Blue Water News - English - December 2015

DECEMBER 2015

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STAFF & CLIENT MAGAZINE

Experience is vital in the wind sector Page 6-7

Niels provided relief aid to earthquake victims in Nepal Page 5

Priano Marchelli and Blue Water strengthens set-up Page 11

Well-attended Anuga exhibition in Germany

5-year terminal contract has been signed in Poland Page 9

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STATUS FROM MANAGEMENT

Contents Status from Management Case: Kverneland General Cargo Wind Logistics Port Services & Agency Reefer Logistics Marine Logistics Oil, Gas & Industrial Projects Blue Water Spirit Blue Water Corporate New employees Weddings Birthdays etc.

Jubilees Merry Christmas

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The foundation has been strengthened In 2015, Blue Water continued investing in strengthening the company’s foundation to match future needs and ambitions

Again in 2015, Blue Water made a number of significant investments which, in the short as well as in the long term, will improve the company’s position in the global transport and logistics market. Some investments have already contributed to increasing the contribution margin whereas others are long-term investments contributing towards an expected slightly lower bottom line compared to 2014. The low oil price is also a contributing factor to the declining earnings as our Oil & Gas and Wind divisions in particular experience cancellations and postponements of projects.

Investing in promoting efficiency Other divisions have seen a strong positive development in 2015. Recent years’ significant growth in our General Cargo division within and around the Danish market continues. In this respect, it is our ambition to strengthen our position in Norway, Sweden and Finland in particular. In 2015, we have among other things invested in the acquisition of Partner Solution in Norway, and in Denmark we have launched the construction of a new large warehouse and logistics terminal in Taulov to improve the service and efficiency towards the clients in and around Denmark. These big investments will have a negative effect on the bottom line for 2015 and 2016.

We shall work hard In 2016, we will focus on earnings improvement and we still expect keen competition on the global transport and logistics market. The low oil price will also in 2016 put a damper on the level of activity in the Oil & Gas industry. We will have to work hard and determinedly to maintain our existing clients as well as to win new clients and projects. This goes for all our business areas.

Our wide experience in operating in changeable markets and industries, combined with our strong competences and understanding of the clients’ needs, will be of vital importance for maintaining our position in the years to come.

Thank you Blue Water’s employees have also this year performed strongly and determinedly to provide the best and most professional service in the business. On behalf of the entire Management, I would like to thank everybody for their daily efforts in making Blue Water a fantastic workplace – and for making Blue Water the clients’ preferred partner.

Best regards

Kim Hedegaard Sørensen CEO December 2015

CASE KVERNELAND

Project teams help raising the standard of service For the next three years, Blue Water will handle Kverneland Group’s road transports between Denmark and Kverneland’s business partner in the Czech Republic The preparatory work is vital for a successful cooperation.

“We make a great effort to give our clients a smooth transition when they change their supplier. In this case we have analysed Kverneland’s needs through various meetings in order to minimise the risks during handling of the transports.

This creates the best foundation for the cooperation”, says Claus Chr. Andersen who is responsible for the contract and General Manager of Blue Water Odense.

For major contracts, Blue Water always attach an implementation team. A Project

On their way to visit Kverneland’s Czech part­ ner to discuss the cooperation and see the fa­ cilities. FL: Jeanette Holck, Henrik Dalsgaard Hansen/both from Kverneland. Claus Chr. Andersen, Torben Stehmann, Søren Jørgensen and Kasper Kristiansen/all from Blue Water.

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Manager is appointed for each team who, together with the client, will convert the basic contract to an operational document.

“Kverneland Group has via this strategic cooperation with Blue Water achieved the common thread in our general transport set-up. Kverneland are pleased with Blue Water’s professional approach to

the implementation process. Focusing on dialogue and client service ensures that our clients experience a better service in several areas such as ETA, communication and transparency”, says Henrik Dalsgaard Hansen, Supply Chain Director for Kverneland Group.

GENERAL CARGO

Successful exhibition

Strong focus on growth market

Nearly 14,000 visitors make Danfish International the largest exhibition held in Aalborg. Blue Water participated, not only as exhibition forwarder for 325 exhibitors, but were also represented with our own stand. Overall, the exhibitors were satisfied and brought home a lot of new orders.

The Blue Water stand was well-attended by clients from both Denmark, the North Atlantic and Canada. Many of Blue Water’s employees are working with the fishing industry and as Danfish is the largest fisheries exhibition in Denmark, it is important for us to be there to meet the clients and create valuable contacts. “The exhibition went well and both the exhibitors and the organiser were satisfied”, says Ole Bøgh Ulriksen from Blue Water Aalborg.

Transporting medicine is a growth market, which Blue Water will increase its focus on in the future.

The sensitive medical products must often be transported by special equipment requiring special education of both dri­vers, freight forwarders and subsuppliers. All transports shall comply with EU’s code of practice regarding pharmaceutical products.

“It takes a strong and competent organisation to live up to the clients’ expectations and the additional demands”, says Lars Tue Toftild, General Manager of Blue Water Copenhagen.

Blue Water delivers medical products from Denmark to the rest of the world.

Due to increasing focus on streamlining the transport chain, reducing costs and environmental impact, cross trade is also offered through our comprehensive network.

Hygiene kits for Syria The Aid & Relief teams from Blue Water in Spain and Denmark have been working together to support two international aid organisations and their suppliers in bringing hygiene kits with tooth paste, toilet rolls and shampoo to rural Damascus, Syria. A total of 55 x 40´containers was delivered via Beirut in Lebanon where the cargo was loaded on local trucks for delivery to the relief organisations. Blue Water Barcelona worked hard to arrange the deliveries in Syria. In close cooperation with Johnny Mortensen from Billund, the containers were brought safely to the conflict zone.

The best solution Blue Water Aarhus and Oslo joined forces to ship five containers of fishing equipment from Busan in South Korea to Honningsvåg in the northern part of Norway. Upon arrival in Oslo, the contents of the containers were packed on trucks for the remaining part of the transport. Originally, the equipment was to be transported in containers all the way to Honningsvåg. However, this was not only a more expensive but also a more unreliable solution, as there are often shortage of space on the feeder vessels, which ultimately may end up increasing the costs due to demurrage. This was the reason why Blue Water coordinated a better alternative for the client, who appreciated the new solution very much.

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Expanding partners for General Cargo Blue Water New York has met with new partners for General Cargo to expand on the coverage for their Import product.

Two key areas of expansion are India and Pakistan.

“Freightlinks International India’s Global Sales Manager P. Gurunathan came for a day of sales visits in New Jersey. We visited five clients and in all cases we have been given the opportunity to quote for their business”.

“The Managing Director Muhammed Saleem and Executive Director Athar Baig from Combined Freight International in Pakistan also visited us to discuss the growth and development of Pakistan.

Combined will be able to give us very good qualified leads for a push-pull sales effort” says Kelly Delle Fave, VP of Business Development, who takes an optimistic view of the future development of our General Cargo activity in the US. December 2015

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Gyroplanes to Iceland

Relief aid to Nepal When Nepal was hit by two earthquakes in April and May, Niels Mikkelsen from Blue Water’s Aid & Relief team travelled to the country to deliver relief supplies to the people in need. Niels found a beautiful country with very friendly people who, despite the terrible circumstances, welcomed him and the other aid delegations with open arms.

Blue Water’s Niels Mikkelsen received a warm welcome. In spite of the sad situation, the people of Nepal were incredibly welcoming and friendly.

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“It was truly inspiring to meet the Nepali people. Almost everyone smiled, thanked us and made us feel welcome from the beginning although many of them had lost their homes. Situations like these confirm me in my choice of career path within Aid & Relief Logistics”, says Niels Mikkelsen.

On behalf of Mikkel Palmbo from AutoGyro Nordic ApS, Stenløse (Copenhagen) Blue Water Hirtshals arranged transport of three gyroplanes (lightweight aircrafts) to Iceland on board Smyril Line’s freight and passenger ferry “Nörröna”.

Mkkel Palmbo, who was entrusted with the job of pilot and tour guide on an adventure “touring Iceland by gyroplane”, was flying one of the gyroplanes to Hirtshals from Copenhagen. The two other planes arrived from Germany.

