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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 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.
Royal P&O Nedlloyd was acquired by the Danish A.P. Moller-Maersk Group (Maersk) in 2005 and was combined with their existing container shipping business Maersk-Sealand to form Maersk Line. As Sealand was the US-based historic innovator of container shipping, Maersk Line subsequently embodies the Dutch, British as well as Danish and American ...
Class Ship Capacity () Entered service Displacement Length (metres) Note Triple E class (first generation) Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller: 18,270 TEU: 2013
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.
[12] [13] SeaLand expanded its operations into the newly developed container terminal. In 1958, the port authority dredged another shipping channel, which straightened the course of Bound Brook, the tidal inlet forming the boundary between Newark and Elizabeth. Dredged materials were used to create new upland south of the new Elizabeth Channel ...
In 1999, Safmarine was acquired by the Danish shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, where Maersk Line chose to retain the Safmarine brand rather than integrating it wholly into Maersk Sealand. In 2002, Safmarine acquired Torm Lines.