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Anger over job cuts at base of shipping line Maersk

Global shipping giant Maersk is axing almost 30% of the jobs at its Liverpool-based UK headquarters and has backtracked on a promise to create scores of others. Now the region’s inward investment agencies plan to hold talks with the Danish group over £200,000 of grant money offered to the shipping line last year when it agreed [...]