Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk on 7 July said it was too early to predict the financial impact on its second- and third-quarter results from a cyber attack that caused computer outages across the world.
Maersk, which handles one in seven containers shipped globally, expects container shipments to be back to normal early next week. Following the cyber attack Petya, which hit the company on June 27, Maersk’s IT systems across multiple sites and business units were shut down. The company managed to restore its major IT systems and terminal operations, however, it is still dealing with a backlog of orders as it tries to fully normalize its operations.
“Where we are pleased with the progress we have made to be able to serve customers well on exports, we are very aware that the import experience has not yet been fully brought up to the level it should be,” Maersk said in a statement.
“We have a tight and ambitious plan that would lead us to be fully up to as close to normal business on serving imports by early next week,” it said.
Several port terminals run by a Maersk division, including in the United States, India, Spain, the Netherlands, experienced massive disruptions due to the cyber attack last month.
