Marseille: CMA CGM presents its Tangram center of excellence
” We could only build Tangram in Marseille “, said Rodolphe Saadthe CEO of CMA CGM at the time of laying the first stone of Tangram, this 1uh March in the presence of Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, the Delegate Minister in charge of Transport and Benoît Payan, the Mayor of Marseille.
It is in the eighth arrondissement, at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Maritime, that the Marseilles shipowner integrated for 24 million euros his transport academy, called ‘tangram‘ in reference to a Chinese board game. This training center designed by architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte will open its doors in September 2023. It is currently under construction.
Keep the bastide
The architectural concept is to place the 19th century bastideand century, says ‘the double castle‘ in the center of the new buildings. The latter since 1965 hosted the National Maritime School of Marseille. ” The project does not forget the past of this place “, underlined Jean-Michel Wilmotte. The architect hearsmarry the existing classified with an innovative architecture‘. It will conserve the trees present with protected species. The historic site extends over seven hectares at the gates of the Calanques National Park. It should be noted that a dual BREEAM and HQE Sustainable Building approach has also been undertaken.
Training center and innovation center
With Tangram, the CMA CGM group intends to participate in the transformation of the transport and logistics sector to “ meet the major challenges of performance, energy transition and the development of world trade “. Concretely, this center » will bring together experts and newcomers to the group, start-ups and large groups, managers and employees, students and researchers, customers and partners “.
A 2,500 m training center2 spread over 5 levels will host the CMA CGM Academy. An innovation center will also be set up there around zebox, the incubator created in 2018 in Marseille. Tangram will also host one of the two sites of the French Maritime Institute for Decarbonization, founded by the French Maritime Cluster.
With this project, the CMA CGML also perpetuates the presence of the Grande Ecole maritime in Marseille.