Comment / Analysis: when it rains on Maersk, it can pour

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By Alessandro Pasetti

15/08/2018

‘When it rains it pours’, I thought soon after reading that the Colombian navy, according toMaritime Denmark, had seized “1,144 packages that each contained 1 kg of pure cocaine (…) found onboard the containership Cap San Tainaro, owned by German shipping company Hamburg Süd, which is part of Maersk Line”.

What an unlucky event for the Danish carrier – one it could surely have done without, given the round of bad publicity already received this year, which so far has culminated in the latest ...

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