CMA CGM Systems, Global Delivery Center (GDC) is a joint venture between CMA CGM and IBM. The joint venture took place on October 1st, 2007.

GDC started its operations from Dubai Internet City office in February 2004. GDC is a fully owned subsidiary of CMA CGM Systems, France. GDC is the center of excellence in Software Engineering to provide delivery and support for the CMA CGM Group for Information Technology requirements.

By the end of 2004, GDC recruited 30 employees. Since then, the company has grown to a total of 200 staff members from 16 different countries including employees from Sweden, France, Pakistan, India, Yemen, Spain, South Africa, China and the Philippines.

CMA CGM came into existence by the merger of CMA (Compagnie Maritime d�Affretement) and CGM (Compagnie Generale Maritime) in the year 1999 and is now one of the leading container shipping companies in the world.

Though CMA CGM came into being only in 1999, its history dates back to 1978 when Mr Jacques R. Saade, the majority owner (98%) and the President of the company, founded CMA (Compagnie Maritime d�Affretement). By the year 1995, CMA became the leading French carrier in containerized liner shipping. In 1999, the legal merger between CMA and CGM (Compagnie Generale Maritime) created CMA CGM \'The French Line\'.

The company started with operations in the Mediterranean, extending its services to the Arabian and Far East. A year later CMA CGM acquired ANL (Australian National Line) from the Australian Government and in 2002 it took over a UK company, Mac Andrews, to develop the Europe feedering. Today CMA CGM is a pure Container Line.