One Ocean Summit, he also stated that the company will host one of the two sites of the French Institute for Decarbonation at Tangram, the group’s major innovation and training centre due to open in Marseille in 2023.
Every year around 10m tonnes of plastic waste end up in the sea and unless action is taken that figure is set to triple over the next 20 years to 29m tonnes annually.
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