No. 86 House Magazine – also distributed to customers and business relations December 2007

Blue Water Baku was awarded the contract as sub-contractor for Maersk Contractors Caspian Sea A/S for ship’s agency, customs clearance and consultancy in con-necion with the mobilisation of their semi-submersible drilling rig “Maersk Explorer”. The rig was towed from Azerbaijan to the Russian part of the Caspian Sea, the Centralnaya-1 field in the Makhachkala sector, by 4 tug boats; “Andoga”, “Aura”, “Vadim Seydov” and “Jura”. The drillings are performed by “Maersk Explorer” for the Rus-sian company, CenterCaspnefte-gas, and started on 12.11. The operation will take 180 days and covers all connected jobs such as mobilisation of the rig, the actual drilling, test of oil well, shutdown and demobilisation of the rig. Blue Water’s team took care of

the customs formalities of the platform itself, tug boats and sub-contractors’ equipment on board the rig. The customs officers were, together with Blue Water’s team, taken offshore to the rig by heli-copter to perform the formalities on board and release “Maersk Explorer Lider” for navigation in Russian waters.

New Assignment to “Maersk Explorer” in the Caspian Sea

On 6.9., Blue Water in France ce-lebrated the silver anniversary of its French offices. 25 years ago, the of-fice in Brest was established, mainly to act as general agent for Lauritzen Reefers in connection with their shipments of frozen poultry to the Red Sea and the Gulf. Today Blue Water France operates three offices - one in Brest and one in Lorient, involved in all-round shipping, and an airfreight office in Vatry.In honour of the occasion, French and international clients were in-vited on a dinner cruise.It was a fantastic evening with beautiful weather, offering plenty of opportunity to enjoy the beauti-

On Friday 2.11, a reception was held at Blue Water Odense to cele-brate the inauguration of our new facilities in Tietgenbyen.The house was filled with happy guests, the sun was shining from a cloudless sky and the official speeches of Søren Nielsen, Kurt Skov and Per Offersen (representing the staff) were delivered outdoors.The presents from the staff club were beautiful bowls of boxtrees which now adorn both main and staff entrances. The annual customer party was held in the evening in the VIP lounges of the new Arena Fyn. The pro-gramme included a brief introduc-tion of the new Arena Fyn and its countless prospects followed by a delicious autumn dinner and excel-lent entertainment from Teamsing-ing followed by the eighties band, Planet Pop.

Inauguration of Blue Water Odense’s New Facilities in Tietgenbyen

Silver Jubilee at Blue Water France

Søren Nielsen, General Manager of Blue Water Odense, delivering his speech of welcome.

Per Offersen was teasing and drop-ping many fine hints in his speech on behalf of the Odense staff.

The evening’s guests at the wel-coming ceremony at Arena Fyn.

Our Quality and Environmental Manager, Kim Beier, is aiming high. Based on the certification of our head office in Esbjerg, we now participate in a competition - fi-nanced by the EU, for the reduction of energy consumption in the of-fices - called Energy Trophy.Blue Water Esbjerg has taken many energy saving initiatives in every-day working life. Whether we will win the first prize - EUR 3000 - is, however, doubtful, according to Kim.

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Blue Water Brazil was invited to a “Real Danish Ballet” spon-sored by Maersk Line among others. In the picture you can see Fabiana Martins/Blue Water Sao Paulo and Roberta Becker/Maersk Line.

ful coastal scenery around Brest. Chance had it that Mogens Nielsen, who is in charge of our French ac-tivities for the last 20 years, coin-cidentally could celebrate his silver anniversary with the Blue Water Group. He was therefore honoured on the occasion by his colleagues in the evening.

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Blue Water has just made a con-tract with Keppel Singmarine in Singapore for transport of a so-cal-led FSO from Singapore to Baku at the Caspian Sea.FSO stands for Floating, Storage, Offloading. The FSO is a sort of tank vessel, which moors at the oil well to pump oil up into its storage, and is capable of pumping this oil into minor tank vessels which then carry the oil ashore.This special vessel, with a capa-city of approx. 28,000 tons oil, is being built at Keppel Singmarine Shipyard in Singapore. Blue Water will arrange transport from Singa-pore via the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean, the Black Sea - and further on through the Rus-sian Don-Volga river system to the Caspian Sea. The width of the smallest lock in the Russian river system is 17 metres, the maximum draught 3.20 metres and the height 14.00 metres, due to bridges and cables, making certain demands on the vessel’s construction. Therefore it has to be built in two hull strips of the following dimensions: length 132.8 metres, width 15.65 metres,

height 17.2 metres and a draught of 3.00 metres - two large self-floating hull strips weighing 4,000 tons each.In addition some equipment and accomodation blocks for the FSO - 2,000 tons/15,000 cbm in total - need to be transported into Baku.The hull modules and blocks will be loaded on board two special heavy lift vessels in Singapore. Transshipment will take place in the Black Sea, where the self-floa-ting strips will be tugged through the river system by tug boats. The other parts and equipment will be loaded on to river vessels and bar-ges and transported through the river system from Azov to Astrak-han and the last section through the Caspian Sea to the oil city Baku in Azerbaijan. Here welding of the 2 hull strips will take place before delivery to the client, Lu-kOil - Nizhnevolzhskneft (LukOil NVN), a subsidiary of the Russian oil company LukOil.Loading will be performed in Sin-gapore in July/August 2008 and delivery must take place in Octo-ber at the latest as the river system will freeze up in November.

Semco Maritime is a construction and engineering firm involved in the worldwide marine, oil and energy industry - both offshore and onshore. The global activities as well as Semco’s branches in Europe, Asia, USA and Central America are con-trolled from the headquarters in Esbjerg.Semco Maritime has won a number of very large contracts - in the bil-lion class category - in connection with power plant constructions in El Salvador and Guatemala. In ad-dition to the actual construction of the power plants, the orders cover operation and maintenance for a 10-year period. The free trade agreement (Cafta) between USA and Central America has resulted in a considerable busi-ness development and consequent-ly increasing energy demands.For this reason Semco Maritime sees interesting prospects in power plant construction in Central Ame-rica.An agreement was made between

New Big Contract for Trans­port of Special Tanker (FSO) from Singapore to Baku

Freight negotiation in Singapore - left to right: Chief Engineer Yoong Hoong Lee/Keppel Singmarine, Kurt Skov, Commercial Di-rector Ko Lin Toh/Keppel Singmarine and Jason Goh/Blue Water Singapore.

Semco Maritime builds Power Plants in Central America Blue Water won the Transport Contract

Semco Maritime and Blue Water for transport of the large projects to Guatemala and El Salvador. It is a very interesting job which increases Blue Water’s activities in Central America. The job includes ship-ment of large engines (up to 350 tons per engine), transformers and other equipment from Europe and the Far East to Central America. Shipment of various parts in contai-ners are already taking place, and Blue Water has chartered special heavy lift vessels, with high lifting capacity, for the large units. First shipment will leave Rotterdam, Holland and St. Nazaire, France to Puerto Quetzal in Guatemale in December. Blue Water is responsible for de-livery of the projects to final con-struction sites in Guatemala and El Salvador respectively. As it is a very special and complicated job, Blue Water has entered into co-ope-ration with DacoTrans/Daco Heavy Lift, with offices in Guatemala and El Salvador and its own specialized transport equipment.

