July 18 (Reuters) - French shipping and logistics

company CMA CGM has signed a partnership with

Alphabet's Google to speed up deployment of AI

solutions across its operations worldwide, the two companies

announced on Thursday.

CMA CGM aims to increase efficiency and shorten delivery

times through the optimisation of routes, container handling,

and inventory management, while minimising costs and carbon

emissions.

CMA CGM's Chairman and CEO Rodolphe Saadé called the

partnership a "crucial step" in his company's transformation

strategy.

Google France CEO Sébastien Missoffe said Google's

"infrastructure, data expertise, and long-term approach to AI"

would help CMA CGM to grow.

CEVA Logistics, the group's logistics arm, will use Goole

AI-based management tools to better predict and plan operations

at its warehouses through volume and demand forecasting.

CMA CGM's media arm, which owns a stake in French private

broadcaster M6 and bought France's leading rolling

news channel BFM TV earlier this year, will aim to create tools

helping its journalists to synthesise and translate documents,

generate media snippets for social networks, facilitate archives

digitisation and research.