“Before arrival, we cleared Fjord Line’s approach area in Hirtshals so that the gyroplanes would be able to land close to our area at the terminal and taxi directly onboard the car deck. The cruise went according to plan and we have heard that the tour of Iceland was a giant success”, reports Jan Nørgaard, Manager Freight Forwarding in Hirtshals.

New Krone trailers

Blue Water has just concluded an agreement for delivery of 120 new logo trailers to our trailer fleet. Krone Fleet will deliver the ultramodern trailers at the end of the year - to most of our Danish branches as well as to Finland. The trailers are therefore delivered with equipment adapted to the individual markets and traffics.

“As we sell transport solutions of high quality for a living, it is important that our equipment fits our clients’ needs and also lives up to the safety requirements of both the cargo and the specific countries. The safety requirements are in fact the reason why we change all our trailers at intervals of 48 months. By doing this, we ensure that new developments become standard equipment in our existing fleet”, says Carsten Steffensen, Director in Blue Water.

All trailers are delivered with GPRS surveillance equipment so that they can be traced and supply data home to the traffics on a continuous basis.

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WIND LOGISTICS

Preparing for wind projects in France

Wind turbines to Wales

Marianne Girardin and Jacob Kjærgaard (the latter is seen as no. two from the right) represented Blue Water at the conference.

Blue Water France was invited to participate in a panel discussion at the MRE (Marine Renewable Energy) conference in Le Havre.

The topic of discussion was: Are the port and logistics operators ready for the future? It was the first time that the conference was held and the event attracted many players of the industry in France. So far the French authorities have planned three wind farms to be constructed close to Le Havre making it a close-to-the-action choice for industry experts to meet and share their thoughts and ideas. Blue Water has been represented in France since 1985 and operates from Marseille, Brest, St. Nazaire and Nantes.

The Pen Y Cymoedd Wind Energy Project is an onshore wind park in Wales consisting of 76 turbines. Blue Water won the transport of all turbines and components in June, and in October, the first of 14 chartered vessels were loaded.

“All turbines and components are delivered from Denmark and the wind

towers are delivered from China, where we handle all loading operations in close cooperation with our colleagues from Shanghai and Singapore. It is a big task with coordination of a lot of shipments.

Luckily, we have a good cooperation which also includes our office in Manchester”, says Christian Heyk Petersen, responsible

FL: Hans Christian Mikkelsen, Brian Sørensen and Jacob Larsen/all from Blue Water, Beth Weber and Bill Wenger/both from Kokosing Industrial.

Discussing offshore wind Blue Water was invited to participate in a panel discussion, a pre-event to the AWEA conference and exhibition (American Wind Energy Association), and we also participated at AWEA in September. Both the preevent, arranged by the Business Network for Offshore Wind, and the AWEA event were hosted in Baltimore.

Blue Water was invited due to our many years of experience in offshore wind, in particular in Europe.

“This was a good chance for us to talk to other players within the industry and discuss optimisation in the logistical chain. It was very exciting to hear different views on the future possibilities”, says Jacob Kjærgaard, the Head of Global Business Development in Blue Water’s Wind division.

The US will soon have its first offshore wind farm installed - the Block Island project where also BWS is involved.

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Great activity in Hvide Sande Since the expansion in 2013, the port of Hvide Sande (on the Danish west coast north of Esbjerg) has experienced increased traffic from large offshore vessels.

In October, the port reached a milestone with the call of the largest ship that has ever called at the port - the installation vessel “Sea Installer” operated by A2SEA. Blue Water acted as agents for the installation vessel both on this and a later port call. During the same month, Blue Water also acted as agents for M/S “Triton” and

handled the loading of 18 wind blades on to the ship.

“It was the first time such a large amount of blades was loaded in Hvide Sande and the operation went well. We are pleased that our agency for the “Sea Installer” went as planned and that we were appointed agent again when the vessel returned to the port, says Søren Stougaard, who is responsible for Blue Water’s Danish port agency activities.

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WIND LOGISTICS

for the transports on this project.

When the turbines and towers arrive at the port of Swansea, they are loaded onto trucks.

“Approximately 976 truckloads will be transported from the port area to the construction site. The challenges are particularly related to the infrastructure on

the construction site with many operators present and a lot of cargo to be moved around, stored etc. In addition, we have to comply with some very strict safety rules”, says Christian Heyk Petersen.

The first deliveries reached Swansea in November and the project is expected to be completed in the summer of 2016.

It is a big task with coordination of a lot of shipments. Luckily, we have a good cooperation which also includes our office in Manchester.

Christian Heyk Petersen Project Manager

Gigantic turbines Four gigantic wind turbines tower in Osterild where the Danish test centre for wind turbines is located. Blue Water has handled the transport of all the turbines which are the largest in the world. The fourth transport was completed in October when the latest turbine – a Siemens 7 MW – was delivered.

“The turbines arrived by ship at the port of Hanstholm. Here they were discharged and loaded directly on special trailers for the further transportation to the test centre. The gigantic components are high technological and very valuable so we evaluated and conducted every

step of the operation carefully”, says Arnt Vad Jensen, who has been in charge of the discharging of all four wind turbines in Hanstholm.

All components have been loaded by Blue Water in Esbjerg, Lindo and Aabenraa.

Blue Water hopes to be involved in similar projects in the future, as the test centre has seven test stands.

“We have built wide experience and enjoyed a good cooperation with the various wind turbine manufacturers for these transports. And we are ready to do it again when the next turbines are going to be installed”, says Arnt Vad Jensen.

The fourth transport for the test centre included tower sections weigh­ ing up to 190 tons each and with a diameter of nearly seven metres.

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New Siemens contract In 2016 and 2017, all terminal handling of Siemens’ onshore and offshore wind turbines in Aarhus and Esbjerg will be performed in cooperation with Blue Water. Offshore wind turbines is a prominent activity for Siemens in Esbjerg.

“Being appointed partner by Siemens, is a magnificent seal of approval.

Siemens is one of the leading players in the global and domestic wind market.

It is a very important project and we look forward to proving to Siemens that they made the right choice. Our experience and in-house competences make us well equipped for the projects”, says Per Jensen who is responsible for Blue Water’s Port Services in Esbjerg.

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PORT SERVICES & AGENCY

Hydraulic hammers stored at Lindo Blue Water Lindo has signed a complete port service agreement with the German offshore specialist MENCK GmbH, Kaltenkirchen – an industry leader within hydraulic pile driving hammers. The agreement covers base facilities, stevedoring, port transfer and port agency service for the vessels delivering the hammers at Lindo.

“It was necessary to find a location which meets the requirements for our fleet of large hydraulic hammers. After a long and intensive selection process, we decided in favour of the Lindo Terminal in Denmark”, says Bjoern Fitschen, Director of Operations at MENCK GmbH. The first hammer to arrive at Lindoe will be the “MHU3500S” - the largest and most powerful hydraulic hammer in the world.

“MHU3500S” successfully fi­ nished an XXL monopile project for Vattenfall called “Sandbank”, and is already booked for an E.ON project called “Rampion” later in 2016. A second hammer is in production and will start operating on a DONG project called “Burbo Bank Extension” in 2016. Our new “MHU3500S” hammer fleet will be an important part in the installation of the huge amount of forecasted wind turbines in Europe”, says Nils Raab, Sales Manager Wind Europe at MENCK GmbH. 575 tons, 20.5 metres high and a diameter of 7.5 metres are the impressive dimensions.

Fender rental at Lindo Increased demand is the reason why Blue Water Lindo has decided to buy their own fenders as part of their fender rental programme. The plan for attracting clients is ready.

“The large fenders cannot be transported traditionally by truck. Therefore we have developed a method to transport them with short notice no matter the destination. This has already paid off because our clients often need the fenders delivered swiftly and they need the flexibility we offer”, says Kim Thygesen from Blue Water Lindo.

The fenders have already been used for Danish port projects as well as for offshore operations.

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Comprehensive terminal contract Bilfinger Mars Offshore’s new fabrication site is located in Szczecin, Poland and Blue Water has signed a five-year terminal contract covering all logistics on site, operation of a state-of-the-art gantry crane, handling of components and stevedoring.

“We have cooperated with Bilfinger for many years, and we are pleased to develop the cooperation further. We will provide a solid workforce based on many years of experience from Lindo and Esbjerg”, says Brian Sørensen, who is Business Development Manager for Blue Water Wind.

Kim Thygesen from Blue Water Lindo is responsible for the project in Szczecin.

