global shipping giant maersk reported its biggest ever fullyear profit in 2022 amid soaring freight prices and easing bottlenecks following the covid pandemic maersk posted a net profit of 292 billion the highest earnings ever reported by a danish company gross operating profit ebitda more than doubled to 368 billion owing to lower costs and optimisations in the logistics chain demand for shipping plunged at the start of the pandemic but bounced back strongly from mid2020 until mid2022 leading to bottlenecks on trade routes and causing massive disruption in supply chains the companys ocean unit posted its best ever profit last year up 33 percent from the previous year maersk said its earnings remained stable in the second half despite congestion easing and lower demand for 2023 the group forecast an ebitda of between 8 and 11 billion since the 2017 sale of its oil division to totalenergies maersk has undergone a vast restructuring aimed at focusing on transport and logistics its drilling subsidiary listed on the copenhagen stock exchange since april 2019 merged with its us rival noble corporation in 2021