AP Moller-Maersk says troubles in global supply chains will ease in the second half of the year as the Danish container shipping group proposes a sevenfold dividend increase and announces a new acquisition of logistics logistics. worth 1.7 billion USD.
The world’s second-largest container shipping line by capacity said revenue jumped 55% to $62 billion last year, while earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization tripled to a record. 24 billion USD.
Maersk said it expected supply chain problems to continue into the second quarter but that was “a normalization”. [should] happens early in the second half of the year” and added that it is targeting $24 billion worth of ebitda again in 2022.
“Extraordinary market conditions led to record growth and profits in AP Moller-Maersk, but it also led to supply chain disruptions and severe challenges,” said CEO Soren Skou. important to our customers”.
Maersk is proposing a dividend of DKr2,500 per share, up from DKr330 a year earlier. It added that this represents a dividend yield of 10.7%, an amount Skou calls “really exceptional”.
The Group is also continuing to ramp up its inland logistics operations to strengthen its end-to-end service offering to customers by purchasing a Pilot Cargo Service in the US for $1.7 billion.
