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INTERNATIONAL PORT, OFFSHORE, MARITIME, HEAVY INDUSTRIES AND DRY BULK CARGO
We have the 1:1 scale right in front of our windows
Lindø has opened doors for Flindt Kristensen Engineering
Our force lies in our crew
We never turn down a job FAYARD A/S keeps a sharp focus on maritime innovation
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08 Carriage of goods is not what it used to be. This is clearly felt in the maritime trade which is undergoing sweeping changes during these years. Today, it's important to keep focus on environmental requirements and energy optimisation, and at the same time the clients' requirements for efficiency improvement and digitisation must be met. In this issue, Discover LINDØ pinpoints the subject of Maritime Innovation.
Close cooperation with the Lindø shipyard FAYARD A/S on 3D scanning has widened Flindt Kristensen's customer portfolio. p. 13
The Lindø-based shipyard FAYARD A/S is more than 100 years old. Still it is at the forefront when it comes to development and innovation. p. 04
Knud E. Hansen is one of the world's three largest passenger ship designers, but also works with rebuilding and energy optimisation of vessels for the offshore industry, the wind turbine industry, the tanker segment and container vessels. p. 11
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A wide range of professional groups and expertise places SH Group as a valuable cooperation partner, also for FAYARD A/S, the Lindø-based shipyard. p. 18
PUBLISHING Will be published 3-4 times a year DESIGN & PRODUCTION Mediegruppen A/S FRONT COVER Ivan S. Larsen, Sales Manager, in front of STENA NATALITA in one of FAYARD's dry docks at Lindø. Photo: Skovdal Nordic, Frederik Johs
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EDITORIAL
Dear Reader The fact is that when enterprises like the ones we are telling you about here relocate traditional industry methods from old ways of thinking to new ways and when they intersect boundaries in their hunt for new ideas, this is where we meet the new times at the very point when the value is at it's highest; at the forefront. FAYARD A/S is a modern undertaking in a traditional industry and it calls for very high endeavours to be at the forefront, both when it comes to methods and to cooperation partners. We hope you will find inspiration and entertainment in this new issue of Discover LINDØ – and that you will discover something new. Enjoy your reading!
Carsten Aa Managing Director
DISCOVER LINDØ
MARCH 2017
First and foremost, welcome to a new edition of the magazine on businesses and activities at LINDØ port of ODENSE – and welcome to an edition which both in looks and in name has moved on from the wellknown LOOKOUT. New times require new ideas – and we found that time had come to make a big leap forward with our magazine so that it is now appearing even more obvious and more distinct as a contribution to understanding the blue industries. We will be bringing themed articles, business stories, project presentations and brief factual accounts and much, much more. We are highly expectant of the new magazine and I hope that we will surprise our existing readers as well as inspire new readers. As already mentioned, new times require new ideas, and with this in mind I also wish to welcome the theme of this edition which is about new thinking, in other words, innovation. We are familiar with the word and frequently use it. Here is one definition: The development of a new idea and its implementation into practice. Interesting and right in the core of the stories which we bring you this time; stories of enterprises, with the repair yard FAYARD A/S at the front, which think up new ideas AND implement them, and in this cross field ideas become business. And good business, that is.
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MARITIME INNOVATION
We never turn down a job One of the oldest shipyards in Denmark, FAYARD A/S - based at Lindø Port of Odense, has survived hard times in the industry by maintaining focus on development and innovation. BY: CHARLOTTE NYGAARD
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The four dry docks of shipyard FAYARD A/S are in great demand. 80 percent of the year the dry docks are fully occupied.
A mastermind The shipyard, originally founded at the port of Fredericia and moved to Lindø in 2010, has long since learnt that the road to survival in an industry which has lost several shipyards over the years is development and innovation. – Ships, like motorcars, need service checks. Service checks are essential requirements by insurance companies and non-observance of this can eventually lead to a ship losing her certificate. So we know that ships need a service check at least every five years, and this gives us a good overview of the market for the coming year, he explains and elaborates: – It is our philosophy that we never turn down a job offhand.
