A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S reported robust earnings helped by a frenetic global shipping market, announced it bought two e-commerce logistics companies together valued at nearly $1 billion, and mapped out more, potentially larger acquisitions.

Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping line by capacity, said Friday that is acquiring Salt Lake City-based Visible Supply Chain Management LLC, which operates nine fulfillment centers across the U.S., and Netherlands-based B2C Europe in separate deals with a combined enterprise value of $924 million.

“Our strategy has been to provide a more integrated solution,” Maersk Chief Executive Soren Skou said in an interview. “So we are moving from shipping containers from port to port to shipping from door to door. For that to happen, we need to grow our capabilities on shore,” he said.“Now, we are looking to be able to deliver goods from Asia to the U.S., not just to the port but also to someone’s door.”

Denmark-based Maersk reported earnings lifted by high shipping volumes and freight rates amid strong consumer demand and a rush by companies to restock depleted inventories after the lifting of coronavirus restrictions.

Second-quarter net profit totaled $3.75 billion, up from $443 million in the year-earlier period, when results were weighed down by the economic slowdown resulting from pandemic restrictions. Revenue rose to $14.23 billion, up 58% from a year earlier. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization nearly tripled to $5.06 billion.

Maersk said in a preliminary financial report earlier in the week that it expects third-quarter earnings to outpace the second quarter’s. Volumes in the core Maersk Line business were up 15% from a year earlier and average freight rates were up 59%.

Maersk’s results are part of a stream of robust financial reports across the container-shipping sector as the economic rebound from the impact of coronavirus pandemic restrictions encourages retailers and manufacturers to rush more goods to markets. The sudden rush to restock, along with a series of supply-chain disruptions at key chokepoints, has tied up big volumes of shipping capacity and sent freight prices skyrocketing.

Germany-based container line Hapag-Lloyd AG said late last month it expects operating earnings for the first half of 2021 to reach roughly $3.5 billion, up from $600 million in the year-earlier period. Ocean Network Express Holdings Ltd. of Japan said that it expects a profit of more than $2.5 billion for the quarter ended June 30 and that revenue more than doubled from a year earlier.

With ocean carriers in their traditional peak shipping season ahead of the holidays, Mr. Skou sees no relief from today’s congestion and delays before year-end.

“The whole global supply chain is under pressure,” he said, “Even if the consumer demand should turn down at some point, we will see the inventory restocking continuing. Right now, we can’t see into 2022.”