THE BLUE WATER FOUNDATION - Blue Water Shipping

No. 84 House Magazine – also distributed to customers and business relations April 2007 

THE BLUE WATER FOUNDATION 

21 April 2007 was a historic day for 

Blue Water. It was the day in which the 

future of the company was presented to 

the employees at a party on Tobakken 

in Esbjerg. 

Officially, the event was a delayed 

sixtieth birthday party for owner Kurt 

Skov. The actual occasion, however, 

was to present the news to those involved 

– i.e. Blue Water’s employees. 

Talkshow with Gorm and Kurt 

Visit our brand new website 

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The Foundation Board of Directors - left to right Ole Frie, Gyrithe Skov, Anne Skov, Niels Kaalund, Morten Petersen, and Kurt Skov. Unfortunately the 

mayor, Johnny Søtrup, could not participate in the event, but introduced himself and his new role in the Foundation Board of Directors on a video. 

The news was delivered as a talk 

show between Kurt Skov and Gorm 

(well known for his many years 

with the Danish national te-levision 

and radio). Gorm (or Hans Georg 

Møller) was also present at Kurt’s 

fourtieth birthday party in which he 

guided Kurt through “Presenting 

your Life” in a hilarious and fun 

way. At Saturday’s show the most 

important news was Kurt’s speech 

as below: 

In the last few years, I have of 

course given the future of Blue Water 

considerable thought. Today, 

Blue Water is the largest transport 

company in Denmark still on private 

hands – and we have built an 

interesting company with a good 

name and healthy financial viability. 

Not surprisingly, many companies 

have contacted me with offers 

to buy Blue Water – even for large 

sums of money. I have, however, 

never been tempted to sell. 

Because Blue Water has never been 

for sale – no matter the price! 

Blue Water is my life’s work, and it 

is important to me to preserve the 

continued existence, independence 

and identity of Blue Water – and to 

safeguard that spirit of Blue Water 

which we still have after all – even 

though there are many of us today. 

Blue Water is a worldwide company. 

This development must continue 

– but it is my wish to keep the 

company on Danish hands with 

headquarters in Esbjerg where our 

roots are imbedded. 

We will continue to be in control 

of our own development – and not 

just be controlled and measured 

on finances, turnover, share price 

and the clever people at the stock 

exchange. 

I have considered involving executive 

employees as share holders. It 

The present from the staff was presented by Dan Nissen 

is, however, not that simple technically 

and financially. Also, it worries 

me that in this way these shares 

– not tomorrow – but in the future 

– may be subject to disagreements 

between the share holders, something 

that may very well lead to the 

sale of the company. 

Following many considerations 

and discussions in the family with 

solicitor and accountant on the future 

structure, I have thus reached 

the conclusion that the best solution 

to secure the future of Blue Water is 

to set up a commercial foundation. 

I thus transfer 75% of the shares 

to the members of the Blue Water 

Foundation, and in this way also 

the controlling shareholding in the 

company. The remaining 25% will 

remain with the Skov Family in 

Kurt Skov Holding. 

My small family led by Gyrithe and

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The Board of Directors - left to right Jørn Bøllund, Dan Nissen, Carsten Steffensen, Bent Rasmussen, Carsten Eskildsen, Allan Junge and Kurt Skov. 

Jørn Bøllund was the evening’s 

toastmaster. 

Anne are all happy with this decision. 

Neither Anne nor I wish for 

her to take over the demanding position 

as overall manager of Blue 

Water. Anne does, however, very 

much enjoy her job with Blue Water 

– and is eager to be part of the 

future development. 

The foundation board of directors 

will be composed of 3 Skov family 

members (Gyrithe, Anne and Kurt) 

and 4 external members – while the 

operational board of directors apart 

from myself (Kurt Skov) will be 

composed of 4 external members: 

solicitor Niels Kaalund, financial 

adviser Morten Petersen as well 

as the new members mayor Johnny 

Søtrup - adding the local Esbjerg 

touch – and Ole Frie, who, following 

a brilliant international career, 

has just stepped down as managing 

director of DFDS Tor Line. 

There are no changes to management 

which will still be composed 

of Kurt Skov, Jørn Bøllund (Marketing, 

HR, Insurance and Claims), 

Carsten Eskildsen (Blue Water 

Shipping), Dan Nissen (Blue Water 

International), Carsten Steffensen 

(Blue Water Transport), Bent Rasmussen 

(Smyril Blue Water), Allan 

Junge (Group Financial Director). 

I have no plans whatsoever to retire 

– quite on the contrary – and 

I will be chairman of both boards 

– but if I don’t behave – or am mentally 

incapable – the external board 

members can remove me, as the 

family is a minority on the foundation 

board. 

Of course I hope that this won’t 

happen. I still have a lot of good 

years left in me, and I still want to 

run with all you younger and older 

colleagues – and, based on sound 

and business-like principles, social 

involvement and responsibility, develop 

Blue Water to be an even better 

place to work while continue to 

strengthen our market position. 

It is, however, a serious decision I 

have made – setting up and transferring 

share majority to the Blue 

Water Foundation is an irrevocable 

decision – one that cannot be 

regretted. But I hope for the understanding 

and back-up of all Blue 

Water employees, as my sole reason 

for this action is to secure the 

continued independence, existence 

and growth of Blue Water. 

It was a superb evening with the 

participation of nearly 400 Danish 

employees and foreign office 

managers, all invited to Esbjerg 

to celebrate the occasion. Apart 

from the most important news of 

the evening, Esbjerg Music Hall’s 

Show Choir and singer Trine Gadeberg 

delivered excellent entertainment. 

To round of the evening, a 

band from Esbjerg Music Academy 

had everyone dancing until late.

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Blue Water 

Group Outline

STATUS 2006 

All Blue Water offices report on hectic 

activity in 2006. Among the most 

important events of the year we can 

mention: 

1.3. was the silver anniversary of Blue 

Water’s Rotterdam office. The happy 

event was celebrated with a sail on 

board “De Majesteit” - an old paddle 

steamer - in the port of Rotterdam. 

In March, Blue Water took over the 

US activities of Transglobal and their 

staff of 11 people in Copenhagen, Rotterdam, 

New York and Los Angeles. 

The Emirates is a very important hub 

in the Middle East. Blue Water has 

therefore been represented with its 

own office in Dubai since 1991. In 

March we increased our activities with 

a small office (160 m2) and warehouse 

(600 m2) in the strategically important 

port and free zone, Jebel Ali, situated 

between Dubai and Abu Dhabi. 

As our client, the cruise line, Holland 

America Line, wished to outsource its 

warehouse and logistics activities in 

Florida, they invited tenders for these 

functions. We won the contract and 

established an office in Fort Lauderdale 

- the base port of the cruise ships 

of Holland America Line in Florida. 

As our road and intermodal traffic 

between Denmark/Scandinavia and 

Italy is experiencing rapid growth 

- and to control and strengthen this development 

- we established an office 

in Milan, Blue Water Shipping Italy, 

in September. 

In connection with the continuous 

development of our European traffic, 

new initiatives are launched all along. 

We offer weekly departures between 

Denmark and Turkey and our Turkish 

partner is ICL/Intercombi Transport & 

Logistics with head office in Istanbul. 

The Austrian activity has increased 

heavily and 15 trucks have been put 

in on the service, on a round trip basis, 

between Denmark and Austria. 

Blue Water offers - in co-operation 

with Logi Trans, Stavanger - daily departures 

by road between the two oil 

cities Esbjerg and Stavanger. 

We have entered into an agreement 

with BLG (Basler Lagerhaus- und 

Speditionsgesellschaft) covering the 

traffic between Denmark and Switzerland. 

The efforts on the traffic to the central 

part of Eastern Europe have been 

increased with special focus on the 

Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary 

- now operated with our own 

trucks on a round trip basis. 

The first year of the freight company, 

Smyril Blue Water, based on the Faroe 

Islands, Iceland and Denmark was 

successful and extremely busy. 

We had our big break as international 

project forwarder with interesting oil 

and energy related jobs in Singapore, 

Baku, Aktau, Houston, Holland, 

Spain, France and Denmark. 

Due to hectic activity with project cargoes 

in Spain - in particular windmills 

from Denmark to Spain - we established 

a department in Barcelona in 

August - Blue Water Projects - sharing 

the office with Blue Water Shipping 

España. The new department is in 

charge of the many projects through 

the different ports of Spain and the 

development of the project activity in 

Spain. 

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We have experienced a heavy workload 

in the port of Esbjerg with windmills, 

various project cargoes, ro-ro 

and container vessels, offshore base 

and terminal activities. 

At the turn of the year Blue Water employed 

a total staff of 705 people at 42 

offices in 22 countries. 

2006 was a financially good year for 

the Blue Water Group with a turnover 

of approx. DKK 2,3 billion - and 

a result of approx. DKK 25 million 

before tax. 

The net capital as of 31.12.2006 was 

approx DKK 110 million and the 

budgets for 2007 look promising. 

Kurt Skov

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Blue Water’s new 

Website is on the Air 

On 11 April, our brand new and 

long-awaited website was finally 

launched. In close cooperation 

with Blue Water IT, Blue Water’s 

webmaster, Dorthe Snow, has 

worked intensely on having the 

site ready on time. 

Further to a new and modern design, 

we have put emphasis on 

making the new website more user 

friendly. It is our goal to constantly 

update www.bws.dk with the la test 

news, campaigns, vacant positions 

etc. 

The communication of news has 

priority with the latest news added 

continuously. You should always 

be able to keep up with what happens 

at Blue Water. For our faithful 

readers of Blue Water News, 

we can refer to “News & Press”, 

under which you may find all previous 

editions of Blue Water News 

dated back to 2004. 

As a further service, you may find 

miscellaneous useful information 

within the freight forwarding and 

transport business as well as laws, 

rules and other announcements as 

PDF. 

Triple A 

Blue Water was awarded the highest 

credit rating according to the 

credit rating scale of Soliditet, 

AAA (Triple A), for the sixth year 

in a row. 

In 2006, triple A, was awarded 

to 9562 companies in Denmark, 

which is the equivalent of 6% of 

the 160,000 accountable Danish 

companies. 

www.bws.dk 

BLUE WATER ARENA 

EFB - Esbjerg’s football team playing 

in the SAS League (the top 

league in Denmark) - will in the 

future be playing their home games 

at the Blue Water Arena in Esbjerg. 

Blue Water has made a five-year 

contract with option for another 

two years with EFB Elite A/S securing 

the right of using the EFB 

home ground for our national promotion 

and marketing. 

The name Blue Water Arena indicates 

that Blue Water is not an 

Es-bjerg Company, but a Danish 

owned company based in Esbjerg. 

Masterplan of the Blue Water Arena in Esbjerg. 

