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Effective on mid-February Maersk Line is reorganizing its Far East Asia-West Mediterranean service network, effective mid-February.The changes include new port calls at Qingdao, China, and Busan, South Korea, on the AE20 Service, and suspension of the existing calls at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and La Spezia, Italy, on the AE11 Service.The revised port coverage of the two AE services is as follows:AE20: Qingdao, Busan, Ningbo, Shanghai, Yantian, Nansha, Tanjung Pelepas, Valencia, Malaga, Algeciras, Tangiers and Singapore, starting the westbound sailing Feb. 19 from Ningbo and eastbound, Valencia March 16.AE11: Qingdao, Busan, Ningbo, Shanghai, Ningbo, Hong Kong, Yantian, Tanjung Pelepas, Port Said, Valencia, Barcelona, Genoa, Port Said, Salalah and Singapore, starting the westbound sailing Feb. 9 from Qingdao and eastbound, Valencia March 12.The Danish carrier also said the AE20 will discontinue calling Qingdao and Busan, effective in early April. The last vessel to call these ports will be the Maersk Sydney, arriving at Qingdao April 5 and Busan, April 6."With the new improved services, we will be able to provide an even better coverage of the West Mediterranean," Maersk said. Source: Journal of Commerce

Ms Hanne B. Sørensen has been appointed new CEO of Maersk Tankers Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk has appointed Hanne Sorensen the new chief executive of Maersk Tankers, the group said on Thursday.Sorensen, who up to now has been chief commercial officer of the group's container shipping business Maersk Line, succeeds Soren Skou as head of Maersk Tankers after Skou became CEO of Maersk Line, the company said.Sorensen, who joined the Maersk group as an economist in 1994 and has held several international executive positions since then, will start in her new job on Feb. 13, A.P. Moller-Maersk said.Hanne B. Sørensen joined the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group in Copenhagen as an economist in Maersk Line in 1994. Until 2001, she held various CFO positions for Maersk Line in India, Italy and Singapore. In 2006, she was promoted to Area Manager with base in Genoa, and in 2008, Hanne was appointed Chief Commercial Officer in Maersk Line.Source: Reuters

Maersk Group's strategy The Maersk Group's strategy to target growth markets aligns well with a recent UN report that found emerging economies now account for almost 30% of global GDP and 40% of trade.The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's 2011 Review of Maritime Transport report found that developing countries' GDP share in overall global economic output had reached 28% in 2010, up from 17% in 1980, and that their slice of world trade was 40%, up 30% on 2008.In 2012 the Maersk Group will execute plans laid out in 2011 by prioritising specific investments in promising markets, with Executive Board Members scheduled to visit their focus countries to build relations with officials and key partners and customers."Hopefully by meeting relevant stakeholders, we can help open doors the local organisations might struggle to get through," says Maersk Line CEO and member of the Executive Board Søren Skou, a priority sponsor for Vietnam and Indonesia.Also high on the Group's agenda is sharing knowledge across growth countries to ensure better processes in order to build up business at the local level."Many of the challenges in setting up operations in growth markets are similar from one country to the next, and it ...

Maersk Line was the first ocean carrier to have its fleet carbon emissions independently verified On 24 January Edith Maersk, one of the world's largest container vessels, will perform her first call to Gothenburg with low sulphur fuel. This will reduce sulphur emissions close to Gothenburg by 90 percent within the port control area. The fuel switch program will be implemented on all Maersk Line vessels calling Gothenburg in line with the "Improved fuel quality program" introduced by port of Gothenburg.With this Maersk Line also becomes the first container carrier to join Port of Gothenburg Fuel Switch Program. As a major player in the shipping industry, Maersk Line contributes significantly to total air emissions from vessels. Fuel switch programs near city centres are one of the measures that are taken to lead the way towards more sustainable transportation. Maersk Line vessels, calling port of Gothenburg on a weekly basis will switch to low sulphur marine diesel oil containing less than 0.1 percent sulphur from January 2012 before entering the fairways into Gothenburg. The vessels are sailing in direct service to Asian ports such as Malaysia and China."Sulphur is a major problem for our industry. We are concerned with the impact ...

