Record returns on key shipping routes and continued cost-cutting allowed CMA CGM to fill its coffers last year.
The French container shipping stalwart put a huge loss last year firmly behind it but said 2011 was likely to see a return to "normalised profitability levels" after the latest stellar result.
Liner routes in general rebounded in 2010 from shocking lows the year before brought about by a collapse in world economies on the fall of Lehman Brothers and the ensuing credit crisis.
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