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Maersk Line

SCAC MAEU · Copenhagen, Denmark · founded 1904 · Gemini Cooperation

Maersk Line (legal entity A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S) is a mega-carrier headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1904, the line has spent 122 years building out its container service network and today operates a fleet of 707 vessels under the SCAC code MAEU. Total operated capacity stands near 4,300,000 TEU, placing the carrier among the recognised operators on its core trade lanes.

Maersk Line is most active on the following corridors: Asia-Europe, Transpacific, Transatlantic, Latin America, Africa. Through its membership of the Gemini Cooperation, the carrier shares vessel capacity with Hapag-Lloyd on East-West services. Direct customer contact is available via +45 3363 3363 or the carrier's web portal at maersk.com.

Maersk Line sample transit times

Indicative point-to-point transit times for services on which Maersk Line appears in rotation. Actual ETAs vary with vessel rotation, port congestion, weather and trans-shipment patterns. We update these figures every quarter against published carrier schedules.

OriginDestinationTransitFrequencyCorridor
Shanghai, China Rotterdam, Netherlands 32 days Daily sailings via 7 services Asia-Europe
Ningbo, China Hamburg, Germany 35 days Multiple weekly Asia-Europe
Shenzhen, China Felixstowe, United Kingdom 30 days Weekly Asia-Europe
Qingdao, China Antwerp, Belgium 36 days Weekly Asia-Europe

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How to track a Maersk Line container

Tracking a Maersk Line container starts with confirming the prefix. Look at the container's left-hand corner casting plate or the painted code on the door — the four-letter ISO 6346 owner code is followed by six numeric digits and a single check digit. Blue Water Facts no longer publishes a per-carrier owner-prefix list (see /accuracy/ for why); confirm the operator via the carrier's own tracking portal or your bill of lading. Visit maersk.com, navigate to the carrier's tracking or "track and trace" portal, and paste the full container number. The portal will return current vessel position, the next scheduled port call, the estimated time of arrival (ETA) and the most recent equipment events such as gate-in, loaded, discharged and gate-out.

If the carrier portal does not return a result, the most likely causes are: the container has not yet been gate-in at the origin terminal, the bill of lading number is in a different format (check whether the system expects an MBL versus an HBL), or the box is moving on a partner alliance vessel rather than a Maersk Line hull. In the last case, the schedule data lives with the operating carrier, not the equipment owner. Maersk Line's customer service can normally cross-reference the booking and route you to the correct alliance partner. Reach the carrier on +45 3363 3363 during European business hours.

Related ocean carriers

Operators most often compared with Maersk Line on overlapping trade lanes: