Star Cool Number 100,000

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Star Cool Number 100,000

PR Newswire

TINGLEV, Denmark, May 31, 2012

TINGLEV,

Denmark

,

May 31, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

Milestone reefer rolls off Maersk production line after almost exponential sales

growth.

Maersk Container Industry (MCI) has produced its Star Cool refrigeration

container number 100,000, reflecting unabated demand for frozen and chilled

foods and an acute need for energy savings in global transportation.

Star Cool number 50,000 came off the production line for Hanjin Shipping just

over a year ago.

"Our focus on energy savings was clearly the right way to go. Bunker fuel prices

have more than doubled since 2005 so we can help customers offset part of

the additional bunker cost," says Soren Leth Johannsen, chief commercial

officer at MCI.

Jan Esbech, a key customer and global head of equipment at Maersk Line, says:

"At the moment Star Cool has the best combination of price, energy efficiency

and maintenance. We are not at all surprised that Star Cool number 100,000

has been produced. We know this is to a large degree attributable to the

innovation and technological development that takes place at MCI."

The leasing company CAI International is also happy.

"CAI has during the last years successfully expanded its fleet of Star Cool units,

and by now we are so confident in the market acceptance that we recently

placed an order for 500 Integrated Star Cool units on speculation," says Danny

Hallahan, senior vice president, global marketing, CAI International.

At Tinglev,

Denmark

, MCI continues its research and development.

"We have more innovation on the way to make global trade ever more

efficient. MCI's controlled atmosphere, for example, now lets customers

increase transportation time in some cases from 30 to 45 days without

compromising quality," says Johannsen.

Danny Hallahan adds: "As a leasing company we are naturally very happy to

see Star Cool number 100,000 produced, but moreover we are excited to

register the growing number of container lines using Star Cool in their reefer

fleet."

Facts

:

MCI has 6,000 employees worldwide and is headquartered in Tinglev,

Denmark

,

home to global sales and R&D. Production takes place at factories in

Qingdao

,

Dongguan

, and Huidong,

China

, and by 2014 in

San Antonio

,

Chile

. In 2011, MCI

constructed 41,000 reefer containers, 37,000 reefer machines and 200,000

TEU dry containers. MCI revenue was

USD 1.2bn

(2010:

USD 0.7bn

). Profit was

USD 69m

(2010:

USD 41m

), and ROIC 33.1% (2010: 20.6%). MCI is a business

unit in the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group (http://www.maersk.com).