Comment / Market Insight: Mærsk & CMA CGM – cross-shareholding fireworks

As I briefly pointed out last week – “M&A radar: Who’s next?” – the joy of exploring new ties in ocean hasn’t subsided.

While the shipping M&A narrative is just ancillary and mostly irrelevant herein, in several exchanges with born deal-makers recently, when asked whether AP Møller-Mærsk (APMM) would ever go decisively into thin air – “Mærsk Air A/S” from the Stone Age, maybe rings a bell in the passenger business world – the feedback prompted several considerations.

Including the one obvious ...