No. 91
House Magazine – also distributed to customers and business relations
August 2009
Blue Water Tour de Paris
Left to right: Kurt Skov, Kim Beier, Anne-Grethe Biehl, Helle Glass, Klaus Bindesbøll, Niels Løjborg, Søren Messmann and Aase Bjerregaard Christensen. In the last issue of Blue Water News we brought an article about our team of 8 colleagues, from our Esbjerg office, who would participate in a bicycle ride to Paris arranged by Team Rynkeby. With great enthusiasm, our 8 colleagues now tells about the experience of their life as part of Team Rynkeby Bramming, which numbered 40 riders. 7 team in total from all
over Denmark - including our Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen met at the Place de la Concorde in Paris before the final promenade ride up the Champs-Elysées to the Arc de Triomphe and down the ChampsElysées again - the culmination of many weeks’ of vigorous training. On our website - www.bws.dk - you can follow the hardships of our team
on the ”Tour”. The purpose of the ”Tour” was to collect money for the Children’s Cancer Foundation. The total donation this year exceeded DKK 3 million, which is twice as much as last year. Team Bramming collected more than DKK 430,000 from sponsors and private donations. In case anyone should wish to support a good case, it is still
possible to send donations to: Reg. No.: 7701, account 1650140. Please insert TEAM BRAMMING and your name in the information box.
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Transport for DGI - World Team 2008 / 2009 Blue Water Odense has since September 2008 been in charge of the transport of the World Team’s gymnastic apparatuses for their world tour. The World Team consists of 28 of Denmark’s absolute top gymnasts, selected according to a very strict programme. The team is touring every third year, and this time the destinations included South Africa, Japan, Australia, India, USA, Costa Rica, Colombia and Great Britain. 2 sets of apparatuses - each consisting of 34 pieces - were forwarded around the world, in all directions, to meet the deadlines of the shows. Mentally, it was in particular important for the gymnasts to know that the familiar apparatuses from Denmark had arrived and were available for them at the different destinations.
The tour started in September 2008 at Blue Water’s warehouse in Odense, where the first set of apparatuses were delivered in co-operation with gymnasts in high spirits. Blue Water Odense has, as coordinator, worked together with many of the Blue Water Group’s airfreight offices and competent agents. It was obvious that all parties involved were very interested in the project and we have enjoyed a really good co-operation through and through. The majority of the apparatuses were sent by air, but we have made use of sea freight and road transport as well. The World Team and the group supporting them have expressed their full satisfaction. Naturally Blue Water hopes to repeat the success, when the next World Team will be touring the world.
A Royal Story from Sisimiut
One of the World Team’s fantastic shows, which some of us were lucky to watch, when they after their world tour gave 23 performances in Denmark.
Transfer of Ownership in Blue Water Shipping Baltic be able to develop interesting activities together. We hereby wish Egidijus and his team the best of luck with their new status and in the future.
The three heirs to the Throne on board the ”Ejnar Mikkelsen” - left to right: Haakon of Norway, Victoria of Sweden and Frederik of Denmark.
We have made an agreement with Egidijus Petrenas that he takes over all shares in UAB Blue Water Baltic, situated in Vilnius, Lithuania, with effect as from 9.7. Egidijus, who has just turned 30, is a competent and experienced freight forwarder and has been the head of the office for the past 3 ½ years. The office will continue with the same staff and the same activities, but under the new name of Baltic Shipping Center UAB. We will still consider Egidijus and his team a close partner of the Blue Water Group and part of the family. We also still expect to
At the end of May, Greenland welcomed three royal visitors, as the three heirs to the Throne, Victoria of Sweden, Haakon of Norway and Frederik of Denmark, stayed a week to study the inland ice and learn more about the climate change. Kenneth Skovbjerg Pedersen of Blue Water Sisimiut was having a bit of trouble, as he was supposed to deliver two Blue Water Greenpacks (air consignments) - important spare parts - to the warship ”Ejnar Mikkelsen” before departure for Disko Bay at 1300 hours with the royal visitors on board. Now we were in deep water because the scheduled flight were not supposed to arrive until 1500 hours. Luckily there was a couple of flexible freight people in Søndre Strømfjord,
Signing of the contract - left to right: Carsten Eskildsen/Blue Water Esbjerg and Egidijus Petrenas/Blue Water Vilnius.
whom we persuaded to let the two parcels on board the chartered plane, with the royal visitors, even though it was against the rules. Did anyone ever doubt that we were unable to handle the situation! Next problem occurred in Sisimiut, when the parcels, in the chaos caused by the royal visitors’ arrival, ended in the royal luggage before Kenneth arrived to collect them. Fortunately Kenneth got to the port at the very moment the luggage was to be carried on board, and he asked permission to take the two parcels, which he delivered to the captain personally - and everybody was happy! May we now - with our Blue Water Greenpack product - call ourselves purveyor to the scandinavian Courts ?
The staff of Blue Water Vilnius left to right: Egidijus Petrenas, Laura Cibulskaite, Saulius Lagunas, Jovita Daniene, Evaldas Mankelevivius, Saulius Majauskas and Egidijus Balzaris.
Did you know.....that Blue Water has a well-established service with several weekly departures to and from Portugal?
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Rig Move from Oklahoma to Newfoundland In June, Blue Water Houston was entrusted with the transport of a land rig from Elk City, Oklahoma to Newfoundland in Canada.The rig is of the ”Step-down Telescopic Triple” type and is used for oil and natural gas exploration on land. The Canadian owner of the rig contracted the rig to the Canadian oil and gas exploration company who awarded Blue Water the transport. The co-ordination and preparation was in particular important for this move, as it was the first time the rig was transported by sea. The rig was transported in 399 parts, which had a total weight of 761 tons. All parts were trucked to the port of Houston and loaded on to a vessel - an operation which took about 3 days and was closely supervised by Lars Jedermann Jørgensen from Blue Water Houston.
Two weeks later, when the rig arrived at Stephenville in Newfoundland, Lars Jedermann Jørgensen was again ready to follow the discharging to make sure everything was going as planned. The port of Stephenville was formerly used for shipment of paper for a paper mill and is not constructed to handle multipurpose vessels of the size used for this transport. Luckily everything went according to plan, and we won praise for the successful transport, reports Esben Flinker Nørgaard of Blue Water Houston.. The rig has been contracted to the Canadian company for a period of 6-8 months and will then be moved to a new location. Naturally we hope to become involved in the next move as well if it is going to be by sea.
