The company expects that demand will decrease by 2 to 4 percent this year and that it may continue to decrease next year as well.
With the bottlenecks that have arisen on the world market in the wake of the pandemic, shipping companies have been able to charge well. When they now ease, at the same time as the global economy slows down, it will be a wake-up call for the industry.
Despite that, the company made an operating profit of 9.5 billion dollars in the third quarter of the year, which was more than the expected 8.6 billion.
Turnover landed at $22.8 billion, also more than analysts expected according to Bloomberg’s compilation.
Maersk has the world’s largest fleet of container ships and controls approximately one sixth of the world’s container shipping.