How Maersk is building port power

One arm operates container terminals on contested corridors, the other buys the bulk ports that feed European industry. Together they form a single strategy of corridor control.

Within three weeks, two deals carrying the Maersk family name redrew the map of its port ambitions.

On 28 September, APM Capital agreed to acquire a 53.35% stake in the parent of Euroports, an operator of more than 50 deep-sea and inland terminals across ten European countries and China that handles over 70 million tonnes of bulk, breakbulk and liquid bulk a year.

On 20 October in Copenhagen, APM Terminals signed a memorandum of understanding with Vietnamese conglomerate Hateco for a rail freight terminal network in northern Vietnam valued at up to US$3.5 billion.

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