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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 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 ]
The ship has been chartered to the Danish shipping and logistics company Maersk since it was delivered in 2015. [6] On 11 July 2016, Dali collided with the berth at the container terminal in the Port of Antwerp, Belgium, causing significant damage to her stern and transom. [8] The berth was also damaged and closed for cargo handling operations.
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.
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]
Ship Capacity Entered service Displacement Length (metres) Note Handysize tanker Helene Maersk: 25,722 GT: 2010: 39,312 tonnes: 180 metres [1] Henning Maersk: 25,710 GT: 2010: 47,330 tonnes: 180 metres [2]
The V class is a series of 7 container ships built for Maersk Line.They were the largest container ships with ice class 1A when they were built. [1] The ships were built by COSCO Zhoushan Shipyard in China and have a maximum theoretical capacity of around 3,600 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).