Maersk A/S

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Maersk A/S

Summary

Maersk A/S is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,850 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Maersk A/S is located in Copenhagen Municipality[3].
  • Maersk A/S is in the country of Denmark[4].
  • Maersk A/S is in the country of DK[5].
  • Maersk A/S's instance of is recorded as business[6].
  • Maersk A/S is owned by Maersk[7].
  • Maersk A/S's headquarters location is recorded as Copenhagen[8].
  • Maersk A/S's industry is recorded as shipping line[9].
  • 1928 marks the founding of Maersk A/S[10].
  • 2013-12-04 marks the founding of Maersk A/S[11].
  • Maersk A/S's parent organization or unit is recorded as gleif:549300D2K6PKKKXVNN73[12].
  • Maersk A/S's parent organization or unit is recorded as A.P. Møller Holding[13].
  • Maersk A/S's official website is recorded as http://www.maerskline.com/[14].
  • Maersk A/S's official website is recorded as https://www.maersk.com/[15].
  • Maersk A/S's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Maersk Line[16].
  • Maersk A/S's employees is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1543700', 'amount': '+12135'}[17].
  • Maersk A/S's legal form is recorded as aktieselskab[18].
  • Maersk A/S's legal form is recorded as ZRPO[19].
  • Maersk A/S's owner of is recorded as Estelle Mærsk[20].
  • Maersk A/S's owner of is recorded as Olga Mærsk[21].
  • Maersk A/S's total revenue is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25417', 'amount': '+252000000000'}[22].
  • Maersk A/S's external auditor is recorded as PricewaterhouseCoopers Statsautoriseret Revisionspartnerselskab[23].
  • Maersk A/S's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+135807'}[24].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 254900BLYIXBFFRLUJ90[25]

  • Registered legal name: Maersk A/S[26]

  • Legal jurisdiction: DK[27]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[28]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): ZRPO[29]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[30]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[31]

  • Entity created: 2013-12-04[32]

  • LEI first registered: 2018-01-04[33]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-01-12[34]

  • LEI next renewal: 2027-01-19[35]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[36]

  • Registration authority: RA000170[37]

  • Authority entity ID: 32345794[38]

  • Other names: Maersk Line A/S[39]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[40]

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Country: DK[41]

  • MusicBrainz ID: c3e9dfa8-6f49-442c-bfc9-bbcc3b919be3[42]

Body

Founding

Recorded inception include 1928[10] and 2013-12-04[11].

Operations

Maersk A/S's headquarters location is recorded as Copenhagen[8]. Parent organizations include gleif:549300D2K6PKKKXVNN73[12] and A.P. Møller Holding[13], a holding company[43], in Denmark[44], founded in 2013[45], headquartered in Esplanaden[46].

Industry

Maersk A/S's industry is recorded as shipping line[9].

Ownership

Maersk A/S is owned by Maersk[7].

Why It Matters

Maersk A/S ranks in the top 2% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,850 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[47] It is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[48]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Danish Central Business Register. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [25] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [31] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [32] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [33] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [34] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [35] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [36] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [37] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [38] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [39] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  16. [40] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  17. [41] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  18. [42] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [43] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [44] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [45] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [46] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [47] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [48] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Parent organization or unit → gleif:549300D2K6PKKKXVNN73, A.P. Møller Holding
    Country → Denmark, DK
    Country → —
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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