Shipping Group Maersk Expects Cargo Delays to Persist

Shipping Group Maersk Expects Cargo Delays to Persist
A Maersk tanker sails, on Dec. 12, 2012. Asger Ladefoged/Ritzau Scanpix via Reuters
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COPENHAGEN—Top container shipping firm A.P. Moller-Maersk on Tuesday warned its customers it was still struggling to move goods around the world as the easing of congestion is taking longer than the Danish company had hoped for.

The pandemic has prompted shortages of container ships and logjams at ports at a time of very high consumer spending, meaning that hundreds of container vessels are lying idle outside ports.