Annually, FAYARD A/S works on 120-130 ships and disposes of four dry docks that are generally occupied at around 80 percent of the year. FAYARD A/S was originally Fredericia Skibsværft (Fredericia Shipyard) and until 2010 located in the port of Fredericia, when it moved to Lindø and in 2011 changed its name to FAYARD A/S. FAYARD A/S is 100 percent privately owned and employs a staff of approx. 150, mainly shipbuilders and administration.
Measurements of the dry docs are 145 x 30 x 8 metres, 280 x 44 x 7 metres, 303 x 45 x 7 metres, 315/415 x 90 x 8,5 metres
On average, a ship is in dry dock for 10-12 days.
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IVAN S. LARSEN, SALES MANAGER WITH FAYARD A/S
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“To many shipping companies we become the natural choice because we are strategically well located on the ships' routes going either out of or into the Baltic Sea, says Ivan S. Larsen.”
“Speed is all – quality is everything.” This saying is the motto for FAYARD A/S, the biggest shipyard in the country, which is located at Lindø in Odense Fjord. These six words are no coincidence. Speed is indeed paramount to the shipping trade in 2017, where time is money. And FAYARD A/S can proudly subscribe to those words as the 101-year-old yard is well known in the industry for living up to a reputation of efficient repair work, maintenance and optimisation of ships without compromising safety or quality. – Our biggest competition on a global scale is Asia in terms of ships line trading between Europe and Asia. In the North European market, Poland is a country with which we cannot compete on hourly rates. On the other hand, we are more efficient in relation to quality of work and not least in relation to the time we need for the ships in dry dock, says Ivan S. Larsen, Sales Manager with FAYARD A/S.
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FAYARD A/S is also cooperating with Knud E. Hansen on Scrubber Exhaust Gas Cleaning that reduces the emission of sulphur dioxide, thus ensuring that the vessels observe the strict requirements of IMO.
We ask the client to give us an hour to find a solution, and generally we are successful. And we do so, because we have a CEO and owner who is the mastermind of solving the puzzle. The maritime industry is a niche. Generally seen, the people moving within the narrow circles of the industry are the same – perhaps in other positions and businesses than 20 years ago – but basically it is an international industry that is populated by known faces. This may in fact be an advantage if, like FAYARD A/S, you have cemented your name as a decent and trustworthy co-player. And a devastating disadvantage, if you don't live up to expectations. 70 percent of clients are non-Danish international shipowners. – Approx. 80 percent of our clients are old friends of the house and some of them are returning clients from our years in Fredericia. NOx, SOx and ballast water When discussing the shipping trade in 2017, we cannot bypass two special
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agendas: Energy efficiency, including optimisation of hull and propellers, and reduction of NOx and SOx (nitrogen and sulphur emission, Ed.) and ballast water systems. Two areas covered with innovation by FAYARD A/S. – We have four dry docks at our disposal, and we have significant cooperation with many of the other businesses at Lindø. We can supply solutions that will meet the requirements from the authorities in areas such as ”emission to air” and ”emission to water”. For instance, we have just serviced two ferries operating purely on LNG (liquefied natural gas), one operating on methanol and two hybrid ferries partly electrically powered. Just as great efforts are made in the motor industry to find alternative fuels, this is also done in the maritime industry. And we are working on ship rebuilding that will optimise the vessel's performance in the water. These rebuilding efforts also include the transformation of a ship originally designed for the strained seismic industry into a comfortable hotel ship,
specially targeted to the construction work at the offshore wind farms presently being put up. While the ships are in dry dock it is also significant to think along green lines and reduce the emission hazardous to the environment. Together with Danfoss, FAYARD A/S has also developed a power supply system that will ensure stable power to ships during dock stays and which uses shore based electrical supply rather than traditional diesel-driven generators from the ship. Green Innovation Clean Power System, is the name of the system which consists of two fitted out containers that may either be taken on board the ship or placed on the quay. In addition to the reduced emission of NOx and SOx, the Clean Power System provides smoother power to the ships