Provided by Dow Jones By Costas Paris and Dominic Chopping A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S said it would launch a roughly $5 billion share-buyback program as unrelenting demand for manufactured goods helped the Danish shipping company post a record profit for the first quarter. Maersk said net profit surged to $2.7 billion, up from $197 million in the first quarter of last year, boosted by big retailers such as Walmart Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. restocking inventories that were depleted early last year after the coronavirus pandemic hit. The result came in above the average forecast of $2.38 billion of 10 analysts surveyed by FactSet.