Signing of the contract: Left to right Villy Mortensen, Hans Hen-rik Andersen, Kurt Skov and Flemming Daugaard

Left to right. Thomas Bek / Blue Water, Frank Domar Holm, Su-sanne Ladefoged, Per Atterman / Semco and Frank Madsen (stan-ding) / Blue Water

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Blue Water Greenland A/S has with effect as from 1.8. entered into contract with the worldwide courier company TNT Express. Therefore you can now contact your Blue Water office and book your TNT Express shipments both to and from Greenland.

The Faroese shipowners, Smyril Line, have for many years been involved in passenger and freight service on the North Atlantic - be-tween the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway and Denmark. Since 2003, the new modern passenger and freight ferry m/f ”Norröna”, with a capacity of 1500 passengers and 130 trailers, has served this liner service with weekly departures.1 April 2005, Smyril Line and Blue Water established a joint venture Smyril Blue Water - a transport and freight forwarding company with offices on the Faroe Islands, Ice-land and in Denmark - in order to make use of the common synergies between Smyril Line’s superferry m/f ”Norröna” and BlueWater’s well-organised transport system with a comprehensive terminal net-work in Denmark and more than 600 trucks and trailers on the Euro-pean highways.All kinds of goods are transported; fresh and frozen fish, salmon, tem-

As a natural consequence of in-creasing quantities of goods from Sweden to the Faroes and Iceland, we have on 1 November 2007 opened a depot in Hisings Backa, Gothenburg. The depot is operated by Blue Water’s office in Skandia-hamnen, Gothenburg where Janne Ekholm and Björn Jensen are hand-ling collections to the depot and customs clearance of shipments to the North Atlantic.Trailers are packed on Thursday afternoon at the depot and shipped on board m/s “Norröna” leaving Hanstholm on Saturday arriving Torshavn Monday and Seydisfjor-dur Tuesday.

NBC News has visited Greenland, spending time in both Ilulissat in the north and the capital Nuuk. A lot of focus is put on Greenland these days - especially due to the climate changes. The ice cap is melting much faster than researchers pre-dicted just a few years ago. NBC News painted a really nice picture of Greenland – the culture and not least the beautiful nature.NBC News had chosen Blue Water to handle and ship its equipment. To shoot the documentary, a con-

siderable amount of equipment was needed by NBC’s delegation of journalists and technicians – 22 pallets of air freight with a total vo-lume of approx. 32 m3.The assignment was carried out in smooth co-operation between Blue Water’s offices in Nuuk, Ilulissat and Copenhagen. For our newly opened office in Ilulissat, it was the largest and most interesting assign-ment to date, says Kenneth Birk Jorgensen/ Blue Water Ilulissat.

Jørn Bøllund/Blue Water Esbjerg has during the summer visited our Danish offices, offering client seminars including subjects and concepts such as Incoterms, re-sponsibility rules of the transport industry, insurance and “what to do in case of damage”. After the Danish tour, Torshavn was next on the list. Around 50 local clients showed up for an

interesting evening at the Føroya Hotel. In the afternoon of the same day, Smyril Blue Water’s team in Torshavn was given a lecture in professional handling of claims. Even though we use the best fer-ries and airlines, the goods may now and then be damaged on their way across the rough Atlantic Ocean.

Blue Water repre­sents TNT Express in Greenland

Contact Details:

Nuuk:Inge LennertE-mail: inle@bws.dTtel: +299 325410

Sisimiut:Kenneth ruby SørensenE-mail: krs@bws.dkTel: +299 866365

Ilulissat:Kenneth Birk Jørgensen E-mail: kjoergensen@bws.dkTtel: +299 942210

US Television visits Greenland

Customer Seminar on the Faroe Islands

Blue Water sharehol­der in Smyril Line P/F

perature controlled cargo, consu-mer goods, building materials etc.Furthermore Smyril Blue Wa-ter offers airfreight and container transport to and from overseas destinations via Blue Water’s glo-bal network of agents and branch offices.Smyril Blue Water provides the best transport service in the North Atlantic, based on a unique ro-ro service and door/door concept with short transit times.The Smyril activity is important for the Blue Water Group and Blue Water has therefore strengthened its commitment to Smyril Line and entered as shareholder in the ship-ping line - when a new refinancing of Smyril Line was completed on 29.8.2007.Other major shareholders include the Faroese companies Frantak and TF Holding and Shetland Develop-ment Trust, the Shetlands as well as Ausfar, Iceland.

New Smyril Blue Water Depot in Gothenburg

Delivery address in Sweden:GLCImportgatan 26SE-422 46 Hisings Backa

Booking to:Blue Water ShippingSydatlanten 6SkandiahamnenSE-40336 GothenburgTel: +46 31 76 44 880Fax: +46 31 53 30 50Att.: Janne Ekholm / Björn JensenE-mail: sbwgot@bws.dk

Booking deadline: Wednesdays 12.00 noon

Final delivery to depot: Thursdays 12.00 noon

The Nipe Choir, in their beautiful and colourful national costumes, filmed during NBC’s tour of Greenland.

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As from November 2007, the company, Deres Auto in Nuuk, has chosen to have a logistician working in-house at Blue Water Aalborg. The concept is similar to our existing agreement with Inu:IT Kontorhuset, who has made use of the arrangement since the spring of 2006. The two companies use our Aal-borg terminal as hub for their ship-ments to Greenland, which are sent consolidated by either sea or air. At the same time, the logisticians optimize the cargo flow from the suppliers (e.g. making them keep the agreed delivery deadlines and use the agreed packing materials) and consequently ensure a high degree of consistency of supply in connection with the suppliers’ total deliveries to the individual departures.

During his stay in Iceland, Ole Bøgh Ulriksen visited some inte-resting potential clients.Istak, which is 90% owned by Pihl & Søn in Denmark, has through its parent company big interests in Greenland where they participate in several projects. Blue Water as-sists with airfreight from Iceland via Denmark to Greenland in co-operation with IceTransport. Ole Bøgh Ulriksen and Peter Ravn from the project department in Es-bjerg had set up a meeting with the logistics managers of the Alcoa group from USA, with aluminum factories around the world, who were visiting the melting factory in the eastern part of Iceland.The reason for the meeting was the fact that Alcoa plan to build a facto-ry in Greenland, starting in 2009. At the meeting we learned that a new factory on the north-east coast of

In October, Ole Bøgh Ulriksen/Blue Water Aalborg was in Reykja-vik to renew the agency agreement with our partner IceTransport. The agreement has been extended by two years and runs until the end of 2009. The co-operation has during recent years developed in a very positive way, and combined with the general industrial progress in

Another In­house Customer at Blue Water Aalborg

We do not receive the shipments from Inu:IT Kontorhuset and De-res Auto until they have been mar-ked to the correct destination and consignee - by either sea or air. This solution has proved to be a big advantage for Inu:IT Kontorhuset, as quite a lot of inappropriate con-signments from the suppliers will be rejected even before they leave Denmark. As freight to Greenland is rather expensive, correction of mistakes, if any, before departure will save a lot of money. We are, to a great extent, our Greenland customers’ auxillary arm in Denmark. It is, however, not possible for us to check whether all the ordered articles are contained in the shipment - as we cannot and may not open the consignments - and whether they are marked with the correct consignee.

