MAERSK LINE : UK & IRELAND
“ Through ecommerce , a sustainable approach to business and knowing where trade is developing , Maersk Line is well positioned to remain a crucial element of the supply chain for businesses shipping to or from the UK and Ireland ”
– Brian Godsafe , Managing Director
like . If you take cars away , only 30 percent of our exports are manufactured goods from within the UK . I can ’ t see the export situation changing . We have to follow where the trade is actually improving or increasing . We ’ ve been doing that in China in recent years with their double digit growth but of course that is now slowing down .
“ We want to be present in the developing areas . Just look in Asia where they ’ re losing some of the manufacturing business from mainland China to the likes of Vietnam , Cambodia and so on . If you look at an automotive company based in England like Nissan it ’ s an excellent example because it really has bucked the trend of a lot of manufacturers in the UK . It managed to internally keep the cost structure low and
56 November 2015