Transport of Crushing Plants For more than a year, Blue Water has transported crushing machinery for a local client in Azerbaijan - around 1400 cbm per plant. The cargo has been controlled by Blue Water Baku with assistance from Blue Water Georgia and Blue Water Houston. The crushing machinery was bought by a local company in Azerbaijan from different US vendors in both South Dakota, Oregon and Pennsylvania. In May, Blue Water also handled the biggest shipment so far, 110 dump trucks, 12 tractors and 14 crushing machines. The goods were picked up at three different areas in the US
and transported to the port of Galveston to meet a ro-ro vessel, which sailed the units to Poti in Georgia for on-carriage to Baku in Azerbaijan. In the port of Galveston, Blue Water Houston was represented by Lars Jedermann and a marine surveyor to make sure everything was handled properly. After loading of all the units, the vessel made for Misurata, Libya and Beirut, Lebanon until reaching Poti, Georgia in early June. In Poti, Blue Water Georgia took over the on-carriage and delivery to the final destination in Baku.
Fra losningen i Poti.
OTC 2009, Houston Unloading at Stephenville - left to right: President - Director Patrick J. Laracy/Vulcan Minerals, Lars Jedermann Jørgensen/Blue Water Houston and Project Manager Shane Halley/Vulcan Minerals.
Accommodation Modules for ”Jumbo Javelon” Blue Water Aberdeen has been awarded the transportation of 17 offshore accommodation modules from Ferguson Modular in Aberdeen to Rotterdam. The first module was moved in the first week of July and Blue Water personnel was
present to witness the safe loading. The modules, which are manufactured at Ferguson’s manufacturing facility in Inverurie north of Aberdeen, will form part of an accommodation complex on board the heavy-lift vessel ”Jumbo Javelin”.
As often before, Blue Water participated in the annual offshore show OTC in Houston in May. 2009 saw the OTC’s 40th anniversary with attendance reaching approx. 68,000 despite the global economic recession. This year’s exhibition was the second largest in OTC’s 40-year history, with more than 557,000 sq.ft. of exhibition area filled to capacity by 2,500 companies from 38 countries. Blue Water was part of the Danish pavilion which was well visited - especially when we had the traditional morning song and toast ! Thomas Bek/Blue Water Esbjerg, Es-
Left to right: Sonya Byfield/Blue Water Aberdeen, Eirik Ellingsen/ Ferguson Modular and Thomas Bek/Blue Water Esbjerg.
ben Flinker Nørgaard/Blue Water Houston and Sonya Byfield/Blue Water Aberdeen attended the show over the four days, where they met with both existing and potential customers along with our subcontractors and agents.
Our friends from Aker Solutions paying a visit to Blue Water’s stand.
Traditional morning assembly in the Danish pavilion.
Did you know.....that Blue Water has daily departures to Germany and France, of goods for further distribution, with track & trace and delivery security?
4 Successful Move of 78 ton Pedestal Crane In May 2009, our project oil & energy department of Blue Water Shipping Singapore delivered another huge unit of pedestal crane, with the dimensions (L)28m x (W)5.8m x (H)8.40m and weight of 78 tons, from Plimsoll MacGregor Singapore to Jurong Shipyard for installation onto a rig. Road survey was done and due to its road limitation, the pedestal crane was not permitted on the road. Transportation using tug and barge was the only option. For this cargo operation, we had also mobilised one unit of 18-axle multi trailer to transport from Plimsoll MacGregor yard to private wharf vicinity and also mobilised
one unit of 500 tons mobile crane to lift the pedestal crane onto the chartered barge. A marine surveyor was hired to ensure that proper sea fastening was done before the sailaway to Jurong Shipyard. The whole logistic planning including safety went smoothly, and the delivery to the shipyard was on time for the installation onto the rig.
Maersk Contractors and Aker Solutions Malaysia Blue Water was awarded the transportation of 130 marine risers from Aker Solutions in Port Klang, Malaysia. The risers were to be delivered alongside the semi-submersible rig ”Maersk Developer” in Singapore Western Anchorage. Jason Goh/Blue Water Singapore explains that time was of the essence in connection with this operation, which was challenging and difficult due to the weight and dimensions of
the risers; (L) 22.86 m, (diameter) 1.4 m, (weight) 26 tons each. Shipment was performed in 3 batches during Christmas and Chinese New Year
The staff of Blue Water Singapore celebrated Chinese New Year together at a reception, enjoying a delicious buffet and watching the traditional Chinese lion dance. The new year is called ”Year of the Ox”.
In relation with Azurite FDPSO project in Congo, Blue Water Singapore was called in by Franklin Offshore to provide transportation solution for 800 cbm mooring equipment to Congo. The solution was charter of m/s ”Ester C”, which in the picture is loaded with the equipment.
Blue Water participated in Wind Exhibitions in China Blue Water participated in ”Offshore Wind China Conference” in Shanghai during the days of June 29-30. The Danish Exporters’ Association had arranged a small poster stand for 6 Danish companies including Blue Water. China is considered one of the richest countries in respect of offshore wind resources - estimated at 750 gW along a coastline of about 18,000 kilometres, where 40% of the population is living and the electricity con-
sumption is biggest. The conference was sponsored by Vestas and was well attended, reports Arne Iversen from China. We also participated in ”Wind Power Asia Exhibition” in Beijing from July 8-10 with a stand in the Danish pavilion, arranged by the Danish Exporters’ Association, where 20 Danish companies participated. The exhibition took place for the first time in 2003 and is now regarded as one of Asia’s biggest wind power events.
A good start of year 2009! Blue Water Singapore received a hotshot airfreight inquiry from Keppel Fels in Singapore for airfreight of 17 units of sheaves - weighing 155 tons in total - from Norway to Singapore.
Transport from Port Klang to the Dutch Antilles Group photo of the Danish exhibitors in Shanghai.
Left to right: Jason Goh/Blue Water Singapore, Angela Zhang/Chief Representative of the Danish Exporters’ Association, Shanghai, Arne Iversen/ Blue Water Qingdao and Bob Cai/ Managing director of Shanghai Kingline Logistics - Blue Water’s exclusive agent for project cargo to Shanghai.
Beijing - left to right: Rikke Berg/ the Danish Exporters’ Association and Carol Liu and Arne Iversen/ Blue Water Qingdao.
Windpower 2009 Chicago also caught Blue Water’s attention as Søren Thorup Nielsen/Blue Water Los Angeles paid the exhibition a visit. Here Søren is together with Casper Nielsen/KR Wind at KR Wind’s stand.
In the beginning of May, Blue Water was awarded the contract for transport of approx. 3000 cbm of risers from Port Klang, Malaysia to Willemstad, the Dutch Antilles. As it was an extremely urgent shipment, Blue Water chartered the M/S ”Leda Trader” which has a top speed of up to 22 knots. To assist with the loading, two stevedore foremen from Blue Water’s headquarters in Esbjerg arrived to work alongside with personnel from Blue Water Singapore, explains Thomas Bek of Blue Water Marine & Energy. After 24 days’ sail, the risers were discharged directly from the vessel on to the platform - once again under supervision of our competent personnel.