during repair and less noise emission. An added bonus is in the financial sphere as the system has turned out to be far more economical than a diesel-operated power system. In the area of working with ballast water systems, FAYARD A/S specialises in the retrofitting of BWTS (Ballast Water Treatment Systems) and in the spring of 2017 the company will complete an ISO14001 certification of the entire yard. Digital overview The location at Lindø is appropriately close to the Great Belt which is one of the most heavily trafficked straits of commercial shipping. This is also an obligation on us, and as a shipyard we must keep abreast of the times and of the expectations of efficiency held by the shipowners. – We have developed programs which enable the client to be present physically in, say, Rotterdam and still be able to create a digital overview of the progress of the repairs and the optimisation of his ship. This means that we
“To shipping companies today, it is significant to be able to follow online the development onboard their ships.” IVAN S. LARSEN, SALES MANAGER WITH FAYARD A/S
Norwegian recognition Right here and now, the shipyard is pleased that major leading Norwegian shipping companies who have a reputation for making tough demands of certification, are using FAYARD A/S to a great extent. Circumstances which Ivan S. Larsen does not hesitate to refer to as a recognition of what the Lindø shipyard is capable of doing. At that, FAYARD has just entered into contract with the Danish Navy to be able to work on all assignments on the Navy's ships.
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Threat from inside All things considered, FAYARD A/S has learnt to follow the development in an industry which does not at all resemble itself if we look back just 30 years. – Our base is still repair work, but now we do much more than that. We have moved from being a traditional shipyard to having a status of a hub or a project place where new things are developed with people who are picked up from domestic or foreign places for the project
at hand, and once the project is completed, another one starts, says Ivan S. Larsen. The future looks bright to FAYARD A/S who has succeeded in embracing the winds of change in stead of fighting against them. And even though the biggest competition in Poland, the Netherlands and Germany help keeping FAYARD A/S abreast, these are not the countries from which Ivan S. Larsen anticipates the greatest threat against the industry. That will indeed come from within. – To a great extent we depend on sufficiently specialised labour to implement our projects. And therefore we depend on open borders and a global vision. If politicians should suddenly start introducing laws to remove our open borders and global trade and prevent cooperating with foreign maritime
FAYARD A/S has rebuilt a ship, originally designed for seismic operations, into a comfortable hotel ship targeted to the work on offshore wind parks.
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often experience during the progress of projects that the client may wish additional work to be done – particularly if the work is progressing faster than estimated. This calls for great flexibility on our part. And that's what we deliver, the sales manager explains. Another method which both optimises the repair period and at the same time optimises the ship's design and performance is 3D scanning, which FAYARD A/S offers in cooperation with the Lindø enterprise, Flindt Kristensen Engineering. A ship can be photographed throughout with special equipment and on this basis a data model can be precisely made so that all changes can be defined in the model – and approved by the client and the classification society – even before the ship calls into the yard. – Ship designs are very individual and there is no standard model to work from like you do with a Lego model. With 3D scanning we attempt to work towards this by obtaining advance approval of the optimisations and have the internal fitting systems ready when the ship concerned calls into port, so that, in principle, we only have to complete the installation. This leaves the shipping company with an optimised ship in a very short time, says Ivan S. Larsen.
specialist undertakings, that's when we would be seriously challenged, he says. At FAYARD we have ourselves done a lot to secure the inflow of labour in the long term. 10 percent of the staff are apprentices, and it is our intention to maintain this level. Furthermore, FAYARD appreciate that our cooperation partners also keep in view that apprentices can be secured an affiliation with the maritime trades. With its newly established coordinator for apprentices, Funen Maritime Cluster supports the effective education and training of apprentices while this takes place in direct connection with the maritime environment.
