News / New view on container tracking as MSC joins CMA CGM as an investor in system developer

The CMA CGM AMERIGO VESPUCCI in the port of Rotterdam

26/07/2016

MSC has joined ocean carrier rival CMA CGM on the board of French start-up container monitoring company Traxens after investing in the development of the technology firm.

Traxens was founded in 2012 by ex-Amesys Consulting IT executive Michel Fallah. CMA CGM invested in February 2015 “in order to finance new research and development programmes”.

The French carrier said that, aided by the Traxens technology, it would introduce “Big Data” into the transport industry, and claimed it would offer clients “unique follow-up solutions and real-time ...