The job was performed successfully due to our team of experienced stevedore foremen, naval architect and project freight forwarders making use of each other’s competences and experiences.
The discharging operation in Willemstad.
Did you know.....that Blue Water has daily departure to England and Ireland, where we have our own offices taking care of distribution?
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CIS - our own backyard
Caspian Oil & Gas Exhibition, Baku
Blue Water has for decades offered transport solutions to the countries around the Caspian Sea. It was, however, not until 1996, with the opening of our first office in Azerbaijan, that we really became one of the leading freight forwarders in the area. We now have our own offices in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan with an experienced staff of 70 people. Our offices offer all kinds of transport and logistic services. In ad-
According to UN’s World Economic Situation and Prospects 2009 Report, Azerbaijan will remain the country with the most dynamic economy within the CIS. The report also says that the national economy will increase by 14%. Important figures for Blue Water’s continuous commitment in the region, explains Business Development Manager for CIS, Kanan Zeynally/Blue Water Aberdeen. It was therefore important for us to
dition to transport by road, sea, rail and air, we have specialised in shipbroking and general customs handling. Blue Water has also since 1996 been entrusted with some of the biggest projects to the Caspian Sea - including transport of a gas production platform for Technip, a jack-up rig for Transocean Sedco Forex and an FSO tanker for Keppel SingMarine.
attend the 16th Caspian Oil & Gas Eshibition in Baku. The number of participants had, however, decreased this year due to the worldwide economic crisis, but the big players in the Caspian oil market - BP, Statoil and Saipem - were as usual represented with big stands. At the exhibition, Blue Water was represented by our local people from the Baku office and Kanan Zeynally/Blue Water Aberdeen.
Baku Express Blue Water has for 10 years been offering groupage services to several CIS countries on the basis of our Azerbaijan office. Our local trucks in the UK, Denmark, Norway and the rest of Europe collect the goods for delivery to our depots in Holland or Denmark. From here the goods are transported directly to Azerbaijan or Kazakhstan by road. The transports are handled by our experienced staff, who know the specific requirements to customs handling, invoice and packing list.
All shipments are followed closely, and the customer receives daily update on the precise location of the truck and expected date of arrival at destination. On arrival, our local offices are able to assist with customs clearance, delivery or storage facilities. In addition to groupage, we naturally offer full loads as well as outof-gauge transport by road. For further information regarding road transport to CIS please contact Lasse Wolff/ e-mail: lnw@bws.dk.
Blue Water’s stand - left to right: Nariman Mamedov, Kanan Zeynally, Fina Garber and Elnara Huseynova
Blue Water Shipping Qatar L.L.C. Blue Water Shipping Qatar L.L.C. is proud to have Al-Nasr Group as its local partner. Al-Nasr Group is a well-reputed family business, which also includes the sister company Venture Gulf Group, which is the most reputed oil & gas support service centre situated in the industrial
Projects Blue Water Shipping has since the opening of its first office in Baku been involved in some of the biggest projects around the Caspian Sea. Due to the geographical location, it is necessary to sail or tug all major units - typically produced in the Far East - through the Russian river system. A very challenging job due to the size and draught of the 19 locks we will have to pass through the river system. The staff of our Moscow, Esbjerg and Singapore offices are, however, very experienced in these
challenging jobs. When combining their experience with the competences of our stevedore foremen, engineers and project forwarders, we have succeeded in arranging some of the biggest projects which include transit through the river system. The latest project included transport of the biggest units that have ever been transported through the Russian river system - each unit weighing close to 6000 tons and measuring (L)132.8 m x (W) 16 m x (H) 17 m.
area of Doha, Qatar, where many of the big oil & gas companies are located under one roof. Blue Water is also represented with a small office there in addition to the office in the city of Doha - the commercial hub of Qatar.
Left to right: Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al Nasser/Venture Gulf Group, Milo H. Leach/Hydro Milling Group, Arne Iversen and John Daniel/Blue Water Qatar outside the facilities of Venture Gulf Group.
Did you know.....that Blue Water offers track & trace of general cargo to large parts of Western Europe via our on-line portal?
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SPE / ESE, Brussels 28.-30.4.2009
Our exhibition department in Esbjerg has for a number of years enjoyed a very good co-operation with Marel Group with headquarters in Iceland. The company participates in 30 exhibitions around the world on an annual basis. Marel Group primarily manufactures processing machines to the food industry, be it meat, fish or poultry. As Marel Group is very strict about both deadlines and service, the solutions we arrive at together are often rather complicated. Most recently we had shipments from 5 different countries for the fisheries exhibition, SPE, in Brussels. Part of the
Once again, the world’s biggest fisheries exhibition - SPE / ESE attracted a large number of visitors. Smyril Blue Water had their own stand - with representatives from Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Iceland - in the Danish Pavilion under the Danish Exporters’ Association. Furthermore, colleagues from Blue Water in Denmark and France with contact to the fishing industry dropped by. Blue Water’s exhibition department was co-ordinator for the main part
goods was for subsidiary companies around the world and another part was reforwarded to an exhibition in Barcelona. From here it was sent on to another exhibition, Eurocarne, in Verona. This particular job, which was performed in co-operation with Blue Water Milan, has been commended and mentioned in the Marel Group’s house magazine. On a worldwide scale, Marel Group employs 4000 people and is an extremely important client for our exhibition department.
of the Danish exhibitors’ goods - approx. 30 truck loads - and after the exhibition, a large part of the goods were to be forwarded to other exhibitions around Europe. It was a huge co-ordination job, which also included delivery of fresh fish every day, and resulted in very long working hours for our on-site exhibition expert, Lasse Reuss/exhibition department, Esbjerg. Everything went without a hitch and we are pleased that all exhibitors were satisfied with our efforts.
Marel’s stand.
Nordshipping - Lillestrøm, Norway Despite the severe crisis in the marine sector, this year’s Nordshipping exhibition in Lillestrøm was sold out and the number of visitors was 15% higher than in 2007. Once more, Blue Water’s exhibition department had the pleasure of co-ordinating the Danish collective stand - approx. 1000 m2 - and we also had our own stand. We had two forwarders in Lillestrøm both before and after the exhibition to
co-ordinate deliveries, unpacking and packing, trucking and collection of empties - and everything went smoothly. Elisabeth Thomsen from Blue Water’s canteen in Esbjerg was the chef of the Danish collective stand, where approx. 6000 open sandwiches were made during the 4 exhibition days - a feat for which she gained much praise.
