Implementing these new methods proved to be challenging, and the shipyard decided to call in American consultants with expertise in production methodology and shipbuilding. A.P.Moller was the chairman of the Odense Steel Shipyard, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller was a member of the Board and both were deeply involved in its management, and Maersk Line and the other shipping divisions of the group were important customers of the yard. Both A.P.Moller and Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller had consulted external experts on many occasions before, recognizing the need to look outside the organization at certain decisive moments. The year 1966 had been one of those moments, when Maersk Line had commissioned the report from the Stanford Research Institute . This time, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller turned to the McKinsey consultancy, which had produced that impressive set of predictions for the British Transport Docks Board. It is probably safe to assume the McKinsey did not keep their findings to themselves. Two years later the report and its recommendations were to have significant importance for Maersk Line Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller first met the McKinsey consultancy in 1968 and formal cooperation was initiated in 1969. The task assigned to McKinsey was to conduct a servey of the A.P.Moller Group’s potential and to develop a plan for improvements. All the business units were evaluated and the general assessment for Maersk Line was that the operation worked better than its competitor. The main problem was identified in a question: “What must [Maersk Line] do to protect the Panama Line in the light of the container threat?” In its conclusions, McKinsey referred to the 1966 British report-clearly, the matter of containerization was considered very urgentSolving the problem posed by McKinsey would require the attention, energy and commitment of Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller and not least hiss staff of dedicated liner people over the next five years-and continues to require that attention today
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