Maersk Line, with almost 16% of the global container market, is
betting it can outlast such publicly traded competitors as Japan’s MOL and NYK, both of which have cut capacity to cope with falling freight rates.
At the beginning of this month APMM revealed that Maersk Line, which is often regarded as a barometer of global trade, posted a
third-quarter net loss of Dkr1.58 billion (US$293 million) compared
with a profit of Dkr5.9 billion a year earlier