Maritime giant Maersk to create hundreds of new jobs
By Ybnews on 12th March 2023
Global shipping and logistics giant Maersk, which operates a key UK base in Liverpool, is to expand, creating hundreds of new jobs. Tony McDonough reports
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Shipping giant Maersk is acquiring 19 methanol-powered container vessels
Shipping and logistics giant Maersk will create hundreds of new jobs in an expansion drive and will launch a new fleet of methanol-powered container vessels.
Maersk operates a key UK base in Liverpool city centre where it employs around 250 people.
Its current UK workforce numbers around 1,000 and several hundred new jobs are envisaged over the coming years. Its growth programme over the next three years encompasses warehousing, airfreight, rail, customs and other services.
Addressing the monthly Face-2-Face networking event at Mersey Maritime in Birkenhead, Samantha Brocklehurst, customer experience director at Maersk in Liverpool, said the company was undergoing a transformation across its global operations.
“We have been on a journey from the shipping line we have been for almost a century to what we now call a global supply chain integrator… we are integrating the world,” said Samantha.
As part of its drive to be a net zero carbon business by 2040 (bringing forward its original target by 10 years) Maersk is acquiring 19 methanol-powered container vessels. These will have a capacity of up to 17,000 containers.
Methanol is being seen in the maritime sector as a viable and sustainable alternative to diesel and bunker oil for large vessels. If it is produced using natural gas, methanol offers CO2 savings of 10-15%. However, if produced using renewable energy like in Maersk’s case, this can rise to 90%.
Maersk’s first methanol vessel will come into service on its European network later in 2023. Samantha said: “The feeder vessel will be deployed in the Baltic but we would have liked it to call also at the Port of Liverpool, of course.”
Across the globe Maersk’s operations are huge. On any given day it will transport up to 20% of the world’s food, materials, medicines and other goods by sea, air, road and rail.
It services 100,000 customers in more than 130 countries. The business employs 110,000 people.
( From Lbn , MAESK EXPANSION in
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