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A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S

A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S, also known simply as Maersk, is a Danish shipping company, active in ocean and inland freight transportation and associated services, such as supply chain management and port operation. It is also the holding company of Netherlands-based APM Terminals.

DP World joins with TradeLens to digitise global supply chains

Collaboration will offer greater ease of doing business across the supply chain. Manual, time-consuming administrative processes are replaced with digital...

Leading Danish companies join forces on an ambitious sustainable fuel project

Copenhagen Airports, A.P. Moller – Maersk, DSV Panalpina, DFDS, SAS and Ørsted have formed the first partnership of its kind to develop an...

Analysis – Anaklia Development Consortium has no chance to finish Georgia’s deep sea port project – minister

Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) May 20, 2020 – Two days after Anaklia Development Consortium (ADC) said that it was “the right partner” for the...

Maersk offers weekly rail service from China to Turkey

Copenhagen, April 29, 2020 Maersk has launched its first rail service from Xi’an, China to Izmit, Turkey. This new route, which is part of Maersk...

Maersk launches new intermodal container service in Russia

Maersk, Ruscon and Transcontainer joined forces in launching an intermodal container service between the seaport of Novorossiysk and Vorsino dry port outside...

Maersk’s first intercontinental train from Europe to Asia dispatched from St. Petersburg

The new route reduces the transit time in half and offers attractive complementary product to traditional Ocean services – March 30, 2020 On 28 March...

Analysis – Georgian and other deep sea ports around the Black Sea

Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) February 12, 2020 – Georgia is the only Black Sea littoral state, which has no deep-water port. For more than three years it...

Traxens to open office in Shenzhen, China

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 8, 2020 – Traxens, a developer of solutions for the cargo logistics sector, innovative container monitoring...

APM Terminals Barcelona presents 5G V2X crane communication systems

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) November 25, 2019 – Speaking at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, APM Terminals Barcelona’s Sergi...

“Vado Gateway” set for December 12 inauguration

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) November 4, 2019 – The new APM Terminals container terminal at the port of Vado Ligure is set to be inaugurated on December...

Georgia’s Black Sea ports seek role in new international trade corridors

Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – The Caucasus country of Georgia has three leading ports alongside its Black Sea coastline, Anaklia,...

APM Terminals to sell Izmir port terminal stake

Izmir, Turkey (PortSEurope) October 16, 2018 – Dutch company APM Terminals is to sell its Petlim terminal business in Izmir port. A possible buyer is...

Maersk to name Diego Perdones director general for the western Mediterranean

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 25, 2018 – Danish shipping group AP Moller-Maersk plans to appoint Diego Perdones as director general for the Western...

Associated British Ports to work with Rolls Royce and Svitzer to develop the next generation of technologies

London, United Kingdom, August 13, 2018 Associated British Ports, the UK’s leading port operator, today announces that it has invited Rolls Royce and...

Maersk Line launches rail service to Algeciras port 

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) November 6, 2017 – Maersk Line has launched a rail service between Córdoba and Algeciras port to expand its intermodal...

Castellón port eyes regular train service to Zaragoza

Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) November 1, 2017 – Castellón port expects to have “three or four” weekly connections by train with Zaragoza by...

Vado Ligure terminal to be opened in March 2019

Vado Ligure, Italy (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – APM Terminals Italy’s CEO Paolo Cornetto has said the terminal under construction at Vado Ligure...

Gijón port’s container traffic hike stems from project cargo rise

Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – The increase in containerised traffic at Gijón port seems to be a consequence of the fact that the harbour...

Malta Freeport launches Malta-South America cargo service

Malta (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – Malta Freeport has launched a weekly service connecting Malta with ports in Argentina and Brazil. The service will...

Maersk explores options to reduce ship congestion at Algeciras, Tanger Med ports

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) September 14, 2017 – Danish shipping giant Maersk is exploring options for the minimisation of the congestion of ships at the...

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