Danish Maritime Magazine 04-2012

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MAGAZINE 4 - 2012

Great cold potential for Danish shipping Trust us: We will never forget you

4 Thousands of jobs: A Danish maritime growth rocket 6 Arctic pioneering becoming routine: Great cold potential for Danish shipping 10 Arctic Navigation: An old idea comes to life in a new climate 11 Is gas going to be the next winner 12 Still believing in shipping after four years of crisis 14 Shipping companies to pirates’ hostages Trust us: We will never forget you 16 E-navigation: Helping to concentrate on sailing 18 World’s best restaurant chooses wines shipped by sail 19 Consolidation of the Danish maritime media business

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Thousands of jobs:

A Danish maritime growth rocket How can you talk about growth when world economy and shipping is struggling even to keep its nose above water. To Carsten Mortensen, CEO of Norden, chairman of Danish Shipowners Association and head of the maritime part of a government-initiated growth task force the answer is simple: Shipping is a cyclic industry and tough times call for establishing a solid basis for the next upturn.

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That’s why the whole Danish maritime sector has taken enthusiastically part in the government initiated project to analyze the growth situation and select the best potentials for further development in the sector.

The maritime growth team – with participation of shipping companies, maritime suppliers, service providers, trade unions, business organization and not least universities and – has established a number of areas of special interest to meet in an increasingly competitive global market.

Even though the Danish shipowners find themselves in a pretty strong starting position, expecting to sail home a foreign currency turnover for 2012 of 195 billion Danish kroner, close to the pre-crisis level, the focus on cooperation within the maritime cluster - including the education and research sector - is increasing.

A Danish specialty is a strong tradition for political consensus on the maritime industry. Governments from all sides of the political spectrum have for decades seen shipping as a stronghold worth their general support and the current minister for business and growth, Ole Sohn, is no exception. He has from day one in office picked shipping as a major area of

One of the first recommendations is that Denmark should be attractive to maritime businesses. This calls for the framework conditions for shipping to be stable, competitive and sustain growth. At the same time maritime growth opportunities associated with offshore must be strengthened together with growth opportunities in the Arctic.

interest.

Thus the recommendations from the growth team is able to draw on sympathy from all sides of society – business, unions, authorities, schools and universities – to form a common approach to creating new jobs – potentially thousands of them according to Danish Shipowners - by increasing global focus on the entire sector, attracting new businesses and innovating solutions of all kinds through better frame conditions, better education and research and higher efficiency.

its high share (73 percent) of foreign shipping companies.

To take up the challenge the growth team quite strongly suggests that The Blue Denmark be marketed much stronger: - The Danish maritime cluster has strong qualities, and Denmark is an attractive place to do business from. A targeted, strategic and intensive effort to brand Denmark as a good place to settle could lead to increased growth and employment in terms of attracting new businesses and offices, the team highlights.

These actions will also be able to strengthen the maritime cluster and create a good basis for sales of Danish maritime companies’ products and services in global markets. A prerequisite for a comprehensive marketing of the Blue Denmark is a common vision and strengths.

The vision has even got a name: The brand should be rolled out through the vision of “Denmark - the Core of Maritime Europe” with strengths as “Commerce Competence & Cooperation” and target foreign companies and attract also nonEuropean companies to establish regional office in Denmark.

Types of maritime companies, which currently do not exist in Denmark – it might be crew agencies, technical management companies and headquarters of classification societies – should be welcomed.

Knowledge and sense of quality has been a trademark of The Blue Denmark, and now its skills, research and innovation capacities should be stronger.

The green growth opportunities must be exploited through collaboration and partnerships, like a suggested partnership on maritime retrofit. And all future climate and environmental regulation should support growth.

SIX RECOMMENDATIONS The six recommendations point out that Denmark must be attractive to maritime companies, the general frame conditions must be competitive, increased efficiency, digitalization and innovation must create competitive advantage, The Blue Denmark must be marketed determinedly and its competences, research and innovation capacities must be strengthened while all green growth potential must be exploited through cooperation and partnering.

The Blue Denmark is the name of maritime cluster in a country small enough to have only one such cluster and big enough to ship 10 percent of the global trade. Danish shipping companies and national industrial suppliers and service providers as well as education and research institutes have for quite a while been cooperating – while still competing – to gain mutual results but now this effort has been completed with the governmental initiated task force with growth as its prime goal.

