(Chris Ratcliffe\/Bloomberg)<\/p>\n
\n March 6, 2026 8:47 AM, EST<\/p>\n
A.P. Moller-Maersk A\/S will suspend two of its container services due to security risks in the Middle East and the Gulf region, the latest sign of how the conflict is upending global supply lines<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n Maersk will temporarily halt its FM1 Service, which connects the Far East to the Middle East, and its ME11 Service, which links the Middle East to Europe, according to a\u00a0notice\u00a0to customers on March 6.\n \t \t\t<\/p>\n Maersk had already\u00a0interrupted\u00a0bookings from a number of Gulf and Middle East states as attacks on Iran and its counterattacks on U.S. and allied assets disrupt commerce in one of the world\u2019s key transport hubs. Maersk, which controls about one-sixth of the global container fleet, said in its notice that the suspensions were a \u201cprecautionary measure\u201d to protect its staff amid an \u201cescalating conflict\u201d and followed a risk assessment.<\/p>\n Copenhagen-based Maersk also said its local shuttle services in the Gulf region are halted until further notice. Furthermore, its ME1 service, covering the Middle East to Northern Europe, will drop its stop in Dubai\u2019s Jebel Ali, which normally is the world\u2019s busiest container port outside of Asia.\n \t\t<\/p>\n Transport through the Strait of Hormuz remains at a near standstill as the Middle East war disrupts the vital waterway. A review of shipping signals has confirmed only two commercial transits in the past 24 hours, the Joint Maritime Information Center said on March 6.<\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a0Strait of Hormuz Shipping Is at Near-Total Halt<\/a><\/p>\n The logistics disruptions come as a major blow to the region, where business hubs such as Dubai rely on trade, tourism, transport and finance along with a reputation as a haven in a troubled neighborhood. Protracted snarls could reverberate across global supply chains, analysts warn.<\/p>\n Maersk<\/a>\u00a0ranks No. 6 on the\u00a0Transport Topics list of the Top 50 Global Freight carriers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Chris Ratcliffe\/Bloomberg) March 6, 2026 8:47 AM, EST A.P. Moller-Maersk A\/S will suspend two of its container services…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[224],"tags":[9314,2271,245,7056],"class_list":["post-34286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-maersk","tag-crude-oil","tag-iran","tag-maersk","tag-ocean-shipping"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116182686634464267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34286","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=34286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}