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Shipping keeps the world together Even though ships have now changed from the basic idea that they are something which we can make move through water, there is indeed a world of difference from then until now. Most conspicuously, the ship sizes of our days, but at the same time a major part of the development is not quite so perceptible. BY: FINN BRUUN
It is no coincidence that 90 percent of world trade in 2017 is carried at sea. Shipping has proved totally indispensable in our modern global times, but changes have affected not only the performances of the ships and the progress of technology and innovation behind. The very idea of shipping has also changed: It is seen today as one link in a long chain which brings producer and consumer in close encounter – and creates jobs and economy.
Digitisation is now a regular and increasing component of transport. This applies not only on board the vessels, at the shipping offices, in the ports, with the forwarding agents, at bunkering, but in the entire field of logistics. If we consider the highlights of the development in shipping from the use of sails, navigation, steam, diesel and most recently the increasing use of propulsion by power, for instance
Around 1150 The kog ship. A somewhat heavier merchant ship particularly from Germany took over
Approx. 800 The clincher-built Viking ship, the most effective type of ship in Europe at around the year 1,000
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“In terms of technology we are far ahead, because we have had such powerful shipyards with close connection to the shipowners.” HENRIK SORNN-FRIESE, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR OF CBS MARITIME
1912 EAC’s ”SELANDIA” with the world's first big diesel marine engine in 1912 marked a giant leap in the development
In the 1500s -1600s Dutch merchant ships accounted for an explosion in economy
1956 and 1966 In 1956, the first container ship left New Jersey for Texas and the first international voyage was in 1966
1948 IMO – UN's International Maritime Organisation, was established in 1948 and SOLAS the convention on Safety of Life at Sea is one of its most significant conventions. The most recent one is the convention on ballast water management which has been ratified and enters into force in 2017
A link in the chain Henrik Sornn-Friese, Associate Professor and Director of CBS Maritime, points at the strong competences in the Danish maritime industry over the past 100 years with quality, high technology and marked project management as the high points and as a launch pad for the green development in Danish shipping. – In terms of technology we are far ahead, because we have had such powerful shipyards with close connection to the shipowners, he says, but at the same time stresses that we have to look at transport as part of a bigger value chain. Maritime transport and shipping companies are connected with ports, infrastructure ashore and in harmony with rules and regulations across the traditional fields of responsibility with the authorities and with increased digitisation. Free Trade – Free trade rather than protectionism has moved forward during the past 30 years. However, right now the Chinese are very aggressive in shipping, so competition will to an increasing extent come from state-owned corporations, and this is a change, he says and mentions the anxiety of new protectionism after the election of Donald Trump as President of the USA.
2006 EMMA MAERSK, built in 2006 at Lindø, was at the time the biggest container ship in the world. Container ships continue to grow and are now heading beyond 20,000 TEU
1970s The biggest ships are tankers: ULCCs – Ultra Large Crude Carriers – the most recent carrier built in 2004, with double hull
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Environment is paramount Marie Bruun Skipper, Director of Danish Shipowners' Association, assesses that the environmental effort is a natural part of the highlights. Development gathered momentum when safety at sea became a global theme and environment and climate were included as an inseparable part of quality: – Today, both environment – i.e. emissions – and CO2, in terms of climate, are efforts which together with scrapping have been added and have a strong presence, she says. By nature, shipping is international. It was indeed shipping which, before the bridges, held Denmark together, and setting out from our many ports tied Denmark with the world – and has done so for a thousand years since the days of the Vikings. – The clincher-built Viking ships were among the most efficient ships in
Europe and extremely fast downwind, just as some of them could carry considerable loads. They were rowed with oars and could be pulled over land to the rivers. In those days, Danish shipping was really on the beat and it has been there on and off ever since, says Thorbjørn Thaarup, Director of the M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark. The heavier merchant ships, the kog ships, particularly from Germany, later became popular. Subsequently, Dutch ships created an almost soaring economy while Danish shipping did not make itself particularly felt internationally until in 1912 when we joined the avant-garde: The East Asiatic Company (EAC) and Burmeister & Wain joined with Rudolf Diesel to develop the world's first large diesel marine engine for EAC's ”SELANDIA”. So Denmark on her own has both developed technology and taken over somebody else's. Now-defunct EAC, by the way, was also first to invest in the new idea of containers, but did not go all the way. A.P. Møller, founder of Maersk, did that shortly afterwards. Massively and with great success. So much so, that the Triple-E series with the EMMA MAERSK, which was then the world's biggest container ship and built at Lindø, set new standards. Ship technology, shipyards, subcontractors have created milestones, but shipping is also driven forward by innovation within the areas of business, commerce, politics and visions to get out into the whole world and open new markets.
