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Singaporean shipping company

In December 1968, Neptune Orient Lines was started as Singapore's national shipping line. Wholly owned by the Singapore Government, it was formed in an effort to develop and support Singapore's economy.

In the 1970s, containerization was introduced. In the mid 1970s, NOL's managing director was Goh Chok Tong, who went on to become Singapore's second Prime Minister. In 1975, NOL then entered the Asia Europe trade as part of the ACE Group consortium with partners OOCL, K Line, COSCO and Franco Belgian Services, known as the "third force" in the container shipping world. Meanwhile, it entered the key Trans Pacific Trade with a standalone service.

In 1997, NOL made a US$825 million acquisition of American President Lines (APL), whose heritage dates back to 1848. On 17 February 2015, APL Logistics was sold to Kintetsu World Express, Inc. for US$1.2 billion.

On 9 June 2016, it was announced that Temasek will tender its NOL shares to shipping company CMA CGM. CMA launched an all cash voluntary conditional general offer for outstanding NOL shares at SG$1.30 a piece. The deal is worth SG$3.38 billion and eventually will be delisted from the Singapore Exchange. The company announced in May 2016 reported net losses of US$105.1 million (SG$142 million) for the first quarter ended 31 March, higher than the US$10.8 million a year earlier. Former CEO Ng Yat Chung acknowledged that the company had been "a bit slow and reluctant to change". In May 2017, less than a year after the NOL acquisition, CMA reported turning a net profit of $26 million from the NOL business in the first quarter of the year.

On 7 July 2020, CMA CGM announced a restructuring of its services in the Asia Pacific region. NOL and CMA's regional office was reorganized into a regional hub and renamed to CMA CGM Asia Pacific Limited on 1 October 2020.