MAERSK: If you're not planning, you're planning to fail

The management of the Covid-19 crisis has been a must for supply chains since the beginning of this year and if shippers are concerned about how shipping lines have helped ensure that cargo continues to be transported, here it is. are some suggestions from Maersk Line.

From the outset, Maersk formed a well-defined crisis management group to coordinate its response to the virus in January. The crisis management team coordinated responses across all business activities. by Maersk.

“Here we address the safety of colleagues, the distribution network and other business departments. We make decisions, act quickly and work to ensure our customers receive a consistent message. Here we also take advantage of lessons from previous large-scale disruptive situations like the 2017 global cyber attack, ”a Maersk spokesman told Container News.

Maersk has prepared for a virus-like situation by ensuring that their office workers are equipped with laptops, pre-configured and tested to work and access systems. related from home ”.

In addition, Maersk Line has a "plan to cancel services and reinstate schedules that have been previously set on most of our services, in other words when disruptions occur or trips. enabled, our pre-established plans can be made and communicated faster. ”, he added.

Standardization is also the key to the reaction that allows the flow of goods to continue to be processed while an area or region is isolated or unable to deploy cargo operations.

Smoothing the cargo is the crew and Maersk says the safety of our sailors is very important. However, with an increasing number of ports around the world, including China, are preventing vessels from docking within two weeks of leaving the previous port, which is important to prevent navigation. The union was infected with the virus.

For this reason, right from the beginning of the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic, previously established plans were in effect to protect Maersk's crew and minimize the risk of infection and that. this means limiting the amount of interaction with the outside, and there are advance plans to handle cases of sailors with symptoms of infection being cared for.

“We recently decided to suspend the work of all sailors who have symptoms of infection for a month, first of all for the safety of our sailors and secondly to minimize the risk. ship risks are controlled by the port and any disruption related to the customer's cargo, ”Maersk spokesman explained.

Phaata (Source: Nick Savvides / Container News)

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