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A.P. Moller

Also Known As Arnold Peter Møller
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Danish shipping magnate and businessman who founded the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group in 1904, building it from a single steamship into one of the world's largest shipping and logistics conglomerates. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Year
1876 1
Death Year
1965 1
Nationality
Danish 1
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A.P. Moller founded the shipping company that became the Maersk fleet in 1904. Onassis established his first shipping trading company in Buenos Aires after gaining Argentine citizenship in 1929, and went on to build a fleet of freighters and tankers that eventually exceeded seventy vessels, decades after Moller's founding.

Source Wikipedia: Aristotle Onassis

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Founded the company in 1904.

Source Wikipedia: A.P. Moller
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  • Introduction
    A. P. Moller was a Danish shipping magnate and businessman who was the founder of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group in 1904.
  • Lead section (full name)
    Arnold Peter Møller (2 October 1876
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Wikipedia: Aristotle Onassis
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