With 11 branch offices throughout 

Denmark and 45 offices in 24 countries, 

the company is both national 

and worldwide and the new stadium 

name will in particular be used 

for national marketing purposes. 

Blue Water and EFB have a lot in 

common. They have both worked 

hard to obtain their present position. 

Solidarity and team spirit are 

important values which contribute 

to keeping and developing new 

talents so that both EFB and Blue 

Water will have the best teams. 

Of course the website will continue 

to be developed, so that we 

may always offer the best possible 

service to our clients. 

During 2007, an update of our entire 

selection of marketing material 

- based on our new web design 

- will take place. 

Esbjerg Industry & Trade Award 

When Kurt eventually arrived 

(after delays in Greenland) at his 

60th birthday which he celebrated 

in Tenerife with his family, he got 

a big surprise; a telephone call 

from the mayor of Esbjerg, Johnny 

Søtrup. The mayor congratulated 

him and informed that he was 

nominated for the Esbjerg Industry 

& Trade Award 2006. Each year, 

the award of Esbjerg Industry & 

Trade Centre (which name has now 

been changed to Esbjerg Industry 

& Trade Development Council) 

is presented to the nominee at the 

New Year’s reception which is held 

at “Musikhuset” (Music hall) in Esbjerg 

(this year’s presentation took 

place on 11.1.2007). 

In his speech, the chairman of Esbjerg 

Industry & Trade Development 

Council, John Lesbo, quoted 

from the nomination list the following 

hallmarks of Kurt Skov; “humorous, 

honest, informal, straightforward, 

persistent and successful. 

He is known as an energetic and 

hard-working man who has managed 

to transform Blue Water from 

a small newly established company 

in 1972 into an enterprise that both 

Periodical Audit of 

ISO Certification 

The annual audit of the management 

system of Blue Water Shipping 

and Blue Water International 

took place on 15-16.1.2007 - and 

we passed brilliantly. 

Esbjerg and Denmark can be very 

proud of. Blue Water has become 

worldwide and this proves Kurt’s 

abilities to keep his finger on the 

pulse and create contacts in the global 

market”. 

With the prize, a pewter dish with 

inscription, came DKK 10,000 

which were immediately passed on 

to the staff club as - like Kurt said in 

his speech of thanks - the loyal and 

competent staff is the company’s 

foundation stone. A recognition we 

are naturally very proud of. 

At the presentation of the Esbjerg 

Industry & Trade Award; Kurt Skov 

and the chairman of the Council 

John Lesbo.

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Blue Water Sweden 

At the turn of the year, Blue Water 

established an office in Sweden 

- more precisely in Gothenburg. 

Björn E. Jensen - who is an old acquaintance 

of Blue Water (see also 

New Employees) - is appointed 

general manager of the office. As 

Björn has been on his own during 

the start-up phase, he has been 

working from his home base. However, 

on 1.3. the office became reality 

and we have now moved to the 

following address: 

Blue Water Shipping 

Sydatlanten 6, Skaniahamnen 

SE-40336 Gothenburg 

Sweden 

Tel: +46 31 76 44 880 

Fax: +46 31 53 30 50 

Cell phone: +46 70 22 08 068 

E-mail: bwsgot@bws.dk 

Blue Water in England wishes to 

strengthen its road services to/from 

Scandinavia and in this connection 

the new Gothenburg office will be 

playing a pivotal role. In general 

Blue Water England wants to take 

over the entire logistics chain on 

the markets we today consider our 

core areas. These markets include 

Russia, the Baltic states, Azerbaijan, 

Kazakhstan, Denmark, Sweden, 

Norway, the Czech Republic 

and not least Ireland where Blue 

Water recently replaced its former 

agent by a re-established department 

for road traffic at our own 

office in the heart of Dublin. Here 

our Danish colleague, Lars Højen, 

is attending to our clients in the 

local area which has resulted in a 

high level of service for our clients 

and a close co-operation with our 

We are pleased to inform that Blue 

Water in France has entered into 

co-operation with Oceanair Freight 

situated in Charles de Gaulle Airport 

in Paris. 

Oceanair Freight was established in 

1991 by Yvan Joret, who still owns 

the company which today employs 

six people. The company’s primary 

activity is airfreight, however, 

they do also handle sea freight. 

Over the summer, Oceanair will be 

moving into brand-new premises 

with ultramodern warehouse facilities. 

Furthermore a forwarding assistant, 

Janne Ekholm, has joined 

Björn at the office and to start with 

the team will offer road traffic to/ 

from Denmark and the UK as well 

as general freight forwarding. We 

are pleased with the many inquiries 

for worldwide transport which we 

have already received from clients 

in Sweden. 

Sales and service to the other Blue 

Water offices worldwide will be 

important activities for the Gothenburg 

office. 

Blue Water, Gothenburg. 

Expansion of Blue Water UK and Ireland 

sub-contractors. 

Blue Water offers daily departures 

to and from Ireland with 2 to 4 

days’ transit. At Blue Water Ipswich 

and Manchester, a staff of 

24 is involved in the daily operation 

as well as two salesmen. As 

from April, our sales organisation 

will be strengthened by another 

salesman, specialised in sea and 

airfreight, who will contribute to 

securing Blue Water England additional 

market shares in a market 

with a yearly increase of 15 to 20 

per cent. 

Blue Water England has recently 

- together with the Oil & Energy 

department in Esbjerg and Blue 

Water Aberdeen - established a 

regular service between Esbjerg 

and Aberdeen servicing the offshore 

industry in the two cities. 

New Airfreight Agent in Paris 

Left to right: David Fleury (Operations 

Manager), Cyril Harrant 

(Airfreight), Nathalie Ferlay (Sales 

Manager), Yvan Joret (Owner), 

Nathalie Kuhn (Accounting) and 

J.P. Devos (Sea Freight). 

Blue Water’s Activities in Germany 

On 1-12-2006, Blue Water established 

a representative office in 

Bremen under the management of 

Ralf Poppe. Ralf has many years of 

experience in specialised transport 

and goods to/from the short sea 

lines in the North German ports. 

Shortly after the opening Blue Water 

entered into an agreement with 

Norsk Hydro covering transport 

of aluminium to Eastern Europe. 

Norsk Hydro has shipments out of 

Norway and Russia, among other 

places, and uses Rostock as transhipment 

and distribution hub for 

Eastern and Central Europe. 

The goods are trucked from Rostock 

to the prospering car industry 

in Eastern Europe. Our contract 

with Norsk Hydro is very big and 

The first Norsk Hydro aluminium 

activities at Rostock. 

Blue Water opened a new branch 

office at Ilulissat (Jacobshavn) on 

1.4.2007. Ilulissat is situated at the 

Disko Bay and is, according to a lot 

of people, “the real Greenland” with 

the world’s biggest calving glacier, 

icebergs and fantastic scenery 

We have for many years been servicing 

the town through an agent, 

but we found that now was the time 

to attend to the activities in Ilulissat 

ourselves. The establishment 

of the office is primarily due to the 

fact that Ilulissat is experiencing a 

violent process of changes in connection 

with which tourism and the 

construction industry are prospering. 

We expect to increase our activities 

to include discharge operations, removals 

etc. as with the Blue Water 

Blue Water’s third office in Greenland 

- the old fire station at Ilulissat. 

we expect to transport close to 

5,000 tons (100-200 loads) every 

month to Poland and the Czech Republic. 

Ralf Poppe is commercially and 

operationally involved in the contact 

to the major companies in 

Northern Germany and quite a 

number of new businesses have already 

been established in respect of 

both road and sea transport. 

Blue Water and the client attending 

the first loadings. Left to right: 

Nadine Michels/Ahlman-Zersen 

(port agent), Aage-Einar Berntsen/ 

Manager Port Operations, Norsk 

Hydro, Ralf Poppe/Blue Water Bremen, 

Morten Lindborg/Quality Manager, 

Norsk Hydro and Thomas 

Johansen/Blue Water Copenhagen. 

Blue Water opens its third office in Greenland 

offices in Nuuk and Sisimiut. 

With the opening in Ilulissat, the 

total permanent staff of Blue Water 

Greenland A/S has reached the 

number of 15 as well as a number 

of casual labourers who will be 

called in in connection with ship’s 

calls and discharging operations, 

explains Ole Ulriksen/ Business 

Development Manager for the 

North Atlantic. 

To serve as base for the activities 

we have rented the old fire station 

which has been restored: 

Kenneth Birk Jørgensen is appointed 

in charge of the daily operation 

(see also New Employees) and was 

on the spot ready to attend to his 

duties in connection with the first 

call on 7.4.2007. 

BLUE WATER 

GREENLAND A/S 

Aron Mathiesenip Aqqutaa 9, 

Postboks 380 

3952 Ilulissat 

Tel: +299 942210 

Cell phone: +299 520810 

Fax: +299 942280 

E-mail: kjoergensen@bws.dk

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Summit in Esbjerg 

A summit was held at Blue Water’s 

headquarters in Esbjerg on 

11-12.2. The items of the agenda 

included future strategy for Blue 

Water’s activities in the oil and 

gas segment and at the table were 

colleagues from the Blue Water 

offices around the world who have 

this very niche as their speciality. 

After an update from the individual 

offices, future target areas and 

positioning were discussed so that 

there will also in future be a basis 

for proactive growth. 

In the last week of January, our 

Aberdeen office completed two aircraft 

charters from Doncaster to St. 

Johns for their client Ocean Rig. 

The two AN12 aircrafts were each 

loaded with five tether reels which 

were required for a rig down situation 

on the rig “Eirik Raude”. 

The weather conditions in St. Johns 

did not make the operation simple 

as snow storm and high winds were 

experienced at destination - but fortunately 

both aircrafts made it in and 

away leaving the client happy. 

Blue Water Aberdeen have in cooperation 

with Blue Water Esbjerg 

completed the charter of two bundles 

of chain from Shanghai to Aberdeen 

for their client Viking Moorings. 

The two bundles - weighing 

359 tons - were loaded directly on 

to the vessel by a floating crane in 

Shanghai. The journey was completed 

on 8 March in Aberdeen. 

This was a tricky movement as the 

tails on the chain had to be made 

the correct length for the loading 

and unloading from the vessel. 

The participants of the different 

Blue Water offices. 

New Drilling for ALTINEX OIL 

Everybody was very excited when 

the drilling for Altinex Oil (former 

Denerco Oil) started in late March 

as the operation will take place in 

the Danish sector - Siri Fairway, 

block 5604/23. 

The jack-up rig “Noble George 

Sauvageau” has been chartered to 

perform the expected 23-45 days’ 

drilling operation. The drilling will 

be performed under the existing 

base contract for which DanCopter, 

Aircraft Charters for Ocean Rig 

Loading of the big reels on board 

the AN 12. 

