Maersk eliminates facilitation payments on own vessels

For the first time, Maersk did not register a single facilitation payment aboard its own ships in 2019. However, the practice is still present on chartered vessels, although they declined markedly last year.

There will be no more bribing port employees with cigarettes, food or soft drinks to get a container ship through the system when calling at ports, as container line Maersk has said many times.

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