The company told French radio that it made the bid through the Marseilles bankruptcy court.
Court protection proceedings were opened on Friday for SNCM, which filed in November and has stopped payments to creditors.
It has six months to fix up a buyer for its Mediterranean business.
Baja said it would keep 800 of the shipowner’s 1,500 staff.
It also wants to maintain the Marseille-Corsica lines, but close routes from Nice and Toulon, while opening new runs to Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria from Marseille.
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