Odfjell Drilling, Catch Fishing, Esbjerg 

Safety Consult, Esbjerg Tubular 

Services and Mærsk Contractor 

among others are sub-contractors. 

Blue Water is responsible for the 

co-ordination of supplies and personnel 

to the offshore installation. 

The supplies will be delivered to 

the rig “Noble George Saugaveau” 

by the supply vessel “Boa Fortune” 

for which Blue Water is also acting 

as agent. 

Part Charter from Singapore 

Discharging of the chains for Viking 

Moorings. 

FIA GT Dubai 

November is a very intense month 

for the racing enthusiasts in Dubai. 

In connection with the annual 

FIA GT race on the Dubai Autodrome, 

we were together with our 

agents, CTM and MSK in Germany, 

entrusted with the transport of 

the car models; Aston Martin Ferrari, 

Porsche, Corvette and other 

exciting models. The entire job 

included both sea and airfreight as 

well as local customs clearance, 

distribution, emptying and packing 

of 30 x 40` containers which, direct 

after the race, were ready in the pit 

for reforwarding of the expensive 

cars to another race in Bahrain or 

back to Europe. 

It was indeed a very interesting 

challenge which, combined with 

Blue Water Dubai has - together 

with our agent in Germany, MSK 

- arranged transport of racing cars 

for the racing team of the VW factory 

and the private BMX team, 

X-Raid. 

Racing cars, assisting cars and 

spare parts for use during the UAE 

Desert Challenge, were sent by air 

from Germany to Dubai where the 

last preparations were made in the 

Liwa camp which is also known 

as “Empty Quarter” - a desert area 

bigger than the Sahara. 

After the race, the cars were air- 

Upgrade of Horns Rev 1 

In connection with the upgrade of 

the 80 windmills of the Horns Rev 

1 windmill farm - which on a clear 

day can be seen from our main office 

in Esbjerg - Blue Water is awarded 

the contract for base facilities and 

services by a joint venture, consisting 

of the Danish company E.Pihl 

& Søn and the two German companies 

Hoch Tief and Weservind, who 

have been awarded the contract for 

the actual upgrading by Vattenfal. 

The project is estimated to take 6-9 

months and includes renewal of the 

access platform, surface renovation 

of the windmills and foundation 

work. 

Blue Water’s part of the project 

will include supply of office facilities, 

outdoor storage area, reception 

of 80 platforms divided into half 

sections, stevedoring in connection 

with shipment of equipment and 

material as well as crew mobilisa- 

the different teams and Dubai Autodrome, 

became a success for 

the parties involved, reports Claus 

Laursen/Blue Water Dubai. 

Claes-Ascan Craseman/CTM, 

Ham-burg, Claus Laursen/Blue 

Water Dubai and Franz Spanner/ 

MSK Munich. 

UAE Desert Challenge 2006 

freighted back to Germany for the 

last adjustments before the important 

race, Paris Dakar Rally. 

Race in the desert - in the background 

Dubai’s seven-star hotel 

Burj Al Arab. 

tion. 

Furthermore we expect to be taking 

care of the handling of a large 

amount of cargo for the sub-contractors 

who are involved in the 

project. 

The project team is located at the 

address of Tværkaj 4 and the offshore 

operations started on 1.3.

Calling 

on our 

Agent in 

Finland 

On 1.2., our agent for road traffic 

between Denmark and Finland, 

Kauko, celebrated the official opening 

of their new office, warehouse 

and logistics terminal in Helsinki. 

With the new facilities, Kauko is 

now able to offer their customers 

an even better service and the new 

facilities are just another proof 

of the great progress Kauko have 

experienced on the Finnish market. 

A traffic meeting was held 

in connection with the reception 

during which new objectives and 

initiatives were decided. It was a 

great pleasure to see that our common 

traffic between Finland and 

Denmark has been making rapid 

progress during recent years. 

New Co-operation 

with Weber 

Weber’s biggest markets include 

Denmark, Sweden and Norway. 

During recent years these markets 

have experienced great success and 

the success has gradually spread to 

include most European countries 

in connection with which Weber 

has made a transport agreement 

with Blue Water. Finland is another 

big market where Blue Water 

is also involved. Weber is booking 

successfully via our internet portal 

which offers the opportunity of 

printing bar code labels. 

Weber are manufacturers of quality 

barbecues and they are in particular 

famous for their globular 

barbecue which - in Denmark as 

well as in many other parts of the 

world - has become the favourite 

tool within the barbecue world. 

Naturally we hope that our good 

co-operation will increase to include 

other Weber markets in future. 

Express Door-Door Courier to Riga 

On 23.2., Thomas Dam Larsen and 

Søren Riis/Blue Water Copenhagen 

were sent, with lightning speed, to 

Riga on an emergency. 

“The Ford Transit was packed and 

off we went to PonPower to load a 

courier shipment consisting of six 

parcels of ship’s spare parts which 

were urgently needed in Riga. We 

proceeded to Karlshamn in Sweden 

and took the ferry to Klaipeda 

in Lithuania where we arrived 16 

hours later. Here we suffered our 

first culture shock. We were waved 

to the side by not only a customs 

officer, but an unfriendly police 

officer, and started getting nervous. 

Having showed our passports, 

registration certificate and 

customs documents, the turn came 

to the small cargo compartment. 

The spare parts were packed in 

six long wooden boxes and when 

examining our luggage, the policeman 

furthermore found various 

vitamin tablets, he looked and 

said: “Boys, no guns and no drugs 

!!!”. Our hearts were in our mouths 

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for a few seconds, but we soon relaxed 

when he started laughing and 

wished us a pleasant drive”, Søren 

reports. 

“Then the long drive towards 

Riga started. The infrastructure 

was frightening as the main roads 

we drove on were merely gravel 

roads. After four hours’ bumpy ride 

through Lithuania and Latvia, however, 

we arrived in the port of Riga. 

Security check took 4-5 hours before 

we were permitted on board. 

The renovation of the old and 

rundown ship took place in minus 

25 degrees. Despite language problems 

we succeeded in having the 

CMR documents signed. 

We stayed overnight at a hotel and 

the next day we drove the long way 

(26 hours) back again”. 

This was a very interesting and 

complex project proving that Blue 

Water is the “Best in Town” and 

that we really make an effort to 

concentrate on the needs of our clients 

and do our utmost to solve any 

kind of forwarding problem. 

Left to right: Henrik Madsen/Blue 

Water Aarhus, Tarja Saari, Claus 

Gutfeld/Blue Water Copenhagen, 

AnneVepsalanien, Esa Hovatov/ 

Weber, Marja Raikka, Ari Malvela 

and Poul Aarre/Blue Water Aarhus. 

As from 16.3., Blue Water officially 

changed partner - to Mory Team 

- on road traffic to/from France. 

Mory is one of the strongest distributors 

in France with 7600 employees 

and 150 offices, 70 of which 

are national and part of the French 

domestic network. 

Mory handles more than 50,000 

shipments per day in France with 

track & trace facilities and offers 

two distribution systems in 

France. 

Left to right: Henrik Madsen/Blue 

Water Aarhus, Kim la Cour/Blue 

Water Esbjerg, Warehouse Manager 

Paw Sørensen and Logistics Manager 

Kenneth Bindslev/Weber and Jesper 

F. Kassow/Blue Water Aalborg. 

New Agent on Road Traffic to/from France 

Regular transport - 

“Mory Regular” 

After arrival at terminal in France, 

Mory guarantees delivery within 

24-48 hours (however, mountain 

areas up to 72 hours). 

For import 24 hours must be added. 

Express Transport/Service - 

”Mory Gold” 

Guaranteed delivery within 24 

hours throughout France. 

The Chief Engineer of the vessel and Thomas Dam Larsen. In the background 

you can see the six parcels which we delivered in Riga. 

New Agent 

in Portugal 

Blue Water has entered into an 

agency agreement with Rangel in 

Portugal as from 10.11.06. Rangel 

is one of the strongest and most 

sales determined actors in the Portuguese 

market - in respect of both 

road, sea and air as well as domestic 

transport - with 18 offices/terminals 

covering the whole of Portugal 

with four international hubs in 

Porto, Lisbon, Sveiro and Covilha. 

Due to its wide national network 

in Portugal, Ragel is able to offer 

track & trace of all shipments 

with a transit time of 24/48 hours 

throughout Portugal after arrival at 

Portuguese terminal. 

Rangel has a staff of 700 and is 

working together with the Hellmann 

Group on sea and airfreight. 

Furthermore Rangel represents 

FedEx due to its national distribution 

network. 

Blue Water and Rangel have just 

made a joint sales campaign. In cooperaton 

with Rangel, Blue Water 

offers several weekly departures 

in both directions to/from Portugal 

- both groupage and part and full 

loads.

10 

Cargo Partner calling on 

Blue Water Copenhagen 

On 17.3., Blue Water’s Scandinavian 

department in Copenhagen received 

a visit from our agent Cargo 

Partner in Norway - 14 forwarders 

from Oslo, Trondheim, Stavanger 

and Bergen respectively. Furthermore 

Blue Water representatives 

from our Norwegian departments 

in Odense and Aarhus participated 

in the joint meeting at our office in 

Copenhagen where our guests were 

taken on a tour of our fine office facilities 

before Henrik Dam Larsen 

gave an introduction of Blue Water 

and Reidar Hagelund told about 

Cargo Partner. 

The remaining part of the day’s 

programme included small “workshops” 

and a quiz which put a smile 

on everybody’s face. Afterwards 

they all spent the evening at Big 

Bowl in Valby, bowling to their 

hearts’ content (we bet a couple of 

our Norwegian guests have been 

practising at home ...), dining and 

having a good time together in the 

nightlife of Copenhagen. 

Blue Water has acted as Lloyd’s 

agent in Greenland for a number 

of years. Now Smyril Blue Water is 

appointed Lloyd’s agent on the Faroe 

Islands looking after their interests 

in connection with surveys 

etc. from the office in Torshavn. 

Hedin Joensen/Smyril Blue Water, 

Torshavn has been to London to 

learn the routines and procedures. 

In the picture he is together with 

Sonja Flink/Lloyds of London. 

Visiting Cobelfret, Belgium 

The big Belgian shipping line, Cobelfret 

N.V., has since January 2006 

operated a service between Esbjerg 

and Zeebrugge, based on a weekly 

departure, with a ro/ro ferry. A large 

amount of containers on mafi trailers 

are shipped in both directions between 

Denmark and the Continent/ 

UK as well as a number of new cars 

to Denmark. 

Blue Water acts as port agent and 

stevedore for Cobelfret in Esbjerg 

where the handling takes place at 

Blue Water’s new ro-ro terminal at 

Sydhavnen (South Port). Furthermore 

we sell and promote the service 

on the Danish market and hope for 

increasing volumes between Denmark 

and the Continent in particular, 

which will create a basis for more 

calls. 