Projects in Iceland and Greenland Iceland may be even further ahead in their plans than the one in Green-land. We will be invited to submit tenders for the building projects. When production is up and run-ning, quantities will reach approx.1 million tons a year. For the project in Eastern Iceland, a 73 kilometre water tunnel - with a diametre of 7 metres, supplying 6 generator units with a maximum of 144 cbm water per second - was built.Ole and Peter also paid a visit to Landsvirkjun, the Iceland energy company which delivered the hy-droelectric plant to the Iceland factory, and who may also deliver the plant to the second factory in Iceland as well as to the Greenland factory.Large parts of the hydroelectric plant are imported from other coun-tries and for this purpose Blue Wa-ter’s expertise may also be useful.

New Contract with IceTransport

Lunch on the way to the airport, together with the IceTransport team, Börkur Holmgeirsson and Bjarni Bjarnason, at the Blue La-goon with the hot springs. In the picture you can see Börkur Holmgeirsson and Ole Bøgh Ul-riksen.

General Manager of IceTransport, Jon Olafur Bergporsson and Ole Bøgh Ulriksen, Blue Water Aal-borg are signing the contract.

Iceland, we see great prospects of the future - both on sea and air-freight between the two countries.Iceland is working on a global ba-sis and the agreement therefore im-plies that our many offices around the world may be useful for traffic needs beyond the Danish border.

Blue Water Aalborg has made a new 3-year agreement with Pi-lersuisoq covering airfreight to Greenland and sea freight of 8-10,000 cbm retail goods, which up to now have been shipped through Pilersuisoq’s own central storage in Aalborg. This storage will be closed at the turn of the year and we are going to take over the sup-

New extended Freight Contract with Pilersuisoq

We often experience that our cli-ents expect that we automatically take out Goods in Transit Insuran-ce for their shipments to the North Atlantic. Unfortunately they do not find out that this is not the case until the damage is done.If no insurance is taken out, cover is limited to the law governing the respective type of transport; Haque Rules, Warsaw Convention, CMR Convention etc. Compensation in case of damage or loss will there-fore be limited.For this reason, Blue Water has de-

Goods in Transit Insu­rance to the North Atlantic

cided to take out Goods in Transit Insurance on all shipments to the North Atlantic as from 1.10.2007, unless our clients inform us that they are not interested in such in-surance. This way we ensure that a decision to insure or not is made for every shipment.We regard this initiative as an ex-tra focus on the quality assurance of our clients’ shipments, and hope that this will create greater satis-faction in respect of any claims for damages.

ply of both sea and airfreight to Pilersuisoq’s branches in every town and settlement in Greenland. We hope to be able to provide such an excellent service that we can extend the co-operation on sea freight which in total amounts to approx. 40,000 cbm per year, says Ole Bøgh Ulriksen from Blue Wa-ter Aalborg.

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Blue Water established an office in Milan in 2006 with the aim to strengthen its many activities and relations within the Italian market.Our office is ideally situated close to the intermodal terminal in Busto Arsizio by Milan, the main centre for combined transport (road/rail).The Milan office is managed by Henrik Sidding Nielsen, a Dane stationed in Italy for several years. Our staff is both Danish and Ita-lian which strengthens the daily communication with Italian sup-pliers and optimizes the informa-tion flow back to our clients in Denmark. As a natural consequence of our

We currently receive reports from our project team in Barcelona, tell-ing about their first interesting year as an independent department, ar-ranging specialised transport on the Iberian Peninsula. With Jørn Scharck at the helm, greatly assisted by his Danish colleague, Søren Gammelgaard Nielsen, and Aleksandra Kurek from Poland, the department has acted as port agent for 32 ships alone with windmills. Ships char-tered for the specific jobs by the colleagues in the chartering de-partment in Esbjerg.For our team in Spain, the job starts when the ships come alongside for discharging and further transpor-

Blue Water Milan takes over Role as Agent from Armando Vidale

Details of Blue Water Italy:

Blue Water Shipping Italia SRL.Via Dogana 221052 Busto Arsizio (VA)Tel: +39 0331 682834Fax: +39 0331 695008E-mail: bwsmil@bws.dk

establishment in Italy, we have decided to discontinue the part-nership with our present agent, Armando Vidale, with effect from 31.8.2007.

Blue Water’s Project Department in Spain tation of windmill sections to the final destination. Planning is an important element in the job, including discharge inspection and protection against damages. In this respect, Søren Gammelgaard has travelled far and wide this year - to Pasajes (San Sebastian), Santander, El Ferril, La Coruna, Villagarcia de Arosa, Marin, Vigo, Cadiz, Alge-ciras, Valencia and Sagunto. Ports all over the country with different terms/ conditions and equipment, which require comprehensive pre-paratory work to ensure the best possible achievement.Furthermore we have been in-volved in a large project for the

New Transport Partner in Spain mum 72 hours from arrival at the terminal in Spain. Terminal vicini-ties, however, are guaranteed deli-very within 24-48 hours. In Spain, Rhenus Logistics is cur-rently represented in Barcelona (headquarters), Irun, Madrid, Va-lencia, Sevilla, Allicante, Tarra-gona, Zaragoza, Vigo, Bilbao and Gijon - employing a total of 623 people.The company’s annual turnover in Spain is EUR 800 million, making Rhenus Logistics one of Spain’s leading freight forwarders within

road, sea, rail and air transport.Today, Blue Water handles heavy traffic to/from Spain. With the change to Rhenus Logistics, we expect an increase in traffic on this market and not least enhanced and strengthened service. We have for instance installed computer mo-nitoring in almost all trailers to

As from November 2007, Blue Water Shipping A/S and Rhenus Logistics have entered into co-operation on road traffic between Spain and Denmark.Rhenus Logistics is today one of few freight forwarders in Spain with its fine-meshed network of 41 small, local hubs throughout Spain.One of its major strengths, is the fact that several of Rhenus’ hubs are open 24 hours six days a week, enabling guaranteed delivery throughout Spain within maxi-

be able to notify the customers of delays, if any, in due time. Blue Water offers departure from Denmark to the North of Spain every Monday, Tuesday and Friday and to the southern part every Friday - and departure from Spain every Tuesday and Friday.

In October, Søren Nielsen/Blue Water Odense, who is overall re-sponsible for Italy, and Carsten Eskildsen/Blue Water Esbjerg paid a visit to our branch office in Mi-lan, Italy.Left to right: Gigi Brunelli (ware-houseman), Gianni Crippa, Laura Franchi, Henrik Sidding Nielsen, Søren Nielsen and Salvator Mon-tesani (warehouseman). Carsten Eskildsen was photographer.

M/S “Disney Magics’” last call at Barcelona this season. Left to right: Amadeu Outeiro/Blue Wa-ter Barcelona together with Goofy and (from the lost property team) Aleksandra Kurek and Arantiza Moreno.

Spanish oil company, Repsol. The project will be launched in the spring of 2008 and includes 16 sections - the biggest weighing 78 tons - coming from Thessalo-

niki in Greece to be transported to Tarragona in Spain, explains Jørn Scharck from Barcelona.

Blue Water’s Project Team in Barcelona - Left to right: Søren Gammel-gaard Nielsen, Jørn Scharck, Aleksandra Kurek and the General Man-ager of Blue Water España, Amadeu Outeiro,

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Once again, the famous food fair in Cologne - Anuga - attracted a lot of attention. Blue Water was, together with Andreas Andresen, responsible for the major part of the transport for the Danish ex-hibitors. As usual, we had three reefer trailers, loaded with food, in Cologne, serving the various Danish stands with new supplies each day of the exhibition. For this job we received assistance from Lasse Reuss and Thomas Torborg Jensen/Blue Water Es-bjerg and Rouven Fischer/Blue Water Padborg.

