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Maersk Line is to merge its CRX Central America, Caribbean and Europe service with the ECMS route operated by its recent acquisition, Hamburg Sud. It said the move would reduce capacity in line with current market needs “in response to challenging market conditions”.
Chief operating officer Soren Toft explained: “By merging Maersk Line’s current CRX service and Hamburg Sud’s EMCS into one we will bring greater stability to the trade by ...
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Maersk Line has made changes to its Asia/Europe services which it ways will improve reliability and stability. Head of Europe trade Johan Sigsgaard said there would be longer buffers in schedules to deal with port congestion and weather conditions.
“Forced port omissions disrupt cargo flows and impact our customers’ supply chains. ...
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A fire has broken out in another Maersk ship, just days after the fatal fire on the 15,262teu Maersk Honam en route from Singapore to Suez on 6 March.
In the latest incident, a fire broke out in container underdeck on board the Maersk Kensington. However, all 26 crew are reported ...
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A serious fire broke out on board the 15,262teu Maersk Honam while she was en route from Singapore to Suez at 15.20GMT on 6 March, 900 nautical miles southeast of Salalah, Oman. Following unsuccessful attempts to fight the fire, 23 crew members were safely evacuated to the ALS Ceres, but ...
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Maersk Line’s latest Triple-E vessel, the Manchester Maersk has made her maiden UK in Felixstowe. The 20,000teu ship and her sisters operate between Asia and Europe and are named after important cities in major Maersk markets.
While the new ship is clearly far too big to get up the Manchester Ship ...
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Agility says it is the first forwarder to collaborate on a Maersk-IBM solution to provide more efficient and secure global trade by using the blockchain to manage and track container shipments. Agility has agreed to identify events associated with individual shipments and to share and receive information about them via ...
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Maersk Line has become a founder investor in the New York Shipping Exchange (NYSHEX), described as the first digital forward freight contract for the global container industry.
The new contract is also being offered by Hapag Lloyd, CMA CGM, MOL, OOCL, and COSCO, representing a combined 52% of global container capacity ...
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Maersk Line closed its deal to acquire German carrier Hamburg Sud on 30 November but the line will remain a commercially independent brand under its new owner, it said.
Dr Arnt Vespermann (pictured, left) takes over as chief executive from Dr Ottmar Gast, who will continue to be closely associated with ...
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South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission has given the green light to Maersk Line’s acquisition of Hamburg Sud – but only on condition that the German-owned container carrier pulls out of vessel sharing agreements on trades between Asia and South America. Maersk said it was willing to do so and anticipated ...
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ABP Southampton will handle its largest container ship yet today (Tuesday 7 November), the 20,568teu Milan Maersk. She will top the 20,170teu of the OL Triumph and MOL Trust that visited earlier this year.
The Milan Maersk is one of 11 second generation Triple-E class vessels due to be delivered by ...
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