In February, Blue Water paid a visit to 

Cobelfret N.V., Antwerp - left to right: 

Søren Clemmensen, Mike Gray, 

Christian Cigrang (Man. Director 

for the entire group) and Kurt Skov. 

Cobelfret in Belgium together with 

Esbjerg Havn (the Port of Esbjerg). 

Esbjerg Havn was represented by 

Sales and Marketing Director Søren 

Clemmensen and from Blue Water 

Claus Bæk, who is in charge of sales, 

and Kurt Skov participated. 

We spent a couple of interesting days 

in Belgium. The programme included 

a very friendly reception by the 

top management of Cobelfret at their 

impressive headquarters in Antwerp, 

followed by a constructive talk about 

freight with the management of Cobelfret 

Containers in Bruges, where a 

new impressive head office is under 

construction. Finally we enjoyed an 

- for shipping people - extremely interesting 

and fascinating guided tour 

in the port of Zeebrugge. The port is 

really bursting with new activities 

and facilities. 

Left to right: Ruben de Baets and 

Bruno van Assche are busy with 

the Scandinavian traffic at Cobelfret 

Containers. 

Compass Web Booking System 

Blue Water’s basic strategy has always 

been focusing on the clients’ 

wishes. 

For this reason we want to be 

close to our clients in a co-operation 

based on confidence and personal 

relations. As a consequence 

the IT department has developed 

a brand-new transport booking 

system which is in the process of 

being introduced to the clients. 

The Compass Web-booking System 

is designed to make our clients 

workday easier. The system 

is simple, user-friendly and ensures 

complete overview. Send your 

bookings direct via the internet 

- any time of the day - without 

delay. You will be able to follow 

the ETA (expected time of arrival). 

Previous bookings will be filed in 

the system together with invoice 

amount, which makes it possible, 

at all times, to retrieve these and 

other relevant transport information 

- and not least without any 

paperwork. 

Other advantages of Blue Water’s 

Web Booking System include: 

• No waiting time 

• Guarantee for correct information 

• Possibility of notifying consignee 

• Print of proforma invoice 

• Print of labels 

• Booking documentation 

• Security / Access Control 

If you are interested, please call 

your contact for an introduction. 

Cobelfret Containers, Bruges: 

Claus Bæk standing between Freddy 

Brauwers and Yves Strube. 

40 customers accepted an invitation 

to a seminar which was held at Blue 

Water’s office in Esbjerg at 4 p.m. 

on Wednesday 21.3. The headlines 

of the seminar included Incoterms, 

liability rules of the transport business, 

Insurance and What to do in 

case of damage. 

Jørn Bøllund told about the trading 

parties’ agreements of risk during 

transport and the carriers’ many 

exemptions from liability and limitations 

of liability. He was in particular 

very careful in emphasizing 

the shipping lines’ special possibilities 

of rejection of liability and the 

cargo owner’s risk of contribution 

to salvage expenses etc. 

Cobelfret Ferries, Zeebrugge: 

Martin Storme standing between 

Søren Clemmensen and Kurt Skov. 

Closing-time Seminar 

After these very serious subjects, 

the participants were, however, 

relieved again as it is possible to 

take out a transport insurance of 

goods which indemnifies the cargo 

owner for the full value from door 

to door. 

The last half hour of the seminar 

was an introduction of claims procedures 

and handling of claims as 

well as answering questions from 

the many interested customers. 

The last item on the afternoon’s 

programme included sandwiches, 

beer and soft drinks. 

The large attendance made us consider 

repeating the seminar not only in 

Esbjerg, but also at our other offices..

11 

Seatrade Miami 2007 

In March, Blue Water participated 

in the Seatrade Cruise Exhibition in 

Miami. This year we were for the 

first time represented as Blue Water 

Shipping, Ft. Lauderdale. 

The exhibition was a great success 

and we had a lot of interesting 

meetings with the suppliers and 

contractors of the cruise industry 

as well as agents and cruise lines 

- among others Holland America 

Line and Disney Cruise Line. 

In keeping with tradition, transport 

and co-ordination of the stand material 

for the members of Dansk 

Eksport Forening (the Danish Exporters’ 

Association) and Wonderful 

Copenhagen etc. were performed 

via Blue Water. 

Blue Water’s stand was manned 

by representatives from the Blue 

Water offices involved in the cruise 

activities; Kurt Skov/Blue Water 

Esbjerg, Amadeu Outeiro/Blue Water 

Barcelona, Zaida Pena, Torbjørn 

Pedersen (sent to Florida for a three 

months period) and Rasmus Øllgaard/Blue 

Water Ft. Lauderdale - 

as well as Fred and Bette Ann Rogacki 

from our local partner IWS. 

Logistics Manager Sunne Kim/Holland America Line between Rasmus 

Øllgaard and Zaida Pena/Blue Water Fort Lauderdale. 

Betty Ann Rogacki/IWS together with Zaida Pena and Rasmus Øllgaard/ 

Fort Lauderdale. 

Fred Rogacki/IWS and Kurt Skov. 

Cruise Ships calling at Barcelona 

In May 2007, the cruise line, Disney 

Cruise, starts calling at ports 

in the Mediterranean. Blue Water 

Shipping España will in cooperation 

with American Cruise- 

Aid Logistics, Cape Caraveral be in 

charge of logistics and warehousing 

in connection with the calls at 

Barcelona. 

Therefore Amadeu Outeiro and 

Kurt Skov paid a visit to Disney 

Cruise in Orlando where they were 

given a very interesting guided tour 

on board the cruise ship “Disney 

Magic” at Cape Canaveral. 

Hanstholm - New Cruise Destination ? 

The German cruise line, AIDA, appointed 

Nordshipping (associated 

company of Smyril Blue Water) port 

agent for their new vessel calling at 

Hanstholm on her maiden voyage 

on 20.3. The 650 passengers spent 

the day on a sightseeing tour of the 

local area. After the successful call, 

we expect AIDA’s cruise vessels to 

be calling at the port of Hanstholm 

at regular intervals to the great delight 

of the whole region. 

No - sadly this is only a fantasy 

........ 

True enough the vessel is new, 

but she was only having her trials 

before she was to be delivered to 

the owners. 650 workmen spent a 

week on board testing all equipment. 

The captain had asked us to 

arrange crew change of three crew 

members, on the roads, 3-4 nautical 

miles off Hanstholm. 

The ship “Aida Diva” was built at 

Meyer Werft in Papenburg as the 

first of four sister ships. The three 

other ships will be delivered in 

2008, 2009 and 2010. The “Aida 

Diva” will be put in on the Mediterranean 

service during the summer 

months and on the Caribbean during 

the winter season. According 

to the captain, the ship is equipped 

with a high degree of innovative 

thinking - among other things tropical 

recreational bathing facilities 

(2000 m2). For further information 

please visit www.aida.de. 

Visiting Disney Cruise - left to right: Ana Norris/Logistics Manager of 

Disney Cruise, Janne Meinertz/President of American Cruise-Aid Logistics, 

Amadeu Outeiro and Kurt Skov. 

The “Aida Diva” on her trial cruise in the North Sea.

12 

Shipment to the Galathea 3 Expedition 

In early January, the airfreight department 

in Esbjerg arranged a 

shipment to New Zealand for the 

local company, Nyhavns Vod og 

Trawlbinderi - supplier of trawl to 

the Galathea 3 Expedition. Before 

departure, a big trawl was installed, 

but during the expedition, a smaller 

boom and trawl were nee-ded and 

ordered for delivery in New Zealand. 

Most Danes have heard about the 

Galathea 3, which was an expedition 

with participation of various 

scientists and other good people, 

Job Fair in Kolding 

Blue Water Kolding participated 

in the local job fair in January together 

with 50 other companies. 

The fair was arranged by Business 

Kolding and the target audience 

included both Danish and German 

job hunters. The very impressive 

number of 1500 Germans found 

their way to the fair, some by bus 

from Meckelnburg-Vorpommern 

and Frankfurt and some by private 

car from Schleswig-Holstein and 

Hamburg. People crowded around 

our stand and many of them were 

interested in a job with Blue Wa- 

The biggest airline operating out 

of Vatry Airport - Avient - gave 

a reception in the airport on 1.2. 

during which the General Manager, 

Andrew Smith, announced 

the purchase of the airline’s third 

DC10. In 2006, Avient has among 

other things flown 4700 tons fresh 

fish in from Uganda - to many of 

who during the eight months’ 

worldwide expedition (39,000 nautical 

miles) called at many interesting 

and great places. The expedition 

started in August 2006 and ended 

on 25.4.2007 in Copenhagen. 

The press was also represented on 

board the “Vædderen” to cover 

the expedition as there were also 

royal visitors on board - the Crown 

Prince on the Galapagos Islands 

and Prince Henrik through the Panama 

Canal to the Virgin Islands. 

ter - in Denmark or at our offices 

abroad. It was indeed an interesting 

and hectic day for our two 

colleagues Sanne Andersen and 

Peter Ankersborg. 

Reception in Vatry 

Blue Water’s clients among others, 

several of whom participated in 

the reception. Combined with a 

new warehouse (inaugurated in 

April), the new aircraft will result 

in an increase of the activities of 

the airport, predicts Paméla Cherrier/Blue 

Water Vatry. 

Visiting our Partner in China 

In November, Carl Hjort/Blue 

Water Aarhus and Ole Haahr/Blue 

Water Billund paid a visit to our 

partner in Hong Kong and China 

- Cargo Services. 

In Hong Kong meetings were arranged 

with the relevant contacts 

for our large traffic from/to China 

followed by visits to Cargo Services’ 

offices in the Guangdong province 

- Shenzhen and Guangzhou. 

The very region north of Hong 

Kong at the mouth of the “Pearl 

River” is one of the fast-growing 

areas. Here we visited the new airport 

in Guangzhou, among other 

places, where Cargo Services have 

established an office to be part of 

the rapid growth. 

After some interesting and profitable 

days in South China, we proceeded 

to Shanghai and called on 

more clients as well as the Cargo 

Services headquarters in mainland 

China and their container depot 

and secured stores at the Pudong 

Airport where handling of valuable 

textiles to/from Europe takes 

place. The visit also included a trip 

to Suzhou where a group of Da- 

Blue Water Esbjerg has once again 

helped Esbjerg Kommune (the municipality 

of Esbjerg) with transport 

documents in connection with a 

transport to Esbjerg’s co-operation 

town in Bosnia, Prijedor. 

Esbjerg Kommune participates 

- under the management of Henning 

Kristensen - in the humanitarian 

co-operation project with the 

municipality of Prijedor for the 

reconstruction of the war-stricken 

country in order to improve the 

conditions for the local people in 

Bosnia. 

This time Falck in Esbjerg (ambulance 

service) had donated an am- 

nish companies have established 

themselves. 