Blue Water has a strong world-wide food transport network. In addition to the exhibition team, several key persons from Blue Water’s reefer offices attended the food fair. Denmark, Holland, France and Brazil were represen-ted and many interesting meet-ings took place with present and new clients.

Once again, Blue Water was ap-pointed exhibition forwarder for Danfish International in Aalborg. Our team of forwarders and ware-house people did a perfect job to everybody’s satisfaction. With 400 participating companies, inclu-ding 261 from Denmark, the 20th fisheries exhibition in Aalborg was almost fully booked and received positive response from the exhibi-tors reporting sales beyond expec-tations. Figures of more than 150 million were rumoured, which by far surpasses the exhibition two years ago.Danfish has developed over the years, from being a display win-dow for Danish fishermen to an international exhibition, which due to its success has become the big-gest of its kind in Northern Europe.

The exhibition, Kormarine, took place in Busan in October. Two years ago, we were also involved in Kormarine, which has since in-creased by 40% to a capacity of 340 m2 this year. Klaus Bindes-bøll/exhibition department, Esbjerg was in Busan to coordinate incom-ing and outgoing containers and help Standesign build the collective stand. After the exhibition, a large part of the goods were forwarded to Shanghai, to the Marintec exhibi-tion at the end of November, where Denmark was represented with a big collective stand (800 m2). Kormarine was a success and a large number of visitors attended the exhibition.

Anuga, CologneKormarine, South Korea

Danfish International, Aalborg

Farewell reception for Jan Fürst Andersen. Left to right: Henrik Hansen, the President of Dansk Eksportforening, Ulrik Rifsing and Jan Fürst An-dersen (wearing a hat).

Danfish, Aalborg - left to right: Jan Fürst Andersen/Dansk Eksportfore-ning, Ulrik Rifsing, Prince Joachim and Ernst Trillinggaard/Aalborg Kongres & Kulturcenter.

Purchasers from 21 countries and exhibitors from 23 countries - as far away as from Argentina, Cana-da, China, Russia and New Zealand - participated in this year’s exhibi-tion.We welcomed many interesting vi-sitors to our stand, both present and potential clients, reports Ole Ulrik-sen from the North of Jutland. During the exhibition, a farewell reception was held for Jan Fürst Andersen, who had decided to reti-re after nearly 25 years with Dansk Eksportforening (The Danish Ex-porters’ Association) where he was in charge of the fisheries division. Throughout the years, we have en-joyed working together with Jan and wish him and his wife, Inge, a long and happy retirement.

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In October, our offices in Esbjerg, Aarhus and Copenhagen wel-comed Tina Tu who is the General Manager of Cargo Services Ltd in Ningbo, China. In Ningbo, a staff of 100 people control and co-ordi-nate shipments mainly to Europe and North America. Furthermore warehouse facilities, including pick and pack, labelling etc. are offered and the branch also acts as liner agent for ANL and Australian National Line among others.

Mike Su and Yongqin Sun have for many years been loyal custo-mers of Blue Water. In fact the contact dates back to the early ni-neties when all garlic from China was loaded in bulk to Dubai and Blue Water Brest was responsible for chartering of tonnage, using Lauritzen Reefers as shipping line among others. Nowadays, garlic is shipped in reefer containers, and the activity has developed enormously over the last 20 years, during which China has become the world’s main garlic exporter with a world-wide export volume exceeding one million tons a year. The family now runs the company, Jining Sanlong, and is still very much involved in garlic export, however the product line has in-creased to include fruits and other vegetables as well.

In August, Arne Iversen/Blue Wa-ter Qingdao and Stig Egelund/Blue Water Copenhagen paid a visit to Cargo Services (Far East) Ltd. in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Dur-ing their stay, sales, operational matters, IT and not least the future were discussed.China’s incredible development with increasing export to Europe continues. In order to comply with this growth, Cargo Services have decided to increase their present number of offices in China from 26 to 48 by the end of 2008. Part of these new branches will be esta-blished far inland where increased production and consequently in-creased export are expected.

Visitor from China

Tina Tu at Blue Water Copenha-gen together with Stig Egelund, Morten Bruun-Albrecht and Simon Jørgensen.

Visiting China

Visiting Cargo Services in Shang-hai. Left to right: Alex Chen, Arne Iversen, Jane Sun, Joye Chen, Stig Egelund and Lena Yeh.

Arne Iversen and Stig Egelund seized the opportunity to pay a visit to our long-time partner, the shipping line MOL, in Hong Kong. Left to right: Marcus Ma, Louis Tang, Stig Egelund, David Prado, Arne Iversen and Kelvin Tse.

Visiting Jining SalongShandong is still the biggest garlic producing province using Qing-dao as port of shipment, whereas the Fuijan province is famous for growing exotic fruits - especially pomelos are popular - and uses Xiamen as port of shipment.Arne Iversen/Blue Water Qingdao, who years back, as General Ma-nager of Blue Water Dubai, was involved in the garlic transport to this destination, called on Jining Salong in both Jining and Xia-men together with Carol Liu/Blue Water Qingdao. During their stay, Arne and Carol also visited a po-melo packing facility. Naturally we hope that our co-operation will develop further and look forward to a busy season with an extensive worldwide export of Chinese fruits and vegetables, concludes Arne Iversen.

At the packing facility, pomelos are packed for worldwide export.

Yongqin Sun, Arne Iversen, Carol Liu, Sunny Wang and Mike Su at Jining Salong’s headquarters in Jining.

Carsten Eskildsen/Blue Water Es-bjerg and Peter Ankersborg/Blue Water Kolding were in Benelux during week 41, paying visits to Blue Water Rotterdam and ABX Brussels. This picture was taken at Blue Water Rotterdam’s office - left to right: Peter Ankersborg, Hans Poiesz and Bram de Visser.

Visiting ABX Brussels - left to right: Caroline Pirquin/ABX Brussels, Willem Laurman/ABX Moerdijk, Peter Ankersborg and Luc de Schrijvers/ABX Brussels.

Blue Water Rotterdam, and Fred Kegge in particular, found the below mentioned transport - which took place during the autumn months, October and November, from Hen-gelo in Holland - very interesting. On 5.10, Blue Water Rotterdam loa-ded a second-hand beer bottling line (with a capacity of 52,000 bottles per hour) including a bottle washer. The machine was formerly used by the Grolsch Beer Brewery, Fred’s favorite beer.Blue Water Rotterdam arranged the transport on behalf of SME Logi-stics Vietnam. The machinery was stored at Wagenborg Nedlift in Hen-gelo who took care of packing and transport of the overdimensioned parts as well as loading on to a barge at Hengelo. First shipment, consisting of a pa-steurizer weighing 38 tons (16 x 6 x

Transport from Holland to Vietnam4 metres) and 10 minor pieces, took place on 5.10. Second shipment, which was the biggest, consisting of a washer weig-hing 102 tons (19 x 6 x 5 metres) and 12 x 40’ containers with machinery parts, was loaded on 1.11. The cargo was shipped by Rickmers on board m/v “Rickmers Shanghai” on 10.10 and m/v “Rickmers Da-lian” on 6.11 respectively, ex Ant-werp to Haiphong Vietnam.