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with Scandlines, the list is long, but also full of less tangible items such as the international regulation by IMO, free trade and not least environmental measures and the most recently noted highlights such as new rules for ballast water and for sulphur emission. In recent years, Danish shipping, by way of innovation, has moved into the top-ten list of the world's biggest seafaring nations, led by Maersk, and in quality shipping and environment the country is hardly outmatched by any other country.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Historic agreement concluded with 10 Danish shipyards At the beginning of the year, the Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organization (DALO) of the Ministry of Defence, entered into six partial agreements concerning the maintenance of 50 of the Ministry's vessels with 10 Danish shipyards – including the Lindø-based FAYARD A/S. History was made at the same time when these contracts were made, according to the industry association, Danish Maritime. – We have been looking forward to this day for a long time and have great expectations of the cooperation ahead of us over the next seven years, says Niels Bundsgaard, Lieutenant General and Director of DALO in connection with the signing ceremony at DALO at the end of January. According to estimates, the turnover of the six partial agreements will amount to 70-90 million kroner (9-12M Euro) each year for the 50 ships that form part of an entirely new framework agreement under the defence directive concluded by DALO and which will apply for seven years.
BENCHMARK ANALYSIS TO ABOLISH SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR DANISH SHIPS A so-called neighbour check shows that Denmark has 33 special requirements for Danish ships, according to the Danish Maritime Authority. Denmark is characterised by quality shipping and Deloitte’s benchmark analysis confirms that Denmark is a good place to conduct maritime business. We have been working towards this for a long time and we have already abolished four of the 33 special requirements identified in the analysis. Now, with this analysis in hand, we will take initiatives to make it even more attractive to fly the Danish flag, says Andreas Nordseth, Director General from the Danish Maritime Authority. The benchmark analysis was carried out by Deloitte on the basis of a decision by the Danish Government’s Implementation Committee who wishes the Danish rules to be at a level with the country's neighbouring states. The analysis examined to what extent Denmark gold-plates five international conventions or has other additional special requirements compared to Malta, Norway, Singapore, the United Kingdom and Germany. The analysis has identified 33 special requirements. These include, inter alia, requirements related to the construction of ships, inspections, certification and reporting obligations. Status at the turn of the year shows that four of the 33 special requirements have been abolished, and more are anticipated during the current year.
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DANISH ACCEPTANCE OF ECOFRIENDLY SCRAPPING OF SHIPS Denmark must adopt the Hong Kong convention of 2009 on better protection of people and environment when ships are scrapped. This statement is made by the Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark. Esben Lunde Larsen (V), Danish Minister for Environment and Food has submitted the new bill for debate in Folketinget (the Danish parliament). – Alternate governments have worked for this since the Hong Kong convention was created in 2009. It is a complex legal area and we have waited for the EU for some of the way, so I am glad that we are now very close to the point of accession. Wornout ships typically contain hazardous waste and they need to be scrapped under defensible conditions, and shipping is a global industry where we need common international rules. With Denmark's accession we are sending a strong signal to other countries that it is significant to prioritise defensible scrapping of ships. The more countries that accede, the faster may the convention take effect, says Minister Esben Lunde Larsen.
