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CMA CGM

CMA CGM is a Marseille-headquartered French container shipping, logistics, and port operator and the third-largest ocean carrier in the world. Founded in 1978 by Jacques Saadé and led today by Chairman & CEO Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group operates a fleet of 593 vessels with 4.5 million TEU of capacity calling 420 ports across 160 countries on 257 maritime services. The group includes maritime brands ANL, APL, CNC Line, Containerships, Comanav, and Mercosul Line; terminal operator CMA Terminals and Terminal Link; the CEVA Logistics contract logistics and freight forwarding business (acquired 2019); CMA CGM Air Cargo; Brittany Ferries and La Méridionale passenger ferries; and the CMA Média portfolio (La Provence, La Tribune, BFM-RMC, Brut). Through api-portal.cma-cgm.com the group exposes a DCSA-aligned REST API surface — Track and Trace v1 (DCSA v2.2.0), Schedules, Booking Request, Quotation, and Invoice — plus a parallel EDI catalog (EDIFACT IFTSAI, IFTMBF, IFTSTA, INVOIC) and group-level digital initiatives including ZEBOX (startup accelerator), Traxens-based IoT smart containers, and a strategic AI partnership with Mistral.

human only

More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles CMA CGM the way a machine reads it — 30 machine-readable artifacts across 6 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — CMA CGM scores 16.3/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 16.3/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile CMA CGM

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for CMA CGM. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 6

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

CMA CGM Track and Trace API

Public and private REST API exposing CMA CGM, ANL, APL, CNC, and Containerships shipment events aligned with the DCSA Track & Trace v2.2.0 OpenAPI specification (`/operation/tra...

CMA CGM Schedules API

Vessel schedule and routing API exposing point-to-point sailing solutions, port schedules, and vessel itineraries for the upcoming 12-week horizon across the CMA CGM, ANL, APL, ...

CMA CGM Quotation API

Spot quotation and US service contract API delivering ocean freight rates with all applicable surcharges (BAF, currency adjustment, security, origin/destination handling, peak s...

CMA CGM Booking Request API

Booking request API allowing shippers, NVOCCs, and freight forwarders to submit, amend, and cancel ocean bookings against CMA CGM Group services directly from their TMS or ERP. ...

CMA CGM Invoice API

Invoice API family exposing freight invoices and associated documents programmatically — including a "Copy Invoice PDF" operation that retrieves the original PDF artifact for a ...

CEVA Logistics Tracking API

CEVA Logistics — the CMA CGM Group contract logistics, freight forwarding, and ground transportation subsidiary — exposes a separate shipment tracking REST API through developer...

Features 23

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

DCSA Track & Trace v2.2.0 REST API (Public API Key + Private OAuth2 tiers)
Vessel and port-to-port Schedules API covering CMA CGM, ANL, APL, CNC, Containerships
Quotation API for spot rates and US service contracts with full surcharge breakdown
Booking Request API mirroring EDIFACT IFTMBF for programmatic ocean bookings
Invoice API family including Copy Invoice PDF retrieval
Parallel EDI catalog with IFTSAI (schedules), IFTMBF (booking), IFTSTA (tracking), INVOIC (billing)
Self-service API portal at api-portal.cma-cgm.com with subscription, live consumption monitoring, FAQ
Founding member of the Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) — APIs align with DCSA standards
CEVA Logistics Tracking API (developer.cevalogistics.com) for contract-logistics and forwarding flows
Traxens-based smart container telemetry (shock, temperature, humidity, door-open) accessible by API
Founded 1978 in Marseille by Jacques Saadé; led by Chairman & CEO Rodolphe Saadé
3rd-largest container carrier worldwide; fleet of 593 vessels and 4.5M TEU capacity
Operates 257 maritime services calling 420 ports across 160 countries
160,000 employees globally across maritime, terminals, logistics, air cargo, and media
Group revenue $55.48B and net income $5.71B in FY2024; Q1 2026 revenue $13.23B
{"Subsidiaries"=>"ANL, APL, CNC Line, Containerships, Comanav, Mercosul Line, CEVA Logistics, CMA CGM Air Cargo, CMA Terminals, Terminal Link, La Méridionale"}
Strategic stake in Brittany Ferries; UK intermodal Freightliner acquired in 2026
CMA Média portfolio includes La Provence, Corse-Matin, La Tribune, BFM-RMC, Brut
Member of the Ocean Alliance shipping consortium alongside COSCO and Evergreen
$10B United Ports JV with Stonepeak (2025) for accelerated US port investment
Decarbonization strategy investing in LNG, biogas, and methanol-powered vessels
€100M strategic AI partnership with Mistral for customer service and logistics innovation
ZEBOX international startup accelerator (founded by Rodolphe Saadé, 6 global hubs, 15+ corporate partners)

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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Cma Cgm Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for CMA CGM — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

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