The gantry crane, which is more than 120 metres high, has a lifting capacity of

1,400 tons. Blue Water will be responsible for operating the crane as well as all SPMTs (Self-Propelled-Modular-Transporters which are often used to move the large components on the site.

“The services we provide here are among our core competences, and we see great opportunities for us to provide this service in other key locations in Europe in the future”, says Brian Sørensen.

Bilfinger Mars Offshore provides offshore foundations to the wind industry.

The production site in Szczecin is designed for serial production of jackets, jacket components, transition pieces and monopiles for water depths up to 60 metres and will in full operation produce more than 120.000 tons of steel annually.

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REEFER LOGISTICS

Set-up in Angola Portugal has a long tradition for cooperating with Africa – Angola in particular - and is due to its geographical position benefiting from several regular and direct air and sea services to Angola

Angola

Services to Angola:

In connection with the establishment of Blue Water Portugal in March this year, Blue Water also secured its presence in Luanda by placing an employee from the Portugal office, Paulo Sérgio Oliveira, in-house at our agent in Luanda. Paulo is working closely with his colleagues With our presence in Angola, we aim to strengthen our business and develop further.

Paulo Sérgio Oliveira Blue Water Shipping

in Portugal, from which office most of the activities are handled. Paulo, who is Portuguese, has been in the business for the last 17 years in Angola and has an extensive knowledge of the Angolan market, its specific procedures, practices and policies.

“With our presence in Angola, we aim to strengthen our business and develop further by offering our customers a one single point of contact both at origin and destination, costs reduction and not least improved lead time to the market as well as a lot of other benefits”, says Paulo Sérgio Oliveira.

»» Import licensing »» HS coding for customs clearance at destination

»» Customs clearance of Air and Sea cargoes both at Luanda and Sumbe/Porto Amboim, imports and exports

»» Inland deliveries: full containers, project cargoes and small parcels/volumes

»» Free time agreements and deposit exemption with a wide variety of carriers

»» Local services for all kinds of commo­ dities, both on dry and reefer segments as well as for project cargoes

Anuga 2015, Cologne Blue Water had their own stand at Anuga 2015, located within the USAPEEC (USA Poultry & Egg Export Council) Pavilion.

Employees from USA, Brazil, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland and Denmark attended the exhibition to meet present and (hopefully) future customers.

On the opening day of the exhibition, we held our usual reception which this year was attended by over 150 cli-

ents, associates and business partners.

This year’s, the 33rd, Anuga in Cologne, Germany took place in October. The exhibition, unparallelled as a business and information platform for the global food industry, attracted around 160,000 trade visitors from 192 countries and presented over 7,000 exhibitors from 108 countries and clearly underlined its position as the leading international trade fair.

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FL: Fabrice Rolland/Blue Water, Michel Perrot/CMA CGM Montoir Office Man­ ager, Alexis Michel/CMA CGM Senior Vice President, Container Logistics, Intermo­ dal & Reefer, Frank Madsen/Blue Water and Eric Legros/CMA CGM Deputy Vice President, Reefer.

Inauguration party with the president

1 FL: Inge Buch Sørensen, Thomas Schou, Ole M. Hansen/all from BPI, Nina Lægdsgaard/ Tamaco and Dorthe Finderup/BPI . 2 FL: Hans Poiesz, Fred Kegge, Gerben van Giessen/all from Blue Water Rotterdam and Dennis Bremmer/Mondial Foods.

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In October, Fabrice Rolland from Blue Water Brest and Frank Madsen from our Esbjerg office were invited to CMA CGM’s reception in Le Havre, France. CMA CGM is a worldwide shipping company operating a fleet of 428 ships with capacity of 1,556,000 teu on 170 shipping routes. The occasion was the inauguration of CMS CGM’s new, and so far biggest, container ship “CMA—CGM Bougainville” with a capacity of 18,000 teu.

The French President Francois Hollande and CMA CGM’s Chairman Jacques Saadé were also among the reception guests.

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MARINE LOGISTICS

Marine Logistics – added value to clients Blue Water Marine Logistics France plays a significant role in Blue Water’s global setup. The office in Nantes provides services to a number of shipping lines - including transport and logistics solutions in connection with maintenance, repair, refit, refurbishment of the big cruise ships.

“Dry docking has become an important segment within Marine Logistics. We focus on French yards, Brest, Saint Nazaire and Marseille, as well as repair yards in the USA, Europe and Asia when various equipment is selected and installed on board. Moreover, our clients consider our French agency and marine logistics services as a true common added value”, says Bruno Ferrand, General Manager Marine Logistics France.

Tour of the US west coast In September, our cruise team - Zaida Pena, Rasmus Øllgaard, Thomas Jeppesen and Kurt Skov – toured the US west coast visiting shipping lines and partners.

In Seattle, we called on Lindblad Expeditions, Windstar Cruises and Holland America Group and in Los Angeles, Holland America Group/Princess Cruises and Crystal Cruises received a visit from our cruise team.

Everywhere, the team received a warm welcome. Altogether, we enjoyed some very interesting meetings.

During the weekend in Seattle, we participated in Holland America’s annual golf tournament where we met both clients and other suppliers.

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At Holland America’s yearly golf

tournament in Seattle, Blue Water’s team and Erin Murphy from Holland America Group.

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Zaida Pena, Ras­

mus Øllgaard and Kurt Skov at Muscle Beach, Los Angeles.

OFFICE PRESENTATION

Denmark

Herning Manager: Established: Employees:

Fin Hüttel 2003 22

Primary activities:

»» Road services to/from the Baltic States, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, CIS, Turkey and Greece

»» General Freight Forwaring – Road, Sea & Air »» Client & Key Account department »» Parcel & Couries services Blue Water’s office in Herning is located in the centre of Jutland, which is also the heart of the Danish textile industry.

Apart from offering a wide range of freight forwarding services, there are two areas where our services stand out compared to our competitors’.

Through our client department we provide special services to major clients including Siemens Wind Power, Kvik (kitchen manufacturer), ACO Funki and other clients with special requirements.

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shops in Europe. The kitchen corpuses and table tops arrive from Kvik’s factory close to Herning and the sister company, DFI-Geisler, in the North of Jutland respectively. The table tops arrive in bulk (several hundred every week) at our warehouse where they are sorted in delivery order.

Some of them are up to five metres long and it takes specialist handling to ensure that everything is stacked and loaded carefully and in a way that facilitates easy offloading for the shops”, says Fin Hüttel, who is in charge of our Herning office.

Our Key Account department acts as one-stop-shopping facility for local clients, in cooperation with other Blue Water departments - primarily on road, but also air and sea transport.

Herning is also the controlling office for our traffics to/from the Baltics, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, CIS, Turkey and Greece.

“Our team would like to be known for going the extra mile, meaning we deliver beyond our clients’ expectations. We hardly ever say no to a job – no job is too big or too small”, concludes Fin Hüttel.

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MARINE LOGISTICS

Strong cooperation in Italy

FL: Kurt Skov/Blue Water Esbjerg, Claudio and Andrea Giachero/both from Priano Marchelli and Dan Nissen/Blue Water Esbjerg.

FL: Lisette Trab Munk/Blue Water Esbjerg, Rasmus Øllgaard and Kasper Diaz Sommer/ both from Blue Water Miami and Luca Brunoni, Matteo Bertzzoni and Francesco Gotta/all from Priano Marchelli.

At the end of October, representatives from Blue Water’s offices in Miami and Esbjerg paid a visit to our Italian partner Priano Marchelli in Genoa, Italy. The purpose of the visit was to discuss our cooperation in connection with global transport solutions to the rapidly developing cruise industry.

Priano Marchelli is co-founder of our worldwide Cruise & Marine Logistic Network (www.marinelogisticnetwork. com).

It was also agreed that Blue Water and Priano Marchelli will enter into a close cooperation, covering services to the Oil and Energy industry, in order to jointly identify the Italian market.

“In addition to some hectic days with a lot of meetings, the small de­ legation also took time to enjoy the extremely delicious Italian cuisine at some fantastic local restaurants”, says Lisette Trab Munk who is global responsible for Blue Water’s Marine Logistics.

Rotterdam visit

FL: Lisette Trab Munk, Hans Busbroek and Hans Poiesz/all from Blue Water and Marcel Lieshout/Schmidt Zeevis.

