A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S at the Annual General Meeting held on 31 March 2014, approved the Board's proposal for distribution of the net result of DKK 7,313 million with DKK 6,154 million dividends to the shareholders, equivalent to DKK 1,400 per share, and DKK 1,159 million as retained earnings.

The company also announced that Lars Pallesen, John Axel Poulsen, Erik Rasmussen, Leise Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller and Jan Tøpholm stood down from the Board of Directors. Upon proposal from the Board of Directors Robert Mærsk Uggla, Niels Bjørn Christiansen, Dorothee Blessing, Renata Frolova and Palle Vestergaard Rasmussen were elected.