Did you know.....that Blue Water is among the biggest airfreight forwarders in Denmark?
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Vannes in the Final
Research Vessel at Brest
When our good client and friend, Michel Jestin, took over the small football club of Vannes in early 2008, when the team had just come from third to second division in the French football league, nobody would ever have imagined that they would make it all the way to the final in the French ”Coupe de la Ligue” already in April 2009. But they did ! Surrounded by his staff - including the former professional football player, Fredric Cado, now partner in Jestin SAS - Michel Jestin had the pleasure to watch his team playing in the final against Bordeaux. They had made it all the way to the Stade de France by having beaten first division teams like Auxerre,
Valenciennes and Nice. 76,000 spectators including French President Sarkozy watched the match, which Vannes sadly lost 4-0. Fabrice Rolland and Mogens Nielsen from Blue Water France also watched the match and partied the night away on board a Parisian river boat together with Vannes’ players, staff, friends and sponsors.
Blue Water Brest was appointed agents for the research vessel ”Celtic Explorer”, operating for Marine Institute, when she called at Brest during the days of May 2-5, 2009. Marine Institute is the Irish governmental agency responsible for marine research, and the vessel is managed by P&O Maritime Services. The vessel stayed in the port of Brest for some small repairs on the ROV and for scientist/ crew change. After completion of repairs, the vessel left Brest on 5.5. to participate in a campaign of geological
M/S ”Bjorgvin Senior”, owned by Vetrasputni, Lithuania and chartered to Nordic Offshore, Denmark, discharged a cargo of scrap cables at Brest from June 14-16. The vessel will return for a similar job later in the summer.
In keeping with Tradition, Jacky Hamon/Casco hosted the annual golf tournament ”Golf Reflexion”, which this year took place on 7.5. ”It was a bright and sunny day, and I was only one stroke from the podium”, says Mogens Nielsen/Blue Water Brest. Better luck next time!
The Vannes team with club owner Michel Jestin to the far left.
Agents for Cable Ship at Brest In April 2009, Blue Water Brest was appointed agents for Global Marine Systems - operators and owners of the cable ship ”Wave Sentinel”. The ship calls at France Telecom berth at Brest, to load or discharge cables for repairs at sea, under the ACMA contract for maintenance and repairs. A contract which runs for a two-year period. The ship is registered in Portland, England, but will be calling at
This years Reefer Summer Party was held in mid-June in the beautiful Luton Hoo Hotel close to London. About 300 ship owners, operators, brokers and charterers, active in conventional reefer transportation, participated in the event organised by Richard Bright of Reefer Trends and Star Reefers. Blue Water was one of the sponsors and participated with all the
ladies of our reefer chartering team in Brest: Robyn Briand, Michelle Minto, Marianne Girardin, Elena Gadzhieva - as well as Mogens Nielsen and Dan Nissen/Blue Water Esbjerg. The day’s programme also included speeches by journalist and economist Liam Halligan, who gave his opinion on the global financial crisis. To cheer up everybody after the serious subject, the comedian L. Vaugham Spence ”Selfenhancement Motivation Guru” gave a performance which made a hit.
Brest from time to time to collect equipment from France Telecom.
Company Excursion - better late than never! Once again, the democratic vote among the staff of Blue Water France showed a majority for a skiing weekend with destination Andorra during the weekend of March 13-15. A good choice as the weather was perfect for skiing.
Reefer Summer Party 2009 - for companies of the international conventional reefer shipping industry.
study - ”Coral Fish” - in order to chart a deep canyon in the North Atlantic Ocean between Brittany and Western Ireland and to make a report on the state of the corals in these waters.
On their way back home after the summer party in England, Maestro Shipping stopped over in Esbjerg to inspect their vessel ”Maestro Sun” which was in port. They also seized the opportunity to enjoy a nice lunch in Western Jutland. Left to right: Michael Dannesboe, Asger Frederiksen, Jørgen Dannesboe and Torben Næsvang.
For many years, Blue Water France has been entrusted with regular jobs from Ess-Food France in connection with their export of frozen food. For this reason, Mogens Nielsen and Fabrice Rolland recently paid the company a visit at their office in Orléans and received a very warm welcome. Left to right: Pascal Amour/Ess-Food, Fabrice Rolland/Blue Water Brest, Tommy Jensen/Ess-Food, Mogens Nielsen/Blue Water Brest and Vincent Ouzard/Ess-Food.
Did you know.....that Blue Water has specialists in handling of foodstuffs - chilled or frozen by sea, air or road - all over the world?
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Visiting Canada Once again, Søren Svennum/Blue Water Aalborg and Jeanette Kjeldgaard/Blue Water Greenland enjoyed a fruitful trip to St. John’s, Newfoundland and Halifax, Nova Scotia. They primarily visited trawler owners discharging in Greenland, where Blue Water is taking care of handling and reforwarding of the goods to the Far East among other destinations. It was a pleasure to meet again with our existing business relations and interesting to meet new potential
Rio Import & Export - left to right: Jeanette Kjeldgaard, Winston J. Spenser, Holly Lavigne and Søren Svennum.
USAPEEC 2009, Key Biscayne clients. In spite of the world crisis, everybody is optimistic and expects a good season with landings in Greenland.
NF Mariner Fishing Enterprise Ltd. - Jeanette Kjeldgaard, Edgar Branton and Ray Croft.
Labrador Fishermen’s Union Shrimp Company - Jeanette Kjeldgaard and Kenneth Fowler.
As a member of USAPEEC, Blue Water participated in the annual summer meeting which this time was held in Key Biscayne, Florida. USAPEEC is a committee of exporting poultry and egg producers in the USA, where we have several good and loyal customers of long standing. The meeting offered rich opportunity to see new and old contacts and attend different interesting presentations on what is going on in the business. Blue Water was represented by
Victor Sapp/Blue Water New York, Lasse Petersen/Blue Water Fort Lauderdale and Frank Madsen/Blue Water Esbjerg.
Left to right: Lasse Petersen, Victor Sapp, Michael Stentebjerg/ Uhrenholt and Olga Starodubsteva/Eastern Poultry.
Left to right: Victor Sapp, Marcelo Russo/Royal Foods of Americas and Frank Madsen.
Left to right: Lasse Petersen, Micah Hendry/Hakan USA and Victor Sapp.
Fish Expo Faroes 2009
Andrew Daley - Andrew Daley and his wife Christine, who is looking after administration.
AMP Fisheries - Rex Simmons and his wife Paula, who is taking care of administrative matters.
Ocean Choice - Rick Ellis and Søren Svennum.
