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Business View Australia - November-December 2015
The first, the A.P. Møller Maersk Group
was founded as a shipping company in
1904 in Svendborg, Denmark, by A.P.
Møller and his father, P. Maersk Møller.
A year later, in 1905 in Rotterdam, The
Netherlands, the logisticcompanyC.W.H.
van Dam & Co started operations.
A hundred years later these companies
merged to form the world’s leading
third-party logistics providers, Damco
International B.V. In 2010 Maersk
Distribution Services Inc. in the USA was
transferred into Damco and renamed
Damco Distribution Services Inc.
Damco has grown through acquisitions
and in 2011 bought the Chinese air
freightforwarderNewTimesInternational
Transport Service. A year later it acquired
the Australian forwarder Pacific Network
Global Logistics (PacNet).
Today the company manages and
serves some of the most advanced
supply chains in the world in a diverse