A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk) announced launch of Maersk Air Cargo on Friday as the company´s main air freight offering, which will help serve clients needs with int.
Touching down the cargo on time
During an emergency at the terminal, Maersk’s Air Freight solutions helped the customer to resume operations within 2 days while saving millions of dollars.
The background
Our client, a company headquartered in Europe, operates one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive port and inland services networks. They are uniquely positioned in 75 ports around the globe to service both shipping lines and their customers by efficiently handling over 34,000 vessels and 12 million containers annually.
The challenge
On 23 May 2021, a blown-out transformer crippled the operations in our customer’s Moin Terminal in Costa Rica. They had a lead time of 6 weeks to replace it. The outage cost them USD 1 million per day. Facing a loss of over USD 40 million simply wasn’t an option, so they turned to the Maersk Air Freight team for a solution. The customer was able to find a supplier in the US who could build the replacement transformers and have them r