Société Nationale Maritime Corse-Méditerranée (Shipping company, France)

Last modified: 2004-10-02 by ivan sache
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by Ivan Sache

• History of Société Nationale Maritime Corse-Méditerranée
• House flag of Société Nationale Maritime Corse-Méditerranée

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• France
• House flags of French shipping companies based in Marseilles
• House flags of shipping companies

History of Société Nationale Maritime Corse-Méditerranée

The Société Nationale Maritime Corse-Méditerranée (SNCM) was founded in 1976 to replace the Compagnie Générale Transméditerranéenne.

The main duty of the SNCM was a mission of public service to provide a "territorial continuity" between Corsica and mainland. The SNCM signed with the French state a 25-year convention.
On 1 January 2002, a new conventon was signed by the SNCM and the Compagnie Méridionale de Navigation. This was a convention of delegation of public service signed for five years with the Territorial Collectivity of Corsica (local administration) and the Transport Office of Corsica, approved by the Territorial Assembly of Corsica (local parliament).

The SNCM operates seven passenger ferries under the commercial name Ferryte