The current negative phase following the recovery of the market containerized shipping that took place in 2024 led to the Danish group A.P. Møller-Mærsk to plan a drastic job cuts, with an expected reduction in Approximately 15% of company positions, or about 1,000 out of a total of 6,000, which - the company announced today - will be implemented at the headquarters level as well as at the level of regions and nations.

The negative trend in the group's financial performance shipping and logistics sector in place since the second quarter of This year it continued in the fourth quarter with revenues which amounted to $13.33 billion, down -8.7% on the last quarter of 2024, with EBITDA and EBIT values which recorded decreases of -49.0% and -94.2% respectively falling to 1.84 billion and 118 million dollars and with a net economic result that entered the territory negative having been equal to -27 million compared to a net profit of $3.11 billion in the last quarter of the year previous year.

The decline in results was produced by the negative performance of the Ocean division, which is the core containerized shipping business of the group and is generated by the reduction in the value of maritime freight rates. In the Fourth quarter of 2025 The division's revenues stood at to $8.34 billion (-16.0%), of which $6.98 billion was produced liner shipping services (-20.3%) and €1.34 billion directly related activities (+16.7%). This is a in the face of a slight increase in operating costs, which were equal to 7.18 billion (+1.6%), an increase that was determined by the +12.4% growth in costs for the handling of charges, amounting to €2.74 billion, and the +6.3% increase in costs for the management of the service network, amounting to 1.87 billion, while other items of expenditure decreased. EBITDA of the division was 1.16 billion (-58.7%). The value of the operating result was negative and equal to -€153 million compared to an operating profit of €1.60 billion in 2014 fourth quarter of 2024.

In the last quarter of last year, Maersk's fleet transported cargo volumes of 3.38 million containers from 40' (feu), with an increase of +8.0% over the same period of 2014, 2024, with an average freight rate of 2,046 dollars/feu (-23.1%). On the east-west sea routes alone, there are transported goods totalling 1.57 million EUF (+11.2%) with an average freight rate of 2,081 dollars/feu (-24.5%). On the north-south routes, transported 1.07 million FEU (+4.0%) and the average value of freight rates In this market, it was $2,891/FEU (-16.8%). On intra-regional routes, 736 thousand feu were transported (+7.4%) with an average freight value of 1,269 dollars/feu (-20.0%).

Among the other primary activities of the Danish group, in the fourth quarter of 2025 the port terminals managed by the subsidiary APM Terminals recorded revenues of 1.35 billion dollars (+13.3%), a gross operating profit of 440 million (+4.5%) and an operating profit of $321 million (-5.0%). In the last last year's terminals handled 3.64 million containers (+8.4%), of which 1.38 million for ships of the Maersk group (+30.6%) and €2.26 million for third parties (-1.8%). They are Growing results in volumes handled in all regions, with 992 thousand movements carried out in North America (+9.6%), 976 thousand in Asia and the Middle East (+4.8%), 685 thousand in Latin America (+6.7%), 781 thousand in Europe (+14.3%) and 206 thousand in Africa (+4.0%). The revenue per single movement was 363 dollars (+4.0%) and the cost per single movement to 286 dollars (+5,9%).

The group's logistics division has closed the fourth quarter of 2025 with revenues of $3.96 billion (+1.9%), a gross operating margin of €418 million (+4.0%) and a operating profit of €194 million (+22.8%). The volumes handled by the logistics services amounted to 26.9 million cubic metres (-9.8%) and those handled by air amounted to 93 thousand tons (+19.2%).

In the full year 2025, the group totaled revenues of $53.99 billion, a decrease of -2.7% on the previous year, of which 34.97 billion generated by the Ocean division (-6.5%). EBITDA and EBIT were equal respectively to 9.53 billion (-21.4%) and 3.50 billion (-46.1%), with contributions from the containerized shipping segment equal to 6.30 billion (-31.4%) and 1.39 billion (-70.8%). The profit was $2.91 billion, down -53.2% on 2024.