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Maersk has appointed Lisa Park as its new managing director for the United Arab Emirates. She will also lead the business and teams in Oman and Qatar. Park brings over 22 years of experience in the logistics and shipping industry and has held several roles and leadership positions across functions in the AP Moller-Maersk organisation, most recently as regional head of sales for the Indian Subcontinent, Middle East and Africa ...
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Maersk has opened its logistics park at Jeddah Islamic Port in Saudi Arabia. It says the 225,000sq, US$25 million development is the largest single-site Logistics & Services facility in the Middle East. It offers warehousing for B2B and e-commerce requirements, temperature-controlled areas, a customs bonded area and has been designed ...
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Maersk has opened a container logistics centre at Tocancipa in Colombia, 30 miles north of Bogotá. It ispart of a planned expansion in the country, offering more warehousing and logistics solutions. Total capacity is up to 1,600 containers and there are connections for up to 50 reefer containers.
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Maersk is adding Felixstowe, Rotterdam and Bremerhaven to its ME2 service between Europe, the Middle East and India. The service calls at Port Tangier, Salalah, Jebel Ali, Mundra and Nhava Sheva. Transit times between Mumbai and North Europe will be shortened by five to seven days, says the operator. Maersk ...
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Maersk Group says that in 2023, it was able to avoid the emission of over 680,000 tonnes of CO2 - with the help of customers who paid the premium for more expensive, green fuels. Last year, these amounted to 212 shippers, some of them transporting many thousand boxes, a serious ...
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Maersk named the world's second large methanol-enabled container vessel Astrid Mærsk at ceremony held in Yokohama, Japan on 4 April.
Mrs. Liza Uchida, spouse of Nissan chief executive Makoto Uchida served as godmother. Astrid Mærsk is the second of Maersk’s 18 large methanol-enabled vessels, scheduled for delivery between 2024 and 2025 ...
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Maersk has opened a 30,000sq m facility in the Tijuana area, targeting cross-border Mexico/US trade. The site at Pacifico Industrial Park targets customers in the technology, automotive, retail, and lifestyle sectors. The site is part of the Manufacturing, Maquiladora, and Export Services Industry (IMMEX) services program for Tijuana market, which ...
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Ole Trumpfheller has been appointed vice president and managing director of Maersk’s North Europe Continent (NEC) area, based in Hamburg. He joins from forwarder DB Schenker, where he was head of global operations and chief operating officer, global contract logistics and supply chain. Prior to that, he spent several years ...
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Maersk has launched a digital platform for customers to purchase air freight services. It provides an option to book their requirements with instant prices for 70,000 connections between virtually all airports globally and in over 90 countries.
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Maersk is switching from vessels to a land bridge to avoid the Panama Canal on its OC1 service between Oceania and the Americas. This is due to the water situation, which has forced the Panama Canal Authority to reduce the number and weight of vessels passing through the waterway.
The service ...
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