The Danish shipping cluster has for years been a powerful exporter and provider of general earnings and employee income far above average. It is significant that even the maritime authorities are considered part of the cluster.

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LIKE SINGAPORE The strong international competition is a challenge to the Danish maritime cluster but far from considered invincible.

However the general framework conditions must be competitive, the report recommends: Production costs must be competitive and access to better financing for the maritime industry is of the essence.

Danish shipping sees itself as quite efficient and does not hesitate to aim for being the leading shipping nation of Europe. Still the recommendations call for a cross-industry increase in efficiency, digitization and innovation to create competitive advantage. A suggestion is a partnership of Lean Ship of the Future/Smart Shipping.

A role model for Danish maritime aspiration is Singapore with

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Arctic pioneering becoming routine:

Great cold potential for Danish shipping The ice cover in the Arctic has been shrinking in recent years and simultaneously increased the maritime expectations of significantly shorter ship travels to the Far East as well as prospects of offshore servicing of the oil, gas and mining industry, that a still milder climate encourages in the northern parts of the globe.

This is the reasons why the Arctic is included as a special subject in the Danish maritime growth team’s proposals for a new strategy for the Danish maritime cluster, The Blue Denmark.

The team expects shipping activity around Greenland to increase as a result of offshore activities and transit along the Northeast and Northwest passage north of Russia and North America and points out, that studies by U.S. Geological Survey and others show that there can be huge yet unproven oil and especially gas reserves in the Arctic.

It is estimated that the Arctic may contain up to 30 percent of the world’s yet undiscovered gas resources and approx. 10

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percent of oil resources. Approximately 97 percent of these resources are estimated to exist within the Arctic countries’ exclusive economic zones.

- Maritime activities in the Arctic will therefore constitute a special growth potential, the team says, stressing as well the need for increased safety of navigation in the form of special equipment, high international standards and agreements with other Arctic countries, and icebreaking services to Danish ships.

The increased shipping activities in the Arctic, creates demand for special equipment and solutions developed for

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navigation in the Arctic climate. Increased cooperation in the industrial field on challenges and opportunities with other Arctic states may strengthen Danish maritime companies’ opportunities for economic activities in the Arctic.

It is, inter alia, essential to ensure that Danish and foreign ships arriving here, meet the same standards and thus have a level playing field, the growth team states.

PIONEERS The Danish Shipowners consider Arctic navigation a pioneering field for Danish shipping.

Nordic Bulkers were among the very first, but companies like the Greenland based Royal Arctic Line, who so to speak, are there already, take interest in the new possibilities, just like the AP Moller-Maersk owned ESVAGT’s supply and rescue vessels are active in this segment, most recently with the new ship, ESVAGT Aurora, which has obtained contract with an Italian operator in the Bering Sea. The entire exploration task and the current mining interests in Greenland will create a lot of new jobs for shipping and industry.

- It will be huge, when we count all that we are going to transport in and out of the Arctic in combination with the task of servicing the offshore future: Apart from supply, emergency

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and maintenance and service vessels, the job includes hotel ships as well, a segment in which J. Lauritzen specializes, Danish Shipowners’ Association points out seeing a clear potential for new jobs and revenue growth: - Denmark is one of the Arctic states, but we believe that the area should be open to navigation for all nations. We are not in favor of protectionism, but in view of the sensitive nature , it is important to set the entering bar very high, both in terms of safety and environmental and climate quality. You must demonstrate that you can safely cope with unforeseen situations and can provide a sustainable solution in the field of environment, vice president of Danish Shipowners’ Association, Jan Fritz Hansen says.

- All that we can well live up to in Danish shipping, but if others can do the same, they should of course be allowed in, the shipowners say.

They consider the Arctic adventure a task for the entire Blue Denmark: - The ships, the equipment and the know-how to be used in the cold regions is very different from traditional shipping, and although they definitely are skilled in the shipyards in the Far East, they are not always accustomed to build to extreme cold and are hardly fully equipped for it. There may be a niche for us, vice president Jan Fritz Hansen says.

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- At the same time, our talented Danish sailors certainly have a good chance to make an impact here because it is jobs that require education, training extra skills to - for example - control advanced photo equipment at the seabed and work with “joysticks”.