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Blue Water Billund has recently seen two AN-124 freighters loa-ding cargo for Seoul on behalf of a Norwegian client.The first aircraft took off in Oc-tober with 87 tons cargo and du-ring the same weekend aprrox. 15 tons were sent by “ordinary” airfreight.

A relatively short, but not quite simple transport.Our good client, Semco Maritime, had completed construction of two offshore modules (80 tons/dimen-sions: 16 x 9.3 x 5.5 metres and 25 tons/dimensions: 10 x 4.8 x 5.5 metres respectively) and needed assistance to move these modules from Semco’s shipyard in Skip-pergade to Vestkraftskaj (quay) for installation on board the oil rig “Energy Endeavour” (ex-”Maersk Endeavour”) which was in Esbjerg for an upgrading. Semco entrusted Blue Water with the planning of the job which in-cluded stevedoring (crane, dockers and foremen), loading, discharg-ing and transport of the modules by barge/tug boat. The transport involved one of the tug boats of Svendborg Bugser combined with Port of Esbjerg’s Liebher 400 crane which, for the first time ever, was moved to Skippergade to perform the lift. The entire operation was performed according to plan.

Removal of Offshore Modules

The World’s biggest Freighter twice at Billund

Our normal consolidation service at Billund arranged arrival of both consignments at Seoul Airport within the same hour making it possible to deliver in one lot. Two weeks later, aircraft num-ber 2 was loaded with 67 tons. The cargo, including a hydraulic plunger, weighing 36 tons and measuring 17.5 x 4.6 x 2.5 metres,

was loaded on to a solid platform in front of the aircraft by mobile crane and pulled into the freighter by two large internal winches. The Antonov 124 is characterized as the world’s biggest commercial freighter with a loading capacity of 125-150 tons depending on de-stination and type of goods. The reason for using the AN-124 for this transport was the huge di-mensions which only fit into this specific aircraft.

As from 31.12.07, Switzerland will no longer exchange pallets auto-matically and free of charge. Following in the footsteps of France, Italy, Scandinavia and Great Britain, members of the Swiss organisation for passengers and freight, ASTAG, base their decision on the increased costs in-volved in obtaining, administering and storing pallets. In 2008, responsibility for the ad-ministration of pallets will rest with shippers and consignees, resulting in transport of empty pallets incur-ring a charge. For further information, please call/mail your regular Blue Water contact.

End of Free Pallet Ex­change in Switzerland as from New Year

BremenBlue Water Bremen has changed contact numbers as from 1.10:

Tel: + 49 421 27 83 91 0Fax: + 49 421 27 83 91 29

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We have known for a long time that Blue Water is a growing company with a high intake of new staff. This was also confirmed when we, in the summer of 2007, started making plans for the autumn introduction seminars for new employees. We have, for more than 20 years, summoned all new Danish trainees for a week’s introduction and all other new office staff for a 2-day in-troduction. As a new initiative this year, we also had an introduction team consisting of all new ware-house and terminal staff. A total of 92 new colleagues, fit and eager to learn, assembled in Esbjerg from 21 August to 10 September. During

Sunday 23.9, around 100 local Blue Water clients were invited to a football match at Blue Water Arena in Esbjerg.We met at our headquarters at 1530 hours for a briefing on the day’s match and the line-up, by EFB’s Sporting Director Niels

In connection with Blue Water’s worldwide activities - in particu-lar oil, gas and windmills - the attention is concentrated on HSE (Health, Safety and Environ-ment).Blue Water have always given high priority to these areas when making logistic and transport so-lutions. With the purpose of becoming even more efficient and prepared for the HSE requirements, a safe-ty seminar was held for managers

Many New Colleagues attended the Introduction Seminar in Esbjerg

this period, our new colleagues ob-tained an insight in Blue Water’s background and activities, our Best in Town strategy, quality require-ments and IT systems, and built up a fine internal network which will be useful in the future co-operation between the offices.Usually new employees from all our Danish offices participate, but this year, our new colleagues from Gothenburg, Sweden and Torshavn, the Faroe Islands were also invited.We hope some day to be able to of-fer an English introduction as well, so that our colleagues from abroad will also get a good start to their ca-reer in Blue Water.

Safety Seminar in Esbjerg ­ 8­� November and key persons, with Esbjerg Sa-fety Consult as adviser and spar-ring partner. It is Blue Water’s aim to be the leading company (Best in Town) in the shipping and freight for-warding business when it comes to prevention of damages and ac-cidents (“no accidents”).The seminar therefore concen-trated on evaluation and renewal of our present Safety Manage-ment System - safety philosophy, policy and objective.

Football Event EFB­FCMErik Søndergaard. Afterwards our canteen served a light snack before departure by bus to Blue Water Arena in bright sunshine and a very exciting match which ended 2-0 in EFB’s favour.

Saturday 22.9 was renamed “Team Day” at Blue Water Aarhus, star-ting with breakfast rolls and a “pick-me-up”. Afterwards the staff was divided into teams and assig-ned small tasks such as hanging pictures and television set and de-corating the conference facilities. Later on, the HR department from Esbjerg presented small exercises, challenging the team co-operation and communication.After lunch, the Team Day ended at Fort Østerlund, Silkeborg, whe-re each team, by means of a few beams and some rope, was charged with the task of building a bridge

The entire Danish Blue Water sa-les team met in Odense for two days in October. The programme of the meeting included training in new and old techniques and a presentation of the clients’ view of

Sales Meeting in Odense

Team Day at Blue Water Aarhusacross a 10 metre wide stream. The results varied a lot. According to the instructor, the bridges ranged from “a stick across some water” to a re-latively stable bridge, which under the motto “ well begun is half done” reached halfway across the stream.

the future as well as expectations to future logistics and supply chain management. Two very interesting days with useful information and insight into some of the things we may expect of the future.

New trainees August 2007

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Danish Football Awards 2007 was held in Cirkusbygningen in Copen-hagen on 12.11. The Danish Na-tional Team and a number of “old” Danish football players among others participated in the event. The DBU jury awards prizes not only to the Player of the Year, the Goal of the Year etc., but also to the Referee of the Year. We are natu-rally proud to announce that Claus Bo Larsen, who is in charge of our customs department in Odense, was the winner of this honourable title in an often severely criticized job. As Claus expressed it; “It is not often I am greeted with such an applause from so many Premier League players”.

Blue Water Esbjerg’s staff club has, after a couple of years, re-assumed its fishing competition with prizes in various categories for both children and adults. Even though the fish were not keen on biting, all prizes were awarded at this year’s excursion, taking place in the ideal setting at Lake Vester Nebel. Despite the rain, it was a wonderful family day in the open air.

Njogu Demba-Nyrén (also known as Demba), playing for EFB in the top league, has started a project; a football school in his home town Bakau in Gambia, to which sponsors have produced more than 1500 football shirts, shorts, boots and footballs.On 26.10, Telesikring A/S arranged a support campaign, in which Dem-ba and several of his team mates participated, and the first shipment was loaded on a Blue Water truck for transport to Gambia. The picture shows Blue Water’s driver, Erik Pedersen, the Managing Di-rector of Telesikring, Michael Jensen, Demba and his cousin Malik.

