AARHUS: A.P. Møller Mærsk has requested the Aarhus District Court for a temporary injunction against the Port of Aarhus. This is reported by Din Avis Aarhus and Århus Stiftstidende on Thursday.
Din Avis Aarhus writes that the port operator APM Terminals, which is owned by Maersk, is the sole operator of the container operation at the Port of Aarhus.
Maersk informs the newspaper that the Port of Aarhus has ambitions to get another port operator for the port, so that there will be two operators, and Maersk does not want that.
Therefore, the shipping company is requesting the Aarhus district court to issue a temporary injunction against the Port of Aarhus, so that it cannot enter into new agreements for the use of the port's areas for containers.
Letter to city council members
Last month, Din Avis Aarhus came into possession of a letter that the director of APM Terminals Mikael Gutman wrote to city council members in Aarhus.
In it, he warned against introducing a new operator and hinted that it could force Maersk to to withdraw an offer to invest over two billion kroner in streamlining and modernizing container handling at the port.
On Thursday, Aarhus Port Director Thomas Haber Borch informed DR that the dispute between the port and Maersk is about the content of an agreement that Aarhus Port and APM Terminals entered into in 2020.
- APM Terminals would like to have this disagreement resolved by the Court. Of course, it is never positive to be in conflict with a customer, but it happens from time to time in business, the port director writes to DR.
Expansion fell through
Maersk's offer to invest billions in the port came after a political stop was put on the planned 43-hectare expansion of Aarhus Port.
In June, Aarhus City Council's settlement parties behind the expansion announced that the project would be on hold "for a number of years". Instead, it will be up to a new city council after the municipal elections next year to decide whether the project should be resumed.
The expansion of the harbor had been in the works for many years, but was stopped at the end of May by the Planning Appeals Board. The board upheld an appeal case because "the Environmental Assessment Act's minimum requirements for an environmental report have not been met," it said at the time. At the same time, the assessment suffered from "significant legal deficiencies."
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