Maersk Line informs that one of its newest containerships – Mumbai Maersk – has set a world record for highest-ever load by loading 19,038 TEU, thus surpassing the 19,000-mark for the very first time – not only for a Maersk vessel, but any vessel in the world. The second generation Triple-E ship left the APM […]
In Q3 2017, COSCO Shipping has overtaken Maersk Line by container liftings for the first time, becoming the world’s container carrier #1, informs Splash24/7 quoting the liner shipping research agency Alphaliner. The Chinese container giant COSCO Shipping, which merged with China Shipping in early 2016, reported 5.49 mln TEU of loaded volumes in the third […]
Unifeeder, the largest European operator of feeder and shortsea container shipping services, has announced this week the appointment of Nils Smedegaard Andersen, former Group Chief Executive Officer of A.P. Moller – Maersk A/S, as new Chairman of the Board of Directors. At this post, he succeeds former Hapag-Lloyd CCO Jesper Præstensgaard who takes up the […]
A.P. Moller-Maersk in collaboration with Microsoft, Ernst & Young and the data security company Guardtime have developed a blockchain-based marine insurance platform, reports Reuters. The product has successfully passed a 20-week proof of concept trial and is to be launched in January 2018, when A.P. Moller-Maersk begins using it for some areas of its business, […]
On Tuesday 27 June, A.P. Moller-Maersk was hit as part of a global cyber-attack named Petya, affecting multiple sites and select business units, announced Maersk on Twitter. According to its update at 23:00 CEST, the company continues to “assess and manage the situation to minimise the impact on the customers and partners”. Earlier that day […]
CMA CGM has announced it reached a binding agreement with Maersk Line to acquire Mercosul Line, a leading player in Brazil’s domestic container shipping market. Earlier this year, Maersk Line declared the intention to sell its Brazilian cabotage carrier in order to remove any possible concerns from competition regulators over its acquisition of German shipping […]
Qatar container shipping has been gradually recovering from last week’s disruption caused by the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and some other Arab countries closing their ports to all vessels traveling in and out of Qatari ports. This resulted in the suspension of container services with Qatar by many shipping lines, such as Maersk Line, MOL, […]
Maritime authorities of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain closed their berths to all vessels under the flag of Qatar, owned by Qatar and other vessels traveling in and out of Qatari ports, informs Bloomberg. This may cause severe disruptions in oil and gas trade as well as in container shipping. On Monday, 5 […]
Maersk Line has estimated that 10 weeks of dockworkers conflict in Spanish ports in February-March 2017 resulted in EUR 12 mln of direct operating costs for the company, not including the loss of customers caused by the crisis, informs Spain’s El País quoting the company’s official statement submitted to the country’s government. Once Spanish stevedores […]
Yesterday Maersk and IBM unveiled a new mutual project to develop a new solution based on blockchain technology to manage transactions between shipping lines, shippers, freight forwarders, ports and customs. The product is said to be available already later this year. Applying innovative blockchain technology, known also as the basis for the Bitcoin virtual money, […]