Fishing Trip

Pictures from Blue Water Den-mark’s Sports Day 2007

Staff RedeploymentAs from 1.10, Torkil Petersen is transferred from Smyril Blue Wa-ter Torshavn to Blue Water Billund to learn more about airfreight.

As from 1.10, Mette Nielsen has moved from Aarhus to our Dublin office where she will see to road traffic to/from Denmark.

At the turn of the year, Jesper Lis-by will return to Copenhagen after a couple of years in New York to-gether with his wife, Ida, who has been assisting with accounts mat-ters. Ida is now going to study at the university.

Wedding

Trine Kirkeby/accounts depart-ment, Blue Water Copenhagen married Toke Hegnslund on 18.8.

Birgitte Rosager-Lund/Blue Wa-ter Padborg married Svend Erik Frahm at the Old Town Hall in Bov on 21.8.

Tenna Miklasz/Blue Water Pad-borg and Carsten Carstensen en-tered into matrimony in the Church of Bov on 1.9. On the same occa-sion their little daughter, Cecilie, was christened.

Heidi Frost Rasmussen, who is on maternity leave from her job in our accounts department, and her fian-cè, Torben, took their guests by sur-prise at the christening of their little daughter, Simone, in the Church of Janderup as they used the occasion to get married.

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Jubilees10 Years

Vadim Zakharchenko started at Blue Water Baku’s warehouse on 2.1.1998. Vadim’s flair for IT has made him a valued colleague, and he is now working as IT specialist for our Baku office. Vadim is look-ing after our ISO data base and has made great improvement to the sy-stem interfacing with the operation, filing and reporting. Vadim combi-nes this job with the supervising of packing of household and personal effects for the airfreight and road traffic departments. Vadim is 36 years old and has a wife and a 4-year-old son.

In 1997, Elshan Topchibashev, hol-ding the rank of Captain, withdrew from the army and joined Blue Water Baku as warehouse super-visor on 2.1.1998. In 2000, Elshan was promoted warehouse mana-ger, controlling all incoming and outgoing goods to/from our Baku warehouse, which has a team of 5 warehouse people and 7 drivers. Elshan is a very disciplined, organi-sed and hard-working person. He is 45 years old, married and has a son aged 13 and a daughter aged 12.

Vagif Kazimow has been work-ing for Blue Water Baku since 26.2.1998. Vagif was employed to assist the airfreight department with customs clearance in the air-port. Vagif has become a very ex-perienced customs clearance agent, capable of handling even the most stressful situations, and very loyal and helpful. He is 45 years old, married with two sons aged 10 and 9.

Jeanette Kjeldgaard/Blue Water Nuuk will celebrate her 10th an-niversary with Blue Water on 1.2. Jeanette received her training in the Greenland sea freight department of Blue Water Aalborg. After a couple of years, however, she wis-hed to change location to the other end of the transport. Usually a sta-tioning lasts about two years. Jea-

nette, however, happened to meet prince Charming in Nuuk and her period was extended......... Jeanette is now expecting her se-cond child (Sofie wanted so much to become a big sister) and will go on leave shortly after her jubilee. We will look forward to her coming back as General Manager, a job she has performed since August 2005. Jeanette’s husband, Michael Munch, is also heavily involved in Greenland trade and industry and we hope the couple will stay in Greenland for a number of years.

Lakshman Murugeshan/Blue Water Dubai has been a loyal employee since 11.2.1998. Lakshman started as customs assistant and is today taking care of everything in con-nection with customs clearance, local authorities, visa, bankers and the like. When he is not busy at the office, Lakshman enjoys being together with his family - his wife and two sons - who are back in Dubai after a whole year in India.

Ulla Hansen will be celebrating her 10th jubilee with Blue Water Aar-hus on 1.3. Ulla started as assistant in the Swedish department, but has since specialised in the maritime de-tails of sea freight. Ulla shares her experience with the green trainees and young forwarders and escorts them gladly to the “forwarders’ bar” to make sure they are having a good time and that they do not get into trouble. In her spare time, Ulla enjoys the company of her friends, her two children - Paola and Alex - and her mother, living on Funen.

Søren Jørgensen started as forwar-der in the Scandinavian department in Odense back in March 1998. With his wide experience of the Scandinavian market, Søren has contributed greatly to the rapid growth of the office’s Scandinavian activities. Before Blue Water, Sø-ren was employed with ASG and Albert Nielsen. Today he and Pia Skytte are in charge of the Scandi-navian department with a team of 8.

Søren and his family - his wife Anja and daughters Nicoline and Natascha - live in Næsbyhoved Broby close to Odense. Søren is a very popular person, loved for his cheerfulness and sense of humour.

On 23.3, Henrik Madsen/Blue Wa-ter Aarhus will celebrate his 10th jubilee. Henrik started with Blue Water Aarhus after his, now almost forgotten, past career in the East Jutland education system and with Dan Transport, Copenhagen. Having performed the function of forwarding assistant on Norway and Sweden respectively, Henrik took over the responsibility of the Finnish traffic which he had helped develop - from 2 ldm to more than 30 trailers on a weekly basis. If we know Henrik well, he is not going to stop here. Lately he has become responsible for the local forwarding activity of the office. On the home front, Henrik has grown up too and lives in his own house in Skovby with his fiancée, Katrine, and his son, Malthe.

2� YearsHans Poiesz will be celebrating his silver jubilee with Blue Water Rot-terdam on 1.2. In 1983, Hans, wea-ring his Sunday best, his wedding suit, was at a job interview with Kurt Skov at the office in Sluisjes-dijk. It must have worked. In any case, the employment contract was signed. Hans has over the years been invol-ved in many different activities in addition to being General Manager of the office. These activities inclu-de ordinary forwarding, groupage, reefer transport, accounting - some may think of the last mentioned in particular as quite comprehensive - plus a lot of other things.Hans has, together with his team, succeeded in creating an all-round office with a continued growth. The team now looks forward to moving into bigger facilities - hopefully in the autumn of 2008.

Jonfinn Simonsen/Smyril Blue

Water, Torshavn will celebrate his combined silver jubilee on 1.4. Mr. Smyril is a genius with figures, but you had better not test his mental arithmetic! Jonfinn started his ca-reer as bellboy with Skipafelag Føroya, but changed shortly after to Smyril Line, where he started the Freight department. The number of staff did not increase until 1998, when Smyril Line introduced all-year service. The name has since changed several times - to Smyril Cargo Line and today Smyril Blue Water. Things have developed since Jonfinn was on his own. Today 42 people are working for Smyril Blue Water. Jonfinn is a company man through and through, whom we can always count on - also in case of urgent matters. He is for instance responsible for handling of claims. In private life, Jonfinn is a talented football player and cook and a very social person.

�0 YearsIt is hard to believe that 30 years have gone by since the young girl, Annette Hansen, left the local ice factory, Grotte Is, to join Blue Wa-ter on 20.02.78. In those days, An-nette’s domain was the enormous accounting machine (approx. 3 x 2 x 2 metres) and the large ledger cards on the first floor of a little of-fice building in Cort Adelersgade 1 - only 10 metres from our present headquarters.Annette is Blue Water’s walking history book. If anybody asks how things were done years back, she has all the answers.Annette uses all her energy in the salary section of the personnel de-partment. Her old family name, Hansen, was long ago replaced by Nielsen, and she spends most of her spare time in EfB (Esbjerg Football Club), just like her 3 boys !

