the Maersk group could be divided in two unit centralized on the transports and the energy



Shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk has to the examination a restructure plan that the subdivision of the company in two independent units previews, centralized on the activities of transport and another on the field of the energy. The Danish daily paper "Berlingske" has revealed thursday specifying that the existence of this plan is confirmed by various sources and that draft of a project still to the initial state. Precisazioni is however it attended the next month when the board of directors of the Danish group meets.

"The new strategy - a source to the "Berlingske" has confirmed - is still to the embryonic state. However it is possible that in the end of september it is introduced in its with, with the creation of a society of transport and a society for the energy". Contacted from the Danish daily paper, the press office of A.P. Møller-Mærsk has replied specifying not to want to comment or to prejudice the outcome of the appraisal that the board of directors has asked the managers of the company to start.

The "Berlingske" has explained that various sources have reported perhaps that the board of directors of the Danish group will estimate at least a second option and other plans, but at the moment the subdivision in two unit centralized on the branch transport and on that energetic one the more probable solution appears.

According to the reconstruction of the "Berlingske", the plan would presee that the new society for the energy would be constituted around the Maerk Oil, the oil company of the Danish group, and the Maersk Drilling, the society of the group that manages the which put on systems of perforation also of other oil companies, and the Maersk Supply Service would meet you, the branch that supplies marine services to the offshore industry of the oil and the gas.

In the society in which all would be centralized the activities of transport of the Danish group would meet instead the Maersk Line, the navigation company that work services of marine containerized transport and that is world leader of the field, the APM Terminals, the branch Dutch that takes care of the management of the container harbour terminals that take part of the Network of the group, the Maersk Tankers, the company that work the fleet of oil tankers and product tanker of A.P. Møller-Mærsk, the Damco, society of shipments and logistics, and the Svitzer, the company that work the fleet of harbour and oceanic tugs and means of aid and rescue.