After the decline of -26.4% recorded in the first three months of This year, in the quarter following the decline in revenues of the Danish shipowning group A.P. Møller-Mærsk has further accentuated with a turnover that is Result pairs to 13,0 billion dollars, in decrease of the -40.0% on the second quarter of 2022, of which 8.7 billion (-50.0%) generated by containerised shipping services, including 7.4 billion (- 51.7%) produced directly from transport by ship of goods in containers. The group scored a margin EBITDA of 2,9 billion dollars (- 71.9%), with a contribution of 2,3 billion (- 76.5%) from containerized shipping, and a profit operating of 1,6 billion (- 82.1%), with a contribution from the fleet of portacontenitori pairs to 1,2 billion dollars (- 85.9%). The Danish group closed the period April-June this year with a net profit of almost 1,5 billion (- 82.8%).

The sharp reduction in revenues in the shipping segment containerized was produced by the decrease in value of freight, with a rate per container of 40' full transported which Maersk has announced to be in the second quarter of 2023 equal to 2,444 dollars/feu (-51.0%), but also from the decline in volumes of loads transported by the Group's fleet that in the period are Results amounted to 2.9 million FEU (-6.1%). These effects have been partially offset by -17.2% contraction in costs operating amounted to nearly $6.5 billion, including 2.3 billion in container handling costs (-13.9%), 1.4 billion in costs for the purchase of the bunker (-34.3%), 1.7 billion for the management of the service network (-8.2%), 711 million dollars of administrative and management costs (-5.1%) and 358 million euro in other expenses (-9.6%).

"The result of the second quarter - he commented Maersk CEO Vincent Clerc - contributed to a solid first half of the year in which we responded to abrupt changes in market conditions caused by the reduction of stocks and a low environment growth after years fueled by the pandemic. Our decisions cost containment initiatives, together with our portfolio of contracts, cushioned some of the effects of this normalization of the market." Clerc specified that 'The focus on costs will continue to be a central role in addressing a weak market outlook that We expect it to last until the end of the year."

With regard to the port terminals belonging to the group Maersk through the Dutch subsidiary APM Terminals, in the second quarter of 2023 this line of activity recorded revenues pairs to 950 million dollars (- 15.5%), an operating margin gross of 331 million (-17.3%) and an operating profit of 269 million (-14,9%). In the period April-June of this year the containers enlivened from the terminals have been about three million (- 7.5%). The revenue generated by each individual movement was 310 dollars (- 9.1%) and the costs for this operation are piled to 245 dollars (-7.5%).