NO. 1 2015 – 29 th YEAR CORPORATE MAGAZINE FOR THE WILH. WILHELMSEN GROUP
SPECIAL REPORT:
WW IN THE MIDDLE EAST
WW BUSINESS STANDARDS:
THE NEXT STEPS
NEW CALLENBERG:
GLOBAL AMBITIONS
ROLES ON BOARD:
WHO IS THE “REAL” BOSS?
WW PROFILE:
THE PATHFINDER – KNUT BRATHAGEN
PEOPLE&PLACES AT THE YARD: Ellen Soegaard with the propeller for MV Thalatta, one of the two new WW vessels presently being built at the Hyundai Samho Shipyard in Korea.
TRAVEL REPORT FROM MV TALISMAN Every year since 2005 we´ve added two new maritime trainees through the Maritime Trainee Programme. Here is a travel report from one of this year’s trainees, Ellen Soegaard.
NORWAY: One of the perks of being a WW trainee is the opportunity of learning by doing. I recently got to spend 13 days on board MV Talisman and four days at the Hyundai Samho Shipyard. The voyage from Singapore to Shanghai took seven days, during which I got to see a lot of the day-to-day work on board. In the engine room and on deck proactive maintenance was carried out and equipment tested. Some of the many things I observed were a main engine performance test, inspection of ballast water tanks, testing the wear on air compressor bearings, and fixing a loose cylinder on the life boat davit. But it was not all work and no play; I also had a swim in the 30 degrees warm pool and 60 WWWORLD 1 2015
sang karaoke with the crew. SHANGHAI-INCHEON and Incheon-Kunsan are shorter legs, where the dust from departure barely settles before arrival in a new port. This offered me the opportunity to observe how the pilot operates, the mooring and ballasting activities were performed, in addition to cargo operations with very efficient stevedore teams. Despite all the experience I gained by joining the daily work, I think I learned the most by communicating with the people on board. They talked willingly about their experiences, and I am very thankful for the way I was welcomed by Captain Adam Koziarski and his team.
TWO NEW SHIPS. After passing immigration in Korea I travelled to Mokpo and the Hyundai Samho Shipyard, where I spent four days together with the WW’s site team. They gave me a tour of the two vessels under construction, Thermopylæ and Thalatta. I participated in a test of the hydraulic system on the stern ramp, performance test of hoistable deck panels and the assembly of part of the propeller shaft. I learned a lot during the three weeks. And I got a grasp of the challenges we as a group face, with all the different stakeholders and the differences in opinions, while we all have the same goal in mind: to do as good a job as possible for the company in which we are employed.