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Transportation 2025: WOODHOUR, WILLIAM
PRESIDENT AND CEO, MAERSK LINE, LEESBURG
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Transportation 2025: WOODHOUR, WILLIAM
PRESIDENT AND CEO, MAERSK LINE, LEESBURG
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
A University of Delaware alumnus, Woodhour has devoted 33 years to Maersk Line, rising to president and CEO in 2016.
Headquartered in Virginia with offices in Norfolk and Dulles, Maersk is the U.S. arm of Danish shipping giant A.P. Møller-Mærsk and has the largest U.S. flag fleet in commercial service.
Founded in 1983 to support the U.S. Navy, Maersk Line today employs approximately 700 mariners and owns 20 U.S. flag registered container vessels. It provides ocean shipping services from over 300 ports worldwide.
In July 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that, as part of a settlement with the department, Maersk Line would change its safety reporting policies and compensate a seaman the company had terminated after the seaman reported safety concerns regarding a container ship in 2020 to the U.S. Coast Guard without first notifying Maersk. The changed policy removes any requirement that workers notify the company before contacting the U.S. Coast Guard. It also requires the company to refrain from retaliating against seamen who contact the Coast Guard.
Woodhour serves as vice chairman on the National Defense Transportation Association’s board.
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