Maersk paid USD 39 million to cancel ship contracts
According to Alphaliner, Maersk paid USD 39 million last year to cancel contracts with a German owner for 13 chartered and older ships in a year where the carrier's total capacity grew 12 percent.
BY OLE ANDERSEN
Last year Maersk Line paid USD 39 million in compensation to the German owner of 13 container ships, MPC, that Maersk had taken on long-term charter but which the carrier opted to return to the owner two months before the contracts expired, reports Alphaliner on Tuesday in a survey of the biggest container carriers' fleet changes in 2014.
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