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Maersk Line is a Danish international container shipping company and the largest operating subsidiary of Maersk, a Danish business conglomerate.Founded in 1928, it is the world's second largest container shipping company by both fleet size and cargo capacity, offering regular services to 374 ports in 116 countries. [2]
A Maersk Line 40ft container being lifted by a crane. A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S (Danish: [ˈɛˀ ˈpʰe̝ˀ ˈmølɐ ˈmɛɐ̯sk]), usually known simply as Maersk (English: / m ɛər s k / MAIRSK), [3] is a Danish shipping and logistics company founded in 1904 by Arnold Peter Møller and his father Peter Mærsk Møller.
This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of March 2025, according to Alphaliner, ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet. [1] In January 2022, MSC overtook Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996. [2]
In 2000, Maersk Line changed its commercial name globally to Maersk SeaLand. [2] In 2003, the Carlisle Group bought the domestic shipping line from CSX and changed the name to Horizon Lines. [7] In 2006, the commercial name SeaLand ceased to exist when Maersk SeaLand was rebranded as Maersk Line after the purchase of P&O Nedlloyd. [2]
Maersk Line, the world's largest container shipping line, nevertheless opted for twin engines (two smaller engines working two separate propellers), when ordering a series of ten 18,000 TEU vessels from Daewoo Shipbuilding in February 2011. [96] The ships were delivered between 2013 and 2014.
The Danish shipping company initially introduced a 48-hour pause in transits through the Red Sea starting Sunday in the wake of the weekend attack by Houthi militants on the Maersk Hangzhou.
In February 2011 Maersk announced orders for a new "Triple E" family of container ships with a capacity of 18,000 TEU, with an emphasis on lower fuel consumption. [4] They were built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea; the initial order, for ten ships, was valued at US$1.9 billion (2 trillion Korean Won); [5] Maersk had options to buy a further twenty ships. [6]
APM Terminals is a port operating company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands.A unit of Danish shipping company Maersk's Transport and Logistics division. It manages container terminals and provides integrated cargo and inland services, operating 74 port and terminal facilities in 38 countries on five continents.