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alanbeattie.bsky.social • 6 days ago

Great comic timing from the Danes here.

Reposted from Financial Times

Denmark’s Maersk buys Panama Canal railway

https://www.ft.com/content/cb460c62-b587-4900-a0c5-722f6c2548d4

Comments

metaphysicalist.bsky.social•6 days ago

Make Denmark Great, Always!

zansky.bsky.social•6 days ago

emeyer888.bsky.social•6 days ago

I wish I'd joined the Diplomacy club in high school ...

uffe1974.bsky.social•6 days ago

The company founder did have "timely care" as a motto...

alphast.bsky.social•6 days ago

I thought it was « with constant care ». Either way, Maersk buying the railway makes a lot of sense, I suppose. Especially if the Hutchinson deal with rival MSC goes through.

uffe1974.bsky.social•6 days ago

Oh, I don't really know what the official translation is. "Rettidig omhu" in Danish. It's really a short form of a longer sentence about avoidable losses. "With constant care" conveys that well, but is harder to connect with "comic timing." :-)

alphast.bsky.social•6 days ago

My Danish being non existent, I had to rely on the translation in English of the book of the same title that I own, about his life and the story of the company. Full disclosure : I used to work for the company.

kapollo.bsky.social•6 days ago

+1 on your translation. "Constant Care" is still one of the Maersk corporate values.

butterfly260.bsky.social•6 days ago

https://theplotagainstamerica.com/

balmachreuchie.bsky.social•6 days ago

balmachreuchie.bsky.social•6 days ago

metroscapes.ca•6 days ago

Also proper that one of the selling joint venture partners was Canadian.

marikalmuller.bsky.social•6 days ago

I did have to check the date on this announcement

rosemmason.bsky.social•5 days ago

📌

hutchymon.bsky.social•6 days ago

See? Finance people can be funny

emsetc.bsky.social•6 days ago

writers are a little on the nose this season

fleaingdogfella.bsky.social•6 days ago

Derailing Trump’s plans

beardedcurmudgeon.bsky.social•6 days ago

THIS.IS.AWESOME!

doubtingtommy.bsky.social•6 days ago

Another negotiating point for future peace talks with Denmark

rcmcdovetail.bsky.social•6 days ago

All these knuckle draggers have been claiming Viking blood and wearing Mjollnir pendants for years.

They are now with an entirely straight face about to declare war on their ancestral homeland, using Saudi money, at the command of a Boer oligarch, to protect a shipping lane in Central America.

raycandlelight.bsky.social•6 days ago

Tøvende (maybe)

spottiedoggy.bsky.social•6 days ago

WACKY! 🤣

vero1986.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trump Companies Accused of Tax Evasion in Panama
In the latest chapter in ongoing litigation, the private equity fund that bought what was called the Trump Ocean Club claims the Trump entities pocketed money that should have gone to the Panamanian government.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-companies-accused-tax-evasion-panama

bskwitter.bsky.social•6 days ago

Well, Trump will show them! He'll dig a CANAL across GREENLAND!

lettucewrangler.bsky.social•6 days ago

Our railroads end up nationalized, but the nation who does it is Denmark.

dgofnb.bsky.social•6 days ago

Beautiful.

outofthegates.bsky.social•6 days ago

Babe wake up new season of The Killing just dropped.

birchbeach47.bsky.social•6 days ago

Priceless😊😊😊
❤️ Denmark

🇨🇦🍁

lilybud.bsky.social•5 days ago

top marks Denmark

final2-final.bsky.social•6 days ago

think it’s time to grab the Dannebrog garland out of xmas storage 🇩🇰

frommeshed.bsky.social•5 days ago

Love it!!! Great timing. Agent Orange will be planting dynamite on those tracks himself.

awedandflawed.bsky.social•5 days ago

Denmark, deux points.

bertrand-mowbry.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is very very funny

doublepower.bsky.social•6 days ago

Loving this new season of Borgen!

howcouldwe.bsky.social•5 days ago

Mid 1990’s CSX sold the last and only US flagged shipping line, Sealand, to Maersk. An epically stupid sale to be allowed. Regardless, it’s an example of GOP favoring corp profits without thought to long term consequences.

kat-b.bsky.social•6 days ago

I think I’ll watch the orchestra from Denmark.

CharJTF.a11y.info.ap.brid.gy•6 days ago

@alanbeattie.bsky.social THAT. IS. AWESOME. There's going to be lots of ketchup on the walls soon!

tsuroerusu.bsky.social•6 days ago

paccali68.bsky.social•6 days ago

Denmark 🇩🇰 is awesome 👏🏼 💪🏼

i-m-fletcher.bsky.social•6 days ago

No notes.

askmetomorrow.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trump is outmaneuvered.

stiffelman.bsky.social•6 days ago

Oh, my, but do I love this!!!

alexanderthegreatt.bsky.social•6 days ago

Someone is going to be very upset.

hockleyd.bsky.social•6 days ago

Smart move regardless as they have used it to counter the restrictions due to drought/climate-change/water levels being too low recently for the Canal to operate at full capacity. Future proofing.

scottlapstra.bsky.social•6 days ago

it's an act of war!

haywoodfloyd.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trump is going to wind up ceding Alaska to Denmark, isn't he?

yargmit.bsky.social•6 days ago

It has to be stated. 49% of the voters and around 30% of the voting population went and elected the dumbest asshole we could find.

ajduden.bsky.social•6 days ago

Check.

desdrayton.bsky.social•6 days ago

Pity that it's made of Lego

hadriansgaul.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Danes are 3 steps ahead. We could be on their level but we’ve been gutting our education for 50 years whereas, Denmark works to improve living standards for their citizens.