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Maersk Line or Maersk SeaLand is a Danish international container shipping company and the largest operating subsidiary of the Maersk Group, a Danish business conglomerate. Founded in 1928, it is the world's largest container shipping company by both fleet size and cargo capacity, offering regular services to 374 ports in 116 countries. In 2019, it employed 83,625 people where 18,398 of which are vessel crew and the other 65,227 are processing and operations personnel in offices and ports.[2][3] Maersk Line operates over 708 vessels and has a total capacity of about 4.1 million TEU.[4]

Maersk Line
Maersk Line Logo, July 2021.svg
Maersk Virginia departing from Fremantle, Australia, in April 2015
Type
Subsidiary
Industry
Container shipping
Founded
1928; 93 years ago
Headquarters
Copenhagen, Denmark
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Søren Skou (CEO)
Revenue
Increase $29.18 billion (2017)
Owner
A.P. Moller-Maersk Group
Number of employees
83,625 (2019 worldwide)[1]
Website
maerskline.com
History
2M Alliance
Sustainability Edit
In 2011–12, Maersk Line cooperated with the US Navy on testing between 7 and 100% algae biofuel on Maersk Kalmar.[20][21] From 2007–2014, and mainly due to slow steaming, Maersk Line reduced its CO2 emissions by 40% or 11 million tonnes, about the same reduction as the rest of Denmark.[22]

Maersk set a goal in December 2018 to be carbon neutral by 2050.[23] In 2017, the company's ships emitted 35.5 million tonnes of CO2e, and it hopes to eliminate that by using biofuels to power its fleet.[24]

Services Edit
Maersk Line is best known for its vast coverage across the globe. Other than its main trade lanes of Asia-Europe and Trans-Atlantic trades, Maersk Line also offers extensive coverage between South America and Europe as well as to Africa. The company also pioneered the innovative concept of Daily Maersk in 2011 which provided a premium guaranteed service between supply ports of China and European base ports. Despite support from the trade, Maersk Line was forced to cut down services due to oversupply.[25][26] Recent restructuring of its products have included upgrades to their Asia to Australia, India to West Africa, and China to America routes.[27][28][29]

Other than those main trade routes, Maersk Line also operates many continental trade lines. It operates in its Intra-Asia route through MCC Transport, its European route through Seago Lines, and recently re-launched the famous SeaLand Service brand for its American trade lanes.[30]

Fleet Edit
As of July 2011, the Maersk Line fleet comprises more than 700 vessels (with Hamburg Süd and Safmarine combined) and a multitude of containers corresponding to more than 3.8 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit)[31]

In 2006, the E-class vessel Emma Maersk, was delivered to Maersk Line from Odense Steel Shipyard. It was by far, the largest container ship in the world at the time.[32]

Seven other sister ships have since been built, and in 2011, Maersk ordered 20 even larger container ships from Daewoo, the Triple E class, each with a capacity of 18,000 containers. The first of these Triple E Class ships was delivered on June 14, 2013 and was christened with the name Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller after the son of the founder of the Maersk Line.[33]

The following ship classes are part of the Maersk Line fleet:

Container ship classes of Maersk Line
Ship class Built Capacity (TEU) Ships in class Notes
A-class I 1974-1976 1 984 9
L-class II 1980-1983 3 016 7
L-class II 1983-1985 3 840
A cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year, handling the bulk of international trade. Cargo ships are usually specially designed for the task, often being equipped with cranes and other mechanisms to load and unload, and come in all sizes. Today, they are almost always built of welded steel, and with some exceptions generally have a life expectancy of 25 to 30 years before being scrapped.[citation needed]

Definitions Edit
2009)
A sea lane, sea road or shipping lane is a regularly used navigable route for large water vessels (ships) on wide waterways such as oceans and large lakes, and is preferably safe, direct and economic. In the Age of Sail, they were not only determined by the distribution of land masses but also the prevailing winds, whose discovery was crucial for the success of long maritime voyages. Sea lanes are very important for seaborne trade.


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