Talks are continuing between shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk and 24 Dutch seafarers who claim their job security is at risk after the sale of five Dutch-flagged containerships.
Maersk sold the vessels — the 2,890-teu Maersk Penang, 2,902-teu Maersk Palermo, 6,690-teu Maersk Kalmar and Maersk Kimi (all built 1998), and the 6,802-teu Maersk Kampala (built 2001) — and then chartered them back under a different flag, with the new owner supplying its own crew.
