{"id":145661,"date":"2026-08-14T06:59:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T06:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/145661\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T06:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T06:59:29","slug":"maersk-lifts-guidance-after-doubling-q2-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/145661\/","title":{"rendered":"Maersk lifts guidance after doubling Q2 profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shipping giant Maersk raised its full-year earnings guidance Thursday as it reported a doubling of profits in the second quarter, driven by strong demand in Asia in particular.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From April to June, net profit was $1.3 billion, up from $614 million a year earlier, the company said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maersk said its profits rose even as the ongoing Mideast war throttled tanker and cargo traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a key transit route for oil, gas and other crucial industrial products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur global team\u2019s ability to capture opportunities in these difficult markets has enabled us to deliver significant volume and earnings growth across our businesses,\u201d chief executive Vincent Clerc said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company warned that \u201cthe situation in the Middle East remains volatile, continuing to impact logistics networks and customer supply chains\u201d, pushing up operating costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But \u201chigher freight rates, combined with lower depreciation due to the change in the useful lives of vessels\u201d, helped boost profits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the full year, Maersk now expects EBITDA operating profit, which excludes exceptional items, of $10.5 billion to $12.5 billion, up from the $8-10 billion dollars previously forecast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shares in Maersk were up around 4.3 percent in early trading on the Copenhagen stock exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shipping giant Maersk raised its full-year earnings guidance Thursday as it reported a doubling of profits in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[224],"tags":[762,245,25832],"class_list":["post-145661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-maersk","tag-international","tag-maersk","tag-mna"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117092572699166521","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}