Chargeurs

Chargeurs is a global, diversified group with leadership positions in niche markets, both in manufacturing and in services.

It operates in three business segments: In 2012, consolidated revenue totaled €524.6 million, of which 94% was generated outside France.

In 1894 it took over Compagnie Commerciale des Transports à Vapeur Français, giving it that company's services to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico.

Chargeurs discontinued passenger services after the independence of Indochina from France in the early 1950s and the increase in air travel.

Chargeurs demerged Pathé in 1996: Chargeurs became an industrial group with textile activities and protective films business, whereas Pathé SA retained the media interests: the film, television, cinema chain and the shareholdings in pay TV operators British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) and CanalSatellite.

House flag of Chargeurs Réunis
Early 20th-century poster advertising Chargeurs Réunis' passenger liner routes, emphasising that to French Indochina via the Indian Ocean . The picture is from a painting by Alexandre Jean-Baptiste Brun .
Bond of the Chargeurs Réunis SA, issued May 1930
Afrique was a 5,404 GRT passenger steamship built for Chargeurs Réunis in 1907 and sunk by a storm in the Bay of Biscay in 1920 with the loss of 556 lives
Chargeurs Réunis 4,143 GRT banana boat Kitala in the Pool of London in 1962
Louis Lumiere was a 12,358 GRT passenger motor ship that Chargeurs Réunis ran between France and South America from 1952 to 1962