Hans Busbroek and Hans Poiesz, both from Blue Water Rotterdam, and Lisette Trab Munk from Blue Water Esbjerg, have paid a visit to Schmidt Zeevis in their new facilities in Rotterdam. Schmidt Zeevis is an exclusive supplier of all kinds of fish to the cruise industry among others.

“We were taken on a very interesting guided tour of their new facilities in Rotterdam including production, packing and shipping facilities. At the end of the tour, we enjoyed a lunch in Schmidt Zeevis’ fish delicatessen/ restaurant”, says Lisette Trab Munk.

Contacts Hans Brusbroek Hbusbroek@bws.dk +31 180 820033 Pascal Van Der Meer Pmeer@bws.dk +31 180 820039

More services to the shipping lines Due to an increased demand from cruise line companies and suppliers, for warehousing services, Blue Water entered into partnership with Frigo Breda in 2013 to jointly operate European Distribution Centre (EDC) North.

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warehouse. The services provided include product receiving, counting, storage, packing of picked items to be shipped - in fact all services for incoming and outgoing shipments to/from the cruise vessels”, explains Lisette Trab Munk, who is in charge of Blue Water’s Marine Logistics.

During 2015, EDC has handled more than 250 containers through the ware-

house, loaded more than 650 trucks with +5,000 pallets and stored +7,000.000 kilos.

After two successful years, we are now able to handle more customers and not only service the cruise lines. As from 2016, we offer storage, order picking and reloading of containers and trucks for all merchandise.

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OIL, GAS & PROJECTS

Heavy units to Brazil At the beginning of August, Blue Water Singapore shipped two heavy units, weighing more than 1,300 metric tons each, on the weather deck of the MV ‘’BBC Aquamarine’’. The units were safely loaded with the assistance of a floating crane. After the sea-fastening was completed, the vessel departed for its 30-day

voyage to Brazil. MV ‘’BBC Aquamarine’’ arrived as planned. She berthed under a mega gantry crane and her cargo was safely discharged at a shipyard. The vessel berthing and offloading of the first 1,300MT unit needed to be performed during the high tide. As such, the planning and cooperation between the vessel and

shipyard crew was the main factor for a successful discharge operation’’, says Sebastian Schilde, Project Manager at Blue Water Singapore.

The transportation was executed in close cooperation with BBC Chartering and Blue Water’s offices in Singapore and Rio de Janeiro.

OFFICE PRESENTATION

Malaysia

Port Klang Manager: Allen David Established: 2009 Employees: 4 Primary activities:

»» Oil & Energy »» Industrial Projects »» General Air & Sea Freight

Blue Water’s office in Port Klang is located on the western shore of Selangor close to the main seaports in Malaysia. The office was established in 2009 to assist Maersk Drilling with transportation of riser pipes for the new-built Maersk rigs. Over the years, we have established a good working relationship with the supplier, Aker Solutions, who has become our key client in Malaysia.

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“We have been involved in most of the heavy-lift transports for Aker Solutions, especially of the riser strings for Atwood Drilling, Vantage Drilling, Maersk Drilling and Transocean”, says Allen David, the General Manager in Port Klang.

Through Blue Water Singapore, the office was also contracted to assist Keppel to transport almost 12,000 cbm of steel cargo from Malaysia to Keppel Shipyard

in Singapore.

“We are able to provide a variety of services throughout Malaysia from different seaport locations. Our focus is on Oil & Energy, but we are always ready to assist with general freight inquiries as well. We offer our clients detailed attention and ensure that our level of service is of the highest standards and quality”, concludes Allen David.

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OIL, GAS & PROJECTS

Final delivery for tunnel project

Strengthened set-up Blue Water PM is a cooperation between Blue Water and Italian Priano Marchelli & C. SRL focusing on oil, energy and industrial projects in Italy. The market represents good possibilities for developing activities here through a strong local set-up combined with a global network. Priano’s headquarters is located in Genoa near the port area which is an important hub for the industry in Italy. With an office in Civitavecchia in the Mid-North of Italy,

Blue Water PM can cover all of Italy with their services. For many years, we have worked closely together on different projects including Oil & Energy transports and yard stays in Palermo. We share a common set of values and the ambition to create the best solutions by focusing on the clients’ needs. We look forward to developing the strong ties between them further, says Anders Maul from Blue Water’s Oil & Energy division.

Blue Water Marseille has arranged delivery of two MPGs (Multi Purpose Gantry) to the London Crossrail Project – 21 kilometre twin tunnel being bored under the streets of London. To the left is Laurent Bernard, Purchasing and Logistics Manager of Metalliance, together with Lionel Guilbaud from Blue Water Marseille and the final MPG being delivered to the project. Metalliance has produced the MPGs for the project.

In addition to the delivery of the MPGs, Blue Water has arranged delivery of 38 rail wagons from Narbonne and Mezy in France.

Steel for shopping centre In the heart of Esbjerg, a new shopping centre called “Broen” is under construction. The centre is expected to open in 2017 with 70 new shops at a 30.000 sqm area. Blue Water is transporting the large and heavy steel elements for the construction.

“It is a big logistical challenge to perform delivery on the construction site by special transport with pilot car escort. It takes a lot of planning and coordination”, says Søren Bendixen, Project Manager at Bladt Industries, who delivers the steel elements.

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The steel girders are loaded on trucks at the production site in Poland and transported directly to Esbjerg. However, this is not a road transport in the traditional sense.

“We must follow different regulations in both Poland, Germany and Denmark and we have to apply for transport permission in good time before the transport starts.

Also, we must plan carefully to make sure that we keep to schedule. In Germany for instance, we are only allowed to transport the cargo at night”, says Jan Brøgger, Project Manager at Blue Water.

Keppel FELS contract In early July this year, Blue Water Singapore was awarded a one-year contract for freight services from Europe to Singapore. The contract was signed at Keppel FELS, the global leader in the design, construction and repair of mobile offshore rigs. The contract includes air and sea freight of oil well equipment from Europe - Netherlands, Poland, Norway, Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom, Finland and Denmark - for their current and upcoming newbuilds. Blue Water Singapore has been handling the freight services from Europe to Singapore since 2012. In finding the best solutions, we work closely with Keppel FELS and thus creating an even stronger bond between our companies. Creating solutions and flexibility are the key factors that led to the success of this contract.

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BLUE WATER SPIRIT

Back row, FL: Erica Torres, Lisa Manetta, Michele Ross, Loretta Richardson Front row, FL: Leanne Manetta, Barbara Belli, Kelly Delle Fave/all from Blue Water New York.

One mile fun walk for a good cause Blue Water New York participated in an Annual Breast Cancer Walk in October. Federal Business Center (our landlord) will make a donation, on behalf of each walker, to the American Cancer Society “Making Strides Against Breast Cancer” Fund.

“This was very near and dear to all of us at Blue Water in New Jersey since one of our co-workers’ wife is battling breast cancer and we showed our love and support wishing her a very speedy recovery”, says the General Manager Barbara Belli.

Oldboys fighting on Iceland Blue Water was invited to an old boys football tournament on Iceland by our good client Samherji. Samherji had entered six teams for the tournament, all under the name “the Bastards”. Stephane le Badezet and Bent Rasmussen, from Blue Water Hirtshals, and Magnus Joensen from Blue Water Reykjavik played on the same team together with representatives from our good colleagues Nesfrakt.

“The success was a long time coming.

The last match, however, ended in a victory and made the team winner of the prestigious President Cup”, says a proud Bent Rasmussen, the General Manager in Hirtshals.

The two-day event finished with a celebration dinner at Samherji. Blue Water had the pleasure of being beer sponsor for the tournament.

On top of Alpe d'Huez

22 nationalities on board “This summer MV ”Fulton” called at Bandholm Port during a two-week cruise for 27 young people. The local Lions Club was supporting the call, which included a tour of the harbour and a visit to the Knuthenborg Safaripark”, says Skipper Jacob Jensen. Blue Water Bandholm arranged free berthing for the vessel and donated Blue Water candies.

MV “Fulton” is 100 years old and was originally built to the North Atlantic service carrying dried cod. The first eight years, the vessel sailed under Danish colours purely as a sailing ship. In 1970, the National Museum took ownership of the vessel which has been operated by the Fulton Foundation ever since. In the season, the vessel takes young people on two or three-week cruises. Shipping people also use “Fulton” for educational purposes going on two or three-week cruises.