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More maritime internships wanted, please! 350 additional internships in The Blue Denmark annually. This is the target for the education package proposed by Danish shipping companies according to Danish Shipowners' Association. More flexibility with the time at sea of the internship divided between ships of several shipowners, and state education grants/loans to trainees of navigation are some of the wishes mentioned in the package. The proposal should be seen as an input to the Government's maritime growth team which during the spring will be landing a series of recommendations to a proper growth plan. With the proposal for a stronger training and education effort, Danish Shipowners' Association hopes to keep The Blue Denmark ahead and to continue to deliver one fourth of Danish exports. In continuation of the Shipowners' Association's proposal, the Funen Maritime Cluster has just appointed a trainee coordinator who will support the efforts to create more internships in the maritime trades all over Funen, also including the strengthening of efforts in the blue cluster at Lindø.
MARITIME INNOVATION
Brian Bender Madsen is Head of Machinery and Systems with Knud E. Hansen, one of the world's three largest passenger ship designers..
We have the 1:1 scale right in front of our windows PHOTO: SKOVDAL NORDIC, FREDERIK JOHS
The Royal Danish Yacht Kongeskibet DANNEBROG, DFDS passenger ships, Stena Line, Carnival cruise ships and a vast number of other passenger and cruise ships operating on the seven seas have, at least a majority of them, at some time or other been in the capable hands of the employees with Knud E. Hansen. The enterprise is a mature business of 80 years of age which holds the position as one of the three largest passenger ship designers in the world. In spite of Knud E. Hansen's age, the company has been able to keep up to date
in designing passenger ships, and one of its most recent initiatives is virtual reality. – Virtual reality is a significant tool for the design of passenger sections. By applying virtual reality, both the client and we are able to orientate ourselves on board a ship which has not yet been completed, and assess whether sections have the right location in relation to one another, says Brian Bender Madsen, Head of Machinery and Systems with Knud E. Hansen. Observing IMO requirements However, Knud E. Hansen is not only designing
Knud E. Hansen was established in 1937 and is one of the world's three largest passenger ship designers. The enterprise employs a staff of 85 people and their main offices are in Elsinore. However, the ship design enterprise has a motto to be present where its clients are, and therefore it has offices scattered around the world in Fort Lauderdale in the USA, Perth in Australia, London, The Faroe Islands, Greece and at Lindø.
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BY: CHARLOTTE NYGAARD
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Knud E. Hansen provides services within naval architecture and design, rebuilding and energy optimisation for businesses from cruise ships, offshore, the wind turbine industry to the tanker segment and container vessels.
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ships. Core areas of the enterprise are also redesign of existing ships for other purposes, reconstruction of rigs for the offshore industry and scrubber exhaust gas cleaning. Scrubber exhaust gas cleaning is in fact an area in which Knud E. Hansen has assisted FAYARD A/S. – Our scrubber exhaust gas cleaning project reduces the emission of sulphur dioxide and observes IMO's strict requirements for the shipping industry, Brian Bender Madsen explains. The world's largest TIV vessels Knud E. Hansen has also been a close cooperation partner with FAYARD A/S and their client in connection with a major reconstruction of the MAERSK GALLANT rig and the transformation of a ship originally built for the seismic trade but now converted into a hotel ship. – We have also developed the world's
two largest wind turbine installation vessels, the PACIFIC ORCA and the PACIFIC OSPREY, which were berthed with FAYARD A/S for a specific reconstruction and upgrade. These are vessels that can carry up to twelve 3.6MW turbines and which can resist even harsh weather and big waves. At the same time, the vessels are designed to reach a maximum speed of 14 knots. Hereby they are a type of vessel that may considerably reduce the installation time at offshore wind farms, operate even in bad weather and reduce the transportation time, says Brian Bender Madsen. Fine cooperation When asked to state the largest benefit of having offices at Lindø, he refers to the 1:1 scale right in front of their windows with which no plan can compete. – All things considered, it is far easier to be with the client on board of the
ships in the dry dock out here and create an overview of design than by looking at a plan – no matter how good it may be. We are fortunate to have good cooperation connections with the majority of shipping companies that dock their ships at FAYARD A/S. The shipowners allow us to use their ships in the yard as inspiration to new designs and not least for training young designers and marine engineers, he says. Knud E. Hansen's offices at Lindø dispose of a number of experienced senior designers, marine and electrical engineers whose expert knowledge is easily available for FAYARD A/S and other enterprises at Lindø – almost on an hourly basis, even. This is indeed a big economic gain for the enterprises rather than their individual need to build up their own major design division.
