AP Moller Maersk has advised in a mid-week update that its global shipping and containr terminal businesses are returning closer to normal after its IT systems and websites were hit by cyber-attack in late-June.

Maersk Line has affirmed that it is “open for business” after the group was hit by a ransonware attack on Tuesday, as its vessels “are sailing and loading cargo”, according to Robbert van Trooijen, Maersk Line Asia Pacific ceo.

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.

AP Moller – Maersk says it has “contained” the cyber-attack on its IT systems that has hit both Maersk Line and APM Terminals globally.

The operations container terminals around the world operated by APM Terminals, a unit of AP Moller-Maersk Group, have been affected following a ransomware attack on the Danish shipping giant, reports said.

The President of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto and the Prime Minister of Denmark Lars Lokke Rasmussen inaugurated APM Terminals Lazaro Cardenas, Latin America’s most technologically-advanced container terminal.

APM Terminals Lazaro Cardenas received its first official vessel call Monday 27 February with the arrival of the 9,600 teu-Maersk Salalah.

As part of the Maersk’s “new direction” set out by ceo Soren Skou on Tuesday the relationship between Maersk Line and APM Terminals is set to change.

China ports giant Cosco Shipping Ports continues on its overseas expansion track with the purchase of a 40% stake in APM Terminals' Vado Holdings, which operates the Vado Reefer Terminal at Vado Port in Italy, for EUR53m ($58.3m).

The Panama Canal has published the tender files for the concession, design, construction, development and operation of a container port in the area of West Corozal on the east bank of the waterway Pacific entrance.