CMA-CGM wants to delay the delivery of 49 ships it has ordered and is scheduled to receive within the next three years, its CEO Rodolphe Saade said Monday. He said CMA-CGM’s revenue fell almost 30 percent in the first half of this year as shipping volume and tariffs fell during the global economic crisis. … The heavily-indebted French company now owes $5.6 billion.

From the Journal of Commerce Online, October 19, 2009