- In addition we have our safety training. Skilled people will be in demand - and all things being equal, one can well imagine that a Danish employee will be more familiar with the extreme cold than say an Indian.

- Danish Shipowners highly priority the new Arctic opportunities and has a polar group as well as an Arctic group concentrating on respectively the more operational and the international framework.

But even if expectations for what can result from the oil and gas in the Arctic, are large, so are the challenges working in this extremely cold inveronment. Everything is more difficult, more time consuming, more risky and not least more expensive when operating in arctic cold. And the demands are even higher.

34 SHIPS WENT THROUGH In its latest report on the future of technology Det Norske Veritas, DNV, concludes that there is clearly an increasing focus on the Arctic traffic and the rising possibilities.

However, it is still a limited market. But the fact that 34 ships sailed through the Northeast passage in 2011 compared to four in 2010 shows the trend and the way to further growth.

Head of office in the Danish Maritime Authority, Per Sønderstrup, underlines that it is through IMO, the rules for Arctic navigation - and Antarctic as well - are determined. The international mandatory code for polar shipping - which goes deeper that normal navigation rules – is not yet in place but is expected to be adopted in 2014.

No up-to-date forecasts for the size northern shipping traffic size exists, but Per Sønderstrup tends to expect a scenario where large fuel savings can be achieved, as long as the situation with less ice continues.

This will make the route increasingly important especially in low-value goods in the form of bulk. He doubts that the large container ships will be attracted.

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- It is probably mainly interesting for companies transporting goods from A to B and with price as the most important factor whereas the time factor is less crucial. Moreover shipping of oil from Russia will be a market in itself.

Climate change is yet still projections, but all reports are talking about less ice and a larger proportion of one-year ice.

- There is no doubt that the one-year ice is easier to sail through, and this increases interest, says Per Sønderstrup who personally believes that the northern traffic compared to the general Asian routes will be of rather small volume, although importance will certainly increase over time.

In addition, the Russian regulation requires mandatory assistance by icebreakers and the ships in use have to be ice class ships, of which not too many exists today. And ice class ships may not be profitable in ice free summer months.

It is a long-term growth market, but when the Arctic becomes more accessible, so does the companies’ interest.

And the expected energy reserves, have great potential. Offshore activities far north will attract a large follow industry, just like the Greenland mineral resources, which has created interest in other countries - not least around rare earths which in time will mean more pressure on ports and ships, he says but emphasizes one thing: All of it requires large investments.

ARCTIC STRATEGY According to the official Danish Arctic Strategy for 20112022, warming in the Arctic is growing faster than anywhere else on the planet. The average temperature in the Arctic has in the first decade of the 21st century surpassed all previous measurements.

Sea ice has been shrinking, and this creates according to the strategy paper a basis for new shipping routes that can reduce costs and CO2 emissions for transports of goods between the continents.

Ships on the route between East Asia and Western Europe could save more than 40 per cent of distance and of fuel costs by sailing the Northern Motorway north of Siberia rather than the southern route through the Suez Canal.

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Arctic Navigation:

An old idea comes to life in a new climate In September this year, the ice-classed reefer MV Skyfrost had completed a 2,189 nautical mile voyage through the Northeast Passage in just 7 days 12 hours 30 minutes.

Skyfrosts’ voyage was preceded by an icebreaker accompanied voyage of 6,630 nautical miles through waters with some ice, bringing the total trip to 21 days instead of the normal 40 days through the Panama Canal. It was the second time the company completed such a challenge.

Soon it will no longer be unusual with traffic through the northern passages. In 2011, 34 vessels sailed through, and this kind of travel will soon enough become routine, now that the ice in the Arctic Ocean has become an ever more manageable task.

Modern icebreakers – some of them nuclear fuelled – add a technological boost to this development, although it will never be a Sunday trip. The passage puts both the ships and their crews to the test and requires preparation as well as special equipment.

The continued melting of ice in the Arctic Ocean is expected in a 10-20-years perspective to result in the opening (at least in parts of the year) of the Northwest Passage over North America and the Northeast Passage over Russia.

The Danish Arctic Strategy 2011-2020 highlights that the economic benefits of these new routes are potentially significant.

