{"id":19070,"date":"2026-02-20T05:10:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/19070\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T05:10:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:10:53","slug":"maersk-picks-new-cfo-robert-erni-with-logistics-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/19070\/","title":{"rendered":"Maersk Picks New CFO Robert Erni With Logistics Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   Robert Erni photo via Facebook<\/p>\n<p>\n December 12, 2025 8:42 AM, EST<\/p>\n<p>A.P. Moller-Maersk A\/S named Robert Erni as its new chief financial officer, selecting an executive with a strong track record in logistics where Denmark\u2019s biggest company is seeking to expand.<\/p>\n<p>Erni, 59, joins from a similar position at Germany\u2019s Dachser GmbH &amp; Co and has previously also worked at freight-forwarders Panalpina AG and Kuehne + Nagel International AG, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maersk.com\/news\/articles\/2025\/12\/12\/maersk-appoints-robert-erni-as-chief-financial-officer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to a\u00a0statement<\/a>\u00a0on Dec. 12.\n      \t  \t\t<\/p>\n<p>Maersk\u2019s current CFO, Patrick Jany, 57, will leave after almost six years following the release of the 2025 report on Feb. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Famous for its fleet of containerships that plow the world\u2019s oceans,\u00a0Maersk has a strategy to grow in land-based logistics. That business has historically had higher and more stable profit margins than container shipping, but the Copenhagen-based company has been moving slower with the shift than some analysts had expected.\n      \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe profile of the new CFO could indicate further focus and potential M&amp;A activity in the logistics segment,\u201d Brian Godsk Borsting, a credit analyst at Danske Bank A\/S, said in a note.<\/p>\n<p>Maersk is also dealing with radical shifts in global trade, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttnews.com\/articles\/trump-possible-tariff-cuts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S.-led tariff war<\/a> and disruptions in vessel transit through the Red Sea.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0separate statement, CEO Vincent Clerc announced a shuffle of his team of regional managers, replacing four managing directors in order to \u201cdeliver with pace in a market that is constantly evolving,\u201d the CEO said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maersk.com\/why-maersk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Maersk<\/a>\u00a0ranks No. 6 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttnews.com\/globalfreight\/rankings\/2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Transport Topics list of the Top 50 Global Freight carriers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Erni photo via Facebook December 12, 2025 8:42 AM, EST A.P. Moller-Maersk A\/S named Robert Erni as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[224],"tags":[245,7056],"class_list":["post-19070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-maersk","tag-maersk","tag-ocean-shipping"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19070","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=19070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}