Maersk spends $950,000 on lobbying

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29 Feb 2008

Danish shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S spent more than $950,000 in 2007 to lobby the federal government. The company spent more than $331,000 to lobby on port safety, railroad regulations and ballast water legislation in the second half of 2007, according to a disclosure form posted online Feb. 4 by the Senate's public records officeThe company spent nearly $620,000 in the first half of the year to lobby Congress and the Treasury Department on these issues, as well as on labor and foreign investment legislation.Lobbyists are required to disclose activities that could influence members of the executive and legislative branches, under a federal law enacted in 1995.