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Working hard and long on the pedals was part of the game when Kurt Skov, Blue Water’s Founder and Chairman, participated in a bicycle ride in the Alps in France.

The tour was organised by our auditing firm, Deloitte. 30 riders participated and the programme included the two famous and legendaric Tour de France mountains Alpe d’Huez and Col de la Croix. Kurt Skov and the rest of the team were in great form after a long training season, but still, getting to the top took a lot of energy and hard work.

“I am not a climber and I am normally not keen on steep gradients, but I was fit and it was a fantastic scenery for cycling. Climbing these famous mountains was an extra motivation”, says Kurt Skov about his challenge with the 21 hairpin bends and the 14-kilometre gradient to the top of Alpe d´Huez, which he managed, non-stop and without assistance, in one hour and 37 minutes.

This tour has been one of my greatest experiences on bicycle.

Kurt Skov Founder & Chairman

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City walk in Esbjerg

Boxing for charity In October, Lars Skov Christensen from our Singapore office participated in a White Collar Boxing (WCBA), event in Singapore together with 19 other participants.

The event was arranged to raise money for the Children’s Surgical Centre (CSC) in Cambodia, which provides help to disabled people. All 20 squad members had to help spreading awareness of CSC and raise funds by running fundraising pages on

the internet. In addition, boxing training at Vanda Boxing Club was compulsory for minimum 3 months prior to the fight.

The event itself was a black tie event with more than one thousand spectators.

Lars won his bout against the 40-year-old Columbian Oscar Forero by TKO in the first round and on that night the event raised over USD 250,000.

Relief aid to Lesbos The many refugees arriving to the Greek island of Lesbos receive great help from various quarters. Part of the help comes from volunteers participating in a Danish Facebook campaign aiming to help the refugees. Blue Water Copenhagen has chosen to support the initiative.

“We have donated DKK 50,000 and offered our assistance with coordination of the container freight”, says Lars Tue Toftild, General Manager of Blue Water Copenhagen.

All donations have been packed in containers and shipped to Lesbos.

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The summit of Africa On their honeymoon to Africa, Frida Vyff Bruun, From Blue Water Esbjerg, and her husband, Bjørn, were not just spending their time relaxing. In addition to going on a safari and relaxing on Zanzibar, the newlywed couple went through the hardships of climbing the highest mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

Frida brought two Blue Water stickers with her, which now greet everybody reaching the top.

FANT tournament

Heading for the top Kristian Frost is Denmark’s best squash player. His ambition is to gain a position among the top ten players in

On a beautiful summer evening in June, the members of Blue Water’s senior club for Esbjerg, Billund and Herning were invited on a city walk. The theme of the walk was “Esbjerg during the German occupation” and our guide from the city history museum took us back in time on a very exciting and interesting walk through the streets of Esbjerg.

We finished the evening in Blue Water’s canteen enjoying a beer and a hot dog or two.

the world and Blue Water has decided to support him on his way.

“It takes dedication and training for me to develop my skills and it means a lot to me that Blue Water will support me so I can become even better”, says Kristian Frost.

Blue Water cooperates with FANT (Football for A New Tomorrow) who works to spread the joy of sport in one of the poorest countries in the world, Sierra Leone in Africa.

In Denmark, FANT aims to create joy and solidarity through football – by arranging football tournaments in the major cities among other things. In September, Esbjerg hosted such an event. Several companies participated and Blue Water was represented with two teams and the homeless people with one team. Unfortunately, the event was close to drowning as the Clerk of the Weather was not in the best mood.

However, this did not spoil the day for the players who fought enthusiastically. FANT carried off the victory and Blue Water won the silver medal.

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Certification in Baku The colleagues at Blue Water’s office in Baku spent three days in April with an auditor from Bureau Veritas in order to become certified according to ISO 9001 (Quality), ISO14001 (Environment) and OHSAS 18001 (Health & Safety).

The previous months’ strong efforts and hard work put into the preparations paid off well and the Baku office has now received their certificates.

New address in Aarhus 18 January 2016 Blue Water Aarhus will be moving into new office facilities:

Blue Water Shipping A/S Skejby Nordlandsvej 311 DK-8200 Aarhus N Telefax: +45 8742 9099 Phone: Unchanged Warehouse address remains unchanged

Local sponsorships Sponsor for badminton talent

Silver sponsorship to AGF

Blue Water Aarhus has made a three-year sponsorship agreement with the Da­ nish badminton talent Anders Antonsen.

18-year-old Anders is the reigning European badminton champion in U19 men’s singles. Anders has great ambitions and has already created an image for himself at senior level.

Blue Water hopes to be able to help the young talent to the top of international badminton. With this agreement, Blue Water will be the personal sponsor for Anders Antonsen as well as sponsor for his club, Aarhus Badmintonklub.

Blue Water has raised its sponsorship level in AGF (Aarhus football club) from bronze to silver in a new three-year contract.

“Our Aarhus office is in a rapid development and we wish and expect that the extended cooperation with AGF will strengthen our position further in the region. It will also make it possible for us to invite our customers to some exciting football events. We look forward to developing our cooperation with AGF and together realising the goals we have set ourselves”, says Per Holm Nørgaard, the Director in Blue Water Aarhus.

Examination This is how happy 24 young Blue Water freight forwarding trainees were after two weeks of rote learning the subject of transport law in March and April. The inquisitive young people, representing our offices in Esbjerg, Copenhagen, Aalborg, Aarhus, Billund, Odense, Lindo, Kolding and Padborg, finished in style defending a self-composed business case at an oral examination – and got a 7.8. average

A legend turns 100 On 5.12, one of Esbjerg’s grand old men, Tage Sørensen, turns 100. Tage Sørensen has in many respects left his stamp on the town of Esbjerg – through his business achievements as well as through his interest in art, culture and sport.

For Blue Water, the range of contact has included the cold stores in Esbjerg owned by the Claus Sørensen Group, activities in Greenland and in the North Jutland ports and also the Group’s other companies – e.g. Viking, Vestfrost and Blika - have for many years been our clients. We 16

hereby thank Tage Sørensen for a long and good cooperation and congratulate him on his very special birthday.

In advance of his special birthday, Tage Sørensen received homage at the Fanø Art Gallery. He and his wife, Alice, have over the years left their magnificent mark on the gallery. In the picture, Tage Sørensen – surrounded by his grandchild Kristoffer Kristensen and, the wife of the latter, Dorthe - presents yet another painting to the gallery. Gyrithe and Kurt Skov participated in the event.

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HUMAN RESOURCES

New employees Aalborg

Copenhagen Nicolai Brix Sørensen (25) is employed as Freight Forwarder in Deep Sea Import as from 1.8. Nicolai joins us from Aalborg Portland.

Casper Torp Pedersen (27) is employed as Freight Forwarder in the Courier dept.as from 1.8.

Casper comes from a similar job with Geodis.

Lene Jensen (44) is employed as Freight Forwarder in the Norwegian dept. as from 1.8. Lene comes from a job as Traffic Assistant at Itella.

Vibeke Bach (50) is employed as Freight Forwarder in Sea Import as from 1.9. Vibeke joins us from Itella/NTG.

Jan Mortensen (35) is employed as Terminal Assistant at our terminal at Lillebaeltsvej as from 20.7. Jan used to work as a Truck Driver.

Charlotte Beenfeldt Ilsøe (39) is employed as Freight Forwarding Ass. in the Finland dept. as from 26.10. Charlotte joins us from Spartan Imports.

Tina Blak Pedersen (51) is employed as Assistant HR as from 1.8. Tina joins us from a job as Finance Department Assistant at KA Interiør A/S.

Maria Goss-Scröder (45) is employed as Receptionist in the Administration and Accounts dept. as from 26.10. Maria has previously worked at LMO.

Michael Christensen (24) is employed as IT Supporter as from 3.8. Michael comes from a similar job at Odense University Hospital.

Thomas Eggert (52) is employed as In-house KAM at Kongskilde in Sonderborg as from 1.9. Thomas was previously working as Sales Assistant at Kongskilde.

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Peter Jensen (51) is employed as Terminal Assistant as from 2.9. Peter joins us from a job as Technician Offshore at Ocean Team Scandinavia.

Esbjerg Ömer Karakus (26) is employed as Port Agency Ass. Manager as from 13.7. Ömer was previously working at G&S Construction and Engineering.

