{"id":77775,"date":"2026-05-08T10:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/77775\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:38:12","slug":"maersk-q1-2026-results-show-revenue-drop-amid-lower-freight-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/77775\/","title":{"rendered":"Maersk Q1 2026 results show revenue drop amid lower freight rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"picture\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emma Maersk Bremerhaven Germany 2024 MUST CREDIT Thorsten Schier Adobe Stock\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/147182_emmamaerskbremerhavengermany2024mustcreditthorstenschieradobestock_528535.jpg\"   loading=\"eager\" class=\"lazyloaded\" width=\"2298\" height=\"1532\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AP Moller-Maersk has announced its results for the opening quarter of 2026 (Q1), with year-on-year decreases in revenue and underlying profit.<\/p>\n<p>The shipping giant\u2019s revenue fell from US$13.32bn last year to US$12.97bn, attributed to lower freight rates.<\/p>\n<p>EBITDA dropped from US$2.71bn to US$1.75bn, it reported, with underlying profit down from US$1.15bn in 2025 to US$171mn.<\/p>\n<p>The group stated that, against a volatile geopolitical environment, demand for container trade further increased in the quarter, supported by \u201drobust export growth out of China\u201d, which accelerated relative to the previous quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak of the conflict in the Middle East had limited impact on demand and financial performance for the first quarter, it confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Maersk said it \u201ddelivered solid first quarter results with EBIT of US$340mn, driven by strong volume growth across all businesses, continuous operational improvements, and cost containment measures\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It pointed to the ocean sector outperforming the market by growing volumes 9.3 per cent, logistics and services revenue rising 8.7 per cent while continuing to improve margins, and the terminal segment lifting volumes by 4.3 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe\u2019ve seen strong demand across most regions this quarter, supporting robust volume growth in our three business segments,\u201d outlined Vincent Clerc, CEO at Maersk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIn Ocean in particular, market volatility remains high and industry oversupply continues to put pressure on rates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIn this environment our disciplined focus on cost management contributes to resilient performance,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dAt the same time, our flexible ocean network continues to prove its value as a true gamechanger, lowering our ocean unit cost by 7 per cent even as the Middle East conflict disrupted supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe also continue to see profitability momentum in terminals and most parts of logistics and services,\u201d Clerc commented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThis performance strengthens our competitiveness and our ability to support customers reliably through continued uncertainty in the global environment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP Moller-Maersk has announced its results for the opening quarter of 2026 (Q1), with year-on-year decreases in revenue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[245],"class_list":{"0":"post-77775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-maersk","8":"tag-maersk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116538527705753688","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77775","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=77775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}