Maersk to pay millions of dollar in damages to US furniture importer

The shipping group is forced to pay a USD 9.8m fine as a subsidiary refused to fulfill contractual obligations to a furniture importer during the chaos of the pandemic.
Photo: Toby Melville/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
Photo: Toby Melville/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix

Maersk is to pay millions of dollar to a furniture company to settle a dispute, which arose during the pandemic when logistic chaos strained relationships between box carriers and their customers.

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