BY MORTEN JOHNSEN, FINANS
The largest company in Denmark recently purchased a number of new container ships for the tidy sum of USD 1.1 billion.
For many Danish businesses, this would be a massive investment that would require serious savings in the following period, but for the Maersk Group this is just a drop in the ocean.
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