Smyril Blue Water attended the fisheries exhibition ”Fish Expo Faroes 2009”, which took place in Torshavn from May 27-29. This year, we had chosen not to have our own stand, but to visit the stands
of our customers and colleagues instead. It is always a pleasure to participate in exhibitions on the Faroe Islands, where we run into old friends of the family, says Bent Rasmussen/Smyril Blue Water.
Bent Rasmussen/Smyril Blue Water (in the middle) visiting Hirtshals’collective stand together with - from left to right: Ole Toft/Marine Service and Ivan Madsen/Kølemadsen among others.
The Faroese Prime Minister Kaj Leo Johannesen visiting our colleagues Faroe Agency.
Williams / Arctic Fishery Alliance Jeanette Kjeldgaard with Paula Taylor, Jerry Williams and Harry Earle.
PF Collins - left to right: Søren Svennum, Andrew Collins and Deborah Roche.
Søren Svennum and the girls of Pescadores.
In early June, Carol Liu and Arne iversen/Blue Water Qingdao went to Jining to visit one of our dedicated customers Jining Sanlong Vegetable and Fruit Co. Ltd. for business review as well as to see the garlic harvest. JinXiang, Shandong is the biggest planting area for garlic in China - around 1.2 million tons of garlic is exported worldwide every year. Thousands of cars were waiting in
a 2-kilometre line to sell their harvest of garlic. Left to right: Wang Linlin/Sanlong, Carol Liu, Arne Iversen and Sun Youngqin/CEO of Sanlong.
Did you know.....that Blue Water has an on-line portal which facilitates statistics and customer notification?
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International Prize Award in Port Everglades On 25.4., Blue Water Fort Lauderdale participated in the International Golden Compass Award Dinner in support of the Seafarer’s House in Port Everglades. It was a fantastic evening with 400 guests, and donee of the year was Stein Kruse, CEO of Holland America Line, reports Rasmus Øllgaard from Florida. Rasmus Øllgaard, Zaida Pena, Nanna Juul Andersen and Lasse Petersen from Blue Water’s team in Fort Lauderdale participated in the event.
Our partner IWS, Fort Lauderdale - Betty Ann and Fred Rogacki -were also among the guests.
Cruise & Marine Logistic Network
Holland America calling at Denmark
The first official meeting in the newly established Cruise & Marine Logistic Network was held in Esbjerg on 14.7. The network consists of specialists within logistics to the cruise and marine industry and the purpose is to form a global network. The parties involved deal with all kinds of transport to the cruise and marine industry and offer specific logistic solutions including pick and pack and specially designed IT systems with 24-hour track & trace of transport by road, sea and air as well as solutions to all domestic, international and overseas destinations. In the near future, all marketing material will be available and the website is in the process of being designed. For further information
Blue Water Copenhagen is pleased that the cruise season has brought hectic activity to the office. Blue Water has since the first call in May handled 6 calls/approx. 40 containers in Aarhus and Copenhagen of m/s ”Rotterdam”, m/s ”Prinsendam” and m/s ”Eurodam” respectively. When the season is over, we have handled around 70 containers distributed on 11 calls. We are in charge of provisioning of food especially ordered by Holland America Line from different suppliers in the USA. The food is packed in reefer containers and handled by Blue Water, Fort Lauderdale before we take over the remaining part of the transport until everything is delivered directly to the ship. We started the year with meetings with all parties involved in order to secure an optimal standard of service and a smooth handling. Afterwards we have maintained a close dialogue, which has resulted in a trouble-free operation so far, explains Thomas Jeppesen of Blue Water Copenhagen.
please check: www.marinelogisticnetwork.com The board consists of the directors of the founding companies: • Carsten Leder of Tefra Travel Logistics, Germany • Andrea Giachero of Priano Marchelli, Italy • Ross Negus of Southampton Freight Services, England • Kurt Skov of Blue Water Blue Water is involved in the cruise industry in Florida/USA, Holland, Denmark, the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland, Spain, Dubai and Singapore. The board elected Andrea Giachero Chairman of the group and Lisette Trab Munk/BlueWater was elected Vice President.
Sightseeing in Esbjerg the network group at one of the landmarks of the city ”The White Men” at Sædding Beach. Left to right: Rasmus Øllgaard/ Blue Water Fort Lauderdale, Kurt Skov/Blue Water, Andrea Giachero/Priano Marchelli, Carsten Leder/Tefra Travel Logistics, Lisette Trab Munk/ Blue Water Esbjerg, Ross Negus/Southampton Freight Services and Richard Buys/Blue Water Rotterdam.
We enjoy a close and excellent co-operation with CMP (Copenhagen Malmo Port) and the border customs house - in both Aarhus and Copenhagen. In Copenhagen, we use CMP for container trucking to and from the veterinary inspection and delivery at the vessel. In Aarhus, Cargo Service takes care of container trucking. In addition to containers, we handle more than 400 shipments by courier and air, explains Kasper Nielsen from our airfreight department. All these orders to the vessel comes from Holland America Line’s worldwide suppliers, and Blue Water serves as consolidation hub for the entire Scandinavia/the Baltic Sea for spare parts etc. to be delivered to the ship in the fastest and safest way. The goods may vary from advertising material and personal effects of the seamen to essential marine engine parts. Storage of the goods until ship’s arrival requires a lot of work in connection with customs clearance and extensive follow-up.
Did you know.....that Blue Water is the leading freight forwarder on the South American market centred around Argentina & Chile and of course Brazil?
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Project ”2880 Gjøa”
Import of American Cars
Blue Water has been entrusted with a huge, interesting project ”2880 Gjøa” for our very good client NKT Flexibles A/S in Brøndby and Kalundborg. Over the past 4 months, we have arranged transport of approx. 50 full loads from the UK to Blue Water Copenhagen, where the goods - 4,800 cbm Buoyancy Modules - are now stored. The goods consist of buoyancy modules for oil and gas pipes going from the bottom of the sea to connections on an oil rig in the Gjøa field off Bergen on the Norwegian coast. NKT’s client, StatoilHydro, has bought the modules as a package consisting of 7 flexible pipes among other things. The first 197 modules have already been delivered at Kalundborg to ”Polar Queen” - an installation vessel, which is going to perform installation of both pipes and modules in the Gjøa field. ”Polar Queen” is expected back at Kalundborg in mid-August, when
This spring has again seen a lot of inquiries for import of cars from the USA. Despite the financial crisis, there are still some car enthusiasts who brave the situation and make their dream come true. US Carteam of Blue Water Copenhagen has also experienced an increase in inquiries during the last couple of months as the summer has drawn close.
delivery of the remaining 128 modules is supposed to take place. In addition, we have arranged 4 special transports by truck - in co-operation between Blue Water Copenhagen and our project department in Esbjerg - as well as marking of the bolts on the modules, which will be replaced during installation.
