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Maersk Industry Container abandons the segment of dry the container and closes the factory of Dongguan
The plant of Dongguan - it has explained the CEO Fitzgerald - is inactive from the December beginning because of the difficult conditions of the market
January 3, 2019
Maersk Container Industry (MCI), the container producer intermodal that takes part of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk, has announced an ulterior focalization of own activity on the segment of the container reefer and the escape from the field of the production of containers for cargos dries, abandonment of the activity branch that will involve the closing of own factory to Dongguan, in China, than it is not more active since last month. The activity of the society therefore will be centralized on the factory of Qingdao that produces to container refrigerator and own groups refrigerators for container Cool Star.
"Unfortunately - the managing director of Maersk has explained today Industry Container, Sean Fitzgerald - our decision to concentrate to us on the business of the cold chain will have an impact on our factory to Dongguan that has remained inactive from the December beginning because of the difficult conditions of the market". The company in fact has evidenced that if on one side the demand for continuous container refrigerator to grow thanks to the increase of the question of producing fresh and other goods, from the other the market of dry the container crosses from some time a phase of crisis.
"Making to meet all the resources of MCI in the business of the cold chain - it has emphasized Fitzgerald - we will make sure a sustainable increase and continues investments in producing and better services for our customers".
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