Neptune Orient Lines

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Neptune Orient Lines Limited
Type Subsidiary
IndustryTransport
Founded30 December 1968 (1968-12-30)
Founder Muhammad Jalaluddin Sayeed
Defunct1 October 2020 (2020-10-01)
FateAcquired by CMA CGM
HeadquartersThe Metropolis, 9 North Buona Vista Drive,
Singapore
,
Singapore
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman
  • Nicolas Sartini, CEO [1]
ServicesShipping services
RevenueDecrease2.svg S$  8,831.193  million (2013) [2]
Increase2.svg S$ 583.939  million (2013) [2]
Decrease2.svg S$ 71.968  million (2013) [2]
Total assets Increase2.svg S$ 9,029.035  million (2013) [2]
Total equity Decrease2.svg S$ 2,130.811  million (2013) [2]
Owner CMA CGM
Subsidiaries APL

Neptune Orient Lines Limited (NOL) was a Singaporean container shipping company. It was founded in 1968 as Singapore's national shipping line, but was later sold as a subsidiary to French shipping company CMA CGM in 2016. [3] [4] On 1 October 2020, NOL was restructured into a regional hub and was renamed to CMA CGM Asia Pacific Limited. [5] [6]

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History

In December 1968, Neptune Orient Lines was started as Singapore's national shipping line. Wholly owned by the Singapore Government, it was formed in an effort to develop and support Singapore's economy. [3]

Containerization

In the 1970s, containerization was introduced. In the mid-1970s, NOL's managing director was Goh Chok Tong, who went on to become Singapore's second Prime Minister. [7]

In 1975, NOL then entered the Asia-Europe trade as part of the ACE Group consortium with partners OOCL, K Line, COSCO and Franco-Belgian Services, known as the "third force" in the container-shipping world. [8] Meanwhile, it entered the key Trans-Pacific Trade with a standalone service.

Merger with APL

In 1997, NOL made a US$825 million acquisition of American President Lines (APL), whose heritage dates back to 1848. [8] Following the merger, the APL name was adopted as the public brand name. The NOL name was retained for the holding company, which was listed on the Singapore Exchange and was well known to its investors. The company focused on managing global supply chains in 2001 when APL Logistics was established as a separate business unit.

In 1998, during the Asian economic crisis, NOL saw losses mount to US$460 million, while its debt was more than US$4 billion. The company sold off assets to clear the debt and by 1999 was profitable again. [8]

In 2003, NOL completed the divestment of its tankering businesses AET and NAS, to concentrate on the company's core container shipping and logistics services. [7]

On 1 October 2011, Ng Yat Chung was appointed as CEO of NOL, replacing Ron Widdows. [9]

On 17 February 2015, APL Logistics was sold to Kintetsu World Express, Inc. for US$1.2 billion. [10]

Sale of NOL to France's CMA CGM

On 9 June 2016, it was announced that Temasek will tender its NOL shares to shipping company CMA CGM. CMA launched an all-cash voluntary conditional general offer for outstanding NOL shares at SG$1.30 a piece. The deal is worth SG$3.38 billion and eventually will be delisted from the Singapore Exchange. [11]

The company announced in May 2016 reported net losses of US$105.1 million (SG$142 million) for the first quarter ended 31 March, higher than the US$10.8 million a year earlier. Former CEO Ng Yat Chung acknowledged that the company had been "a bit slow and reluctant to change". [11]

On 28 June 2016, CMA CGM said it will proceed to delist NOL, after it crossed the 90 per cent ownership threshold in the company and NOL was subsequently delisted on 5 September 2016. [4] [12]

In May 2017, less than a year after the NOL acquisition, CMA reported turning a net profit of $26 million from the NOL business in the first quarter of the year. [13]

Restructuring to CMA CGM Asia Pacific Limited

On 7 July 2020, CMA CGM announced a restructuring of its services in the Asia-Pacific region. [5] [6] [14] NOL and CMA's regional office was reorganized into a regional hub and renamed to CMA CGM Asia Pacific Limited on 1 October 2020.[ citation needed ]

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