The shipping giant confirmed its full-year outlook even as it moderated expectations around global container demand this year as macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty increase.

The parent of Maersk, the second-largest ocean container carrier, revised its full-year box outlook, saying tariffs could cut global volumes by 1% from a year ago. The post Maersk: US-China trade war will swing world container demand appeared first on FreightWaves.

Maersk now expects a possible decrease in worldwide container volumes for 2025 on the backdrop of U.S.-levied tariffs on global trading partners and a trade war with China. While the ocean carrier previously anticipated global container volume growth to be 4 percent in 2025,