Below left: Villa Anna. Photo courtesy of A.P. Møller - Mærsk. Below right: A.P. Møller. Photo courtesy of A.P. Møller - Mærsk.

Page 86. Top left: Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller. Photo courtesy of A.P. Møller - Mærsk. Top right: A.P. Møller and Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller. Photo courtesy of A.P. Møller - Mærsk. Below: Mærsk Mc- Kinney Møller standing by a portrait of his father. Photo courtesy of A.P. Møller - Mærsk.

Page 87. Top: Mærsk at his desk at Esplanaden. Photo: Klaus Møller/Scanpix. Below: Inauguration of the Lindø yard. Photo: Åge Sørensen/Scanpix.

Page 88. Top left: Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller and his wife Emma in 1970. Photo: Ulla Aue/Scanpix. Top right: Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller and his wife Emma in 2003. Photo: Liselotte Sabroe/Scanpix. Below left: Robert Mærsk Uggla and Paola Kronopik together with Mærsk Mc- Kinney Møller. Photo: Claus Poulsen/All Over Press. Below right: Ane Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla and Peder Uggla. Photo: Claus Poulsen/All Over Press.

Page 89. Top: Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller with his wife Emma and daughters Ane, Leise and Kirsten. Photo: Thomas Borberg/Polfoto. Below: Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller and Victor Borge. Photo: Jørgen Jessen/Scanpix.

Page 90. Left: Klem VIII, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller’s RS 82. Photo: Fynske medier/Jørgen Outzen. Right: Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller and his wife Emma at Skovshoved Harbour, north of Copenhagen. Photo: Birger Storm/All Over Press.

Page 91. Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller with one of his grandchildren. Photo: Thomas Wilmann/Polfoto.

Page 93. Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller appointed honorary citizen of Svendborg, on the island of Funen. Daughters Leise, Kirsten and Ane, together with Paul Svanholm, listening. Photos: Claus Fisker/Scanpix.

Page 134. Top: The first share in Steamship Company Svendborg. Photo courtesy of A.P. Møller - Mærsk. Below left: Stock Exchange in Copenhagen. Photo courtesy of A.P. Møller - Mærsk. Below right: Kongens Nytorv 8 in Copenhagen. Photo courtesy of A.P. Møller - Mærsk.

Photo courtesy of A.P. Møller - Mærsk. Top right: Villa at Esplanaden in Copenhagen, home of the General Foundation and Family Foundation. Photo courtesy of A.P. Møller - Mærsk. Below: The world’s largest container ship, Emma Mærsk. Photo: Vincent Jannick/Scanpix.

Page 136. Top: The Lindø yard on Funen. Photo: Christian Ringbæk/Scanpix. Middle: Maersk Air plane. Photo: Christian Ringbæk/Scanpix. Below: Vagn Sørensen, SAS, and Bjarne Hansen, Maersk Air signing a cooperation agreement. Photo: Finn Frandsen/Polfoto.

Page 137. Top left: Jackup drilling platform Maersk Guardian. Photo: Bjarne Lüthcke/Scanpix. Top right: Bendt Bendtsen and Jess Søderberg signing the Sole Concession agreement for the North Sea. Photo: Stefan Kai Nielsen/Polfoto. Below: Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller in a Ford Fiesta. Photo: Erik Gleie/Polfoto.

Page 138. Top: An A.P. Møller - Mærsk lorry in Ningbo, China. Photo: Torben J. Christensen/Scanpix. Below: Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller speaking with Zhu Rongji. Photo courtesy of A.P. Møller - Mærsk.

Page 139. Top left : Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller and Madam Wu Yi. Photo courtesy of A.P. Møller - Mærsk. Top right: Ane Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla greets Zhu Rongji. Photo courtesy of A.P. Møller - Mærsk. Below: Chinese visitors photographed with Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller at the Opera House in Copenhagen. Photo courtesy of A.P. Møller - Mærsk.

Page 140. Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller at a memorial ceremony in front of the US Embassy in Copenhagen. Photo: Bax Lindhardt/Scanpix.

Page 141. Top left: Cargo ship Peter Mærsk with New York in the background. Photo courtesy of A.P. Møller - Mærsk. Top right: Broad Street, Manhattan. Photo courtesy of A.P. Møller - Mærsk. Below: Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller at the podium in Virginia. Photo courtesy of A.P. Møller - Mærsk.

Page 186-187. Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller signing the annual report. Photo: Thomas Borberg/Polfoto.

Page 188. Top: Jess Søderberg and Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller. Photo: Lars Poulsen/Polfoto. Middle: Ane Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla, Poul Svanholm and in the background Michael Pram Rasmussen. Photo: Claus Bjørn Larsen/Scanpix. Below: Poul Svanholm, Ane Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla and Jan Leschly. Photo: Johnny Anthon Wichmann/Scanpix.

