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CMA CGM expanding footprint across ISC-Gulf-RSEA region

Nov 21, 2025

As per a communique by a senior CMA CGM official, the line is significantly enhancing its INTRA network, reinforcing its presence and adding capacity to better serve its customers across the ISC-Gulf-RSEA region. These updates strengthen connectivity, improve schedule reliability and ensure smoother, more efficient trade flows.

What’s new?

* BIGEX1: Resumption of the SAJUB call SA and addition of the AEJEA (Jebel Ali) call AE, boosting its regional coverage.

* PIKEX: Now split into two dedicated loops:

* PIKEX1: Focused on Pakistan-Gulf with improved rotations, including OMSOH and PKKHI.

* PIKEX2: Dedicated to strengthening connectivity between Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India.

* IRAQs: Now operating as a 100% UAE-Iraq focused service, enhancing reliability on this strategic corridor.

* JMX2: A brand new INTRA-Gulf feedering service offering improved connections to Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, with seamless access via its hub in Khalifa.

These developments reflect CMA CGM’s continued commitment to delivering agile and customer-centric solutions that bring markets—and people—closer together across the region, the communique emphasised.

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