Thus, the opening of the Northwest Passage, reduces the distance from Seattle to Rotterdam with nearly 25 percent in comparison with the route of the Panama Canal.

The possibility of transiting the Northeastern route will reduce the distance between Rotterdam and Yokohama with more

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than 40 percent in relation to the route of the Suez Canal.

Furthermore, the opening of these alternative routes means that the military and the commercial shipping will no longer be dependent on passage through the political instability of the Middle East or the piracy-ridden routes through the South China Sea, the Strait of Malacca and the Gulf of Aden.

A NEW POSSIBILITY The modern passage of the northern passages is still a relatively new phenomenon. We need go no further back than to September 2010, to find the premiere of Danish commercial passage: It was when the ice class ship “Nordic Barents” from the Danish shipping company Nordic Bulk Carriers as the first freighter ever sailed through the Arctic and Northeast Passage to Asia.

Sailing with 41,000 tonnes of iron ore concentrate from Kirkenes in Northern Norway to China was approx. 30 percent shorter than if the ship should have used the traditional route through the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. The voyage took place in close cooperation with the Norwegian Tschudi Shipping Company and the Russian authorities.

In August 2008, the Danish cable ship “Peter Faber”, assisted

by Canadian pilots, navigated as the first commercial vessel through the Northwest Passage thus saving 15 days on voyage from Japan to Newfoundland for the laying of cables between Greenland and Canada.

These northern routes have been discussed for many years and even obtained myth-status, but today withdrawal and thinning of the ice cover is a fact – even though scientists cannot be sure, that the current situation is permanent.

Arctic covers more than a sixth of the Earth’s total land mass, plus the Arctic Ocean and the Arctic coastal states bordering.

Unlike Antarctica, which also have relatively low temperatures year round, the Arctic region is populated by people, including more than 30 different indigenous peoples.

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Is gas going to be the next winner The International Energy Agency, IEA, now considers gas – especially unconventional gas as shale gas - a possible game change if conditions are right. In round figures the use of gas as fuel means emitting only half as much CO2 as oil – and it seems to be abundant enough to replace coal as number two fuel after oil.

According to IEA World production of unconventional gas, primarily shale gas, more than triples between 2010 and 2035 to 1.6 trillion cubic metres and in general natural gas can enhance security of supply: global resources exceed 250 years of current production; In shipping gas – LNG – is strongly in focus for use in sulpur restricted waters, SECA. Australia will emerge as a gas superpower as it begins to deliver large quantities of LNG from offshore fields. And better technology and global warming is unlocking the Arctic’s natural bounty Breakthroughs in technology opened up America’s shale beds, and advances in drilling in very deep water have dramatically changed exploration in the sea.

But there are reservations. Last year the IEA published a report entitled, “Are We Entering a Golden Age of Gas?” The question mark reflects the constraints that public disquiet about shale gas might put on its development. The heavy “fragging” proces required to release the gas from the underground shale, is highly controversial.

In Denmark as well as other European countries the shale gas is a newcomer. Licenses to explore the underground in Northern Jutland and Northern Zealand has been given to Total E&P Denmark B.V., an affiliate of the international energy company Total (80 pct.) in collaboration with the Danish state-owned oil

Denmark has adopted a strong commitment to renewables but shale gas enthusiast expect this energy to fill in the gap between the expected downturn of offshore gas supplies from the North Sea and full impact of the wind power policy by 2050. And modern Danish shipping is committed to green solutions including a strong energy-efficiency focus.

The 2015 rule of maximum 0,1 pct sulfur in fuel for all ships passing through SECA will make big ships change to the more expensive low sulfur diesel fuel, when entering, whereas local shipping, typically ro-ro, is challenged thus making LNG one of the future possibilities when the delivery infrastructure is established.

For ocean shipping the massive new output of gas would be expected to – as with all surplus - make energy prices in general go down, but so far this has not been the case, and oil experts warns shipping companies, that energy pricing is more complicated involving OPEC policies and Chinese demand – even though US has dreams of beating Saudi Arabia as number one oil og gas supplier. The shale gas is expected to create as many as 600.000 jobs in USA. Also China has truly huge reserves of shale gas and depends much on gas in its energy policy.

IEA reckons that the share of gas in the global energy mix will rise from 21 pct. today to 25 pct. in 2035. That may not sound much of an increase, but over that period total global

and gas company Nordsøfonden (20 pct.)