Several cars are already on their way from the USA and more are ready for loading. This activity is carried out in co-operation with our good colleagues at Blue Water’s New York office, who are responsible for the US customs formalities, loading etc. US Carteam is ready to make your dream come true! E-mail: uscarteam_cph@bws.dk
The yellow Buoyancy Modules stored at Blue Water Copenhagen.
Loading of the modules on board the ”Polar Queen” - 197 modules in total weighing 315 tons. Did you know.....that Blue Water has 800 trailers (the majority of our fleet) fitted with GPS tracking
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Trophy Transport Blue Water Aarhus has during the last couple of years developed a small niche within trophy transport. Every second month, we ship a full container with trophies from South Africa. Furthermore we have orders from customers for trophies from New Zealand, Canada, USA, Bosnia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Spain, Namibia, Tanzania, Botswana and Zimbabwe, explains Carl Hjort Bækby/Blue Water Aarhus, who jointly with Søren Ladekjær (airfreight) and Jesper Kyhn (Sea freight) are dealing with the bookings. Thanks to Amakulu Safari in Grindsted - who is represented in
both Denmark and South Africa Blue Water has secured a foothold within this special niche. Hunting is a matter of opinion just like any other issues. We do not take part in the discussion, but we do make sure that our partners are serious companies and organisations and that the hunting is organised and legal. All necessary certificates are issued in accordance with the Washington Convention, protecting endangered species, and all circumstances are checked for each shipment in connection with import to Denmark.
Reception at Blue Water Holland Blue Water Rotterdam moved into new office and warehouse facilities on 16.3. The event was celebrated with no less than two receptions - the first official opening on 15.5. for customers and the second one on
20.5. for colleagues and other business relations of the shipping and transport industry. Everybody enjoyed the Danish element; open sandwiches, Danish beer - Tuborg - and Danish aquavit.
When participating in exhibitions in Denmark, Amakulu Safari do not make a secret of who is helping them with the transport.
Trophy Transport Blue Water Shipping offers you and your trophies a complete transport package including: • • • • • • • • • • •
Contact to taxidermist Local transport (country of origen) Dip & pack Safe packing Issue of transport documents Sea and airfreight to Denmark Unpacking Customs clearance Local delivery in Scandinavia Translation Insurance
For further information please contact: SAFARI@BWS.DK Did you know.....that Blue Water is one of the biggest suppliers of express & courier services in Denmark?
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Transport for Falck Nutec
LauritzenBlueC Blue Water has jointly with J. Lauritzen, Copenhagen and the offshore company, SubCPartner, established a company - LauritzenBlueC - with the object of executing orders for complete offshore installations and offshore
wind farms. J. Lauritzen is responsible for the shipping activities, SubCPartner for offshore installation and Blue Water for the logistics. The company is managed by Frank Mouridsen/Blue Water.
Falck Nutec offers training and safety education to the offshore sector. Training centres have therefore been established at strategic locations - not only around the North Sea, but around the world. Blue Water Marine & Energy has in this respect during the last couple of years arranged transport of mobile training centres to USA and the Middle East among other destinations. Falck Nutec’s latest addition is a new centre in Abu Dhabi, for which they have high hopes and expect to educate 20,000 people on a yearly basis.
Project Transport of Boilers for Solar Energy Plant In October 2008, our project department in Esbjerg received an inquiry from BK Aalborg for transport of boilers for a big solar energy plant. The plant, which takes up an area of approx. 2000 acres, is placed in the South of Spain close to Seville. The transport project includes shipment of 40 boilers - weighing between 40 and 80 tons - from Aalborg and Shanghai respectively - in 5 lots during 2009/2010. The first two transports are completed. The boilers from Aalborg
were transported by road combined with Cobelfret’s RO/RO service from Esbjerg to Zeebrugge and Transfennica’s RO/RO service from Zeebrugge to Bilbao. The boilers from Shanghai will be sent as partial cargo by heavy-lift vessel from Shanghai to port of Seville. Our project department in Esbjerg as well as Blue Water Singapore and Blue Water Projects, Barcelona are involved in the project. Barcelona will take care of the discharging of the vessel and oncarriage to the site.
Blue Water is not only involved in the actual transport, we also act as advisers for customs formalities of the different markets, where Falck Nutec is setting up new training centres. Last autumn, Falck took over the majority of shares in American Alford Group, and in this connection Blue Water was entrusted with removal of a complete training centre from Malaysia to the States. Our latest job was to provide assistance in connection with delivery of an ambulance to Nigeria, reports Lasse Nørgaard Wolff/oil & energy, Esbjerg.
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Based on the plans for expansion of the Port of Rømø, to include service to the German sector of the windmill industry, Blue Water has made an agreement about establishing an office in Havneby, Rømø. The office facilities are under construction and expected finished in October. Managing Director of the Port of Romo, Mikkel Glerup, is looking forward to having an experienced player within transport to the windmill industry on the scene, and having the expertise in place right from the start.
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This scissor table is being used for making up various types of casing and tubing on drilling rigs in the North sea.
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Did you know.....that Blue Water is shipping approx. 100 cbm general cargo from Denmark to the Far East on a weekly basis with our own sea freight consolidation?
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We have for safety reasons installed Card Aids/Defibrillators at the Danish offices. We are a lot of people at the offices every day and it is reassuring to know that we are now prepared for emergencies. A number of employees have attended first aid courses, but anybody should be able to use the Card Aid without prior knowledge.
Blue Water’s staff in Sao Paulo have attended a meeting/course at MSC in Santos in order to follow developments within the reefer business. It was the third time MSC offered their clients an update. In addition to practical and technical details, we also got the opportunity to see the port of Santos.
Company Excursion 134 Blue Water runners and an enormous cheering crowd had a wonderful day in Gryden (part of a big park in Esbjerg) on Saturday 14.6. Our best male runner on the long distance (9.2 kilometres) was Peter Lauridsen, finishing with a 38.11.0 clocking, and Mette Thomsen was best female with a 42.30.0 clocking.
”Sculptures by the sea” As start of the summer party of our Aarhus office, the staff visited the successful exhibition ”Sculptures by the Sea”. A hired guide showed our colleagues the unique sculptures along the beautiful Aarhus Bay
coastline. It was a fantastic sight, works of art from all over the world, placed on land, in the water and in the sand, and sculptured in many different shapes, colours and materials.
