Maersk said profit growth lifted free cash flow to $549m, up from a year earlier.

Aug 13 — Meituan (03690.HK) released the first formal version of a rider "wait-at-lights" stopwatch and has begun road testing in Beijing. The delivery safety tech team ran internal tests on select Beijing roads in 1H and built a prototype; the pilot is now live on roads in Chaoyang, Tongzhou and the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Zone where traffic data is integrated. The feature will separately accumulate red-light waiting time and extend delivery ETAs accordingly. Meituan said more than 20 other cities are evaluating the feature; qualified cities will be rolled out progressively.

International Energy Agency expects global oil demand to decline by 2.8 mln b/d in Q3.