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Jacques R. Saadé (Arabic: جاك سعادة) (born 1937) is a French-Lebanese born businessman, living in Marseille, France. He is the founder, group chairman, and chief executive officer of CMA CGM, a French container transportation and shipping company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CMA CGM's Board Of Directors )〕 == Biography == Jacques R. Saadé was born in 1937 in Beirut, Lebanon. He graduated from the London School of Economics in 1957 and took over the family business after the death of his father. His father had “established plants in Syria, we were producing tobacco, cotton seed, olive oil, ice, etc.”. Based on his fathers advice, after graduation Saadé did an internship in New York to learn about shipping. There he discovered the container (capacity: one cubic metre) used by the American army. “I thought the container was an excellent idea for transporting goods as it was closed, easy and quick.〔” The 1978 War in Lebanon prompted him to move to Marseille. There Saadé set up ''Compagnie maritime d’affrètement'' (CMA). Initially operating services between Marseille, Beirut and Syria. Saadé quickly made the decision to cross the Suez Canal. In the beginning there was family tension between Jacques Saadé and his brother Johnny. “Their private war was too passionate to be reduced to a simple question of pride or money. In reality, Johnny wanted to kill the more successful father figure he saw in Jacques,” says Antoine Sfeir, Managing Editor of Cahiers de l'Orient, who investigated their quarrel in 2013. After difficult family disputes, Jacques Saadé took the helm alone. On the Mediterranean, Jacques Saadé settled in Marseille: “I wanted the sea. Marseille is beautiful and the sea looks a little like that in Beirut.”〔 He made Marseille the Group’s headquarters: the CMA CGM Tower designed by Zaha Hadid, 147m in height with 33 floors. Today the CMA CGM Group is the city’s biggest employer (2,400 staff). Jacques R. Saadé was made an Honorary Citizen of the City of Marseille (January 2013), joining directors of companies like Eurocopter, Onet, Orange and Pernod Ricard. Jacques R. Saadé is committed to building bridges between continents. Since 1986 he has been president of the Franco-Lebanon Chamber of Commerce. Since 2010 he has been President of the France-Jordan Council of Business Leaders, and been president of the France-Ukraine committee from 2006 to 2010. He is also an Officer of Lebanon’s Ordre du Cèdre and an Officer Commander of France’s Légion d’Honneur. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jacques Saadé」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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