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Maersk considers suspending all shipments to Russia -Breaking

by Mike Robinson

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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO – Shipping containers were transported by a Maersk Line vessel along the Suez Canal, Ismailia Egypt on July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

COPENHAGEN (Reuters), – Maersk, a shipping group, said Monday that it would suspend all container bookings to and from Russia due to Western sanctions. This was in reaction the Ukraine invasion.

It stated that it closely monitors the rapidly-evolving restrictions and sanctions imposed on Russia and is making preparations to adhere.

Maersk released a statement saying that they are considering suspending Maersk bookings from Russia to and From Russia, both on the ocean and in the inland.

Maersk has been operating in Russia since 1992. It manages container shipping routes from Russia to St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad and Novorossiysk (Baltic Sea), and Vladivostok, Vostochny, on Russia’s eastern coast.

Maersk announced last week that it has stopped all port visits to Ukraine up until February 31st and closed its Odessa office on the Black Sea Coast.

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