Port operations at a standstill Container group Maersk Line's ships carrying food and consumer goods are stuck outside Nigeria's ports as a fourth day of nationwide strikes have brought terminals to a standstill, a senior company official said on Thursday.Nigerians have taken to the streets across the country to protest against the government's decision to remove popular fuel subsidies, which more than doubled the price of petrol, shutting banks, shops and schools.Sonny Dahl, director, West Africa Services at Maersk Line, the world's biggest container shipping company, said its container ships were unable to enter Nigeria's ports."Everything is at a standstill - there are no operations going on and everything is at a general strike level," Dahl told Reuters.Container ships normally bring in much of Nigeria's consumer goods and also transport foodstuffs.Dahl said eight of the company's container ships were affected by disruptions at ports across the country."They are carrying consumer goods of various kinds and foodstuffs," he said.He said some of the vessels were already anchored outside ports, while others would arrive in one to two days."We are consistently evaluating whether we should divert any of them to other ports (outside of Nigeria)," he said."For now, we have made a ...

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Mitsui O.S.K.Lines - Pool agreement signed The pool agreement governing the formation of a market leading VLCC pool has now been signed by the four partners. Morten Pilnov, Maersk Tankers, will be the Managing Director for Nova Tankers Pool. In this connection, the pool management company, Nova Tankers A/S, has been incorporated with Kazunori Nakai as Chairman.The pool agreement governing the formation of a market leading VLCC pool has now been signed by the four partners MITSUI O.S.K. LINES, LTD. / PHOENIX TANKERS PTE. LTD., A.P. MØLLER - MÆRSK A/S (Maersk Tankers), SAMCO SHIPHOLDING PTE. LTD., and OCEAN TANKERS (PTE.) LTD., SINGAPORE.Morten Pilnov is presently Head of Gas for Maersk Tankers, covering both Handy gas and VLGC. He brings with him extensive experience with pools from the gas segment and will take up the position immediately. Mr Pilnov has been with A.P. Moller- Maersk A/S for 12 years, hereof eight with Maersk Tankers.Kazunori Nakai is the Executive Officer of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines. Ltd. Mr. Nakai will take up the position as chairman of the pool management company in addition to his normal responsibilities. Source: Mitsui O.S.K.Lines

The fire on board Charlotte Mærsk in the Strait of Malacca on 7 July 2010 The Danish Maritime Accident Investigation Board has made a marine accident report on the fire on board the container ship Charlotte Mærsk.On 7 July 2010 at 21.19 hours, about three hours after having departed from Port Klang in Malaysia, smoke was observed on deck. It was soon established that a fire was developing.The crew of the ship launched fire-fighting measures, and after about 24 hours' constant fire-extinction, the fire was brought under control.The report is in English and is available hereSource: The Danish Maritime Authority

First of two heavylift cargo ships for Maersk-Rickmers reflagged U.S. Maersk Line, Limited (MLL) has completed the reflagging to U.S. registry of Maersk Illinois, its newest multipurpose heavy-lift vessel. The ship is one of two sister vessels that MLL acquired in September 2011 and which will sail for Maersk-Rickmers U.S . Flag Project Carrier (Maersk-Rickmers), providing breakbulk and project cargo service for shippers requiring US flag service.Maersk-Rickmers was jointly formed for this purpose by MLL and Rickmers-Linie (America)"We are pleased to see this reflagging process completed, allowing us to introduce our modern ship and bring new value to the U.S. flag project cargo market," said Dave Harriss, Director of Ship Management and Chartering at MLL. "We are now looking forward to bringing the second ships, Maersk Texas, under the US flag fleet as we continue to build the service."Maersk Illinois completed its maiden voyage in Mobile, Alabama where its reflagging was performed. The 19,600 DWT ship is 148 meters long and can carry 20,000 cubic meters of cargo. With two onboard cargo cranes with a combined maximum lift of 480 metric tons, she is suited for handling of a wide variety of heavy and bulky cargo such as generators, locomotives, ...

For Inflated Shipping Costs to Military in Afghanistan and Iraq Maersk Line Limited has agreed to pay the government $31.9 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to the United States in connection with contracts to transport cargo in shipping containers to support U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Justice Department announced today. The government alleges that Maersk, a wholly-owned American subsidiary of Denmark-based A.P. Moller Maersk, knowingly overcharged the Department of Defense to transport thousands of containers from ports to inland delivery destinations in Iraq and Afghanistan.The government contends that Maersk inflated its invoices in various ways. For example, Maersk allegedly billed in excess of the contractual rate to maintain the operation of refrigerated containers holding perishable cargo at a port in Karachi, Pakistan, and at U.S. military bases in Afghanistan; allegedly billed excessive detention charges (or late fees) by failing to account for cargo transit times and a contractual grace period; allegedly billed for container delivery delays improperly attributed to the U.S. government; allegedly billed for container GPS-tracking and security services that were not provided or only partially provided; and allegedly failed to credit the government for rebates of container storage fees received by Maersk's ...