Maria Buchholdt Asmussen (45) is employed as Inhouse Sales Assistant at Kongskilde in Sonderborg as from 1.9. Maria joins us from Kongskilde.

Heidi Vester (49) is employed as Health, Safety and Security Specialist as from 1.9. Heidi joins us from Tenaris Global Services Denmark.

Jesper Haahr Petersen (22) is employed as Freight Forwarder in our Nordic dept. as from 1.10. Jesper joins us from Danish Crown.

Camilla Bjerg-Jørgensen (36) is employed as Freight Forwarding Assistant as from 1.8. Camilla comes from a job as Traffic Assistant at Itella.

Billund

Jacob Schaldemose Rødgaard (25) is employed as Group Quality Coordinator HSSEQ as from 1.9. Jacob has previously been assisting in the HSSEQ dept.

Hanus Andrias Kristiansen (25) is employed as Freight Forwarder in the North Atlantic dept. as from 14.9.

Aarhus

Jeppe Lund Nielsen (28) is employed as Freight Forwarder in the Domestic/Finland dept. He comes from a job at H.P. Therkelsen, Padborg.

Steffen Frederiksen (25) is employed in IT Operations as from 1.9. Steffen comes from a position as IT Consultant at Jysk Fynske Medier P/S.

Kenny Skødt (46) is employed as Port Agency Ass. Manager as from 1.9, but will be based at our Romo office. Kenny joins us from Pon-Power.

Tony Helbo Lindberg (31) is employed as Freight Forwarder in our Reefer Road dept. as from 1.9.

Tony joins us from DSV.

Kasper Olsen (25) is employed as Terminal Assistant at our terminal at Lillebaeltsvej as from 28.9. He joins us from Jyske Kontrolcentral.

Merete Laurberg Jensen (53) is employed in-house at Færch Plast, Holstebro as from 1.10. Merete was previously employed at Færch Plast.

Susanne Pagh Sørensen (48) is employed as Assistant Finance as from 26.10. Susanne joins us from Nümph and Humör A/S.

Herning John Madsen (55) is employed as Freight Forwarder as from 1.9. John joins us from a similar job at NST (Nordisk Special Transport).

Florian-Daniel Popa (37) is employed as Terminal Assistant as from 1.9.

Florian has for a period been assisting at the warehouse.

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New employees Hirtshals

Bremen Dan Mikael Jacobsen (52) is employed as Freight Forwarder in our Norwegian dept. as from 1.9.

Dan joins us from a job at Nordjysk Lift.

Kolding

Nadja Sabrina Knief (35) is employed as Freight Forwarding Agent in Air & Sea as from 1.10. Nadja comes from Asia Express Line.

D端sseldorf Vickie Maria Dam Gripping (37) ) is employed as Freight Forwarder in the Key Accounts dept. as from 26.10. Vickie joins us from DB Schenker.

Padborg

Cynthia Wolf (38) is employed as HR & Corporate Administration Manager.

Cynthia comes from Vanguard Logistics Services Inc.

Gothenburg Falk M端llenbach (38) is employed as Customer Service Manager as from 1.10. Falk comes from a similar position at Agility Logistics, D端sseldorf.

Sofia Lund (24) is employed as Freight Forwarder in the Norwegian dept. as from 17.8. Sofia joins us from a similar job with DB Schenker Joakim Nordqvist (28) is employed as Freight Forwarding Agent in Sea Freight as from 12.10.

Joakim comes from a job at Tradeship.

Dublin Svenja Ivanhoe Karstensen (32) is employed as Administrative Assistant as from 5.10. Svenja comes from a job as Transport Assistant at Elvstr淡m Sails.

Hans Christian Petersen Kolb (37) is employed as Terminal Foreman as from 16.10. Hans Christian comes from a similar job at Nagel.

Cheryl Dickson (36) is employed as Freight Forwarding Agent Road as from 8 .9. Cheryl comes from a similar job at Skantrans.

Andre Miguel Paula Simao Pedroso (24) is employed as Freight Forwarding Agent in Operations as from 27.7. Andre comes from Damco.

Klaus Bothmer (56) is employed as Manager Projects as from 8.9. Klaus comes from a similar job at UTC.

Steve Soppitt (32) is employed as Coordinator Operations as from 3.8.

Steve comes from a similar job at Valve Technician.

Baku

Lisbon

Houston

Aberdeen

Michelle McDonald (35) is employed as Assistant in Airfreight as from 21.9.

Michelle comes from a job as NVOCC Coordinator at Pentagon

Micael David do Santos Veiga (31) is employed as Sales Representative as from 3.8. Micael comes from a similar job at Damco.

Lorient Solenn Guillevic (38) is employed as Assistant Accounts as from 1.10.

Solenn has been assisting at the office during the last three months.

Miami Nijat Mammadov (29) is employed as Freight Forwarding Agent as from 7.9. Nijat comes from a similar job at SL Solutions.

Ronald Griffin (30) is employed as Assistant Warehouse as from 1.10.

Ronald comes from a job as Order Picker at Caterpillar.

Inna Azizova (38) is employed as Logistics Coordinator as from 1.10.

Inna comes from a job as Project Coordinator at ACE Caspian Forwarding.

Yorky Lazaro Borroto (34) is employed as Assistant Warehouse as from 1.10.

Yorky comes from a job as Truck Driver at C&G Transport.

Vibeke Finholt Melbye (37) is employed as Freight Forwarder Sea & Air as from 1.8. Vibeke comes from a similar job at Geodis Wilson.

Noel Nunes Miranda (51) is employed as Assistant Warehouse as from 1.10.

Noel comes from a job as Warehouse Handler at Armstrong Equipment.

Tommie Engh (45) is employed as Assistant Terminal as from 1.9.

Tommie was previously in charge of the warehouse of Itella Logistics as.

Barcelona Guillem Rovira (27) is employed as Assistant in the Cruise dept. as from 14.9.

He comes from a job as Assistant Support Cruise at Intercruises Logistics.

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New employees Heidi Omang Sørensen (49) is employed at Customs Clearance Clerk as from 1.9. She joins us from a similar position at Freja Transport & Logistics.

Espen Fure (35) is employed as Development Manager O&E and Industrial Projects as from 1.10. Espen was previously employed at LogiTrans.

Lars Erik Koren (22) is employed as Freight Forwarder Air & Sea as from 7.9. Lars Erik comes from a similar job with NTG Road Norway.

Veronika Nilsen (41) is employed as Ass. Manager Import in our Sea & Air dept. as from 14.10.

Veronika comes from a similar job at DVS.

Isak Bergqvist (28) is employed as Assistant in our Sea & Air dept. as from 18.9. He has been assisting at the Oslo office during the last six months.

Matewos Samson (26) is employed as Assistant in G&D Logistics as from 18.9. He has been assisting at the Oslo office during the last six months.

Vaasa Mika Lehtinen (45) is employed as Sales Manager as from 17.8. Mika comes from a similar job at ISSServices.

Vantaa

Singapore Peter Holst (49) is employed as Project Operational Manager as from 1.7. Peter has for the past two years been involved in projects for Blue Water.

Nurul Fatin Binte Abdul Mutalib (20) is employed as Project Chartering Exe­ cutive as from 1.10. Nurul was a student before she joined Blue Water.

Harri Taponen (50) is employed as Freight Forwarding Agent Road as from 5.9. Harri comes from a similar job at Itella/ Posti.

Pekka Matis (51) is employed as Sales Manager as from 7.9. Pekka comes from a similar job at Panalpina Finland.

Weddings

On 15.8, Eivind Beck strøm/ Blue Water Oslo was married to Pilukravee Ravangban in Hua Hin, Thailand.

On 22.8, Martin Pavel/Blue Water Oslo got married to Camilla Guldbrandsen in Borre Church in Horten, Norway.

On 22.8, Bettina Laursen/Blue Water Esbjerg married Thomas Pedersen in Hjerting Church.

Daniel Milahianakis/Blue Water Amsterdam and Maria Karihimakis returned to their roots, Crete in Greece, to get married on 28.8

On 5.9, Peter Gysing Nielsen/ Blue Water Esbjerg got married to Ellen at Varde Town Hall.

On 3.10, Martin Terndrup Nielsen/Blue Water Odense married his girlfriend, Lise, in Birkende Church in Funen.

