La Méridionale 

Your company under French flag.

La Méridionale, a partner customer of NAVIMED, is a French shipping company founded in 1931 by Henri and Félix Rastit, which provides regular connections between Marseille, Corsica and Morocco.

While maintaining its anonymity, this company began its activities in the transport of goods and petroleum products on the coasts of southern France before opening in 1937 its first connections with Corsica, still carrying only goods.

1955: The establishment of the CEC.
1976: The establishment of territorial continuity.
1988: The start of passenger transport activities.
1992: the acquisition by the STEFE group.

2001: the allocation of the maritime DSP between Marseille and Corsica with the SNCM.

2019: partial eviction of the maritime DSP in favour of Corsica Línea.

2020: opening of a link to Morocco, the French company La Méridionale entrusts to NAVIMED the cargo marketing as part of its new Ropax line between Marseille and Tanger Med.

La Méridionale is :

• 4 mixed ships to Corsica and Morocco from Marseille
• 13 weekly crossings between Marseille and Corsica and 6 weekly crossings between Marseille and Morocco
• 2 sales agencies in Ajaccio and Marseille
• 2 port agencies recognized for their competence: the maritime agency Sorba in Propriano and Global Container Agency in Tangier
• 500 travel agencies that form a distribution network throughout Europe
• More than 600 people, at sea and ashore, serving customers
• 173,658 passengers and 75,117 cars in 2021
• 41,600 trucks or 472 km of cargo transported in 2021.

Since 1931 LA MERIDIONALE is committed to :

• Quality and customer satisfaction
• Environmental commitment
• Particulate filter
• Electrical connection of ships at dock
• Protection of cetaceans

And today the company is known for the attention paid to its customers, the quality of the services delivered on board, its ecological commitment and ability to innovate.

CURRENT FLEET OF ROPAX SHIPS ON THE MARSEILLE/TANGIER LINE :