Maersk Line

Maersk Line
Private
Industry Container shipping
Founded 1928
Headquarters Copenhagen, Denmark
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Soren Skou (CEO)
Revenue US$26.19 billion (2013)
Owner A.P. Moller-Maersk Group.
Number of employees
 25,000 (2012)
Website MaerskLine.com

Maersk Line is the global container division and the largest operating unit of the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group, a Danish business conglomerate. It is world's largest container shipping company having customers through 374 offices in 116 countries. It employs approximately 7,000 sea farers and approximately 25,000 land-based people.[1][2] Maersk Line operates over 600 vessels and has a capacity of 2.6 million TEU.[3] The company was founded in 1928.[4]

Fleet

As of July 2011 Maersk Line fleet comprises more than 600 vessels and a number of containers corresponding to more than 3.8 million TEU (Twenty-foot equivalent unit)[5]

In 2006, the largest container ship in the world to date, the E-class vessel Emma Maersk, was delivered to Maersk Line from Odense Steel Shipyard.[6]

Seven other sister ships have since been built, and in 2011, Maersk ordered 20 even larger container ships from Daewoo, the Triple E class, each with a capacity of 18,000 containers. The first of these Triple E Class ships was delivered on June 14, 2013 and was christened with the name Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller after the founder of the Maersk Line.[7]

Sustainability

In 2011-12, Maersk Line cooperated with the US Navy on testing 7-100% algae biofuel on the Maersk Kalmar.[8][9] From 2007-2014, and mainly due to slow steaming, Maersk Line reduced its CO2 emissions by 40% or 11 million tonnes, about the same reduction as the rest of Denmark.[10]

Management

On December 19, 2011, it was announced that Søren Skou will take over as CEO of Maersk Line from Eivind Kolding, effective from 16 January 2012.[11][12]

The management board, led by Søren Skou, is responsible for the daily management, and the members are (as of January 2015):[13]


See also

References

Notes

  1. ↑ "Alphaliner – Top 100 Operated Fleets As Per 25 September 2012". Alphaliner. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
  2. ↑ Flemming, Emily Hansen (September 25, 2012). "Maersk To Cut Capacity and Raise Rates". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Company Facts and Information". Maersk Line. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
  4. ↑ "About Us - Milestones". Maersk Line. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
  5. ↑ Maersk Line Facts on www.maerskline.com
  6. ↑ "Maersk Line". maerskline.com. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
  7. ↑ http://www.maerskline.com/link/?page=news&path=/news/story_page/13/first_Triple-E
  8. ↑ Maersk and the Navy Join Hands for Biofuels Testing
  9. ↑ Geiver, Luke. BioRefining Magazine, 21 November 2011. Accessed: 13 December 2011.
  10. ↑ Nielsen, Jakob (6 April 2015). "Maersk vil sejle længere på literen" [Maersk goes further on the gallon]. Politiken. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  11. ↑ Bloomberg: "Danske Bank Names Chairman Kolding CEO"
  12. ↑ Announcement December 19, 2011: "Søren Skou will take up the position as CEO of Maersk Line"
  13. ↑ Management on www.maerskline.com

Bibliography

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  • Greve, Majbritt; Hansen, Michael W; Schaumburg-Müller, Henrik (2007). Container Shipping and Economic Development: a case study of A.P. Moller - Maersk in South East Asia. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press. ISBN 9788763002134.
  • Hornby, Ove (1988). "With constant care": A.P. Møller: Shipowner 1876-1965. Copenhagen: J. H. Schultz Grafisk. ISBN 9788756923583.
  • Jensen, Lars (2014). Culture shock in Maersk Line: from entrepreneurs and kings to modern efficiency. Copenhagen: Vespucci Maritime Publishing. ISBN 9788799726929.
  • Jephson, Chris; Morgen, Henning (2013). Creating Global Opportunities: Maersk Line in Containerisation 1973-2013. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107037816.
  • Larsen, Thomas; Mortensen, Finn (2011). Mærsk Mc-kinney Møller: The Danish Shipping Magnate - a personal portrait in interviews. Copenhagen: Gyldendal Business. ISBN 9788700788565.
  • Middlemiss, Norman L. (2005). Maersk Line. Merchant Fleets 45. Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK: Shield Publications. ISBN 9781871128260.

External links

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