Central America - Laredo

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Agenda

• Briefing on APM Group and Maersk Line

• Macroeconomic trends

• Lazaro Cardenas port / bridge between Central America and the US

• West Coast Central America (WCCA Service)

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Maersk Line: who we are

• Part of A.P. Moller – Maersk Group

• Founded in 1904

• Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark

• 30,000 employees

• 670 offices in 125 countries around the globe

• Largest container vessel fleet with more than 540 ships

• 1.9 million containers in operation

• If placed one after another, they would reach

about 19,000 km: the distance from Cape

Town to Paris – and back

• 16% global market share

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Industry Mitigating Actions

• Lines are bleeding – rates are being pushed up – that will continue in 2010

• Lines are closing loops and idling capacity to avoid overcapacity – that will continue, because of:

• High oil prices… again

• Capacity not carrier owned - redeliveries!!!!

• Slow steaming – industry wide slow steaming accelerating – again due to high oil prices

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Lazaro Cardenas port a bridge between Central America and the US

• Second largest port in the country in container moves

Displaced Veracruz in 2009

• Fastest – growing container port in Mexico

• Tender for third container terminal to take place in 2010

• Main entrance gateway in the Pacific for Mexican and American markets

• A solution to the congestion in the Pacific ports

• Handled 421,209 TEUS in 2009

• Despite a decrease of 12.6% in containerized cargo moves in MX in 2009, Lazaro Cardenas increased its import and export operations by 6.8% and 38.9%

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Lazaro Cardenas

Advantages to U.S. Customers

• Distances to major U.S. inland

destinations favorable, competitive

• In-Bond transport via rail to Laredo, TX

• Multiple trucking crossing points

• Port accessible by largest ships afloat

• Cost of doing business is competitive

• Capacity to serve growing export

market

Tailored to Kansas City and

Midwest/Southwest industries

• Infrastructure and systems in place

Capable of larger scale operations

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WCCA Service

• Weekly service

• Competitive transit times

• Early week arrival at Lazaro Cardenas (Tuesday)

• Daily rail departures

• Only port in the Pacific capable to connect with

the multimodal corridor

• Port calls at every main port in the Pacific

Direct connection between Central America and Mexico

• Schedule reliability indicator

• Doubled capacity from 500 TEU’s to 1,000 TEU’s

in 2009

We are investing in the potential of the West Coast corridor

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