Our meeting with Maersk was on Thursday
morning in the district of Kowloon Bay, where the Maersk office is located. We
were welcomed by the CEO of the Asia Pacific Region Robbert van Trooijen and Keith
Chan the CFO of the Asia Pacific Region of Mærsk Line.
At first we saw an introduction video of the
A.P. Møller Mærsk Group. It gave us a good overview how big the Maersk Group
with all of their subsidiary companies is. It introduced us to a few of theirs
subsidiary companies and showed us the actually size of the Mærsk Group. For
example Mærsk Oil, Mærsk Line, APM Terminals and Mærsk Drilling. This was for
sure a great start into the morning.
The Biggest Business of the A.P. Møller Mærsk
Group is the Mærsk Line – the shipping business how we all know it.
After the video introduction Mr. van Trooijen
gave us a Presentation on the Mærsk Line and its business, especially about
business in south east Asia. For example Mærsk Line's capacity in 2016 grew by
2,2% to 3,1m (!) TEU.
Furthermore we've learned about the impact of
the financial crisis in 2008 on the logistics market. We discussed about this
topic with Mr. Robbert van Trooijen. He said that the small and medium sized companies
got too little big vessels which can ship up to 20.000 TEU (Twenty Foot
Equivalent) containers. They can’t operate worldwide at the same time and this
is what most of the customers want and need.
At the end of this event, we had the chance
for a Q&A with Mr. van Trooijen and Mr. Chan, where they answered all of
our questions.
All in all it was a very interesting event
and I think all of us learned something new about the business on Sea. We
surely appreciate that two very busy managers in Hong Kong took some time to
meet our student delegation.
Alex
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