Maersk Line has bought US customs brokerage and logistics player Vandegrift.
The New Jersey operation will strengthen and broaden the company’s service offering to customers, it said.
“Vandegrift’s expertise and reputation enables us to place a trusted advisor in front of our customers to design and build individualised customs brokerage and compliance programmes that identify risk and provide solutions," said Narin Phol, regional managing director of Maersk North America.
"This customer advocate role, coupled with our supply chain assets and global scale, creates winning end-to-end solutions for companies intent on competing better in 2019."
Vandegrift was founded in 1951 and has 170 staff in 12 offices.
Price and terms were not disclosed.
