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The CMA CGM Group, the world’s third largest container shipping group, and the University of the French West Indies and Guyana (UAG) are pleased to announce that a partnership to develop joint projects and a growing collaboration between UAG students and CMA CGM was signed on the 6th of February.
The agreement sends out a strong signal of the Group’s commitment in the long term to the French West Indies and Guyana.
With this partnership, CMA CGM is reinforcing its desire to be a strategic player in the future of UAG (Université des Antilles et de la Guyane). The agreement aims to:
- Develop meetings between the university world and CMA CGM through participation in forums, workshops, seminars and conferences organized by the University,
- Welcome more students from the UAG into the Group (internships, France’s job experience abroad scheme (VIE), apprenticeships, etc),
- Support partnership projects with students if they are part of their entrepreneurship studies.
“The University of the French West Indies and Guyana is renowned for the quality of the teaching it provides and the spirit of initiative it fosters. For these reasons, CMA CGM is delighted to have this partnership. It reinforces its ties with the UAG and brings it closer to talented young students who have benefited from a good university education,” explains Thierry Billion, Senior Vice-President Human Resources at CMA CGM.
This latest initiative is part of a program of partnerships the Group is developing with several other prestigious institutions, particularly in France’s Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur region and Marseilles where the Group has its Head Office (for example Euromed Management, ENSM, Science-Po Aix and IAE Aix).
The partnership with students from the French West Indies & Guyana is a pledge towards development of the Caribbean as a whole, as it supports future generations.
It’s a unique commitment, as it is the culmination of a special relationship between the Group and the French West Indies that goes back more than a century. It started with the banana plantations, and became economic with over 200 million euro invested by CMA CGM over the last ten years in a fleet of ships, new equipment and buildings. Today, this commitment takes on a whole other dimension as an educational project the Group intends to pursue over the long term across the whole Caribbean region.
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