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...Some producers are preparing contingency plans involving sea, said Pamela Pérez, chief executive of Sealand in Mexico, which operates sea transport between Mexico and the US for Maersk, the Danish logistics...
...The pension issue will remind some investors of the pensions problems that arose when Maersk acquired SeaLand in 1999....
..., then a major US container shipping line and now part of Denmark’s AP Moeller-Maersk....
...The company said it had been motivated by the takeover of P&O Nedlloyd by Maersk Sealand which had accelerated the consolidation and concentration within the worldwide container shipping industry....
...The normally secretive AP-Møller Maersk, whose Maersk-Sealand container shipping line is by far the world’s largest, also confirmed the talks to the Copenhagen stock exchange....
...To add to the complexity, in some markets, Maersk-Sealand still uses the name Safmarine, reflecting another 1999 acquisition....
...In the transport sector, shares in Dutch container shipping group P&O Nedlloyd jumped 21.5 per cent to €50.45 on news it was in merger talks with larger rival Maersk Sealand....
...So it came as something of a shock when two of its biggest shipping customers, Maersk Sealand and Evergreen Marine, defected to the new nearby Malaysian port of Tanjung Pelepas in 2000 and 2002....
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