Maersk

AP Moller- Maersk Group ( Danish: AP Møller- Mærsk Group ), also known as Maersk (Danish: Mærsk ), is a Danish group of companies. AP Møller Mærsk - is active in various business areas, especially in the areas of logistics and oil and gas extraction. Since 1996 the company is the largest container shipping company in the world.

AP Møller Mærsk - headquartered in the Danish capital Copenhagen and subsidiaries and offices in more than 135 countries. The Group employs about 108,000 people worldwide. In the Fortune Global 500 list in 2012 he was ranked 154 of 2009 at number 106

History

The company was founded on April 16, 1904 A / S Svendborg Dampskibsselskabet ( Steamship Company Svendborg ) by Captain Peter Mærsk Møller Arnold Peter Møller and his son. They bought a second hand boat for the operation of their business. Eight years later founded AP Moller on August 22, 1912, the company Dampskibsselskabet af 1912 A / S, because he only wanted it to make decisions. This balance technical companies dichotomy was until the merger in 2003 of the AP Møller- Mærsk A / S maintained.

1917/18 the Lindøværft was built. 1928 was set up with six ships of the first scheduled service ( Maersk Line) the shipping company. He joined the East Coast and West Coast of the U.S. with Japan and Shanghai. In the same year, the tanker activity of the company began. 1962 Maersk was awarded a concession for oil and gas drilling as well as the exploitation of the deposits in the Danish territories (see also Dansk Under ground Consortium). 1964, the company started its retail operations with the establishment, Dansk Supermarked AS. After the death of his father, Arnold Peter Møller Mærsk McKinney Møller in June 1965 took over the management of the family-owned shipping company and led them active until 1993 as Chief Executive Officer and then as Chairman until 2003.

In 1969, the airline Maersk Air was founded in Denmark, which was sold to an Icelandic fund company in 2005.

After the company had received in October 1963 with the Tobias Maersk, the first semi- container ship, the Maersk Line took over in January 1974 with the Svendborg Maersk, the first container ship. Maersk Line since 1993, following the acquisition of Ben- EAC Line, the largest container shipping company in the world. In January 1998, the company acquired the Stralsund shipyard and in November 1999, Sea-Land Corporation, the founder of container traffic. Furthermore, in 1999 the South African shipping company Safmarine and 2002 the Danish shipping company Torm A / S as well as the Dutch Smit- Wijsmüller were taken Salvage shipping company.

On 11 May 2005 it was announced that Maersk Sealand wants to acquire the third largest container shipping company Royal P & O Nedlloyd NV in Rotterdam ( Netherlands) for 2.3 billion euros. In August 2005, the acquisition was approved by the shareholders. Since February 2006, P & O Nedlloyd is fully integrated, the name only story. Maersk Sealand also operates since then under the name Maersk Line in use until 1999. The company therefore has strengthened ( the world's No. 1) sustained its market position. Nearly 15 percent of the container transport capacity by ship Maersk Line is the world available; the next largest competitor MSC (No. 2 ) has a capacity of 13% ( 2013).

Under the name of Norfolkline Maersk offers ( after taking over the line) since 1985 numerous Frachtfährverbindungen of Holland and France to England, from 1996 also for cars and passengers. 2005, operating between England and Ireland Norse Merchant Ferries was acquired by Norfolk Line.

The fleet consists of a total of more than 250 ships over 12 million tons. Mostly are container ships and tankers in use. The flagship of the Maersk shipping line is the Emma Mærsk. In 2008, continued A. P. Møller- Mærsk 326.78 billion Danish kroner ( equivalent to about 44 billion euros). Worldwide, the Group has 110,000 employees. The shipping alone employs approximately 34,000 people (as of March 2006).

The shipyard in Stralsund was sold at the end of July 2007 to Bremer Hegemann Group; According to the Chairman of the People's shipyard have AP Møller- Mærsk " initiated the sale, because the cultural and linguistic barriers between Denmark and Stralsund were too large. The hoped-for synergies had turned out to be weak. "

Maersk wrote in 2009 for the first time in its history the red, but went the year after already returned a profit of more than 5 billion U.S. dollars .. After a much weaker in 2011 was the net profit again in 2012 to 600 million to 4 billion U.S. dollar to be increased.

In spring 2011, the company was known to have ordered ten 18,000 TEU ships of the Triple-E class in the shipbuilding subsidiary of South Korea's Daewoo Group. The freighter has a length of 400 meters and a width of 60 meters. The order volume amounts to $ 1.9 billion. An option to increase the order to 10 other vessels, was redeemed in June 2011. An option to build a further ten ships was still open until February 2012, but was not perceived. The delivery of the first batch to 2013 [ deprecated] and 2014 happened, the second in 2014 and 2015.

In December 2013 it was announced that Mærsk from the spring of 2014 would work closely with the two competitors Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC ) and CMA CGM on routes to Asia.

Elements of the business

• Container and related activities Maersk Line fully integrated since 2006: Royal P & O Nedlloyd

• Energy, oil and gas Mærsk Oil
• Mærsk Oil & Gas

• Transport & Offshore Maersk Tankers
• Maersk Contractors
• Maersk Supply Service
• Svitzer
• ERS Railways

• Retail and other business Dansk Supermarked groups Net - foreign subsidiary
• Bilka A / S - subsidiary
• Føtex
• Salling

• Baltijos Laivo Statykla - 98.5 % - owned subsidiary

• Sold activities People Stralsund ( end of July 2007 sold to the Hegemann Group )
• Maersk Air ( sold in 2005 )
• Norfolkline ( sold to DFDS group, transition on July 13, 2010)

Investments

• Martinair
• Danske Bank - 20 % participation

Membership

• European Liner Affairs Association