News / Change of strategy as a more 'hawkish' Maersk raids the charter market

Maersk is aggressively fighting to regain market share in its liner business, as the performance of its ‘rising star’ logistics and services unit disappoints.

Loaded volumes carried by Maersk in the third quarter were up 5% on the same period of the previous year, at 6.3m teu, which also represented an 8.9% increase on Q2 liftings.

Interestingly, the carrier’s liftings on its east-west tradelanes, where it cooperates with MSC in the soon-to-be-defunct 2M Alliance VSA, was up 9.3% year on year in ...