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Maersk Line launches temporary online booking systems

Maersk Line launches temporary online booking systems
Maersk Line has launched simplified online booking platforms for its five container shipping brands as it continues to recover the cyber-attack that hit its IT systems and websites globally.

Having started accepting bookings via e-commerce platform on Wednesday evening Maersk has now launched five simplified online booking sites for Maersk Line itself, MCC Transport in Asia, Safmarine in Africa, Seago Line in Europe and SeaLand in the Americas.

Maersk said that it confirm the booking forms had been cleared and authenticated by security, and were also isolated from its network ensuring security for its customers.

The company said it had some limitations on booking dangerous cargoes, and rates prior to the attack would apply until systems were fully restored.

All bookings made prior to the outage on 27 June 0800hrs were saved in the company's systems and booking do not need to be remade.

A number of terminals belonging to APM Terminals remained out of action with no operations at Maasvlakte II in Rotterdam and Los Angeles, and only manual loading at APMT Rotterdam. Algerciras, Apapa, Gothenburg, Zeebrugge, Callao, Mobile, South Florida and Port Elizabeth all offered limited manual operations, while Izmir, Poti, Aarhus, Itajai, Pecem, Cotonou, Monrovia, Onne, Tangier, GTI, Pipavav and Bahrain offered manual operations.