On 4.10, Dustin Wang/Blue Water Shanghai married his finacée, Jade, at Radisson Blu Hotel Pudong Century Park in Shanghai.

On 17.10, Fernando Poli/Blue Water Rio married Mayla Vigário.

The wedding ceremony took place at Barra da Tijuca in Rio de Janeiro.

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Balachandran Chinnappa, Dubai Rasmus Ryvold, Nuuk Morten Schultz, Ipswich Morten Overgaard, Aarhus Henrik Miche Pedersen, Esbjerg Henrik Kiel Jensen, Copenhagen Dorthe Torbensen Rasmussen, Esbjerg Søren Bo Larsen, Copenhagen Jannicke Eek Erikson, Gothenburg

Kitsa Warborg Bjerregaard, Esbjerg Bob Tisserand, Amsterdam Steen Bendix Jørgensen, Esbjerg Mathieu Wawrzyniak, Nantes Hanna de Jong, Kolding Hanne Bärthel, Esbjerg Ines Monge Ballarin, Barcelona

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Births On 17.7, Mette Lindhardt Sørensen/Blue Water Aalborg gave birth to a baby boy (3.8 kgs/52 cm).

On 23.7, Ania Juel Lindblad Madsen/Blue Water Esbjerg gave birth to a baby girl (3.7 kgs/50 cm).

On 18.8, Kristian Kragh/Blue Water Odense became a father of a baby girl (3.5 kgs/53 cm).

On 2.9, Jesper Frølich Kassow/Blue Water Aalborg and his wife, Carina, became pa­ rents of a baby girl, Alma (3.5 kgs/51 cm).

On 9.9, Søren Esbensen/Blue Water Aarhus became a father for the second time when his partner, Susanne, gave birth to a baby girl (4.7 kgs/53 cm).

On 11.9, Lise Netchaef/Blue Water Esbjerg gave birth to a baby girl (2.9 kgs/47 cm).

On 14.9, Tina Dalgaard Petersen/Blue Water Billund and her husband, Jesper, increased their family by another son, Tobias, and made four-year-old Rasmus a very proud big brother.

On 18.9, Trym Brattvoll/Blue Water Oslo and his wife, Elisabeth, became parents of a baby boy, Birk (3.7 kgs/52 cm). The family also includes two-year-old Brage.

On 21.9, Kenneth Tambo/Blue Water Kolding became a faher when his partner, Karen, gave birth to a baby girl, Sarah (4 kgs/55 cm).

On 23.9, Morten Jeppesen/Blue Water Copenhagen became a father when his wife, Louise, gave birth to a baby girl, Josephine (3.1 kgs/50 cm).

On 28.9, Cédric Novion/Blue Water Marseille became a father of a baby boy, Gaspard (3.4 kgs/55 cm).

On 8.10, Marina Høghamar/Blue Water Esbjerg gave birth to a big baby boy (4.1 kgs/55 cm).

On 10.10, Maria Bjørnager Balogh/Blue Water Esbjerg gave birth to a fine healthy baby girl (3.2 kgs/51 cm).

On 18.10, Peter Øster Marcher-Boisen/ Blue Water Copenhagen and his wife became parents of a baby girl (2.4 kgs/48 cm).

Jubilees 30 years Lennart Voss

21.01.86–21.01.2016

On 20.1.2016, Lennart Voss/Blue Water Esbjerg will celebrate his 30th anniversary.

During his long career in Blue Water, Lennart has been far and wide. He started as office boy in Esbjerg, before he served his apprenticeship in the accounts department which he was part of until he moved on to new challenges in Hanstholm. Here, he was in charge of the accounts for the 20

then Blue Water Nord. After nine months in Hanstholm, Lennart returned to Esbjerg and a job in our IT department (which at that time was called EDP) due to his strong interest within this field. Lennart has for a number of years been in charge of one half of the IT team focusing on our IT operation, network and security.

When he is off duty, Lennart loves to sleep late and spending time pursuing his many interests. Every Tuesday, he plays golf and he also rides his racing bike now and then. According to himself, Lennart is the world balut champion. Like any other computer wizard, he drinks a lot of coke, but he is also a whisky enthusiast who loves a good whisky.

Lennart is married to his ex-colleague from the accounts department, Dina, and the couple has two sons, Morten and Andreas. Morten has for several years assisted in the IT department and for the time being, his little brother, Andreas, is a regular “visitor” at the office.

30 years Stephen Leary

01.03.86-01.03.2016

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Jubilees Leary’s/Blue Water Manchester second stint at Blue Water having already put in a couple of years’ service back in the late seventies when both he and the company were youngsters. In those days, the hair was longer and roll-up cigarettes were one of his vices. After a dozen years, Steve’s hard work and dedication to duty were recognised when he was promoted to the position of General Manager in Manchester, a role he still has today.

In his time as General Manager, Steve has been instrumental in finding new premises and overseeing all aspects of the move on two separate occasions, each time with the office doubling in size – it is fair to say that he has not helped the office move far in terms of distance, but he has certainly brought us a long way with regard to the facilities we now enjoy.

Nowadays, he is the pre-eminent authority in the UK when it comes to Faerch Plast and parcel deliveries and he is even willing to risk life and limb when it comes to customer service as shown, when on a visit to Faerch Plast in France, he endured a “hands free” taxi journey when the driver felt it was more important to dance to “Moves Like Jagger” than to steer the car.

Outside work, Steve enjoys the great outdoors. So much so that around ten years ago, he and his wife decided to sell their house and they lived on a canal boat for a couple of years.

There can be no slowing down as the years pass by as Steve and Denise, the proud parents of Becky and Emma, are now also the proud grandparents of Jack, Tom, Lilly and Oliver - and if that is not enough to keep them on their toes, then Alfie the dog makes sure there is never a dull moment. pratet pees restis quunt.

10 years Simon le Beniory

01.01.06–01.01.2016

On 1.1.2016, Simon Le Beniorys/Blue Water Aarhus will celebrate his 10th anniversary. Simon has during all the years with Blue Water formed part of our terminal team in Aarhus where he handles the loading and unloading of trailers to/ from Finland as well as other warehouse No. 111

duties. Simon is also the work environment representative at the terminal in Aarhus.

Simon devotes a large part of his free time to running and has run both half marathons and marathons and has also tried triathlon. In addition, he is riding his bike almost every day to and from work.

Recently, Simon has also been acting as handyman for his daughter who has just left home.

10 years Søren Gammelgaard

01.01.06-01.01.2016

Søren Gammelgaard Nielsen/Blue Water Esbjerg has since he started in Blue Water on 1.1.2006 been involved in Freight Forwarding, O&E, Wind and O&E Projects. Today, he is Project Manager in O&E Projects with special competences in Project Transportation via the Russian river system.

Søren is extremely dedicated, enthusiastic and goes into details about everything he does.

Søren’s predominant hobby is golf and he is also very interested in cars and wine – as long as he does not have to pay himself.

Søren and his girlfriend, Signe, are expecting their first child + station wagon.

We wonder how he is going to handle little dirty fingers in his newly washed car. We feel sure he will become a real “softie”

On his list of hobbies we find jogging and football among other things. Ralph has been married to his wife for 35 years and the couple has three sons.

10 years Magnus Krook

09.01.06–09.01.2016

On 9.1.2916, Magnus Krook/Blue Water Turku is Department Manager for airfreight and joined Blue Water when we took over W&K (Wikeström & Krogius) in 2013. It was Magnus’ second time round as he has been with W&K from 1987-1989 and again from 9.1.2006.

Magnus started in W&K with no know­ ledge of freight forwarding whatsoever, but had a week to learn from his predecessor. There were no computers at that time and they did not even have a fax machine, but had to use their neighbour’s.

Magnus’ hobbies include handball, jogging and gardening. He is married with two children.

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10 years Ralph Degerholm

02.01.06–02.01.2016

On 2.1.2016, Ralph Degerholm/Blue Water Turku will celebrate his 10th anniversary.

Ralph is Department Manager for road Continent/UK. Ralph became part of the Blue Water family when we acquired the transport company W&K (Wikeström & Krogius) back in 2013. In his time with W&K, Ralph started their road freight operation and filled the same position and had the same responsibilities as today.

Blue Water has upgraded its presence on the social media with a national as well as a global Facebook profile.

Enter Blue Water Shipping Denmark or Blue Water Shipping Global respectively in the search field and you will find us.

