Development of Annual General Meeting

ANNOUNCEMENT



A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S - Development of the Annual General Meeting on 30 April
2009 

The Annual General Meeting of A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S took place on 30 April
2009 at Bella Center, Copenhagen. 

Agenda:

a)	Report on the Company's activities during the past financial year.

b)	Submission of the audited annual report for adoption. 

c)	Resolution to grant discharge to directors.

d)	Resolution on appropriation of profit, including the amount of dividends, or
covering of loss in accordance with the adopted annual report. 

	The Board proposes payment of a dividend of DKK 650 per share of DKK 1,000.

e)	Resolution on authority to acquire own shares.

The Board proposes that in the period until the next Annual General Meeting,
the Board is authorised to allow the Company to acquire own shares of a nominal
value up to 10% of the Company's share capital, according to the Danish
Companies Act, art. 48. The purchase price must not deviate by more than 10%
from the price quoted on Nasdaq OMX Copenhagen A/S on the date of the purchase. 

This authorisation is in force until the Company's next Annual General Meeting.	

f)	Any requisite election of members for the Board of Directors.
	
	Michael Pram Rasmussen, Jan Tøpholm, Leise Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller and Niels
Jakobsen stand down from the Board of Directors. 

	The Board proposes re-election of Michael Pram Rasmussen, Jan Tøpholm, Leise
Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller and Niels Jakobsen. 
  
g)	Election of auditors.
	
	According to the articles of association, KPMG Statsautoriseret
Revisionspartnerselskab and Grant Thornton Statsautoriseret
Revisionsaktieselskab 
stand down.

	The Board proposes re-election of KPMG Statsautoriseret
Revisionspartnerselskab and Grant Thornton Statsautoriseret
Revisionsaktieselskab. 

h)	Deliberation of any proposals submitted by the Board of Directors or by
shareholders. 

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The Board of Directors had appointed Mr. Søren Meisling, attorney-at-law, as
Chairman of the meeting. 

Re a)	The Chairman of the Board of Directors gave a presentation of the
Company's activity in the previous year. 

Re b)	The audited report was submitted and approved.

Re c)	The General Meeting discharged the Directors from their obligations.

Re d)	The Board's proposal for distribution of the net surplus of DKK 9,692
million with DKK 2,857 million dividend to the shareholders, equivalent to DKK
650 per share, and DKK 6,835 million as retained earnings was approved. 

Re e)	The General Meeting authorised the Board to allow the company to acquire
own shares as proposed by the Board. 

Re f)	Nominee Directors Michael Pram Rasmussen, Jan Tøpholm, Leise Mærsk
Mc-Kinney Møller and Niels Jakobsen resigned. All Directors were re-elected. 

Re g)	KPMG Statsautoriseret Revisionspartnerskab and Grant Thornton
Statsautorisret Revisionsaktieselskab were appointed as Auditors of the
company. 

Re h) 	No proposals from the Board of Directors or shareholders had been
submitted. 


Meeting adjourned.


Contact person: Executive Vice President Lars-Erik Brenøe, 
tel. no. +45 33 63 36 07.