On the tour we were accompanied 

by Arne Iversen/Blue Water China 

(Qingdao) who co-ordinates our 

activities in China. Part of the 

time Arne is stationed in Shanghai 

where he, among other things, is 

helping our Danish clients during 

their visit in China. 

Cargo Services 

• HQ in Hong Kong 

• 26 offices in China and 

Hong Kong 

• 22 new offices in China 

within the next 2 years 

• At present 1800 employees 

• All necessary licences 

in China - A-licence, 

customs clearance, domestic 

distribution, bonded 

warehouse etc. 

• Primary market: Europe 

- sea and airfreight 

• Specialists in domestic 

distribution 

Humanitarian Aid to Bosnia 

bulance and a fire engine. The two 

vehicles left the ambulance station 

in Esbjerg on 29.1. and the head of 

the station, René Sigvartsen, and 

Henning Kristensen were behind 

the wheels during the whole long 

journey. 

Blue Water has previously helped 

with transport documents when the 

municipality arranged transport of 

refuse containers and a refuse collection 

lorry donated by Marius 

Pedersen. In addition voluntary 

organisations and private companies 

have donated effects such as 

clothes, bicycles etc. - 130 tons in 

total have been sent from Esbjerg. 

René Sigvartsen and Henning Kristensen ready for the long drive to Bosnia.

13 

Team Building on the Faroe Islands 

Blue Water Danish Open - Squash 

Our partner, Smyril Line, arranged 

a team building course for the senior 

staff of Smyril Line, Smyril Blue 

Water and M/F “Norrøna” in the 

autumn of 2006. The course took 

place over two days in the beautiful 

surroundings of Vagar on the Faroe 

Islands. The programme included 

both process-focused teamwork, 

cordial discussions about the daily 

co-operation between passenger/ 

freight department and vessel and 

not least big challenges and adventures 

in the beautiful scenery 

of Selvik. Bent Rasmussen reports: 

“After half an hour’s walk from 

Sørvåg, in the rocky landscape, 

we reached Selvik and were divided 

in two competing teams. The 

competitions covered a wide field; 

theoretical and practical tasks, golf, 

throwing the javelin, treasure hunt 

and cooking. In the final analysis, 

the results were evaluated by the 

course directors, the Gram brothers, 

and the best team was declared the 

rightful winners. 

When we returned very tired to the 

hotel, the competitions of the day 

were lively discussed”. 

The annual squash tournament, Blue 

Water Open, took place in November. 

Blue Water was main sponsor 

and 116 teams - divided in 3 ladies’ 

series and 5 men’s series - played 

220 matches and the courts of the 

Odense Squash Club provided a 

magnificent Blue Water setting. 

In the ladies’ series, the long-time 

Danish champion, Ellen Hamborg, 

once more came out the winner. 

In the men’s series, Kristian Frost 

proved that the old saying “like father, 

like son” still holds and that, 

in both badminton and squash, 

you need to know how to handle a 

racket. 

Snowstorm in Denmark 

On 21.2., half Denmark was surprised 

by a snowstorm which paralysed 

the northern and eastern part 

of the country. The winter had been 

very mild, but suddenly it began to 

snow so heavily that Blue Water’s 

offices in Aarhus and Aalborg had 

to stay closed for a couple of days 

- however, staffed for emergencies 

- as the Police and the Road Directorate 

advised against driving if not 

absolutely necessary. 

Transport for Dolly Parton 

Blue Water became involved in a 

very interesting new niche activity 

when Dolly Parton, for the first time 

in many years, was on tour in Europe 

- which also included Horsens, 

Denmark on 6 and 7 March. 

Blue Water Aalborg has during the 

last couple of years been working 

closely together with NNR Global 

Logistics in the USA who are specialists 

in transport of IT equipment. 

When NNR got the contract for 

transport of the equipment for Dolly 

Parton’s concert tour, they chose 

Blue Water to be their Danish partner. 

Kenneth Skovbjerg Pedersen/ 

Blue Water Aalborg was assigned 

to the task and sent to Kastrup to 

supervise the reception of the three 

LD7 containers which were com- 

The annual Forwarders’ Cup of the 

Esbjerg Forwarders’ Association took 

place on Saturday 17.3. Scan Shipping 

and Blue Water were in charge 

of the planning of this year’s tournament. 

It was indeed a tremendous day 

with lots of goals, people and cheers 

and laughter in the sports centre. The 

ing through Blue Water’s terminal 

in Copenhagen. Delivery took place 

on 4.3. at Forum in Horsens where 

Dolly Parton’s crew was ready to 

take over. 

All in all a great success for both 

NNC Global Logistics, USA and 

Blue Water. Having proved that we 

can handle this kind of job, we hope 

we have managed to open the door 

to a generally very closed business. 

Esbjerg Forwarders’ Cup 

evening’s party was held at Esbjerg 

Højskole and the programme included 

delicious food, stand-up comedy 

and live music. 14 companies divided 

into 28 teams and 256 players participated 

- and moreover BWS came out 

the winner in both the old boys series 

and the men’s series ! 

Harley Davidson Fatboy 

Blue Water has become strongly 

represented in the USA. Our interests 

and business areas cover 

a wide field - from ordinary industrial 

cargo to food products and 

project cargoes. Maybe we should 

also mention transport of automobiles 

and motor cycles ! One thing 

is for sure, we do have great success 

when our clients need our assistance 

to realize their dreams ! A 

local policeman contacted our sea 

freight department in Esbjerg because 

he had fallen in love with a 

1450 cc Harley from South Carolina. 

He bought the 300 kilo bike 

and we took contact to the seller 

in order to arrange co-ordination in 

the USA. We arranged that the Harley 

was secured in a solid wooden 

box, insured and shipped in a 20’ 

container to Esbjerg. In line with 

expectations, a big crowd appeared 

for the stripping of the container 

- revealing the Harley without a 

scratch - and testing of the engine. 

This interesting job led to another 

transport of the same Harley model 

and for the very same person. 

When the forces of law and order 

calls, we naturally respond readily 

to them - however this does also 

apply for you if you have the same 

dreams .... 

Give us a call and we will give advice, 

indicate a price and find the 

perfect solution for you. 

Helle Glass 

Tlf. 79 134004 

E-mail: hgl@bws.dk 

Kim Thue Andersen 

Tlf. 79 134027 

kta@bws.dk

14 

Visiting Benin, West Africa 

Mogens Nielsen/Blue Water Brest 

was invited to Benin in West Africa 

in January by one of the good clients 

of Blue Water France, Casco 

(Jacky Hamon) in Lamballe. Blue 

Water’s offices in Brazil, Ireland 

and France have a co-operation 

with Cajaf Comon through Casco. 

The occasion was the inauguration 

of Sebastian Ajavon’s brandnew 

professional football school 

in Cotonou “Cifas - Benin”. The 

school can take 200 talented 

young people who, parallel with 

their schooling, will get the chance 

to develop their talents and maybe 

some day get a professional football 

career abroad. More than 

1000 guests participated in the celebration 

with the government of 

Benin at the head as well as former 

professional French football stars, 

food suppliers and local friends. 

The Cajaf Comon Group is the 

biggest importer of frozen food 

products in Benin. The group imports 

mainly from Europe and 

South America, but also frozen 

fish products, caught and frozen 

on fish trawlers off West Africa. 

Naturally Mogens also seized the 

opportunity to call on the headquarters 

of the Cajaf Comon Group 

during his stay in West Africa. 

Change of Address - Odense 

Blue Water Odense looks forward 

to moving into brand-new facilities 

- 1600 m2 office and 4000 m2 

warehouse - as from 14.5. 

Blue Water Shipping A/S 

Emil Neckelmanns Vej 20 

5220 Odense SØ 

Tel: 66 13 06 33 

Fax: 66 14 75 70 

Sales Force in 

Denmark 

In late February, Blue Water’s entire 

sales force gathered in Esbjerg 

for one of its five annual meetings. 

The purpose of the meetings is exchange 

of experience across the 

offices as well as updating of the 

company’s many activities and 

services. During recent years, several 

new colleagues have joined 

our sales team and therefore the 

meeting was extended to include 

a social evening gathering - fun 

bowling (no one plays to win) 

- and dinner at the local Mexican 

restaurant. 

Music while 

we work 

In Esbjerg we have made an agreement 

with the West Jutland Academy 

of Music. The barter includes 

entertainment - a small closing 

time concert on our grand piano 

- by students of the academy the 

last Friday of every month for the 

next year. In return we lend a helping 

hand - both financially and in 

terms of transport - for instance in 

connection with a big event in the 

spring “Children and Big Band” 

with the aim of making children 

interested in big band music. 

Instead of an office Christmas 

party, Blue Water Vilnius made an 

excursion to Anyksciai - a famous 

Lithuanian tourist site boasting 

beautiful scenic landscapes with 

cultural and historic monuments. 

Left to right: Egidijus Petrenas, 

Saulius Lagunas, Jovita Daniene, 

Gintare Mileniene, Saulius Majauskas, 

Virginija Slavinskaite and 

in front Evaldas Mankelevisius. 

Visiting Puerto 

Montt, Chile 

In 2006/2007, Blue Water arranged 

several shipments by sea and air to 

Chile for our good client, Billund 

Aquakultur Service - manufacturer 

of fish farming plants with water 

recirculation and recycling. 

During a trip to South America, 

Frank Madsen of the deep sea department 

in Esbjerg therefore paid 

a visit to Billund Aqua’s office in 

Puerto Montt in Chile where also a 

very large part of the Chilean salmon 

farms are located. Technical 

Director Ole Sørensen and Director 

Marcelo Varela Feliú gave a very 

interesting guided tour of the fully 

operational plant which is situated 

at the foot of the volcano Osorno in 

the beautiful Chilean scenery. 

Billund Aquakultur Service expects 

more projects in Chile and other 

places around the world where 

Blue Water is also playing an active 

part. 

Blue Water Tbilisi 

New telephone and fax details: 

Tel. + 995 3243 9388 

Fax. +995 3243 9389 

At the first concert in January, Blue 

Water’s staff enjoyed listening to 

Anna Ilsøe singing accompanied by 

Kaare Nyborg on the grand piano. 

During the weekend of March 10- 

11, Blue Water France went on 

their annual skiing weekend - this 

time to Andorra in the Pyrenees. As 

usual our colleagues enjoyed themselves 

with good food, a few drinks 

and most of all a lot of fun. 

Left to right: Marcelo Varela Feliú 

and Ole Sørensen with the volcano 

Osorno in the background.

15 

Jubilees 

10 years 

Helena Zabrodina started with Blue 

Water Baku back in 1997, helping 

Samed as a cashier and working with 

account books in the old-fashioned 

way. Today Helena performs the 

function of deputy chief accountant 

using modern sophisticated group 

accounting programs and controlling 

a huge amount of account paperwork, 

international and local invoicing, 

cash flow and other duties 

of utmost importance. On the home 

front, Helena is bringing up her 14- 

year-old son, Ruslan, and supporting 

her mother and younger sister. 

