MAERSK SHIPPING LINE
1. INTRODUCTION: The Maersk shipping line is the world’s first largest container shipping company. The Maersk line is a private shipping company founded in 1928 by Arnold Peter Moller and known for reliable flexible and eco efficient services. It is a customer focused company. The corporate office is located at Copenhagen, Denmark. It serves customers through 375 offices in 116 countries employing 7100 seafarers and 25,500 land based employees. It has a fleet of 610 vessels with a capacity of 2,933,081 TEU’s. Maersk line is consisting a share of 15.2% of world containerization. It has 59000 customers across the world. It carries 11 million full capacity containers annually and covers almost all the ports in the world.
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Being profitable and delivering sustainable profitable growth
4. Continuously reducing costs and increasing efficiency of the company
5. They help their employees by personal growth and by giving them a motivating place to work
6. Innovation
7. Being good corporate citizens
SHIPPING WITH MAERSK LINE: It has 400 trades all over the world through their vast network of shipping services, each of which is interlinked with each other.
They have the capacity of 3,800,000 TEU of containers and their fleet’s calls 300 ports. Their customers serve clients all over the world, and therefore they are present in every major port from Dutch Harbour in Alaska to port Chalmers on the southern tip of New Zealand. They have the capacity to move 1,000,000 containers 1,000 km each week. And on yearly basis they make 35,000 port calls which is equivalent to 4 port calls each hour. The major routes of Maersk line providing 265 services which are:
1. Asia-Europe – 12 East Bound services, 12 West Bound service and 70 feeder service
2. Africa – 4 direct service and 12 feeder
3. Trans-pacific (asia-america) – 9 east bound service and 9 west bound
4. Latin America – 38 service and 12 feeder
5. Trans-Atlantic (America-Europe, Mediterranean, middle east) – 16
Even though the Moreno Valley World Logistics Center can bring harmful elements to the city, it will positively affect the community by generating jobs, tax revenue, and city growth. The Moreno Valley World Logistics center is such a great opportunity for all of Moreno Valley’s citizens. With facilities on this expansion of land, there is an estimated 20,000 jobs available within the center. The jobs range from pretty basic and minimum paying jobs like packing boxes to a robotics programmer. So yes, although there are some low level jobs about there are also jobs that require a good amount of intellectual knowledge that will pay fair.
Ship out of Luck is a novel about a family being invited to a free cruise ship by their friend Crawley for his birthday. The main character is named Antsy Bonano and he is always getting into trouble wherever he goes. He soon meets a character named Tilde, who is a stowaway and the captain’s daughter. She is smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S by bringing them onto the cruise with fake IDs. Two major themes in this novel are the theme of trust and doing what you feel is right.
Traverse City Michigan is a small town in Northern Michigan, with a port, an airport, a rail system running through it, and lots of roads. While there is most likely the most freight carried through trucking on the roads, I would like to talk about the shipping industry. Because Traverse City is located with access to the Lake Michigan there is obviously a great deal of materials shipped over the water. Water is the cheapest, besides pipeline, of the 5 major transportation modes; if a city is located on the water it makes sense to take advantage of it. According to the Michigan Department of Transportation in 2009 the port of Traverse City transported somewhere between 100,000 and 900,000 tons of freight.
Chapters 35-39 of The Shipping News, by Annie Proulx, bring the themes of family roots and change, which have been slowly building, to a satisfying point. The two themes correlate - when Quoyle faces his family roots, he is able to let go of the past and build a future for himself, changing his outlook on life and his immediate family situation. Quoyle going to visit his cousin Nolan and remarking on his seemingly sane mind marks him making peace with his family roots and his past in general. He brings Nolan a present, a framed photograph of a poodle, and offers to inquire about a nursing home in Killick-Claw for him. Quoyle is originally disgusted by his ancestry of pirates and an old madman, but his kindness toward Nolan in chapter 36
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In the beginning, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. has been an innovative brand. The company started in the year 1968. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. is a global cruise line company that owns and operates three global brands: Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Azamara Club Cruises. Together, these brands operate a combined total of 49 ships with an additional 13 on order. (Royal Caribbean Cruises, 2018).
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10 Torpedo Deadly World Efran shah Monday, June 16, 2014 7 Comments Torpedo is underwater lethal weapon that can be launched from submarines, surface ships, aircraft and helicopters. Based on the performance characteristics, such as speed, range and depth of its operations, the following 10 best torpedo in the world today. A244 / S Mod 3 A244 / S Mod 3 is a result of the development of EuroTorp (a consortium of Italian and French defense company), lightweight anti-submarine torpedo that has been used for more than 16 navies in the world. Torpedo is designed to address all conventional and nuclear submarines with advanced anti-torpedo countermeasures.
Somalia pirates and there influence on shipping trade Chapter 1 Introduction: In this chapter we will be focusing on topics like the background study of the pirates of Somalia, their history, the problems faced by the seafarer and the companies including the counter measures taken by the shipping companies in ensuring safety of the crew, ship and also the cargo for the ships, sailing in and around the piracy areas. We will also explain about the research objective, the current situation faced by the seafarers, the scope and the limitation of our study. Background of study: “Piracy” is as old as the shipping industry and even many films has been produced on pirates. The term ‘pirate’ means the one who steals or robs something from a ship at
According to iRami (2012) stated that the shipping plays an important role in world trade which is the backbone of the world economy. Recently, without these boats and vessels provide transportation services, many countries will be unable to participate in world trade and will not be as prosperous. From centuries past, the sea has always been important to all country at the world which as an important factor of economic development of every maritime country. The maritime sector contributes significantly to the economic development. Underling this is the fact that 95% of the country international trade is carried in whole or in part by maritime transport.