Maersk goes global with hubs and spokes

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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Most people know the name Maersk Line when it comes to container shipping. This Danish carrier seems to have been the largest boxship operator in the world for so long that few now bother to question how it came to be so. Maersk McKinney Moller, now in his 90s, had the opportunity and motivation to make it so when, as a young man, he entered into joint control of the family shipping company with his father A.P. Moller. A.P. Moller's official biography, With Consta...

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