World’s largest container shipping company Maersk Line has had a rough start of the year, having reported a string of incidents involving its boxships. The latest one has seen Post Panamax containership Laura Maersk collide with MSC Schuba B owned by Seaspan and chartered by Maersk Line’s 2M partner, MSC. The incident took place in Callao port, Peru, on Saturday, March 24. Based on the video that captured the incident, the two ships got in contact while they were maneuvering

The ongoing push toward automation of ships is not likely to result in crewless containerships anytime soon, according to the CEO of the world’s biggest shipping company, Soren Skou. The latest technological developments have seen the number of crew members on board Maersk Line’s ships halved when compared to two decades ago, which has, in turn, helped cut salary costs. However, Skou doesn’t believe giant containerships would be allowed to sail without humans on board, at lea

A complete transformation of how ports operate is on the horizon, according to Bret Greenstein, Vice President of Watson Internet of Things (IoT), Consumer Offerings, IBM. Over the past few years, IBM has partnered up with industry majors such as Maersk Group and CMA CGM in order to digitize their ways of doing business. World Maritime News spoke with Mr. Greenstein on the digital transformation of the maritime industry and IBM’s role in the process on the back of the company

The cyber attack that hit Danish-based A.P. Moller – Maersk on June 27 is expected to damage the company’s business performance by up to USD 300-million in the upcoming quarter. “Business volumes were negatively affected for a couple of weeks in July and as a consequence, our Q3 results will be impacted. We expect the cyber-attack will impact results negatively by USD 200-300 million,” Maersk group’s CEO Søren Skou said. The vast majority of the impact of the cyber-attack was

Danish container shipping major Maersk Line said that it doesn’t expect any impact of Rickmers Holding’s filing for insolvency on its operations. To remind, Rickmers had to file for insolvency after HSH Nordbank AG denied approval to the term sheet dated April 19, 2017 and rejected further negotiations of the restructuring. Out of Maersk’s total operated fleet consisting of 639 vessels, six are charter vessels formerly owned by Rickmers. In addition, a further 12 vessels are