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CMA CGM Shipping Company Founder Jacques Saade Dies at 81

  • Lebanese-born Frenchman started closely held firm in 1978
  • Acquisitions created third-largest container shipping line
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Jacques Saade, who fled from war in Lebanon in the 1970s to become a billionaire shipping magnate in France, has died. He was 81.

Saade died Sunday, his Marseille-based company, CMA CGM SA, said in a statement.