The Palestinian Youth Movement launched the #MaskOffMaersk campaign at the 2024 People’s Conference for Palestine, focused on a concrete logistics target in order to pursue an arms embargo on Israel.
Maersk is a logistics company that is involved in all aspects of the supply chain of genocide - bringing military cargo to arms companies for assembly and shipping cargo to Israel from the US.
In the past year, Maersk has shipped millions of pounds (lbs) of military cargo to Israel from the U.S. Our research showed that Maersk has been carrying everything from tactical vehicles to parts for armored tanks and aircraft and artillery systems to the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
We call for a People’s Arms Embargo NOW!
Maersk fulfills part of its Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with the U.S. Department of Defense by transporting military cargo— one such vehicle supply chain that Maersk supports through shipping and logistics abilities is the Namer Armored Personnel Carrier (APC-MT883), which has been used extensively in the ongoing aggression against Gaza. Another supply chain is that of the Oshkosh Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles, with Maersk helping fulfill part of the supply chain related to a $159 million foreign military sale to Israel from the U.S. Department of Defense.
Maersk does not just support the Zionist genocide through outbound shipping of military cargo from the U.S. to Israel. Maersk ships also carry military cargo to arms manufacturers in the US in order for these weapons companies to assemble the weapons that murder our people. Research indicates that Maersk has significant links to the F35 jet program. The wings and aircraft structures of Lockheed Martin's fighter jets are shipped on Maersk liners to the U.S. where these jets are made then sent to terrorize our people.
Logistics companies, with Maersk as the industry’s lead, are the invisible profiteers of weapons manufacturing, making the genocide of Palestinians a reality. Targeting Maersk directly disrupts the flow of military cargo in the supply chain of death used to genocide Palestinians.