Covid-19 is putting the global trading system through its most dramatic stress test in 75 years. It has been nearly half a year since the alarm was raised about the virus, and ten weeks since it was confirmed as a pandemic on March 11 by the World Health Organization.
For over three years, Mattia Villardita at APM Terminals Vado Ligure in Italy has been impersonating his favourite superhero and paying young hospital patients uplifting visits. During the recent lockdown, his activity moved online, but his engagement and passion never changed a bit.
The acquisition will further strengthen A.P. Moller - Maersk’s logistics and services offerings by creating a solid platform for growth in customs services in Europe.
The shipping industry has made a strong commitment to reduce its global carbon emissions towards 2050. A group of leading industry players are taking the next step to develop new fuel types and technologies by launching the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping.
Based on the market development, combined with cost measures across the organisation and significant blanked sailings in Ocean, A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S (APMM) expects an EBITDA before restructuring and integration costs for Q2 2020 slightly above the level for Q1 2020 (USD 1.5bn).
Maersk’s selection of mooring lines will help protect seafarers and dockworkers. Goal is to transform mooring line safety by collaborating with industry suppliers to solve challenge.
300 Maersk vessels will be equipped to measure and report meteorological data to international agencies to improve the world’s understanding of weather and climate change.
Maersk’s Asia-Northern Europe ocean-rail service, previously offered on monthly basis in west-bound direction only, will now be provided fortnightly both export from Asia to Europe and return from Europe to Asia.
Collaboration will offer greater ease of doing business across the supply chain. Manual, time-consuming administrative processes are replaced with digital procedures powered by Blockchain Technology.
Copenhagen Airports, A.P. Moller - Maersk, DSV Panalpina, DFDS, SAS and Ørsted have formed the first partnership of its kind to develop an industrial-scale production facility to produce sustainable fuels for road, maritime and air transport in the Copenhagen area.
A.P. Moller - Maersk had a financially strong start to the year. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic’s profound impact on global trade the company kept momentum in its strategic transformation and demonstrated robustness to weather the crisis.