Zahir Rzaev started with Blue Water 

Baku in June 1997. Zahir has a 

professional university background 

as a transport engineer and has in the 

past worked for the company, Tamin 

Transport. Zahir forms part of the 

operations department, looking after 

the very important and complicated 

activities transport by rail and ferry. 

Zahir is an expert in oversized, out of 

gauge loads by surface and his field 

of responsibility includes HSE control 

of the warehouse and the domestic 

trucking department. Zahir has a 

wife and two sons aged 17 and 19. 

Anette Bay - Team Manager of the 

continental department at Blue Water, 

Odense - will be celebrating her 

10th jubilee on 1.5. Anette has a 

wide knowledge of the various types 

of transport and has, over the years, 

been involved in many different activities 

and destinations. Anette lives 

in the little town of Fraugde close 

to Odense with her family; her husband, 

Ole, and their twin girls, Sarah 

and Camilla. Anette is especially 

pleased with the location of the new 

office facilities in Odense as this 

means for her less than one kilometre’s 

ride to work. 

20 years 

Dan Nissen will be celebrating his 

20th anniversary on 1.7. Dan has 

been with Blue Water through his 

entire career - from trainee to director 

of the division called Blue Water 

International covering the major part 

of our branch offices abroad. Dan 

has received all-round shipping and 

transport training and education. 

Mainly involved in sea freight, he is 

furthermore overall responsible for 

sea and airfreight of the entire Blue 

Water Group. Indeed a whole-time 

job in connection with which heavy 

demands are made on him. However, 

Dan tackles the job head-on 

and manages brilliantly supported by 

his family - his wife, Charlotte, and 

the twins, Line and Mikkel - despite 

the fact that he is often away on business 

or working late. 

25 years 

Mogens Nielsen/Blue Water Brest 

will be celebrating his silver jubilee 

on 2.8. Mogens started as trainee at 

Blue Water Esbjerg and after a period 

of postings in Copenhagen, Manchester 

and Lorient respectively, an 

agreement was made for a one-year 

posting as General Manager of Blue 

Water France. One year followed 

after another - and Mogens has now 

been in France for 20 years and is 

responsible for our offices in Brest, 

Lorient and Vatry as well as our 

South American branch office in Sao 

Paulo, Brazil. ”C’est la vie” !! 

Jan Vesterbæk/warehouse, Esbjerg 

will be passing a milestone on 28.5. 

- 25 years of employment at the Blue 

New Employees 

Water Terminal in Esbjerg. Whether 

it is the many loading/unloading 

operations (minimum 50,000) which 

have made his hair turn grey, we do 

not know. Jan’s characteristics - his 

temper, speed and indispensable 

control of the situation - are still 

intact, however, his sharp tongue 

has become softer which is also in 

accordance with his present appearance. 

We hereby thank Jan for his efforts 

and contribution until now. 

On 12.5., Kim Beier will celebrate 

his silver jubilee with Blue Water. 

The first 20 years of his employment, 

Kim was involved in a number 

of different activities including airfreight, 

oil & gas and ship’s agency 

with postings in Norway, Greenland 

and Kazakhstan. After his return 

from Kazakhstan in 2001, Kim was 

appointed in charge of HSE ( Heath, 

Safety and Environment), based on 

the Esbjerg office, but also across 

the offices in connection with worldwide 

projects. Kim was, in 2004, the 

”string-puller” behind the certification 

of our Quality and Environment 

System. 

Births 

On 17.11., Carsten Seeberg/Blue 

Water Kolding became a father of 

a big girl (4.3 kgs/52 cm) who is 

going to be named Emilie. 

Søren Jørgensen/Blue Water 

Odense and his wife, Anja, increased 

their family by another 

girl (3 kgs/50 cm) on 12.12.06. 

Another proud father is Martin 

Terndrup/Blue Water Odense, 

whose son (3.9 kgs/57 cm) was 

born on 28.12.06. 

Björn E. Jensen/Blue Water 

Gothenburg and his wife, Annabel, 

became parents for the third time 

on 20.1. when little Leon Kristján 

(3.9 kgs/52 cm) first saw the light 

of day. 

On 30.1., Claus Simony of the 

marketing department in Esbjerg 

and his wife, Jane, increased 

their little family by a set of twin 

girls (each weighing 3.2 kgs and 

measuring 49 cm). The family also 

includes big sister, Laura, who is 

two and a half years old. 

Claus Clemmensen / stevedore 

foreman became a first-time father 

on 21.1. when his wife gave birth 

to a little boy (3.2 kgs/50 cm). 

Another proud first-time father 

is Maichael Karmark/Blue Water 

Aarhus whose little son (3.4 

kgs/52 cm) was born on 22.3. 

Aalborg 

As from 11.12.06., we have taken 

on Dennis Jensen - 26 years old - 

as forwarder in the department for 

North Atlantic sea freight. Dennis 

served his apprenticeship and was 

employed with PR Shipping, Esbjerg 

for four years during which 

he was involved in deep sea ship- 

Dennis Jensen 

Another new member of the North 

Atlantic sea freight department is 

27-year-old Louise Mortensen who 

joined the department as assistant 

on 12.2. Louise was previously employed 

as temporary replacement 

at Blue Water’s office in Kolding, 

but has now moved north - to Frederikshavn 

- with her family. 

Esbjerg 

36-year-old Dorthe Snow is employed 

as marketing assistant as 

from the turn of the year. Dorthe’s 

previous employment was as marketing 

co-ordinator at Vrøgum Vinduer 

and in the past she has also 

been involved in all kinds of office 

and secretarial duties. Furthermore 

she has lived overseas with her 

family for two years. Dorthe’s new 

field of activities includes maintenance 

of our website - which is 

being redesigned for the time being 

- and assistance in connection with 

marketing jobs in general. 

Dorthe Snow 

We have taken on a new warehouse 

trainee, 17-year-old Andreas Jensen 

- as from 20.1. 

Scott Western/Blue Water Aberdeen 

became a father for the first 

time on 21.1. when his wife was 

delivered of a little boy who will 

be named Lyle Scott Western. 

Louise 

Mortensen 

Andreas 

Jensen

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New Employees 

Claus Glass - 40 years old - is the 

newcomer at our terminal. Claus’ 

primary responsibility is container 

trucking at our RO/RO terminal. 

Claus used to work for Roland 

Munch as a truck driver for 22 

years. 

As from 1.3., we have taken on two 

new trainees in the accounts department: 

20-year-old Louise Storm 

Jensen who will be involved in accounting 

matters for Smyril Blue 

Water and 19-year-old Pernille 

Hebsgaard Jensen has become part 

of the creditor department. 

As from 27.3., Tania T. Sørensen 

- 30 years old - forms part of the 

customs department as assistant. 

Tania has just finished her maternity 

leave, but was previously 

employed with Peppercorn, Team 

Freight, GLS Danmark and JP 

Salmon. 

Jeanette Søndergaard - 40 years old 

- started as administrative assistant 

in the oil & energy department on 

1.5. Jeanette received her training 

and education as a forwarder at 

DFDS, Copenhagen where she was 

employed for 8 years. Furthermore 

Jeanette has gathered experience 

from TotalFineElf and Vik Team 

and her latest job as export assistant 

with Arovit. 

Claus Glass 

At the same day, Christian Nielsen 

- 47 years old - started as stevedore 

foreman. Christian is originally a 

fisherman, but decided, in 1990, to 

supplement his skills with a superstructure 

of education and took his 

master’s certificate examination. 

During the recent eight years, Christian 

has worked for Rohde Nielsen 

as master of various engineering 

vessels. 

Christian 

Nielsen 

The 26-year-old accounting assistant, 

Linda Tosti, joined our creditor 

department on 1.1. Linda was 

already familiar with Blue Water as 

she, from 21.9.06 and till the end of 

the year, was employed as replacement 

during maternity leave. Linda 

served her apprenticeship with 

ND Revision and has furthermore 

worked for the trading company 

Jørn Bolding A/S. 

Louise 

Storm Jensen 

Pernille 

Hebsgaard 

Jensen 

On 12.3., Jannik Beiter - 33 years 

old - joined our stevedore team. 

During the last ten years, Jannik 

has been working offshore as rigger 

in the Norwegian and Danish 

sector of the North Sea - the recent 

four years as rigger foreman for 

Semco Marine. 

Jannik Beiter 

On 1.4., we welcomed Steen 

Hartvigsen back in “the family” 

- more precisely in the project department 

At first however, Steen 

will lend a hand to our offshore 

base department. Up to 1999 Steen 

formed part of our agency department 

where he also completed his 

apprenticeship. Since then he has 

tried different things - also outside 

this business and his latest job was 

with Esbjerg Offshore Base. 

Tania T. 

Sørensen 

Another familiar face - 50-year-old 

Aase Bjerregaard Christensen - has 

returned to Blue Water and a job in 

the HR department. Last year (after 

7 years with Blue Water) Aase decided 

to try her knowledge of the 

HR field in a job with Syddanske 

Medier. However, when the opportunity 

arose, she decided to come back 

and now we all look forward to her 

maintaining and looking after the soft 

values of the HR department. 

Aase 

Bjerregaard 

On 10.4., Lisen Kandilis - 30 years 

old - started, directly after her maternity 

leave, in a combined job 

in the HR department/reception. 

Lisen served her apprenticeship as 

an office assistant at the SAS headquarters 

in Kastrup. Half of the day, 

Lisen will look after secretarial duties 

for the HR department and the 

other half day she will attend to the 

switchboard and other duties in the 

reception. 

Jeanette 

Søndergaard 

Hanstholm 

Last summer we brought an article 

on the take-over of Nordshipping in 

Hanstholm, but regret to admit that 

we did not bring any staff information, 

which we hereby remedy: 

As from 1.11.06., the former owner 

and director of Nordshipping, 49- 

year-old Peter T. Olsen, who joined 

the company in 2001, became part 

of the Smyril Blue Water team 

where he performs the function of 

manager of the shipping department. 

Peter T. Olsen 

As from the same date, Frank D. 

Poulsen - 48 years old - also joined 

Smyril Blue Water. Frank has 

worked for Nordshipping for four 

years and continues as assistant in 

the shipping department. 

Linda Tosti 

Torben Nyborg - 27 years old - 

joined the forwarding department 

on 2.1. Torben served his apprenticeship 

with Kurt Beier and has 

also been working for DFDS - three 

years in Esbjerg and in Copenhagen 

since 2006. 

Steen 

Hartvigsen 

As from 26.3., we have engaged 32- 

year-old Heins Christensen as supporter 

in the IT department - primarily 

involved in operation/support. 

