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News briefsMaersk warns that Red Sea crisis could last well into H2
Maersk is advising customers to prepare for a Red Sea crisis that could last well into the second half of this year. “Unfortunately, we don’t see any change in the Red Sea happening anytime soon,” Charles van der Steene, the regional president for Maersk North America, told the television network ...
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Hapag-Lloyd and Maersk join forces
The German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd and its Danish peer Maersk have signed an agreement for a new long-term operational collaboration called “Gemini Cooperation”, which will start in February 2025. “The ambition is to deliver a flexible and interconnected ocean network with industry-leading reliability,” the companies said in a joint statement. ...
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Maersk to divert shipping from Red Sea for “foreseeable future”
Maersk said that it will divert all vessels from the Red Sea and the Suez Canal south around the Cape of Good Hope for the “foreseeable future”. The decision was taken by the Danish shipping company because of the volatile situation in the Red Sea as Yemen’s Houthi rebels ...
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Maritime disruption in the Red Sea will strain supply chains
A prolonged disruption of martime traffic in the Red Sea caused by attacks on vessels by Houthi militants from Yemen is expected to strain global supply chains and raise transportation costs, according to the credit rating agency DBRS Morningstar. “The passing-through of costs by the providers of essential seaborne cargo ...
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Maersk suspends transit through Red Sea, ships rerouted via Cape of Good Hope
The Danish shipping company Maersk, which manages about a fifth of global container shipping, said that its ships due to sail through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden will be rerouted via the Cape of Good Hope. Other companies, including the French group CMA CGM and the German ...
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ArticleLi & Fung teams up with Maersk
Li & Fung, the leading Hong Kong-based sourcing company, and Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, have agreed to form a strategic partnership to offer a more comprehensive range of end-to-end global supply chain services by utilizing their respective resources. As part of the deal, Li & Fung has ...
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Yantian port backlog will take several weeks to clear
A backlog at Yantian, China’s largest container terminal, will take several weeks to clear, according to the Danish shipping company Maersk . Maersk, which is the largest shipping company in the world, told the news agency AFP that it had been informed by the port’s authorities that activity ...
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Shipping giant sees tight market conditions until Q4
The world’s largest container shipping company Maersk expects tight market conditions in maritime transport to continue until the fourth quarter of 2021. When commenting on its trading performance, the company said that “the continued strong performance is mainly driven by the continuation of the exceptional market situation with surging ...
