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18 August 2026

Maersk tears up fleet ceiling

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Maersk tears up fleet ceiling

Maersk appears ready to tear up one of the defining tenets of its strategy this decade, abandoning its long-standing containership capacity ceiling as Vincent Clerc prepares the Danish carrier for renewed fleet growth. Throughout container shipping’s extraordinarily profitable 2020s, Maersk repeatedly insisted its fleet would remain broadly within a 4m to 4. 4m teu band, with …

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