Global shipping giant Maersk is axing almost 30% of the jobs at its Liverpool-based UK headquarters and has backtracked on a promise to create scores of others. Now the region’s inward investment agencies plan to hold talks with the Danish group over £200,000 of grant money offered to the shipping line last year when it agreed to relocate its London head office to Liverpool. The company blamed the lay-offs on “the worst financial losses” in Maersk’s history. Last February, Maersk … trumpeted the relocation of its UK head office to the city. But a staff member claimed only 10 jobs were created by the move from London. And they questioned Maersk’s eligibility for public funding linked to the relocation.
