Maersk paying $100,000 a day to charter scarce post-panamax box ships
Maersk Line is being forced to pay a premium to secure scarce chartered tonnage for ...
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By Mike Wackett
A net profit of $6.1bn in the final quarter concluded what Maersk CEO Soren Skou said was “a remarkable 2021” for the Danish company.
Maersk’s full-year net profit came in at $18bn, compared with $2.9bn the year before, and Mr Skou said he expected earnings to be similar for 2022.
But he added that the first half could be stronger than H2 as “normalisation” returned to global supply chains.
Mr Skou said Maersk had “not yet seen any change in the demand picture”, ...
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Martyn Benson
February 09, 2022 at 4:04 pmWas it not the same Soren Skou who stated publicly in 2014/2015 that he wanted to see more short term and spot rates at Maersk? How times change!