Heins has 12 years of experience 

within this field, the recent 5 years 

from Berendsen in Copenhagen. 

Lisen Kandilis 

As from 16.4., an old acquaintance, 

39-year-old Peter Lauridsen - is 

back in the business. Peter served 

his apprenticeship with Blue Water 

14 years ago and then “took a 

break” and started his own business 

on the island of Fanø. Peter has now 

joined Blue Water Transport’s Norwegian 

department which recently 

moved from Padborg to Esbjerg. 

Frank D. 

Poulsen 

Kolding 

On 8.1., Henrik Berg Lucas - 19 

years old - started as trainee at our 

terminal/logistics warehouse. 

Torben Nyborg 

Heins 

Christensen 

Peter 

Lauridsen 

Henrik Berg 

Lucas

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New Employees 

In Kolding we have a couple of “not 

quite new” employments: 

Since 1.9.06., Kurt Mickinn - 56 years 

old - forms part of our logistics warehouse 

where he mainly looks after the 

storage for our client Sioen. Kurt has a 

long experience as a truck driver. 

Kurt Mickinn 

As from 25.9., we have taken on two 

terminal workers; 43-year-old Verner 

Hansen (afternoon) and 58-year-old 

Kurt Johansen (export terminal). 

Ulla Outzen - 41 years old - started as 

assistant in the forwarding department 

on 15.1. Ulla’s previous employment 

was with Easy Food, Ødsted. 

Ulla Outzen 

As from 1.3., we have taken on 

Kenneth Duedal - 21 years old - as 

new trainee in the German department. 

Kenneth used to work as substitute 

at our terminal, Obviously 

he must have left a positive impression 

as he, after a tour around the 

world, is back ready to take on new 

challenges at the office. 

Sandra Jul Jensen - 28 years old - is 

engaged as sales secretary. Sandra 

started as temporary replacement 

back in November, but her status 

has now changed to permanently 

employed. Sandra is also a qualified 

export technician and has been 

involved in sales and marketing in 

her previous job with Dansk Data 

Display. Furthermore she has gathered 

experience from her trainee 

periods at DFDS and Delfi Technologies. 

Sandra Jul 

Jensen 

Another trainee, 24-year-old Frederik 

Brink Jensen started in the 

UK/Ireland department on 12.3. 

The sales team was increased by 

another salesman, 46-year-old 

Carsten Rasmussen, on 1.5. Carsten 

is a skilled shipbroker trained 

and educated in Holbæk and 

has furthermore been involved in 

groupage sales at DSV before he, 

three and a half years ago, changed 

to DPD. Carsten’s field of activity 

will mainly include road transport. 

Carsten 

Rasmussen 

On 1.5, 21-year-old Jens Lillebæk 

Nielsen, started as trainee in the 

road transport department. 

Verner Hansen 

Kurt Johansen 

As from the turn of the year, 31- 

year-old Sine Myrnes Benkjær 

joined our storage logistics department. 

Sine’s previous employment 

was as transport responsible at Riis 

Retail, Kolding. Sine served her apprenticeship 

with Haugsted, but has 

furthermore been employed at Blue 

Water, Copenhagen where she was 

involved in administrative matters 

in the Germany department. 

Sine Myrnes 

Benkjær 

Kenneth 

Duedal 

As from 1.2., we have employed Stine 

Stouby Grønkjær - 31 years old - as 

trainee in the Benelux department. 

Stine Stouby 

Grønkjær 

Preben Skov - 51 years old - is appointed 

new logistics manager as 

from 1.4. Preben has a long career 

as logistics manager with Dalum 

Papir, Odense. 

In addition to being responsible for 

the logistics warehouse in Kolding, 

Preben will look after various matters 

across the division as well as 

the development of Blue Water’s 

overall solutions in the area. 

Frederik 

Brink Jensen 

A new salesman, 44-year-old Kent 

Cyril Larsen - joined our sales team 

on 1.12.06. Kent served his apprenticeship 

with Samson back in 1984. 

He has furthermore been employed 

as manager of the Benelux and development 

department at DFDS 

and later as division manager responsible 

for the Scandinavian traffic 

for the same company in Horsens. 

Kent’s latest job was a 5-year 

employment as sales manager of 

Combifragt, Hvidovre. 

Kent Cyril 

Larsen 

Jens Lillebæk 

Nielsen 

Another trainee, 26-year-old Tenna 

van der Sman - joined the sea 

freight department on 1.5. 

Tenna van der 

Sman 

Odense 

As from 1.12.06., Brian Nielsen - 

37 years old - joined our terminal 

team. 

As from 8.1., Xhavit Hasani - 27 

years old - is employed as forwarder 

in the Eastern Europe department. 

Xhavit was previously employed 

with DSV, Horsens where he also received 

his training. As Xhavit speaks 

several languages fluently - among 

others Albanian and Serbo-Croatian 

- he has the linguistic qualifications 

needed for this specific area. 

Preben Skov 

Copenhagen 

On 1.2., Louise Nordsted Jacobsen 

- 21 years old - started as trainee in 

the Scandinavian department. 

On 2.1., Katja Kowacz - 35 years 

old - joined the East European department 

as administrative assistant. 

Naturally Katja, who originally 

comes from Poland, speaks fluent 

Polish and consequently her field 

of responsibility includes communication 

with the East European 

drivers and service to and searching 

for new hauliers. 

Brian Nielsen 

At the turn of the year, 43-year-old 

Leif Argjum started as warehouseman. 

Leif used to work for DLF, 

Odense. 

Xhavit Hasani 

Louise 

Nordsted 

Jacobsen 

Katja Kowacz 

Leif Argjum

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New Employees 

At the same time, another new colleague, 

Michael Johannesen, joined 

our Italian department as assistant. 

Michael was previously employed 

with Thermo Transit, Middelfart. 

Michael 

Johannesen 

In our niche department we welcomed 

a new member - 27-year-old 

Luise Crone Dons - on 8.1. Luise 

served her apprenticeship at Schenker, 

Aarhus where she was involved 

in transport to/from Sweden 

and Finland. During recent years, 

Luise has also found time to make 

a sporting career (dancing) for herself 

in Holland and Germany. 

Luise 

Crone Dons 

As from 1.2., Jeanett Pedersen - 37 

years old - forms part of the deep 

sea department. Jeanett served her 

apprenticeship at Dantransport, 

Billund and was most recently 

employed as manager of the sea 

freight import department of DFDS 

in Odense. 

Jeanett 

Pedersen 

On the same day, 41-year-old Claudia 

Vitalis joined our airfreight 

department. Claudia received her 

training and education at Dantransport, 

Fredericia. Claudia has also, 

for a number of years, been employed 

as manager of the airfreight 

import department of DFDS, 

Odense. 

Lisbeth Hemmingsen - 37 years old 

- is employed as forwarding assistant 

in the continental department 

as from 1.3. Lisbeth comes from 

a position as export assistant with 

Østergaard Group and has furthermore 

5 years of transport experience 

from her previous jobs with 

DFDS, Padborg and FDE, Padborg. 

Lisbeth is also a trilingual commercial 

correspondent (English/ 

French) and was once employed as 

such with Medimatic in Hellerup. 

Lisbeth Hemmingsen 

Padborg 

Sille Christina Stahl Schmidt - 23 

years old - is engaged as trainee 

in the German department as from 

1.3. As Sille has been our permanent 

“Friday girl” since November 

2006, we have had plenty of time to 

sound her out. 

Sille Christina 

Stahl Schmidt 

On 1.3., Karen Malling Nielsen - 49 

years old - started as office assistant 

in the invoicing department. Karen 

was previously employed with 

Areal Bank AG, Flensburg. 

Karen Malling 

Nielsen 

Aarhus 

Ane Tene Thomhav - 37 years 

old - is employed as assistant in 

the Swedish department as from 

18.12.06. As Ane has been working 

as temporary replacement for several 

months she already knows our 

systems - and whims ! 

As from the turn of the year, Anette 

Weber - 41 years old - is employed 

as controller in the Norwegian department. 

Anette has a long experience 

in Norwegian transport from 

her jobs with Samson Transport and 

DFDS among others. For the recent 

12 months Anette has worked for 

Combifragt. 

Anette Weber 

Rie Petersen - 23 years old - started 

as trainee in the Finland/local distribution 

department on 5.2. 

Rie Petersen 

As from 19.2., Mads Rejmers Veje 

- 34 years old - is employed as assistant 

manager of the Norwegian 

import department. During the last 

10 years, Mads has performed the 

function of assistant manager at 

Rygaard and Frode Laursen respectively. 

Mads 

Rejmers Veje 

Erling Elmstrøm - 42 years old - is 

employed as assistant manager of 

the Swedish department as from 

19.3. Erling’s past career includes 

jobs as assistant manger at Glibstrup 

A/S and warehouse manager 

at Maersk Logistics CFS in 

Aarhus. 

Erling 

Elmstrøm 

The 24-year-old forwarder, Anne 

Jespersen, joined the deep sea department 

on 1.5. Anne’s previous 

employment was with Norfolk 

Line, Esbjerg. 

We have taken on Rasmus Naeve 

Bildstrup - 26 years old - as trainee 

in the sea freight department as 

from 1.4. 

Rasmus Naeve 

Bildstrup 

Aberdeen 

Jacquelin Johnston (Jacqui) - 38 

years old - started in her job as business 

development manager on 12.3. 

Jacque has many years of sales experience 

and her most recent job 

was with TNT UK Ltd. where she 

was employed for 5 years. 

Jacquelin 

Johnston 

Aktau 

34-year-old Natalya Volkova is 

employed as administration manager 

as from 20.11.06. Natalya has 

gathered experience from her past 

career in the newspaper business. 

Natalya 

Volkova 

Olga Takanaeva - 29 years old - 

joined our Aktau team as logistics 

co-ordinator on 19.3. Olga has 

since 2005 been working as assistant 

project co-ordinator for 

Bertling Kazakh Logistics. 

Olga 

Takanaeva 

Brest 

As from the turn of the year we 

have taken on 23-year-old Magali 

Neveu as assistant in the deep sea 

department. Magali started in a 

temporary position back in October 

and is therefore familiar with the 

routines. 

Claudia Vitalis 

Ane Tene 

Thomhav 

Anne Jespersen 

Magali Neveu

19 

New Employees 

Dubai 

As from 14.11.06, Lancy Bosco Almeida 

- 43 years old - is appointed 

manager of our airfreight department. 

Lancy originally comes from 

India and has a wide knowledge 

of airfreight after ten years with 

GAC in the airport of Dubai and 

in Abu Dhabi. Furthermore Lancy 

has gathered sales experience from 

Danzas. 

As from 1.4., we have employed 

Janne Ekholm - 27 years old - as 

forwarder. Janne’s previous employments 

include Fragtservice, K 

& N and IHG. 

