Set to enter service next month, the world’s first large methanol-enabled container vessel has been named Ane Mærsk in a ceremony held at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries’ Ulsan, South Korea, shipyard. The 350-meter, 16,592 TEU vessel is named after Ane Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla, the chair of the A.P. Moller Foundation and A.P. Moller Holding. Her eldest granddaughter served as godmother and christened the vessel by breaking a champagne bottle over the bow.
Ane Mærsk is the first of Maersk’s 18 large...
A.P. Moller – Maersk has agreed to divest Maersk Supply Service (MSS), a supplier of worldwide offshore maritime services and project solutions for the energy industry, to A.P. Moller Holding, the parent company of the A.P. Moller Group.
Maersk launched a new combined transportation strategy in 2016, as well as a split of the current energy-related operations. Maersk Tankers, Maersk Oil & Gas, and Maersk Drilling were all sold between 2017 and 2019. The final divestment of energy-related...
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A.P. Moller Holding, which controls Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk will acquire Danish wind turbine supplier KK Group, it said on Wednesday (July 10), in a first step into the renewable energy industry.
The acquisition marks a new direction for the family-owned company, which has built its business on the shipping and oil industry.
The parties declined to disclose the price of the deal. A.P. Moller Holding will buy KK Group, whose main activities are through KK Wind Solutions, from...
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COPENHAGEN – Danske Bank’s largest shareholder, the Maersk family, has ousted the lender’s chairman after a money laundering scandal that has also forced out its chief executive.
A.P. Moller Holding, which controls about 21 percent of the share capital in the bank, has nominated Karsten Dybvad, who currently heads the Confederation of Danish Industry, to replace Ole Andersen as chairman of Denmark’s largest bank.
The move is a rare example of Denmark’s Maersk family, which controls shipping giant...
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