A special underground formation called the Alum shale formation was identified as one of the potential candidates for natural gas deposits in the shale strata of Europe. The Alum shale strata extend to Sweden, Norway and Poland as well.

consumption will grow spectacularly. If the obstacles can be overcome, more gas and lower prices will mean a rise of 50 pct .in global demand for gas between 2010 and 2035.

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Still believing in shipping after four years of crisis The Danish shipowner Dannebrog Group can trace its origin back to 1883, but is still among the frontrunners when it comes to launching new technology. The latest initiative is to install the Air Cavity System on one of the company’s multipurpose heavy lift vessels.

Dannebrog Group is owned by Johan Wedell-Wedellsborg, who is engaged in a number of different business activities, but he holds on to shipping even though shipping in general has been hard hit by the crisis and still is.

-I believe in shipping. You cannot give up, just because it has been hard times for the past four years. The good times will return, says Johan Wedell-Wedellsborg, who took over the shipping company from his father in 2001.

Giving up he is certainly not. On the contrary: He is investing in new environmentally friendly technology and in newbuildings.

Recently, Dannebrog Group signed a deal according to which, the so-called Air Cavity System developed by DK Group will be installed on a newly built 12,580 dwt multipurpose heavy lift vessel.

The Air Cavity System is an air lubrication technology reducing the frictional resistance between the water and the hull by pumping a stream of air bubbles below the hull. It creates a thin layer of air below the vessel, which reduces the friction and in this way improve the fuel efficiency by 10 per cent.

-We start with this vessel and we will keep an eye on the cost savings. If the project is going well, we will also install the technology on the five sister vessels, says Johnny Schmolker,

DK Group. They needed a ship to test their new technology, Johnny Schmolker says.

THE ENVIRONMENT – AN IMPORTANT FACTOR The Air Cavity System is the first kind of environmentally friendly technology that Dannebrog Group has been engaged in, but it will probably not be the last one.

-The fuel price is clearly a factor to us; it is, however, also our intention to become more environmentally minded. It becomes a more important factor to our customers - the big oil companies - that they can show their customers that they make an effort to think of the environment, Johan Wedell-Wedellsborg says.

While many of the biggest shipowners are developing their own environmental projects, the people at Dannebrog Group think that the Air Cavity System could be very interesting to the big Danish fleet of merchant vessels. The Air Cavity System is intended for newbuildings, but is also very easily installed on existing vessels. It just takes 2-3 weeks at the shipyard to have the system installed.

CEO of Dannebrog Group.

-We don’t have our own development department like the big shipping companies such as Stena. We would also like, however, to be part of the many environmental initiatives taken by the Blue Denmark. That’s why we have this cooperation with

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NEWBUILDINGS IN 2014 Besides the Air Cavity System, Dannebrog Group has, via Stena Weco, a J/V between Dannebrog and the Swedish shipowner Stena AB, been involved in a new building project for six newbuildings in China with the option to order four vessels further. The newbuildings will be of 50,000 dwt and will be delivered from 2014. They will be especially built for transportation of palm oil, which is a Stena Weco speciality.

Dannebrog Group actually consists of three shipping companies, Dannebrog Rederi, Stena Weco, and Nordana. Nordana is mainly engaged within dry cargo such as Project, Heavy Lift and Liner trading , and tanker vessels is the focus area for Stena Weco, while Dannebrog Rederi is taking care of the technical side of its owned tonnage in the shipping business.

Besides lots of palm oil, Stena Weco transports clean petroleum products and chemicals on the fleet of 35 vessels, of which only five is owned by the Stena Weco Partners. The rest is vessels on timecharter.

-It makes it easier to adjust the capacity to the rate level, in contrast to the big shipping companies with a large fleet of own vessels. They have a certain level of costs, regardless of the freight rates being high or low, Johnny Schmolker explains.

While Stena Weco is transporting especially much palm oil, Nordana, operating a fleet of 18-20 vessels of which 10 are owned and the remaining vessels are on time charter, is transporting the majority of its cargoes for clients within the energy sector – everything from oil well supplies, knock down plants,

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refineries, wind turbines to steel constructions, but also serving the basic traditional bulk cargoes like coal, sugar, grains and raw steel products etc. Among the many special jobs can be mentioned the transportation of a nuclear power unit from Russia to India, which took more than seven years.