Among Knud E. Hansen's best known designs are the ATLANTIC STAR, the worlds largest ConRo vessel, and Swire Blue Ocean A/S’ PACIFIC ORCA and PACIFIC OSPREY, which are the world's biggest TIVs (Turbine Installation Vessels) for offshore wind park installation.
PACIFIC ORCA is the world's largest TIV vessel for offshore wind turbine installations in deep water.
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Lindø has opened doors for Flindt Kristensen Engineering Close cooperation with FAYARD A/S on 3D scanning has widened Flindt Kristensen's customer portfolio. BY: CHARLOTTE NYGAARD
PHOTO: SKOVDAL NORDIC, FREDERIK JOHS
Three years ago, when Flindt Kristensen Engineering decided to pull up its stakes in Odense to move to Lindø, a whole new world of potential cooperation partners opened up. In particular, the engineering firm that develops and optimises products has worked closely with the wind turbine industry which accounts for approx. 85 percent of its jobs. However, by entering Lindø and the Funen Maritime Cluster, doors also opened to the maritime industry. – We heard that FAYARD A/S was about to start working on a big project for a client and so we thought that we might offer the services we are good at, says Martin Kristensen,
who in 2011 together with Jesper Flindt founded Flindt Kristensen. Time is money The fact is that, with great success, the company had developed 2D and 3D technical drawings for the wind turbine industry and others, and they believed that these competences could also be introduced in relation to FAYARD's client. – In general terms, a ship does not make money when she is not at sea, and this has an impact on the shipowner's wallet. So particularly in this line of business it is significant to streamline the time a ship spends at a yard, so
Flindt Kristensen Flindt Kristensen Engineering was established in 2011 by Martin Kristensen and Jesper Flindt, and has in six years grown from being the two founders and an apprentice to the present staff of 13 engineers within design, calculation and technical drawing. The company is part of the Funen Maritime Cluster and its primary focus is wind, offshore and the maritime environment.
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Martin Kristensen (left) and Jesper Flindt have expanded their customer portfolio by moving to Lindø.
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Flindt Kristensen Engineering has got into a new line of business after beginning their cooperation with FAYARD A/S.
that she may as quickly as possible get back at sea and earn money, he states. In reIation to FAYARD's project of rebuilding a ship, Flindt Kristensen worked together with Lifa land surveyors to 3D scan the ship so that drawings could be made of the new components which the shipowner could then approve in advance. – It is our force that we have the competences to produce a concept which corresponds with the client's expectations. This means that we spend a lot of time on our preparatory efforts so that we are certain to end up with the desired result, says Jesper Flindt. Innovation Prize of the Year The outcome was that the shipowner approved the new components which FAYARD A/S could manufacture well ahead of the time when the ship entered the dry dock. To the shipowner this meant that the ship's yard stay was considerably reduced so as to allow her an earlier opportunity to make profit. – This is our benefit of being out here at Lindø. We get in touch with industries and clients with whom we would not have been in contact, had we stayed in Odense, Martin Kristensen says. In actual fact, our location here at Lindø has meant that our six-year young business has grown to employ 13 people today at Lindø plus a smaller division in Aarhus. In mid-January, Flindt Kristensen Engineering received the Innovation Prize of the Year which is presented by the Business Association of Kerteminde.
