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Maersk demonstrates diversified talents A film produced for Maersk Container Industry (MCI) that demonstrates how crucial shipping containers are for the modern global economy has scooped 14 international awards including a Gold medal at Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards. Courier company scoops R12-m contract Courier company, SkyNet Worldwide Express, recently signed a two-year contract worth R12m with Wright Millner, Africa's largest importer and distributor of dental equipment and consumables. The new contract involves moving Wright Millner's dental products across South Africa as well as into Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland. Logistics major hands three awards to shipping line Shipping line Safmarine ended 2012 on a high note when one of its key customers, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, presented it with three awards. Fourth largest container shipping line on the cards? If a merger of Hapag- Lloyd AG and Hamburg Süd goes ahead, the combined companies would be the fourth largest container shipping company in the world, according to the British International Freight Association. Biggest box maker seeks US$600m to ease its debt Shenzhen’s China International Marine Containers (CIMC), the world’s biggest container maker, hopes to raise US$600 million in threeyear notes on the US debt market to restructure its own debt load. Express operator orders four new planes FedEx Express has placed an order with Boeing for four 767 freighters.