TIMES OF PROSPERITY WILL SUDDENLY ARISE Both Nordana and Stena Weco are performing well and are making profits, but the last three annual accounts have been marked by the crisis and have shown losses. Now, the companies have a positive cash flow after several restructuring measures.

It is, however, not the first time that Dannebrog Group is experiencing recessions. In its 129 year long history, the Danish shipowner has experienced times of prosperity as well as recessions. Back in times, Dannebrog Group has been among the largest Danish shipping companies, but has also experienced times, where it struggled for survival.

While not being very optimistic regarding the future outlook for shipping, Johan Wedell-Wedellsborg mentions that only 10 per cent of the ship yards in China have newbuilding orders.

-Some day it will have an effect on shipping. Besides, many of the ordered vessels are smaller vessels, and many vessels are being scrapped. The time of prosperity will come again, and it will come when you expect it the least, Johan WedellWedellsborg says.

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Shipping companies to pirates’ hostages Trust us: We will never forget you The human costs of piracy are high. Seafarers doing their daily duty are at risk every time their vessels pass through pirate waters. The good news is that naval presence and armed guards on merchant ships has significantly reduced the criminal activities. And for seafarers unlucky enough to get captured there is comforting assurance from shipowners: - You may feel alone and abandoned, but we never give up. You are not forgotten.

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The reassurance comes from deputy director of Danish Shipowners Association, Jan Fritz Hansen, who is also heading the anti-piracy task force of the European shipping companies in Bruxelles.

Even though piracy is still a highly threatening factor – a few weeks ago the Danish ship Gertrude Torm was - unsuccess-

- I think we have learned a little faster than the pirates. We have become more skilled in protecting ourselves and the naval forced have strengthened their cooperation and protection capabilities. We follow IMO’s BMP and our permits to use armed guards are more flexible now, Jan Fritz Hansen states,

fully - attacked with gunfire off Lagos, Nigeria – the overall picture is a significant decline in the number of attacks as well as in number of seafarers being held hostage. Less than 200 right now compared to almost 1.000 a few years ago.

indicating that shipping companies are well prepared at sea.

Practically all Danish vessels passing through dangerous waters employ armed guards, except the biggest and fastest ships.

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The shipowners are convinced that they are in for at long time commitment at sea, to counter piracy, while efforts in land – not least initiated by the Africa strategy of the European Union - to build capacity and secure development in failed states like Somalia are going on. This will take years.

- So we urge governments to hold on to their naval presence down there, he says being pleased that the official Danish Anti-pirate strategy is still going strong with new Danish frigates now being inserted in the Bay of Aden to join NATO’s commitment.

Recently the shipping companies and their costumers in the International Chamber of Commerce have stated their common enthusiasm to continue a strong effort to free the oceans from the piracy menace, and Danish Shipowners Associating is acting in all global fora to focus on the necessary international engagement.

Danish shipping companies are active in preparing seafares as well as staff for possible attacks, and the attack on Gertrude Torm made the company realize just how important the training had proven when fired upon in a 20 minutes long capture attempt.

- The procedures we have practiced are working, Torm stated

- Even though Danish shipping has faced only few incidents through the years, making our trade fairly safe, we might focus more on the subject when recruiting young people.

- We run training projects teaching seafarers to cope with these situations and we employ psychologists but we are considering doing a bit more in education to give young employees an extra tool in the box.

When things go wrong and an actual capture has been enacted holding crew hostage, the situation is serious and hard to balance.

- But one thing is certain. Though we are no Navy Seals swearing to get a comrade out at all stakes and we cannot jeopardize a negotiating process, everyone may rest assured never to be forgotten even if things take time, he says adding: - We have an industrial standard for dealing with the pirate issue, we stick to IMO’s Best Management Practice, and our consultants are professionals. We know what we are doing.

Today our piracy preparedness is more than just some rolls of barbed wire around the hull. It is a holistic approach.

By Finn Bruun

afterwards in Maritime Danmark.

Jan Fritz Hansen underlines that capture of ships with crews taken hostage creates a very complicated situation, where it is of utmost importance to use the right consultants.

