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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.
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 ]
This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of February 2024, 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]
This is a list of ships owned or operated by Danish shipping company Maersk. ... Maersk Evora: 2011: Maersk Essex: 2011: Chemical/product tankers. Class Ship Capacity
Until 1987 the rules in Denmark only permitted SAS to operate freight charters. The only exception was if the entire shipment had a single sender and recipient. This made filling an entire cargo plane uneconomical and resulted in Maersk abandoning its cargo plans. [3] Maersk Air Cargo was founded in 1982, but only acted as a cargo division.
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.
Maersk Boston is the first of the Maersk B-class of fast container ships.She was then called the "MV Boston", to reflect her charter to MSC in September 2010.. She has the capacity for approximately 4,000 containers and was designed for rapid transportation between China and the USA.
The A class is a series of 6 container ships built for Maersk Line. The ships were built by Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark and have a maximum theoretical capacity of around 8,272 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).