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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.
27 August 2024: Maersk christened the Alette Maersk, a 350-meter-long cargo ship with a capacity of over 16,000 TEU, at the Port of Los Angeles. Built in South Korea, this vessel is the first dual-fuel methanol-enabled container ship to arrive in the U.S. Olympic gold-medalist snowboarder Chloe Kim was named the ‘godmother’ of the Alette ...
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.P. Møller – Mærsk headquarters at Nordre Toldbod in Copenhagen harbour. Møller became a partner in the A.P. Moller–Maersk Group in 1940. When Denmark was occupied by Germany during World War II Møller went into exile in the United States and ran the family business from New York until his return to Denmark in 1947.
The Maersk Line was established in Maersk's New York office as an agreement was make with the Ford Motor Company to transport car parts from North American factories to assembly plants in Japan. [1] As a result, starting on 12 July 1928 Leise Maersk made a voyage from Baltimore to New York and Savannah before passing through the Panama canal ...
Pages in category "Maersk" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Maersk Air was sold to Sterling Airlines in 2005. Star Air was kept out of the deal and instead it made a subsidiary directly under the Maersk Group. It was also given the responsibility for operating the Maersk Group's corporate jet, a Canadair Challenger 600. [7] Star Air took delivery of a Boeing 767-300 in 2014. [10]
Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller (Danish: [ˈmɛɐ̯sk məˈkʰini ˈmølɐ]) is the first ship of Maersk Line's Triple E class of container vessels.At the time of its entry into service in 2013, it had the largest cargo capacity in twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) of any vessel, and was the longest container ship in service worldwide.