The annual company excursion arranged by the staff club for the staff (in cluding their partners) of Blue Water Esbjerg, Billund and Herning was held on Saturday 25.4. The day’s programme started at 1200 hours and included lots of physical activities such as team building and not least fun and trickery. The party in the evening, with plenty of food and drink, continued with dancing all night.
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Jubilees 10 years Karen Stein worked as a substitute in our accounts department in Esbjerg from 18.1 until 1.11.1999, when she was transferred to a permanent job in the UK/Ireland department. Once she was also hired out to airfreight on a part-time basis, but is now 100% back in the UK/Ireland department taking good care of the many administrative duties as well as claims. On the home front, Karen is an active wife and mother for her 3 x J: Jørgen, Jakob and Joakim. She also plays in Esbjerg Post Orchestra together with Jørgen and is a treasurer in the local scouts association. Finn B. Jensen will be celebrating his 10th anniversary with Blue Water Padborg on 1.11. Finn is our man on evening duty, trying to keep control of the foreign truck drivers in particular - who come to collect papers - and confused terminal staff trying to locate some fish. Sometimes a little Polish or Russian knowledge would have been an advantage, but Finn manages to keep calm and sort things out so that the drivers can continue their onward transport. Dorthe Liebmann Knudsen served her apprenticeship with Scandinavian Germent Service in Odense (the present DHL). Dorthe started as assistant in the airfreight department of Blue Water Odense on 1.11.1999, but the job developed and soon Dorthe became an integrated part of the daily airfreight operation. She has since acquired the Forwarding School’s diploma degree including both road trans-
port and airfreight as special subjects. Furthermore Dorthe has taken refresher courses to keep up her skills within the fields of hazardous goods and airfreight. In 2006, Dorthe took over the secretarial post in the sales department and is today our local SMS expert as well. On the home front, Dorthe is married to Michael and the family also includes their two sons Kris and Kevin.
20 years Frank Junk joined Blue Water Padborg on 1.7.1989 - only 17 years old - and started his career under the management of Wolfgang Schubert - specialist in customs formalities. No one doubts that Frank is trained with order and details as important elements in the daily work, which he masters completely. In 1991, Frank was transferred to our road department in Esbjerg. Germany soon became his favourite destination and is today his core competence. The Germany and Benelux department moved to Kolding in 1998 and so did Frank. In 2003, he was appointed head of the department which numbers 9 colleagues. Frank is incredibly energetic and always ready to meet the challenge - and is happy to help his colleagues whenever necessary. Frank never makes mistakes - so he says!!! He always has a ready answer and he is a real joker and party freak!! A lot of people wonder how Frank can be married to Sanne - when he is already married to Blue Water. Frank and Sanne live in Kolding and have two daughters Josephine
aged 5 and Sophie aged 3. We hereby thank Frank for his great efforts and congratulate him on the occasion. Anette Tholstrup Corell/Blue Water Esbjerg will be celebrating her 20th jubilee on 15.10. Anette originally started as a receptionist, but has over the years developed into a bit of an all-rounder and is today part of our sales administration assisting our 3 salesmen, superuser on our sales system and not least instructor on our internal IT products. Anette is a happy girl and great fun and always ready to lend a helping hand. She is a bit of a shopaholic - with a weakness for boots and shoes in particular (she is probably the person in Denmark who has the biggest amount of shoes in her closet). Anette lives in Varde with her husband, Lars, and two sons, Peter and Frederik, and the whole family shares a passion for golf. Anette likes to watch a football match at Blue Water Arena - especially when AFG (her native football club) is playing !
Fred Kegge/Blue Water Rotterdam - after 25 years of complaining with a smile about Blue Water, acting as a beer bottle with a swing top of his favourite beer on his head.
Staff Redeployment Morten Plauborg Sørensen is after a period with Ocean Freight, Paris transferred to Blue Water New York as from 29.5. Diana Kaa completed her apprenticeship with Blue Water Aarhus on 31.7., and moved to Blue Water Gothenburg on 1.8.
Nicolai Wiedeman, who served his first year of apprenticeship with Smyril Blue Water, Padborg and the recent months in Hanstholm, will be transferred to Esbjerg. Kenneth Ruby Sørensen/agency department, Esbjerg will be transferred to Blue Water Singapore this autumn.
Frank Junk on the day of his jubilee.
Did you know.....that Blue Water has a close co-operation with approx. 40 different container lines?
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New employees Aalborg Aida Maksumic - 44 years old - is employed as assistant in the department for sea freight to the North Atlantic as from 1.6. Aida comes from a similar job with Danish Camp Supply and was originally trained at SKAT (tax and customs authorities). On 1.8., 22-yearold Steve Sonberg Egede joined our North Atlantic seafood department as freight forwarding trainee. Steve is not completely unfamiliar with the business, as he has been working temporarily as assistant at the office since 4.5. Kasper Junge - 19 years old started as freight forwarding trainee in the airfreight department on 1.8.
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20-year-old Trine F. Mikkelsen joined our forwarding department as freight forward-
Billund On 1.8., 19-yearold Nicolai Nørgaard joined our courier and import department as freight forwarding trainee. Esbjerg Having completed his education as a multimedia designer, 22-year-old Brian Hundebøl is employed as marketing assistant as from 1.7. Brian is already a familiar face within Blue Water, as he since April 2008 has been assisting the marketing department on a regular basis. On 1.8., Mia Jakobsen - 20 years old - started as accounting trainee in the accounts payable department.
As from 1.8., 20-year-old Jakob Winum Andersen forms part of the accounts department as accounting trainee. We have taken on 20-year-old Simon Skov as freight forwarding trainee in the deep sea department as from 1.8. New freight forwarding trainee in the UK department as from 1.8. is 20-year-old Christian Rode Hansen. Mathias Kipker - 20 years old started as freight forwarding trainee in the agency department on 1.8. Odense Stig Jeppesen - 22 years old forms part of the Scandinavian department since 1.8. as freight forwarding trainee. Padborg Since 1.7., the 20-year-old forwarding trainee Michael Hansen forms part of our Germany department. Aarhus Maja Djozis - 21 years old started as freight forwarding trainee in our Norwegian
department on 1.8. Aktau Since 1.6., 37-year-old Maiya Kononenko has performed the function of finance manager. Maiya has 15 years of experience from the banking and investment world. During the last 7 years, however, she has been working for Bertling Ltd.
22-year-old Eldar Sarbasov started as driver of our local pickup on 1.6.
