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The Latest: Danish firm struggling to get engine parts

A woman sits backdropped by a real time cyber attacks world map, at the headquarters of Bitdefender in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, June 28, 2017. A new, highly virulent strain of malicious ransom software that is crippling computers globally appears to have been sown in Ukraine, where it badly hobbled much of the government and private sector on the eve of a holiday celebrating a post-Soviet constitution. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
A woman sits backdropped by a real time cyber attacks world map, at the headquarters of Bitdefender in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, June 28, 2017. A new, highly virulent strain of malicious ransom software that is crippling computers globally appears to have been sown in Ukraine, where it badly hobbled much of the government and private sector on the eve of a holiday celebrating a post-Soviet constitution. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) A woman sits backdropped by a real time cyber attacks world map, at the headquarters of Bitdefender in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, June 28, 2017. A new, highly virulent strain of malicious ransom software that is crippling computers globally appears to have been sown in Ukraine, where it badly hobbled much of the government and private sector on the eve of a holiday celebrating a post-Soviet constitution. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

By Associated Press 2 min read

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – The Latest on cyberattacks (all times local):

2:00 p.m.

A small Danish ship repair company says the malicious software that froze computers around the globe has forced it to re-order engine parts because the track-and-trace parcel system with Dutch-based transport company TNT is down.

Steffan Mastek of the Petersen & Soerensen company says the parts are needed for a ship promised to be returned to its owner on Friday.

Mastek said Thursday the parts they reordered are being “driven up by road by a courier we ordered and at our expenses.”

Mastek added that another parcel is stuck in Finland.

Petersen & Soerensen, located in Svendborg, central Denmark, employs about 85 people in two repair and maintenance shops.

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11:40 a.m.

Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk, one of the global companies hardest hit by a malicious software that froze computers around the globe, said Thursday that most of its terminals are now operational, though some remain crippled.

The Copenhagen-based company said that some terminals are “operating slower than usual or with limited functionality.” Problems have been reported across the shippers’ global business, from Mobile, Alabama, to Mumbai in India.

The shipping company is one of a number of major corporations and government agencies – from logistics firm FedEx to Ukraine’s banking system – to have been hit by the software epidemic.

Maersk, as the shipper is known, says it’s able to accept bookings again via the INNTRA booking platform but that its logistics division, Damco, “has limited access to certain systems.”

Maersk says it can’t be specific about how many sites were affected or when business will get to normal. It also said it had deliberately shut down “a number of IT systems” which also had an impact on email systems.