AP Møller-Mærsk

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AP Møller-Mærsk A / S

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legal form A / S
ISIN DK0010244508
founding 1904
Seat Copenhagen , DenmarkDenmarkDenmark 
Number of employees 89,207 (2014)
sales $ 38.9 billion (2019)
Branch Logistics , retail ,
shipbuilding , aviation
Website www.maersk.com

Mærsk headquarters in Copenhagen
The Mærsk Flensburg

AP Moller-Maersk Group ( Danish A. P. Møller-Mærsk Gruppen ), also known as Maersk (Danish Mærsk ), is a Danish group of companies . A. P. Møller-Mærsk is active in various business areas, especially in the areas of logistics and transport . Since 1996 the company has been the largest container shipping company in the world.

AP Møller-Mærsk is headquartered in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, and has subsidiaries and branches in over 130 countries. The group employs around 89,000 people worldwide.

history

The company was founded on April 16, 1904 as A / S Dampskibsselskabet Svendborg ( Steamship Company Svendborg ) by Captain Peter Mærsk Møller and his son Arnold Peter Møller . They bought a second hand ship to run their business. Eight years later, A. P. Møller founded the company Dampskibsselskabet af 1912 A / S on August 22, 1912 , because he wanted to make decisions in it alone. This balance technical division of the company was up to the fusion 2003 AP Moller-Maersk A / S maintained.

Lindøværft was built in 1917/1918 . In 1928 the shipping company's first liner service ( Mærsk Line ) was set up with six ships . It connected the east coast and west coast of the USA with Japan and Shanghai . In the same year the company's tanker activities began.

In 1962 Mærsk received the concession for oil and gas drilling and the exploitation of the deposits in Danish territories (see also Dansk Undergrunds Consortium ). In 1964 the company started its retail activities with the establishment of Dansk Supermarked AS . After the death of his father Arnold Peter Møller in June 1965, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller took over the management of the family-owned shipping company and actively led it until 1993 as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and then until 2003 as Chairman.

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

After the company in October 1963 with the Tobias Maersk the first semi container ship had received, the Maersk Line took over in January 1974 with the Svendborg Mærsk the first container ship. Mærsk Line has been the largest container shipping company in the world since 1993, following the takeover of Ben-EAC Line .

In January 1998 the company acquired Volkswerft Stralsund and in November 1999 Sea-Land Corporation , the founder of container traffic. The company was then run under the name Mærsk Sealand . In addition, the South African shipping company Safmarine was taken over in 1999 and the Danish shipping company Torm A / S and the Dutch Smit-Wijsmüller salvage shipping company in 2002 .

The Mærsk Boston in March 2006 in front of the Volkswerft

On May 11, 2005 it was announced that Mærsk Sealand intends to acquire the third largest container shipping company Royal P&O Nedlloyd NV , based in Rotterdam ( Netherlands ), for 2.3 billion euros . In August 2005 the shareholders decided to take over the company. P&O Nedlloyd has been fully integrated since February 2006 , the name is just history. Since then, Mærsk Sealand has been trading again under the name Mærsk Line , which was in use until 1999 . As a result, the company has further expanded its market position (number 1 worldwide). Mærsk Line provides almost 15 percent of container transport capacity by ship worldwide; the next largest competitor, MSC (2nd place), had a capacity of over 13% in 2013.

Under the name Norfolk Line , Maersk (after taking over this line) has been offering numerous freight ferry connections from Holland and France to England since 1985, and from 1996 also for cars and passengers. In 2005 Norse Merchant Ferries , which operates between England and Ireland , was taken over by Norfolk Line.

The fleet consists of more than 250 ships with over 12 million register tons . Container ships and tankers are mainly used. The flagship of the Maersk shipping company is Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, named after long-time managing director Arnold Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller . In 2008, AP Møller-Mærsk had sales of 326.78 billion Danish kroner (the equivalent of around 44 billion euros ). The group had 110,000 employees worldwide. The shipping company alone employed around 34,000 people in March 2006.

