Times are changing at Maersk Logistics and Damco, which merged under the Damco brand last month. Chief executive Rolf Habben-Jensen talks to Lucy Tesseras about what lies ahead for the revamped business.
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Boeing and Damco, part of the AP Moller – Maersk Group, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to pursue the development of industrial and technological logistics tools for improving global supply chain management.
Taiwanese container line Evergreen has incorporated Teesport into its weekly shipping services from the Far East.
Shipping line owner AP Moller-Maersk showed a loss for the first half of 2009 of $540m compared to a profit of $2.5 billion in 2008, after sales fell 25 per cent to $22.8 billion million.
It’s one thing to survive a rocky economic period, it’s another to thrive from it. But one man who is set on making this a reality is Tim Scharwath, Kuehne + Nagel’s chief executive for North West Europe. He talks to Jessica Davies.
The A.P. Moller – Maersk Group is set to merge its supply chain management business Maersk Logistics and freight forwarding arm Damco under the single brand name Damco on 7th September 2009.
Maersk’s AE1 Asia-Europe service has made its first call at Felixstowe. The 6,600 teu Sine Maersk, which arrived at from Tanjung Pelepas in Malaysia, is one of eleven ships of between 6,600 and 8,600 teu on the service.
A number of shipping companies have been forced to increase their rates as current tariffs are no longer covering costs.
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics is increasing its ocean service from the United States to Oceania from three to four sailings per month.
Hellmann Worldwide Logistics UK has centralised its gateway network for LCL ocean freight business at it Bradford office