Page 189. Top: Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller and Jess Søderberg looking out from Esplanaden in Copenhagen. Photo: Keld Navntoft/Scanpix. Below: Niels Smedegaard Andersen. Photo: Søren Bidstrup/Scanpix.

Page 190-191: A.P. Møller - Mærsk AGM April 2007. Photo: Liselotte Sabroe/Scanpix.

Page 254. Top: Crown Princess Margrethe visits the Lindø yard on Funen. Photo: Allan Moe/Scanpix. Below: King Frederik studying radar equipment along with Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller. Photo: Allan Moe/Scanpix.

Page 255. Top: Prince Henrik and Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller. Photo: Willy Lund/Scanpix. Below: Prince Henrik gives a cheer for the Frigate Jylland. Photo: Erik Jepsen/Scanpix.

Page 256. Top: Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Nigel Williams and Emma Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller. Photo: Morten Juhl/Scanpix. Below: Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller and Poul Svanholm on the way to the New Year’s reception with the Queen. Photo: Lars Poulsen/Polfoto.

Page 257. Top left: Inauguration of Amalie Garden in Copenhagen, 1983. Photo: Jørgen Jessen/Scanpix. Top right: Queen Ingrid and Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller. Photo: Jørgen Jessen. Below: Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller and his wife Emma, Queen Ingrid and Queen Margrethe. Photo: Jørgen Jessen/Scanpix.

Page 258. Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller leaving Copenhagen Town Hall. Photo: Jakob Dall/Scanpix.

Page 259. Top: The Opera House on Holmen in Copenhagen. Photo: Torben Åndahl/Scanpix. Below: Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller makes a speech at the handover ceremony of the Opera House in Copenhagen. Photo: Kim Nielsen/Polfoto.

Page 260. Top: Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary together with Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller and Torben Anker Sørensen. Photo: Lars K. Mikkelsen/Scanpix. Below: Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller with his Order of the Elephant. Photo: Reimar Juul/Scanpix.

Page 261. Top: Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary received by Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller at Copenhagen University Hospital heliport. Photo: Keld Navntoft/Scanpix. Below: Queen Margrethe and Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller at the inauguration of the new Danish upper secondary school in Flensburg, Germany. Photo: Claus Fisker/Scanpix.

Page 286-287. Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller on Klem VII, August 2008. Photos: Tine Harden.

Page 300. Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller folding his hands. Photo: Liselotte Sabroe/Scanpix.

– interview with Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller

– interview with Ane Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla

– interview with Per Kirkeby

– interview with Poul Svanholm

Family Tree

Family picture dated around 1930. Arnold Peter Møller holding Mærsk on the arm and in front of him stands his brother Hans, who died in 1934 aged 19, older sister Sally, mother Chastine (Chassie) and ‘afterthought’ Jane.

Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller aged 25.

Mærsk at his desk in the corner office at Esplanaden. A.P. Møller used the same desk until his death in 1965.

Wife Emma and Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller photographed at a celebration in 1970.

The AGM’s of the two shipping companies have always been an attraction for shareholders and the Mc-Kinney Møller family are always present. In this photograph from 2003 are Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller with his wife Emma and from the left: Ane Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla, Leise Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller and Kirsten Mærsk Mc-Kinney Olufsen.

Klem VIII is the name of Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller’s light blue 83-foot long Swan RS 82 with a semi-raised saloon from the Finnish shipyard Nautor’s Swan. The name of the boat, Klem, is made up from the initials of the two eldest daughters, Kirsten and Leise, his wife Emma and Mærsk himself. The first Klem was delivered before the now 60-year-old daughter Ane was born.

Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller loves to sail and he continues to take the helm himself. In the summer of 2008, the voyage with Klem VII went to Scotland and he is in his element out on the water. Here he is photographed with a great granddaughter, both are concentrating deeply on developments in a yacht race on the sound between Denmark and Sweden (Øresund) during the Danish Open in August 2005.

On December 14th 2007, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller received the newly established ‘The Maritime Prize 2007’, which was presented to him by the Danish Economy and Business Minister, Bendt Bendtsen. The shipowner is listening to the minister’s speech.

– interview with Troels Dilling, 1920-2009

– interview with Per Jørgensen

Share certificate No.1 in The Steamship Company Svendborg, with a nominal value of Dkr 500, was issued on January 25th 1905. The company’s total equity amounted to Dkr 150,000 kroner. Arnold Peter Møller’s father, Peter Mærsk Møller, subscribed Dkr 12,000, while his son subscribed Dkr 15,000 and underwrote shares for an additional Dkr 42,000. Nine other shareholders underwrote the remaining share capital.

