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water transport

Maersk

Headquarters: Copenhagen
Founded: 1904
Employees: 80,220

Official website

Photo: Bahnfrend · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

1,042,410

Summed over 8 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Maersk is

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A.P. Moller - Maersk A/S is a Danish shipping and logistics company founded in 1904 by Arnold Peter Møller and his father Peter Mærsk Møller.
Maersk's business activities include port operation, supply chain management, warehousing and air freight. The company is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, with subsidiaries and offices across 130 countries and over 100,000 employees worldwide in 2024.
It is a publicly traded family business, as the company is controlled by the namesake Møller family through holding companies. The company's 2025 annual revenue was US$53.9 billion.

Origin

Who founded it

Maersk was founded in 1904 in Svendborg by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

Arnold Peter Møller

1876–1965

Danish businessman (1876–1965)

Photo: Maersk Line · CC BY-SA 2.0 · file

People

Leadership on record

Officers and directors as recorded in open reference data. This reflects the most recent statement in the source, not a filing date — check the company's own disclosures before relying on it.

Chief executive

Vincent Clerc

1972

Board

Board member

Jim Hagemann Snabe

1965

manager and chairman

Photo: World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland · CC BY-SA 2.0 · file

Board member

Jan Leschly

1940

Danish tennis player

Photo: Private photo · CC0 · file

Board member

Ane Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla

1948

Swedish-Danish business executive

Photo: Maersk Line · CC BY-SA 2.0 · file

Board member

Robert Mærsk Uggla

1978

Board member

Dorothee Blessing

1967

German manager

Board member

Michael Pram Rasmussen

1955

Danish businessperson

Board member

Niels Jacobsen

1957

Danish businessman

Board member

Niels B. Christiansen

1966

Danish toy executive

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: water transport
Legal form: aktieselskab
Country of registration: Denmark
Headquarters: Copenhagen
Formed in: Svendborg
Founded: 1904
Dissolved: —
Employees: 80,220
Listed on: Nasdaq Copenhagen A/S
Ticker: —
ISIN: DK0010244508
Legal Entity Identifier: 549300D2K6PKKKXVNN73
Head office coordinates: 55.6761, 12.5689

Ships on record here: 9
Vessel types operated: 2
Flag states used: 2
Average vessel age: 19.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1998
Newest vessel on record: 2013
Largest vessel by tonnage: 194,849
Average tonnage: 130,301
Market share: —
Parent company: A.P. Møller Holding
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Reported financials

Financial year 2022

All figures in USD

Published company figures for a single reported year, shown together so they are comparable. Figures from other years are not mixed in — a page that pairs one year's revenue with another's assets misreports both.

Revenue

81.5bn USD

Reported for 2022

Operating income

30.9bn USD

Reported for 2022

Net profit

29.2bn USD

Reported for 2022

Corporate structure

Ownership and holdings

Parent company

A.P. Møller Holding

Owned by

A.P. Møller HoldingDen A.P. Møllerske StøttefondA.P. Møller og Hustru Chastine McKinney Møllers Familiefond

Services and products

sea shipping

Subsidiaries and units (7)

Maersk A/S#2 Aliança Navegação e Logística Farrell LinesSafmarinePoti Sea PortAPM TerminalsSuez Canal Container Terminal

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 9 vessels this registry attributes to Maersk. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Odense Steel Shipyard5

CSBC Corporation, Taiwan1

Hanwha Ocean1

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	8
2018	—	8
2019	—	8
2020	—	8
2021	—	8
2022	—	8
2023	—	8
2024	—	8
2025	—	8
2026	—	8

Vessel records

Ships on record · Container ship

Show all types

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller	9619907	Container ship	Denmark	2013	194,849	165,000	399.0 m	Hanwha Ocean
Eugen Maersk	9321550	Container ship	Denmark	2008	171,542	—	398.0 m	Odense Steel Shipyard
Ebba Mærsk	9321524	Container ship	Denmark	2007	170,794	—	397.7 m	Odense Steel Shipyard
Elly Maersk	9321536	Container ship	Denmark	2007	170,794	—	397.0 m	Odense Steel Shipyard
Evelyn Mærsk	9321512	Container ship	Denmark	2007	170,794	—	397.7 m	Odense Steel Shipyard
Gudrun Mærsk	9302877	Container ship	Denmark	2005	98,648	—	368.0 m	Odense Steel Shipyard
MV Tygra	9164263	Container ship	Denmark	1998	14,120	17,375	155.0 m	CSBC Corporation, Taiwan

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Maersk compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 9 vessels attributed to it here, Maersk is the 101st largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

Denmark is the country of registration for 52 commercial operators in this directory, among which Maersk ranks 3rd by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 122 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Denmark.

Founded in 1904, Maersk is 122 years old. This directory holds 44 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.

Maersk

What Maersk is

Who founded it

Leadership on record

Identity and registration

Financial year 2022

Ownership and holdings

What this company sails

10-year fleet record

Ships on record · Container ship

How Maersk compares

Other operators registered in Denmark

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