Comment / Supply Chain Radar Exclusive: AP Møller-Maersk ready to deploy its firepower in the US

© Vladimir Serebryanskiy

The management team of AP Møller-Maersk Group (APPM) has had a very busy week, but interim results were just a nuisance – its third-quarter update was aways meant to be a non-event – because the real action was taking place elsewhere.

Deal(s) 

APMM sources told me that the ocean carrier’s M&A managers and financial advisors were in the US earlier this week, seriously talking M&A stuff: the target is STG Logistics, formerly St George.

“So, they are buying warehouse space,” one outsider told ...