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E-NAV E-navigation:

Helping to concentrate on sailing The Danish Maritime Authority, DMA plays an active role in creating and testing an international e-navigation system that is due for IMO’s implementation planning process in 2014. By creating practical results and testing, DMA delivers important input and is on top of that hosting the most important conferences on e-navigation.

While aviation in all modern times has relied heavily on digital navigation down to the smallest detail, shipping has had no such demands. But that is going to change now.

Not that a modern container vessel is low tech – on the contrary. But no international ruling has so far determined a certain common e-standard on the bridge.

- We are hosting the coming 3rd international – as we hosted the two first – conference on e-navigation, head of e-navigation project in DMA, Thomas Christensen says.

The e-navigation EfficienSea project lead by DMA was finished earlier this year but the next project – ACCSEAS – is under way. It is an EU project covering the North Sea and consists of 11 partners from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

The Danish Maritime Authority is among the ones in the forefront of two work packages concerning the development of new services and tests and user feedback.

- Within ACCSEAS we are working on different prototypes around navigation service experimenting with new solutions.

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At the same time we are engaged in the Mona Lisa project aiming to optimize shipping routes and monitoring of ships on route, he says.

Of course we have looked into the aviation industry to compare. Their strength is not so much the technology itself as their being very well organized and well regulated. When a plane starts from Barcelona to Copenhagen, the control center in Copenhagen already know practically everything because of a flow of information between the two.

- We are working in a holistic way focusing on the regulatory aspect as well as the operational and the technological sides.

It is a long process leading to a plan in IMO - not a complete e-navigation system, but a detailed description of the whole architecture and the - services.

DANISH FINGERPRINT - With our experiments and participation in the projects we hope to put our fingerprint on the project and move things in a right direction, he says.

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AVIGATION - Our next conference is to take place in January on the DFDS “Pearl of Scandinavia” and our efforts are spin-offs from the very first conference where we started to demonstrate prototypes.

- The IMO approach to e-navigation is very top-down and highly analytic. We take a more practical stand testing prototype services on specially equipped ships and full scale simulations, he says.

The IMO e-navigation plan is in sight but Thomas Christensen has no knowledge of when the whole system will come into actual use onboard the world fleet.

- We hope to be able to have the system implemented in stages. It’s a very large and complex structure spread out on a large front.

- If we could pick certain elements, and roll them out we might have a great win in short time, he says mentioning that some of the tools made for experimental purpose have been put to practical use: Input and storage of navigation warnings. They were created to show the info visible from the navigation chair

and enable the captain to steer away from counter currents, Thomas Christensen explains pointing out the advantages for navigators automatically to receive important warnings and nothing else.

- At the same time the system should ease the ever increasing paper workload that modern captains face, much to their regret – as it keeps them away from the bridge, he states indicating that the purpose of the DMA in e-navigation from the start has been two-fold: On the one hand, to get rid of some of the often heavy administrative burdens experienced by navigating officers in their work and, on the other hand, to increase safety of navigation, locally and globally.

- In some cases, the two purposes seem to melt together, Thomas Christensen says.

on the ship’s bridge. Today we make internal use of it and it is distributed to the Danish Navy’s command center.

- We are working to integrate various pieces of information in the navigation systems providing the navigating officers with a better basis for decision making. Most accidents – including the big disasters – are due to human error and enavigation helps by selecting the most relevant information.

The ship’s route can be plotted in on a chart background and be combined with VTS info and the projected movements of

trial innovation? What are the benefits and risks of electronic devices in shipping? Who will pay the costs of e-Navigation such as necessary infrastructure, services, communications?

E-Navigation drivers – regulation or market forces? How can we provide users the information they need when they need it and how can ship and shore users work effectively together

other ships showing only the ones necessary to concentrate on blanking out less important data. Even meteorological data for the route can be integrated. We have done that on the DFDS ships between Oslo and Copenhagen. Also the possibility to plan the route according to current can be helpful

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A LOT OF QUESTIONS Among the topics of the January e-navigation conference are status of the IMO E-Navigation Strategy Implementation Plan in 2014 and questions like: How do we benefit from indus-

By Finn Bruun

E-navigaton takes a lot of testing. The Danish Maritime Authority have for at long time been engaged in developing practical solutions.