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10 years Andreas Arnvig

20.01.06–20.01.2016

On 20.1.2016, Andreas Arnvig/Blue Water Stavanger will celebrate his 10th anniversary. Before joining our Stavanger team, Andreas performed the function of Freight Forwarding Agent in our Swedish department in Aarhus for eight years.

Furthermore, he has been involved in Key Account Management (KAM) of new clients.

When Andreas is off duty and time permits, he enjoys pursuing his leisure time activities skiing and kitesurfing.

10 years Lone Dupont

23.01.06-23.01.2016

Lone Dupont/Blue Water Esbjerg originally started in the German department and Groupage in Kolding on 23.1.2006.

Lone is flexible and open to new challenges and has been “seconded” to our Billund office, Andritz (Esbjerg client) and Blue Water Greenland.

Most recently, Lone proved her cou­ rage to face new challenges when she in 2014 applied for a job in the Domestic group in Esbjerg. Lone is now handling the Administrative part preparing the Domestic team for the move when our new terminal in Taulov is completed next summer – and naturally Lone will join her colleagues.

10 years Fin Hüttel

01.02.06-01.02.2016

Fin Hüttel/Blue Water Herning was employed on 1.2.2006 to be in charge of the Customer Service department as well as of the East European traffic. Today, Fin 22

is the General Manager of the Herning office. He is a company man and is in particular looking after the clients’ interests as he possesses a service gene out of the ordinary. Fin is also ready to assist his colleagues any time whatever the problem.

Fin is a competent bridge player and he runs to keep fit, rides his bike to work regularly - and follows the local ice hockey club and football club intensely.

Fin is married to Helle and they have two grown-up children, Tine and Morten

10 years Florens Van Tiggelen

01.02.06-01.02.2016

On 1.2.2016, Florens Van Tiggelen/Blue Water Rotterdam will celebrate his 10th anniversary. Having received his Bachelor of Engineering degree, Florens started as Assistant in our Import department in Rotterdam. Today, he is taking care of the daily Import as well as the Transit Documentation, to the cold store, for reefer containers to the Cruise Industry.

Florens is very dedicated to his job and is also taking a two-year course to become a customs declarant. Well done considering the fact that he has a busy worklife as well as family life.

10 years Soheil Abdollahi

01.02.06-01.02.2016

On 1.2.2016, Soheil Abdollahi/Blue Water Lindo will celebrate his 10th anniversary.

On 9.11, Soheil – also called Subi – became part of our Lindo team where he will take up new challenges. Before that, he was a Freight Forwarder on Import Sweden at our Odense office where he has also formed part of our Italian department and our Domestic Transport team. Subi is very diligent and has a flair for IT and technology, which benefits many of his colleagues.

Subi is not much of a dancer, but years back at a Christmas party with dinner show,

he proved that his dance steps were intact Subi’s hobbies include his motorbike, fast cars and football. Subi is a true Barcelona supporter.

10 years Mary Saunders

21.02.06-21.02.2016

On 21.2.2016, Mary Saunders/Blue Water Houston will celebrate her 10th anniversary. Mary forms part of our Customer Service team. Mary’s middle name is Cathe­ rine, but her nickname is Kitty, which has given rise to some confusion when she first started with Blue Water. When she spoke with people in the industry who have always known her as Kitty, they would ask: “who is Mary” – or in the middle of a conversation, they would say: “I talked to Mary the other day”.

Mary’s interests include her family, her job, her three cats and shopping.

10 years Bo Stokbæk Jensen

01.03.06-01.03.2016

Bo Stokbæk Jensen/Blue Water Kolding has, since he started with Blue Water on 1.3.2006, filled a very important part at the Kolding office, organising transports based on the big fleet of regular trucks and trailers on our traffic between Denmark and Germany. Great responsibility is attached to this job which places heavy demands on patience, creativity, sociabi­ lity, business talent and service. Bo’s fine pedagogical talents make him highly valued by everybody – truck drivers as well as clients. Being humorous and full of fun, Bo is also a very popular colleague.

He is the initiator if anyone wants to go for a run. Bo is also a model husband/ father - married to Mette and the father of two lovely children.

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10 years Kirsten Davidsen

01.03.06-01.03.2016

On 1.3.2006, Kirsten Davidsen/Blue Water Esbjerg joined our HR team. Kirsten has together with Annette Nielsen fulfilled the role of “crown princess” making sure that all employees received their salary on time. Being eagle eyed, Kirsten focuses on quality and takes care of spelling errors and punctuation. Kirsten is good at making witty remarks which gets even better after a few glasses of wine.

Leisurewear for campers is Kirsten’s preferred weekend outfit. Every spring, Kirsten and her family move outdoor to enjoy life in their caravan.

Kirsten recently changed field to a more administrative function in HR.

10 years Petteri Lehtila

01.03.06-01.03.2016

On 1.3.2016, Petteri Lehtila/Blue Water Turku will celebrate his 10th anniversary.

Petteri loves working with Airfreight. He has a gift for winning the customers’ trust - the female customers in particular who like his professional way of dealing with the different tasks they assign to him.

Petteri is a good colleague who never lets a fellow colleague down and he is also one of the key persons behind the success of our Airfreight department.

The private Petteri is an enthusiastic football and ice hockey fan, who follows the local club TPS and the British Premier League team Manchester City very closely.

10 years Rikke Jacobsen

01.03.06-01.03.2016

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ter Copenhagen was employed as our Switchboard Operator. Later, Rikke joined our Accounts team to become involved in dunning as well as closing of files etc. In January 2015, Rikke changed to a newly created position of Administrative Assistant in our Sea Freight group.

Rikke lives in Malmö, Sweden with her two children and the family cat Tiger.

Rikke’s leisure activities include running and bicycling. Rikke ran her first marathon in October 2015.

Rikke’s healthy and active lifestyle fits neither into Blue Water’s cake eating ha­ bits nor does it fit in with her slogan: “never stand in the way of a hungry woman”. ut ant.

10 years Helle Grandt Schmidt

06.03.06-06.03.2016

Helle Grandt Schmidt/Blue Water Esbjerg originally started as a Temp in our Finance department on 6.3.2006, when we were introducing a new finance system. Later on, Helle moved to Accounts Payable where she is still based, taking care of payments to our creditors abroad. Helle possesses strong professional competences and never compromises on anything.

She is a family person through and through. Helle and her husband, Kristian, are also members of the local dart club. At home, she is always busy with some kind of project, which usually ends up involving her handyman, Kristian, as well. When it is time to relax, the couple goes away for a couple of days in their caravan.

10 years Martin Hildebrandt

16.03.06-16.03.2016

Martin Hildebrandt Jensen/Blue Water Esbjerg is a true “Blue Water boy” who started his career, at the age of nine, packing bags of sweets to our vending machine. On 16.3.2006, Martin’s real career started as he was employed to assist in the IT department. In 2010, Martin

started his apprenticeship to become an IT-supporter. Later on, he moved on to IT Consulting where he today coordinates IT in connection with office establishments, closedowns, relocations etc.

On the home front, Sanne and their two children have Martin’s full attention, when he is not busy renovating their house or going fishing or hunting. ant.

10 years Tommy Møller Andersen

21.03.06-21.03.2016

On 21.3.2016, Tommy Møller Andersen/ Blue Water Esbjerg Esbjerg will celebrate his 10th anniversary. Tommy was originally employed to look after our Tug Master Service in the port of Esbjerg. A job he still performs to the clients’ full satisfaction.

Tommy is always in a good mood approaching the different tasks in a positive way. He is also a real company man who, as we all remember, dropped a tear when we recorded the song “The spirit of Blue Water” at the company’s 40th anniversary.

In his spare time, Tommy goes camping with his family consisting of his wife, MaryAnn, and two daughters, Maria and Dina.

10 years Prabhal Shetty

27.03.06-27.03.2016

Prabhal Shetty/Blue Water Jebel Ali was employed on 27.3.2006 to run our warehouse in Jebel Ali. Although coming from a much bigger organisation, Shetty quickly adapted to his new challenges and he has been and still is an important part in the build-up of our warehouse and customer base.

In addition to being a car enthusiast, he is always the first person to sign up for any company event. Although football is not a big sport where Shetty comes from, he regards football as the second most important sport after cricket. But above all is his love for rock music.

Shetty is married and has a daughter.

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