Transportation

Maersk Raises Outlook on Back of Resilient Demand Outside US

Maersk controls about 14% of the world’s container fleet.

Photographer: Bing Guan/Bloomberg

A. P. Moller-Maersk A/S, a bellwether for world trade, raised its financial outlook for 2025 saying demand outside North America was proving resilient even amid concerns over a trade war.

The global container market will expand 2% to 4% this year, the Copenhagen-based company saidBloomberg Terminal on Thursday. That compares with a previous forecast of a range between a contraction of 1% and an expansion of 4%.