Janne Ekholm 

Sao Paulo 

We have taken on 19-year-old 

Natália Salazar Padovan as assistant 

in the operations department. 

Natália was previously employed 

with the freight forwarding company, 

Cargo World Logistica International, 

involved in import from 

China. 

Paul Kragesteen - 43 years old - is 

appointed airfreight manager. During 

the last ten years, Paul has 

been employed with Faroe Express 

- for the most recent period as manager. 

In Blue Water, Paul is also a 

familiar face, as he many years ago 

used to work at our terminal in Esbjerg 

as stevedore foreman primarily 

looking after the reefer vessels. 

Lancy Bosco 

Almeida 

As from 19.11., we have taken on 

27-year-old Mohammad Qasim as 

assistant in the deep sea department. 

Mohammad is from Pakistan 

where he was working for 

Delta Shipping and Mega & Forbes 

(agents for Senator Lines). 

Ilulissat 

Kenneth Birk Jørgensen is in 

charge of the daily operation at our 

newly established office in Ilulissat 

as from 20.3. Kenneth is already 

familiar with Greenland as he in 

the past has been working in Nuuk, 

been in the navy and sailed along 

the west coast of Greenland. Kenneth 

comes from a job with Stark, 

Aalborg where he was packing 

containers to Greenland. 

Natália Salazar 

Padovan 

Another assistant, 23-years-old Juliana 

Dantas Falcin, has joined our 

Brazilian team. Juliana has gathered 

experience from her previous 

employment with the company 

Woith S/A where she co-ordinated 

logistics of various auto-parts imported 

from Europe for distribution 

to the company’s units all over 

Brazil. 

Paul 

Kragesteen 

As from 1.3., Ivan Fossabrúgv - 36 

years old - is appointed sales manager. 

Ivan received his education and 

training as an exports technician in 

Denmark and was employed with 

United Seafood and Skagerak Fiskeeksport 

until he, five years ago, 

took on the challenge as production 

and sales manager of Kollafjord 

Pelagic. 

Mohammad 

Qasim 

Gothenburg 

As from New Year, Björn Jensen 

- 38 years old - was appointed general 

manager of our new branch 

office in Gothenburg. Björn is wellknown 

to Blue Water as he during 

the years 97-99 was employed as 

forwarder and manager of the road 

departments in Esbjerg and Dublin 

respectively. Björn served his 

apprenticeship with Erik Halskov 

Jensen and has also been around P 

& O Ferrymasters and, outside this 

line of business, with Robi/Skadeservice 

where he was involved in 

sales and administration. 

After his period with Blue Water 

- when we decided to scale down 

our activities in Ireland to solely 

include food transport - Bjørn was 

employed as manager at our agent 

Hamann in Dublin. 

Hamann has its headquarters in 

Düsseldorf in Germany and Björn 

continued his career there until he, 

in 2003, was appointed general 

manager of Hamann in Gothenburg. 

Björn is now married and has 

three little children. 

Kenneth Birk 

Jørgensen 

Moscow 

Anna Usikova - 23 years old - has 

formed part of the transport department 

as assistant since 15.1. Anna 

graduated from the Moscow State 

Management University in 2005 

and has since then been employed 

as customs clerk with Moscow 

Eastern Customs. 

Anna Usikova 

Qingdao 

23-year-old Cindy Nini (or Sun 

Nini in Chinese) is employed as assistant 

in the operations department 

as from 10.11.06. Cindy is assisting 

with issuing of documents and it 

is her first job after she graduated 

from Qingdao Vocational & Technical 

College. 

Juliana Dantas 

Falcin 

Adriano Venetucci Gouveia - 27 

years old - has started in his first 

job after his graduation in International 

Relations. Adriano is looking 

forward to developing his career 

in international trade. His field of 

responsibility will include co-ordination 

of the financial activities for 

all export shipments from South 

America. 

Adriano 

Venetucci 

Gouveia 

Torshavn 

With the purpose of developing our 

air and express activities on the Faroe 

Islands we have employed the following 

new colleagues as from 1.2.: 

24-year-old Magnus Joensen is completing 

the last 7 months of his apprenticeship 

in the airfreight express 

department. Magnus served the first 

part of his apprenticeship with Faroe 

Express. 

Ivan 

Fossabrúgv 

Vatry 

Thomas Thevenot - 27 years old 

- is appointed airfreight manager 

as from 21.11.06. Thomas’ professional 

record includes a job as logistics 

manager with Air Liquide 

Welding and two years of employment 

with Maproute in Montreal, 

Canada. 

Thomas 

Thevenot 

Vilnius 

On 12.2., Laura Cibulskaite - 25 years 

old - started as ocean freight assistant. 

Laura has experience from 

her previous jobs within transport 

and administration. 

Björn Jensen 

Cindy Nini 

Magnus 

Joensen 

Laura 

Cibulskaite

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Special Birthdays 

May 

Susanne Holm Hansen, 

Copenhagen - 30 years old 3.5. 

Stephen Kenny, Manchester - 50 years old 7.5 

Valeska Hørby, Esbjerg - 30 years old 10.5 

Dean Garnett, Ipswich - 40 years old 18.5 

Jytte Kvist, Esbjerg - 50 years old 28.5 

June 

Bo Stokbæk Jensen, Kolding - 30 years old 4.6 

Henry Aranha, Dubai - 40 years old 10.6 

Retirement 

At the end of March, our Esbjerg 

Terminal took leave of Hans 

Mikkelsen (62 years old) who 

chose to retire early. We hereby 

thank Hans for his commitment 

and efforts through the years - also 

at the time when he formed part of 

the dockers’ gang, as truck driver, 

before he was actually on our payroll. 

We will always remember his 

dead straight rows of cargo, his fantastic 

sense of order and his good 

memory. Qualities we all benefited 

from in connection with the handling 

of the large annual shipments 

of seed potatoes to North Africa. 

Weddings 

Zaida Pena/Blue Water Fort Lauderdale 

and her husband Eduardo Garcia 

confirmed their marriage and 

celebrated the happy event with a 

party in private surroundings on 

17.2. Naturally the celebration was 

inspired by Cuban customs and traditions 

and the guests were dressed 

in guayabera shirts. 

Published by: 

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6701 Esbjerg 

Tel.: +45 79 13 41 44 

Fax +45 79 13 46 77 

Peter Toftdal Olesen, 

Hanstholm - 50 years old 12.6 

Helle Jürgensen, Kolding - 60 years old 18.6 

Anette Rosenbæk Larsen, 

Copenhagen - 40 years old 21.6 

July 

Birgitte Biskopstø Henriksen, 

Odense - 40 years old 13.7 

Carsten Seeberg, Kolding - 30 years old 23.7 

Larisa Cherkasova, Baku - 50 years old 29.7 

In January, our good customer, 

Hakan Foods, came all the way 

from Dubai to Brazil to visit our office 

and investigate the structure in 

South America in order to find the 

best way to arrange their transport. 

Hakan Foods has opened a branch 

in Brazil and expect to increase 

their product line. 

Left to right: Paulo Rossi/Hakan 

Foods Brazil, Ashley Bahceci/ 

Hakan Foods Dubai, Priscilla 

Souza and Andrea Duclerc/Blue 

Water Sao Paulo. 

From our Singapore office it has 

been reported that Sally Yap married 

Vince Lim on 6.1. 

Editors: 

Gyrithe Skov: gskov@bws.dk 

Jørn Bøllund, Kurt Skov 

Published in: 8000 copies 

E-mail: bwsebj@bws.dk 

www.bws.dk 

Lay-out: 

Claus Simony 

August 

Denise Hanselman, Rotterdam - 40 years old 4.8 

Rene Jørgensen, Aalborg - 40 years old 4.8 

Wesley Peters, Rotterdam - 30 years old 7.8 

Orla Kjærsgaard, Aalborg - 40 years old 13.8 

Rovshan Mamedov, 30 years old 21.8 

Lene Steenberg, Aarhus - 40 years old 23.8 

Poul Aarre, Aarhus - 50 years old 23.8 

Fabiana Martins, Sao Paulo - 30 years old 29.8 

Tom Krøyer, Odense - 40 years old 30.8 

Staff Redeployment 

As from 1.1., sales manager Kay 

Organ changed sales district and 

base from southern England based 

in Ipswich to the northern region 

and based at Blue Water Manchester. 

To strengthen our UK activities, 

Michael Poder Hansen has moved 

to England with his family. Based 

in Manchester, he will remain overall 

responsible for the Danish traffic 

and the UK department in Esbjerg. 

Jan Lundsgaard Larsen and Søren 

Jessen Dahl will see to it that the 

daily operation of the export and 

import department in Esbjerg is 

running smoothly. 

As from the middle of February, 

Søren Gammelgaard (former member 

of the forwarding department 

in Esbjerg) was transferred to our 

project department in Barcelona. 

Dennis Sørensen/Blue Water Padborg 

has taken over the empty chair 

in the forwarding department in Esbjerg 

as from 1.3. 

As a consequence of the longstanding 

difficulties in recruiting 

the right people to Padborg, a 

whole department moved from our 

Padborg office to the headquarters 

in Esbjerg on 1.3. In future, 

distribution of fish to the South of 

Europe and salmon from Norway, 

will be arranged from Esbjerg by a 

team consisting of; Amdi Pedersen 

and Alice Sun Nicolaisen - and on 

a part-time basis Carsten Kjær and 

Carsten Bøtcher. 

In the oil and energy department in 

Esbjerg, a great deal of staff rotation 

has taken place lately. 

Thomas Bek will in future concentrate 

on development and sales (domestic 

and international) within the 

oil and energy sector and not least 

link our oil and energy related departments 

in Denmark and abroad. 

closer together. 

Anne Skov has taken over the dayto-day 

responsibility of the oil & 

energy activities in Esbjerg. 

During the spring, Mogens Thyssen 

will be transferred to Dubai and 

having spent two years in Dubai, 

Lasse Wolff will, after an overlap 

period, return to a job in the oil and 

energy department in Esbjerg. 

In Aberdeen Stewart Greig has 

taken over the management of the 

office. Stewart is 38 years old and 

has, since 2000, performed the 

function of operations manager at 

the Aberdeen office. 

Scott Western - who is 33 years old 

and part of the team since 1998 - 

will take over the job as operations 

manager. 

Around 1.4., Nanna Juul Andersen/ 

Blue Water Copenhagen started 

in a new job as forwarder at Blue 

Water’s office in Fort Lauderdale, 

USA. 

Nino Arkania - who is 34 years old 

and employed with Blue Water Tbilisi 

during the last four years - has 

taken over the position of general 

manager of our office in Georgia. 

Print: 

Jørn Thomsen A/S

THE BLUE WATER FOUNDATION - Blue Water Shipping

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