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New EmployeesNew Employees

On 16.8, Nichlas W. Hansen - 22 years old - joined our department for North Atlan-tic sea freight, where his pri-

mary field of responsibility will include the Faroes/Iceland. Nichlas recently completed his apprentice-ship with Tomex in their shipping department, where he was mainly involved in container transport.

Aalborg

On 15.11, Mette Trilling Lassen - 29 years old - returned to the department for North Atlan-tic sea freight.

Mette originally served her appren-ticeship with Blue Water, but dur-ing the last couple of years she has worked for Kühne and Nagle and Leman.

Kimie Boysen - 26 years old - forms part of our import/cou-rier department as from 1.10. Kimie comes

from a job with DSV, Esbjerg and has also worked for DSV in Seattle and Billund.

Billund

As from 1.9, we have employed Lis Parker - 53 years old - in the customs depart-ment. Lis has 29 years of ex-

perience from her job with the cus-toms service before she, in 2001, changed to a job in the forwarding business - first with Stewart Parker Spedition, Padborg, then Padborg Grænsespedition and most recently PR Shipping, Esbjerg.

Esbjerg

3 8 - y e a r - o l d Maj-Britt Ny-mark Schütt joined our cus-toms department on 3.9. Maj-Britt received her

training and education as a freight forwarder at AB Shipping, Esbjerg and has since been employed with C.L.Nielsen & Søn, Taastrup, Dan-bor, Esbjerg and most recent 8 years with Procurator Safety, Esbjerg.

Lars Byskov - 35 years old - started as fore-man at Blue Wa-ter Stevedoring on 26.10. Lars was originally a

grocer, but has during recent years been working at a factory ware-house.

As from 1.12, 44-year-old Poul Henning Nielsen forms part of our project team. Poul Henning is a qualified naval

architect with experience from his previous jobs with Knud E. Hansen (consulting naval architects), Co-penhagen, the shipping line Knud E. Larsen, Ørskov Christensens Staalskibsværft, Frederikshavn and, since 2000, Viking Life-Sav-ing Equipment, Esbjerg.

As from 5.11, we have taken on 32-year-old Kenneth F. Hansen as forwarder in the deep sea de-

partment. Kenneth served his ap-prenticeship with C. Breinholt and comes from a job with Teamfreight, Esbjerg where he was involved in deep sea LCL export.

Another new foreman, 37-year-old Bent Kristensen, start-ed at Blue Water Stevedoring on 19.11. Bent has

a military career as well as 5 years of experience with Mærsk.

Karsten Dam Jensen - 25 years old - is employed as for-warder as from 15.9. Karsten completed his

apprenticeship with Smyril Blue Water in Hanstholm, before he changed to a forwarding job in the Finland department of DSV Hor-sens. In May, Karsten joined Blue Water Aalborg, but preferred to re-turn home to Hanstholm when the opportunity arose.

Hanstholm

Frodi Biskoptø Poulsen - 24 years old - start-ed as trainee at Smyril Blue Wa-ter, Hanstholm on 1.11. Frodi,

who originally comes from the Faroe Islands, has studied market economy at the North Jutland Busi-ness Academy in Aalborg and has previously worked as a truck driver for OCD on the Faroe Islands.

As from 16.7, we have tak-en on Henrik Snerling - 32 years old - at our warehouse. Henrik has, for

the recent ten years, performed the function of logistics assistant at our client, Procudan, however, with a short detour to a manufacturing company.

37-year-old Ing-rid Neupart Lyn-ggaard forms part of our logis-tics department since 1.5. To-gether with the

rest of the team, she co-ordinates jobs for our warehouse clients. Ing-rid was previously employed with Riis Retail, Kolding.

Kolding

W a l d e m a r Nadral - 33 years old - is em-ployed as ware-houseman at our export terminal as from 30.8.

On 1.9, 34-year-old Ronny Jensen joined our Benelux team as forward-er. Ronny was for more than

ten years employed as forwarder with Arling Transport.

Franz Josef Nis-ters - 61 years old - is the new-est addition at our warehouse as from 1.10 and is mainly

attached to the export terminal

As from 16.10, Jette Guldberg Jacobsen - 32 years old - is employed as as-sistant in our Benelux depart-

ment. Jette’s most recent job was with IAT, Esbjerg where she had contact to various countries and attended to related administrative matters.

As from 1.11, 3 2 - y e a r - o l d Tinna Arenkiel performs the function of for-warder in the Benelux import

department. Tinna was previously employed with H. Daugaard where she, during the recent 9 years, has been involved in import.

As from 10.9, Allan Skouborg - 31 years old - is employed in the continental department to look after traffic

to/from Germany, Benelux, France and Austria. Allan has worked for HCS for four years and received his training and education at Thermo Team and is familiar with Eastern Europe and Benelux.

Copenhagen

As from 1.12, Malene Skoge-mann - 34 years old - forms part of the person-nel department. Malene comes

from a secretarial job with Syd-vestjysk Sygehus (hospital) and has previously worked in the salary and personnel departments of Syddan-ske Medier and Vestfrost.

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New EmployeesAs from 1.12, we have taken on 43-year-old Morten Ploug Christiansen as forwarder in the key account de-

partment. Morten is an experienced forwarder and has for several years been working as in-house forward-er at Tupperware among others. In his latest job with DSV, Morten’s sole responsibility was to provide service to FLS.

A new salesman focussing on air-freight and cou-rier, 33-year-old Launy S. Kris-tensen, joined our sales team

on 1.10. Having served his appren-ticeship in the airfreight depart-ment at Blue Water Odense, Launy changed to MSAS in Billund where he, for a year or so, gathered expe-rience before he returned to our Odense office to a job as manager of the airfreight department. Dur-ing the recent 3 years, Launy has worked for DHL in Odense.

As from 1.11, Marianne Larsen - 55 years old - is employed as service assistant. Mariannne will help out in the

kitchen, canteen as well as confer-ence facilities.

Ulrik Præste-gaard - 55 years old - started in the Italian de-partment on 20.8. Ulrik has a long experi-

ence as he has been in the transport business for 36 years. Ulrik served his apprenticeship with Sunesen & Schoppe, Odense (shipbrokers) and has furthermore worked for Samson Transport and Scancon, Odense.

Odense

As from 1.12, 2 7 - y e a r - o l d Steffan Ploog joined our Ita-lian department as forwarder. Steffan served

his apprenticeship with Contino in Padborg and continued working there as a forwarding assistant. Fur-thermore he has in between worked for Freja, Hørning for a period.

AarhusWe have taken on 37-year-old Søren Lade-foged as ware-houseman as from 1.9. Søren comes from a

similar job with IKEA.

Torben Rasmus-sen - 43 years old - joined our Norwegian department on 12.11. Torben’s previous em-

ployments include Bay Trucking, Jumbo and Combi Fragt.

Joey Schouren - 27 years old - is employed in the airfreight export department as from 1.10. Joye has four years

of experience from his previous job with ITG Schiphol where he was involved in warehousing and cus-toms clearance as well as import and export documents.

Amsterdam

2 5 - y e a r - o l d Henrique Ma-nuel Pontes (also called Erik) is employed to take care of air-freight import

as from 1.11. Erik used to work for DHL (live animals) and KLM, loading and unloading aircrafts.

