Compagnie Française de Marine et de Commerce (Shipping company, France)

Last modified: 2010-09-25 by ivan sache
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House flag of the CFMC - Image by Ivan Sache, 22 February 2004

• History of the CMFC
• House flag of the CMCF

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• France
• Shipping companies based in Marseilles

History of the CMFC

The Compagnie Française de Marine et de Commerce (CMFC), based in Rouen, set up in 1924 in Marseilles a branch called Minerais et Métaux (Ore and Metals). The Marseilles branch operated two ore tankers, MS Alumine and MS Quartz. The company was sold off in 1934.

Source: Paul Bois. Armements marseillais - Compagnies de navigation et navires à vapeur (1831-1988), published by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Marseille-Provence [boi03].

Ivan Sache, 22 February 2004

House flag of Compagnie Française de Marine et de Commerce

P. Bois [boi03] shows the house flag of the CFMC, also used by the ships of Minerais et Métaux, as a gironny of four light blue and four red pieces, charged in the middle with an oval bordered blue and bearing the blue-red-blue-red letters "CFMC".

Ivan Sache, 22 February 2004