A.P. Møller - Mærsk has its own shipyard, the Lindø yard, at Munkebo on Funen. The yard, which was founded in 1918, today employs 3,000 staff, but in recent years, it has been making a loss.

A.P. Møller - Mærsk has also had a significant position in offshore activities. Jackup drilling platform Maersk Guardian was built in 1986 and is currently working for DONG (Denmark’s largest power provider), in connection with oil exploration around 300 km southwest of Stavanger, Norway.

Over the years, Asia has played a significant role for A.P. Møller - Mærsk, but since the 1970s, China has become crucial for the company’s development. Maersk Line’s traffic in China has increased dramatically and the seven-pointed star on the light blue background is seen everywhere in major port cities.

Madame Wu Yi and Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller during the visit to China.

Cargo ship Peter Mærsk, with the classic silhouette of New York’s skyline in the background. The ship was built in Sweden in 1949 and as it appears from the photo, at that time it had not yet been painted in the characteristic light blue A.P. Møller colour. Before 1955, all company ships were painted black or light grey.

Immediately after the German occupation, Emma and Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller arrived in New York. Starting point for activities in the USA during the war was an office at 80 Broad Street in the financial district on the southern tip of Manhattan.

– interview with Uffe Ellemann-Jensen

– interview with John Warner Member of the United States Senate 1979-2009

– interview with Kaspar Cassani

Before June 2003, the AGMs of the two listed companies; ‘The Steamship Company of 1912’ and ‘The Steamship Company Svendborg’ followed a very fixed pattern. An innovation in recent years is the wish of many shareholders to have Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller’s autograph in the reported accounts. Here he signs the 2002 Annual Report for The Steamship Company of 1912, at the AGM in April 2003.

After months of preliminary work the merger between the two listed companies behind the shipping giant was implemented and at the AGM of The Steamship Company Svendborg in April 2003, shipowners Jess Søderberg and Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller could look forward to the final decision at a future extraordinary AGM.

Even though they work hard at Esplanaden, there is also time to keep up with life outside the office. Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller and Jess Søderberg look with interest at the DFDS ship Crown of Scandinavia, which departs for the last time from Kvæsthusbroen following the inauguration of the new DFDS terminal at Nordhavnen.

A.P. Møller - Mærsk AGM in April 2007. Jess Søderberg, CEO - or group CEO, as his title was at Esplanaden - is to the left in conversation with one of the board’s Deputy Chairmen Poul Svanholm, unsuspecting that in less than eight weeks he will be removed from his post and replaced by Nils Smedegaard Andersen. Besides Svanholm is chairman Michael Pram Rasmussen, who was the prime mover in the removal of Søderberg. To the right of Pram Rasmussen is Henrik Christrup and far right Ane Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla receives a hug from Jan Leschly, who was elected to A.P. Møller - Mærsk’s board in May 2000.

– interview with Jess Søderberg

– interview with Jan Leschly

– interview with Michael Pram Rasmussen

The then Crown Princess Margrethe visits the Lindø yard on Funen, September 3rd 1965, where she christened the tanker A.P. Møller. Watching to the left of the heir to the throne is Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, while yard director Ivar Hoppe explains a detail.

August 1st 1975, Prince Henrik opens the valve on board the tanker Marie Mærsk, while Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller is pleased to see the first Danish oil flowing ashore at the Stigsnæs Refinery.

In 1990, the British ambassador in Denmark, Nigel Williams, presented Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller with the British order of ‘Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire’ for his enormous contribution to Danish-British relations.

Two properly dressed gentlemen, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller and Poul Svanholm, bound for the New Year’s reception with the Queen at Christiansborg in January 1999.

For many years, Queen Ingrid had a close and friendly relationship with Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller. Four times the Queen honoured the company by christening a ship, all named Regina Mærsk, after the godmother.

Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller leaving Copenhagen Town Hall in September 2000 after a meeting where he presented his offer for The A.P. Møller and Chastine Mc-Kinney Møller Foundation to give the capital city an Opera House.

The new Opera House on Holmen in Copenhagen, designed by the world famous Danish architect Henning Larsen, is one of the world’s most technically advanced opera houses.

Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary with Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller and Lindø yard’s former Director, Torben Anker Sørensen, at the christening of Gudrun Mærsk, May 7th 2005.

The A.P. Møller and Chastine Mc-Kinney Møller Foundation paid for the construction of a helicopterlanding pad on top of Copenhagen University Hospital. Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary are arriving by helicopter for the inauguration. Later The A.P. Møller and Chastine Mc-Kinney Møller Foundation, of which Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller was the chairman, granted Dkr 152 million for the renovation of the park (Fælledparken), where helicopters previously had to land.