{"id":77477,"date":"2026-05-07T23:22:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/77477\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T23:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:22:32","slug":"maersk-beats-profit-forecasts-amid-iran-war-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/77477\/","title":{"rendered":"Maersk beats profit forecasts amid Iran war risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shipping giant Maersk reported first-quarter profits above forecasts but maintained its full-year earnings guidance unchanged, warning that the US-Israel war involving Iran has created uncertainty around freight rates and operating costs, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/aje.news\/h5pevi?update=4552640\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Al Jazeera<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/maersk-ship-transits-strait-of-hormuz-under-us-escort\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maersk<\/a>, which is widely viewed as a barometer for global trade activity, continues to forecast global container volume growth of between 2% and 4% this year. However, the company cautioned that market conditions remain highly volatile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe outlook for global container demand in 2026 is highly uncertain. Higher energy prices and constraints on trade in the Upper Gulf region, which in 2025 accounted for around 6 percent of global container trade, pose downside risks to the growth momentum,\u201d the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) for the January-March period totaled $1.73 billion. That exceeded the median analyst forecast of $1.66 billion in a company-compiled poll of 10 analysts, although it was significantly lower than the $2.71 billion reported during the same quarter a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Maersk also noted that the first-quarter results do not fully reflect the impact of the war on global supply chains, as the conflict began on February 28.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/nijat-babayev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Nijat Babayev<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shipping giant Maersk reported first-quarter profits above forecasts but maintained its full-year earnings guidance unchanged, warning that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[2271,245,4174,41450,17961],"class_list":{"0":"post-77477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-maersk","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-maersk","10":"tag-middle-east","11":"tag-profit-forecast","12":"tag-strait-of-hormuz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116535869302834158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77477","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=77477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}