The shipyard in Stralsund was sold to the Bremen-based Hegemann Group at the end of July 2007 ; according to the chairman of the supervisory board of Volkswerft, AP Møller-Mærsk “initiated the sale because the cultural and linguistic barriers between Denmark and Stralsund were too great. The hoped-for synergy effects were too weak. "

Maersk was in the red for the first time in its history in 2009, but the year after that it posted a profit of over 5 billion US dollars. After a much weaker year in 2011, net profit increased again in 2012 by 600 million to 4 billion US dollars.

In spring 2011, the company announced that it had ordered ten 18,000 TEU ships in the Triple E class from the shipbuilding subsidiary of the South Korean Daewoo Group . The freighters are 400 meters long and 60 meters wide. The contract is worth $ 1.9 billion. An option for ten more ships was exercised in June 2011. An option to build another ten ships was still open until February 2012, but was not taken. The first batch will be delivered in 2013 [obsolete] and 2014, the second in 2014 [obsolete] and 2015.

In December 2013 it was announced that Mærsk wanted to cooperate closely with its two competitors Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and CMA CGM on the routes to Asia from spring 2014 . The US competition authority granted approval, but China refused, so that the alliance is considered a failure.

Since December 1, 2017, formerly owned by the part of the Oetker Group located Hamburg Süd to Mærsk.

Company components

  • sold / closed activities
    • Mærsk Air (sold 2005)
    • Norfolkline (sold to DFDS Group, transition on July 13, 2010)
    • Rosti (sold to Nordstjernan in 2010)
    • Energy division sold (August 2017, recognized March 8, 2018) to Total SA

Holdings

Web links

Commons : AP Møller-Mærsk  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Chris Jephson, Henning Morgen: Creating Global Opportunities. Maersk-Line in containerization 1973–2013 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014, ISBN 978-1-107-03781-6 (official company history)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual report 2014 ( Memento from December 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  2. ↑ Maersk defies market conditions · Danish group achieves higher EBITDA, but lower sales . In: Daily port report of February 21, 2020, p. 3
  3. ↑ Facts and figures ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ businesshistory.com: Business History of Shipping , accessed April 16, 2011.
  5. ↑ Entry at Alphainer (English).
  6. ↑ Handelsblatt of March 5, 2010, page 23.
  7. ^ Handelsblatt, Duesseldorf, Germany: Shipping: Maersk with loss - and hope - company - trade + service provider , Handelsblatt.com. August 21, 2009. Retrieved June 28, 2010. 
  8. ↑ files.shareholder.com: Annual report 2010 ( Memento from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1 MB) , February 23, 2011, accessed on January 28, 2012.
  9. ↑ The world's largest shipping company is profitable again , FAZ, February 23, 2013, p. 20.
  10. ↑ Maersk has mega-freighters built. Retrieved March 4, 2011 .
  11. ^ Maersk Line cuts capacity on Asia - Europe trade . February 17, 2012. Archived from the original on September 15, 2013. Retrieved on February 12, 2019.
  12. ↑ reuters.com: UPDATE 1-Maersk exercises option on 10 more Daewoo ships , June 27, 2011, accessed January 28, 2012.
  13. ↑ Christian Müssgens, Johannes Ritter: Threatening pact of the giants. faz.net, December 4, 2013, accessed December 4, 2013.
  14. ↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: P3-Aus: "JadeWeserPort has opportunities" . In: Daily port report from June 19, 2014, p. 15.
  15. ↑ Hamburg South American Steamship Company A / S & Co KG: History of Hamburg Süd | Hamburg South. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Hansa News, in Hansa , issue 10/2018, p. 8
  17. ↑ New giant in the salvage business · Moeller-Maersk and Crowley Maritime will operate together from May: “Ardent” is based in Houston . In: Daily port report of April 23, 2015, p. 13
  18. ↑ http://www.dfdsseaways.de/routen/faq
  19. ^ Ownership of Rosti. In: Rosti. Retrieved January 15, 2020 (American English).
  20. ↑ Annual Report 2008 ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.1 MB)

Coordinates: 55 ° 41 ′ 16.8 ″  N , 12 ° 35 ′ 51.4 ″  E