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World’s best restaurant chooses wines shipped by sail The sailing cargo ship Tres Hombres docked in Copenhagen on August 14in a CO2-free wine shipping operation. No less than 13 French biodynamic winemakers gathered their Danish exports to ship their production by sail power only.

Initiated by Anjou winemaker Olivier Cousin, TransOceanic Wind Transport and Rosforth & Rosforth, part of the cargo was destined for restaurant Noma - rewarded the ‘Best Restaurant in the World’ for the third consecutive year in 2012.

“Growing biodynamic wine takes a lot of time and a lot of work. When you have invested all that effort, it makes little sense to ship the wine to Copenhagen on large trucks”, says Sune Rosforth, owner of wine company Rosforth & Rosforth.“ Most of the 8.000 bottles were unloaded to Rosforth & Rosforth’s warehouse in Strandgade, before Tres Hombres delivered 300 bottles directly to the pier at Noma.

“It’s certainly something we will do again”, says Sune Rosforth. ”It is better for the wine to drift quietly on board a sailing ship from Brest to Copenhagen, than to tumble around in a refrigerated truck down the German Autobahn. And it’s actually not much more expensive”, says Rosforth.

Noma is headed by Executive Chef René Redzepi, and has earned much attention and praise in the short amount of time it has been open, including two Michelin stars, becoming almost synonymous with Copenhagen fine dining.

The Tres Hombres, sailing for the French TransOceanic Wind Transport, is the world’s only engine-free cargo sailing ship.

A fast but safe design from 1930s Germany, the oak and douglas fir hull was purchased at a very low cost by the three founders - Arjen, Andreas and Jorne.

It is the second time that the Tres Hombres has docked in Copenhagen. The first time was in December 2009, when she took part in the Climate Change Conference. Her second Danish call was historical - it was the first shipping of pure organic wines by sail from France, and also the largest coastal cargo that the Tres Hombres carries within Europe – about 14 pallets or 11 tons.

Each bottle has been labeled with a specific TransOceanic Wind Transport tracking code, stating they have been “Shipped by sail power - the carbon-neutral option”. It reveals information such as product description, route, sailed nautical miles, tons of CO2 saved, logbook, and photos, thereby guaranteeing the products were shipped CO2-free.

Noma’s innovative and ground-breaking approach to cooking has created a maelstrom in the culinary world. The restaurant, for example, has taken the used old concept of the amuse bouche and turned it into a dazzling array of one-bite starters that in themselves are worth the flight ticket to Denmark.

Photo: Michel Floch

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World’s best restaurant chooses wines shipped by sail

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Consolidation of the Danish maritime media business The Danish maritime sector is experiencing great success. Danish shipping companies today run 10 pct. of the world trade fleet, and equipment produced in Denmark is installed on most modern ships.

The maritime media in Denmark has long been divided between so many enterprises that none of them have been able to match the success that the Danish maritime sector has achieved. We will change this.

On October 1 two of the strongest players in the Danish maritime media market merged – ErhvervsMagasinerne and Maritime Danmark. Together the two companies secure a dominant position in both printed and electronic communication of maritime news and background articles.

In just five years, the news portal maritimedanmark.dk has become the Danes’ preferred source of daily news from the maritime world. Erhvervsmagasinerne is, with a broad palette of magazines - Danish Maritime Magazine, Havne & Skibsfart, Maritim Industri og FiskerBladet - and a long maritime tradition, the strongest company of the maritime print market in Denmark. ”By joining forces, we will get more resources to increase quality, while being able to offer advertisers a combined entry to all of The Blue Denmark, with flexible advertisement contracts across all platforms, allowing clients’ messages to penetrate exactly where they want them to,” says René Wittendorff, CEO of the new Maritime Danmark ApS. We hope you will endorse our initiative and we look forward to welcoming you - both readers and advertisers.

Martin Uhlenfeldt, Editor in Chief René Wittendorff, CEO Partner Partner

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Crisis makes us stronger

M/S SELANDIA - ET 100-ÅRS MINDE

- We have all the prerequisites needed compared to other great shipping nations.

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Minister with blue ambitions

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Danish Minister for Business and Growth Ole Sohn is ready to boost the effort to make Danish shipping even more competitive.

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Jenny Braat, managing director of Danish Maritime:

Make use of the advantages

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