Anna Shemeto-va - 27 years old - is employed as logistics co-ordi-nator since 3.9. Anna has previ-ously worked for

Karasu Operating Company, ACE Forwarding and Bertling, Baku. She has also worked for Bertling in Aktau for a period back in 2002.

Aktau

On the same day, we welcomed the 26-year-old forwarder Al-exandr Viktoro-vich Medvedev. Alexandr has

gathered experience from his previ-ous jobs with Aktau Brok Service, Exim-Trans, Mobilex and Istkom-trans.

2 6 - y e a r - o l d Aimash Shau-murunova is employed as customs broker as from 23.7. Aimash has gat-

hered experience in this field from his previous jobs with Eksim Trans and Aktau Brok Service.

27-year-old El-nara Huseynova, who has studied law, joined our team on 1.10. Elnara’s field of activities include

visa and registration for our clients and she will also assist with moni-toring arrangement in connection with packing of personal effects.

Baku

André Wurmehl - 33 years old - has since 1.10 been in charge of sea, air and road traffic to Central Europe.

André has 14 years of experience in the forwarding business from GeoLogistics and Kühne & Nagel among others.

Bremen

Suresh Kumar - 46 years old - started as truck driver on 1.10.

Dubai

On the same day, another truck driver, 48-year-old Xavier Dia, joined the team.

On 13.12, we welcomed Ravi Sharma - 30 years old - as customs assis-tant in our air-freight depart-

ment. Ravi has gathered airfreight experienced from his previous jobs with Freight Works and Dnata.

Gareth Sansom - 25 years old - started as for-warder at our Dublin office on 13.7. In his pre-vious job with

Speed Cargo, Dublin, Gareth was involved in road traffic between Denmark and Ireland, which will also be his domain in his new job.

Dublin

As from 15.11, we have em-ployed 51-year-old Herbert Hertz to develop our road for-warding activity.

Herbert comes from a similar posi-tion with Ewalds Cargo.

Gothenburg

Yuri Gomez-Martinez - 23 years old - is employed as ac-countant as from 13.8. Yuri’s list of employment

includes Spring I.S.D., Haz-Mat Packing and Wal-Mart Super Cent-er.

Houston

Kristian San-gren - 24 years old - started as warehouseman on 1.11. Kristian has previously worked for Roy-

al Arctic Line for 3 years and as driver for Hotel Arctic.

Ilulissat

2 8 - y e a r - o l d Sonny Jensen has since 21.5. formed part of our Scandina-vian department as forwarder.

Sonny is Danish, but has for the recent 9 years been employed with Ecotrans, Immingham, mainly in-volved in Denmark and Sweden.

Manchester

As from 3.9, 35-year-old Laura Franchi is em-ployed to look after the Danish traffic. Laura has gathered experi-

ence in this specific activity from her previous jobs with Fiege/Goth and Armando Vidale.

Milan

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New EmployeesAt the same day, Gianni Crippa - 59 years old - joined our Mi-lan team. Gi-anni was a truck driver until he,

10 years ago, changed line of work and became involved in the actual forwarding process at the office. Gi-anni comes from a job with Norfolk Line in Luino and Busto Arsizio.

Michelle Afonso - 26 years old - is employed as assistant deal-ing with export documents as from 29.10. In

future Michelle will also assist with accounting matters.

New York

As from 16.11, 3 4 - y e a r - o l d Eva Zsubori is employed as freight forward-er, responsible for export docu-

mentation. Eva was born in Hun-gary, but has lived in the USA since 2001. Her previous experience is in the meat production industry as marketing manager at Eckerle Bt, Kiskoro, Hungary and as export manager at Delhus Rt, Budapest.

As from 6.8, we have taken on Inge Lennert - 40 years old - as assistant in the airfreight de-partment. Inge

used to work for Nuuk Ugeavis and Tele Greenland.

Nuuk

Henrik Boll Madsen - 31 years old - start-ed in our trawler and sea freight department on 1.11. For the last

year, Michael has worked for DSV, Nuuk. Furthermore he has been employed in the logistics depart-ment of Pisiffik, Sisimiut for four years. Henrik received his training and education as an airfreight for-warder at Mahé, Copenhagen.

As from 1.11, Debby Windrid-ge - 32 years old - is employed as assistant in the reefer depart-ment to take

care of documents and invoicing as well as the contact to the cus-tomers. Debby was previously employed with ECT Containerter-minal, Maersk and Transfracht In-ternational/Conliner. Her latest job was outside the business, however, she soon wished to return to the shipping world.

Rotterdam

Vanessa Batista da Silva - 26 years old - has since 21.2. per-formed the func-tion of assistant in the operations

department. Vanessa has actually been in the business for 10 years and is an experienced lady as she started at the customs broker, Sa-tel, followed by a job in the reefer transport business.

Sao Paolo

Shah Jahan - 37 years old - is our Singapore sales-man as from 3.9. Shah was part of our operations team from 1999

to 2001 and has in the meantime been working for Goodway Agen-cies and Uti Worldwide.

Singapore 1 9 - y e a r -old Flovin Mikkelsen un-dertakes the job as assistant in the customs department as

from 1.9.

TorshavnKristian Gus-tafson - 21 years old - is our new trainee in the air-freight depart-ment.

2 0 - y e a r - o l d Brigita Vanagel started as as-sistant in the department for road traffic to/from Denmark

on 6.8.

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Birthday ListJanuaryJan Lundsgaard, Esbjerg - 40 years old 6.1Anette Bay, Odense - 40 years old 15.1Ann Spanheden, Aalborg - 50 years old 30.1

FebruaryFinn Nielsen, Esbjerg - 30 years old 4.2Henrik Amtoft, Esbjerg -40 years old 25.2

MarchShiraj Khan, Jebel Ali - 30 years old 3.3Susanne Almind Nørbygaard, Esbjerg - 40 years old 13.3Jacob Lützhøft, Herning - 40 years old 17.3Stig Alminde, Esbjerg - 40 years old 20.3

AprilJens Christian Eldevig, Nuuk - 40 years old 12.4Henrik Holt Christensen, Odense - 30 years old 20.4Ole Holst Andersen, Aarhus - 40 years old 30.4

BirthsOn 14.8., Laila Poulsen/accounts department, Esbjerg gave birth to a little girl (2.370 kgs).

Jeppe Stæhr Lose/Blue Water Herning became a father of a little boy, Karl Emil (4.050 kgs/48 cm) on 24.8.

Heidi Rasmussen/accounts depart-ment, Esbjerg gave birth to a little girl, Simone (3.880 kgs/56 cm) on 27.8.

On 30.8, Morten Olsen/Odense Terminal and his wife, Jeanette, increased their little family by another boy (4.024 kgs/51 cm).

On 9.9, Kurt Rosendahl/distribu-tion department, Esbjerg became a father, for the second time, of a little girl named Sofia (2.850 kgs/48 cm).

Tina Imer Jensen’s/Blue Water Aalborg little girl, Nanna (3,420 kgs/49 cm) first saw the light of day on 18.9.

Merete Nielsen/Blue Water Odense gave birth to a boy (4.422 kgs/56 cm) on 5.11.

On 13.11, the proud parents, Mor-ten Bruun-Albrecht/Blue Water Copenhagen and his wife Dani-ella, announced the birth of their little son (3.7 kgs/52 cm).

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Blue Water News | Nr. 86 | December 2007

No. 86 House Magazine – also distributed to customers and business relations December 2007