Altaras, Caune & Cie (Shipping company, France)

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History of Altaras, Caune & Cie

The Société Phocéenne de Navigation Altaras, Caune & Cie was founded in 1856 by members of the families Altaras and Caune, who were involved in production and commerce of soap - the famous savon de Marseille.
The company was later renamed Cie Altaras-Cohen and eventually Cie Altaras et Neveu.

The company operated a bimonthly service to Messina (Sicily), Smyrna (now Izmir, in Turkey) and Constantinople (now Istanbul), later extended to Rhodes, Mersin (Turkey) and Beirut. Later, a second line was opened between Marseilles and the Algerian cities of Philippeville (now Skikda) and Bone (now Annaba).
The company went out off business in 1877.

Source: Paul Bois. Armements marseillais - Compagnies de navigation et navires à vapeur (1831-1988), published by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Marseille-Provence [boi03].

Isaac Jacomo Bartolomeo Altaras (1786-1873) was born in Aleppo (Syria). He came to Marseilles in 1805 and changed his name into Jacques Isaac Altaras in 1808.
Altaras traded with Leghorn, Cyprus and Syria and founded at the end of the Restauration the only French establishment in Calcutta.

Altaras was Vice-President (1835) and later President (1849) of the Jewish Con