27-year-old Miroslava Surjenko is employed in our key account department to service a major client - a job she is very well prepared for due to her wide experience. Ilulissat Malik Zeeb Olsen - 24 years old - is our jackof-all-trades - warehouse manager, driver, interpreter - since 1.6.2008. Malik is a nice chap, who is not afraid of hard work and has an extra job as substitute policeman in Ilulissat. Los Angeles Anthony Torres - 42 years old - started in our operations department on 5.3. Anthony has a long business experience, which most recently included jobs with Transit Air Cargo and Packair Customs Brokers & Forwarders, Los Angeles. Furthermore Anthony has lived in Switzerland for 7 years, where he was involved in international distribution and shipping. Oslo Joanna Garalczyk - 30 years old - performs the function of finance controller in SOD (distribution department) since 11.5. Joanna was previously employed with UPS, but has for the last year been on maternity leave with her little son Philip. Lars Gundersen - 45 years old - is employed as forwarder in SOD (distribution department) as from 1.7. For the last 5 years, Lars has been working for Cargo Partner.
As from 1.9., 48-year-old Lisbeth Lund is employed as accounts assistant. Lisbeth’s previous job was as financial controller with Unifeeder since 1991. As from 1.9., 50-year-old Geir Sund is appointed general manager of our Oslo office. Geir takes over the responsibility after Knut Gran, who has been acting general manager since July 2008 and will continue in the company. Geir is already well-known and popular among a large number of Blue Water colleagues, as he has been employed with Cargo Partner and Kuhne & Nagel, both former agents for Blue Water in Norway. Geir has a wide transport experience, mainly within road transport, domestic transport, sales and logistics, but he is also familiar with sea and airfreight. Geir’s career includes jobs as sales manager for Nor Cargo, road manager for Kuhne & Nagel, Norway and most recently a job as head of domestic for Cargo Partner Group, Norway. Rotterdam 20-year-old Denny Twigt is employed as warehouse assistant as from 1.7. Denny is a familiar face as he was a trainee at Blue Water Rotterdam for two years, when he was still at the Harbour and Transport School. Denny completed his traineeship with Rotterdam Short Sea Terminal and worked there for one year afterwards. Sao Paulo 21-year-old Marcelo Feal Oliveira joined our Sao Paulo office as accounting assistant on 4.5. Marcelo is a student of business administration with focus on foreign trade, and has worked at Mackenzie’s Junior Enterprise as a project manager. Working with Blue Water will be Marcelo’s first experience in shipping.
Did you know.....that Blue Water is handling more than 50,000 x 20’ containers worldwide on an annual basis?
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Birthday List September Carsten Olsen, Herning - 40 years old Sharon Tan Siew Leng, Singapore - 30 years old Mohammad Qasim, Dubai - 30 years old Zhou Fang, Qingdao - 30 years old Shahin Ismaylov, Baku - 40 years old Jan Olav Edvardsen, Oslo - 40 years old
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October Hans Poiesz, Rotterdam - 50 years old Neil Daniel, Dubai - 40 years old Inga Safarova, Baku - 50 years old Adriano Venetucci Gouveia, Sao Paulo - 30 years old Prabhal Shetty, Jebel Ali - 40 years old Ole Ulriksen, Aalborg - 50 years old
Births Mehri Huseynova/Blue Water Baku gave birth to a baby girl (3.3 kgs/49 cm), Melhriban, on 23.3. On 6.5., Anne Roed Skov/Oil & Energy department, Esbjerg increased her little family by a baby girl Frida (3.1 kgs/51 cm). The family of 4 also includes the proud 3 year elder brother Victor. Mette Sønderskov Christiansen/ Blue Water Billund gave birth to a baby girl (3.4 kgs/51 cm) on 17.5. The little family, which also includes big brother Andreas, is reported in good shape. On 20.5., Heather Zhang/Blue Water Qingdao was delivered of a child - a big fine boy (4.7 kgs/56 cm). Thomas Zuidema/Blue Water Rotterdam and his wife have increased their little famility by a baby boy (2.6 kgs/48 cm) - Olivier - born on 26.5. The family also includes the proud big sister, Britt, aged 6. On 14.6., Heins Christensen/IT department, Esbjerg became a father for the third time. The family, which also includes two fine boys, was very happy to welcome a baby sister (3.6 kgs/52 cm). Cynthia Goh’s/Blue Water Singapore little boy (2.7 kgs/47 cm), Ryan Ee, first saw the light of day on 23.6.
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November Margaret Kremenchuk, Aktau - 40 years old 6.11. Guro Dyrud, Oslo - 40 years old 19.11. Anette Tholstrup, Esbjerg - 40 years old 25.11. December Klaus Odby Jensen, Esbjerg - 30 years old 1.12. Alex Gottfredsen, Copenhagen - 60 years old 19.12. Torben Nyborg, Esbjerg - 30 years old 22.12.
Weddings On 24.6., Rasmus Bildstrup/Finland department, Aarhus proudly announced the birth of his little son (3.1 kgs/52 cm). Aurore Dupont/Blue Water Vatry gave birth to a baby boy (2.7 kgs/48 cm), Raphaël, on 29.6. Linda Tosti/accounts department, Esbjerg became a mother for the first time on 5.7. - of a baby boy (3.1 kgs/51 cm). The proud father’s name is Thomas. Jesper Kassow/Blue Water Aalborg became a father for the second time on 25.7. when his wife, Pernille, gave birth to a baby girl (3.4 kgs/51 cm) - Anna.
Our Russian colleague in Brest, Elena Gadzhieva, married Patrice Azria at the town hall of Le Relecq Kerhuon on 17.7. As you can see from the picture, Elena is pregnant and is actually expecting twins.
Torben Nyborg/forwarding department, Esbjerg married Anne Sofie Weidinger in Hjerting Church on 20.6.
Christina Husted Christensen/deep sea department, Esbjerg married her fiancé, Henrik in Jerne Church on 8.8.
Thomas Kim Møller/Blue Water Copenhagen entered into matrimony with his fiancée, Helle, on 25.7. The wedding took place in Skive and on the same occasion Thomas changed his name to Thomas Lindblom Møller.
Carsten Jensen/Blue Water Kolding became a father for the first time on 1.8., when his wife, Jessica, gave birth to a baby girl 3.8 kgs/52 cm). On 12.08, Pamela Cherrier /Blue Water Vatry became a mother for the first time of the little girl Neyah (3 kgs/48 cm). The new mother and the baby are fine. Søren Messmann and his wife, Mette, became parents for the second time, when Mette gave birth to a baby girl, Ida (3.1 kgs/51 cm), on 9.8. The family also includes the very prod big sister Sine.
On 8.7., Mette Jessen/Blue Water Billund changed her surname to Madsen by secretly marrying her fiancé, Anders, at a town hall wedding. Editors: Gyrithe Skov: gskov@bws.dk Jørn Bøllund, Kurt Skov Published in: 8.000 copies E-mail: bwsebj@bws.dk www.bws.dk
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