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Strict rules call for innovative solutions DNV GL offers survey and standards to the maritime trade and has itself jumped on the digital wave in consideration for its clients. BY: CHARLOTTE NYGAARD
Digitisation is the key word in the shipping industry. This is well known to DNV GL, partner to the maritime trade within standardisation and survey. – Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett Packard, once said: ”If it can be digitized, it will be”. And seen from a 2017 perspective, we can only establish that she was right, says Flemming Mose Christensen, Area Manager Denmark and North Atlantic of DNV GL. If we look at the industry serviced with surveys and standards by DNV GL, we will see that, today, it is standard procedure for communication to be digital. This applies from dialogues with cooperation partners via inspection of ships during maintenance to general inspection of ships at sea. A standard that DNV GL has also taken up to facilitate work and communication with clients. Today, MyDNVGL is a comprehensive customer portal where you can search for guidance and surveys and establish contact with DNV GL.
Listening to clients Digitised everyday life provides DNV GL with a survey of data about the various ships, where do they operate, at which port do they call and how may DNV GL offer surveys in that port? – We are in close cooperation with our clients and are ready to listen to what they wish in order to chart how we can assist them. This calls for high interaction en route and we make it our basis to have a close dialogue with our clients and they have an idea and opinion about what we do, says Flemming Mose Christensen. In an industry where time is indeed money, and where strict environmental and energy requirements are constantly defined both by national and global authorities, innovative thinking is required if you want to survive. – There are two things that are really on the move in the industry these years. One is to take control of own ballast water, and another is MRV (Measuring, Reporting and
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DNV GL DNV GL’s roots stretch back to 1864, when Det Norske Veritas (DNV) was founded in Oslo. Four years later the German counterpart Germanischer Lloyd (GL) was founded in Germany. In 2013 the two merged to become DNV GL. DNV GL operates with various industries to improve safety and sustainability with the enterprises. DNV GL operates in over 100 countries.
Standards in ship building and maintenance DNV GL and the IMO (International Maritime Organization) both have standards in relation to what is allowed. DNV GL within design, building and maintenance of ships and IMO within safety and pollution. DNV GL verifies ships against all standards.
Cost-intensive requirements Another major focus area is ballast water systems. – Big ships have a lot of water that needs to be cleaned under very special circumstances. This may result in great challenges when the ship is berthed at port. The challenge is that where the ship crosses the oceans, her ballast water holds local micro organisms which may, in the worst case, be invasive species that can threaten eg. our own species here in Denmark, Flemming Mose Christensen states and he elaborates: – Therefore the environmental requirements are high as to how you may safely let out your ballast water. The fact is that the problem is not solved by adding poisonous substances that may destroy the invasive species, for that poison also needs to be eliminated. So again, challenges become a catalyst for innovation and development. Flemming Mose Christensen stresses that the many environment requirements lead to enormous costs for shipowners who cannot carry more cargo nor carry it any faster. Seen from this perspective, the requirements can be a great challenge for the world's most effective means of transportation, shipping.
Flemming Mose Christensen on the future for shipping: – I believe that we have to be very careful not to underestimate the significance of sharing economy to world trade. Sharing economy may very well become significant for the transportation of finished goods. This will undoubtedly mean that the need will in stead arise for transporting more raw materials. – Another issue that we should not underestimate is the development of 3D printing. When, for instance, will we be 3D printing our own food? Our own cars? Today, you can actually bring along your old Nike sneakers and have new ones 3D printed which exactly fit your foot. – Both of these examples are development potentials that may have a significant influence on both the extent and the method of how we transport goods.
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Batteries is the new black One of the areas also in focus on the part of authorities is energy optimisation – how to make ships perform better and faster at the same time as controlling the emissions hazardous to the environment. – There are some fairly strict requirements for emission of NOx and SOx (nitrogen and sulphur compounds, Ed.), and this has really been a challenge to the industry towards innovative thinking in order to observe those requirements, he emphasizes.
Development has moved in the direction of designing better hulls, propellers and engines to make ships perform better and to welcome inspiration from the motor industry when it comes to fuel that has less impact on the environment. – Work is ongoing with LNG, methanol, ethanol, biodiesel, electricity, battery solutions and hybrid solutions. Batteries continue to be better, not least by the aid of the motor industry. Personally, I believe that batteries will become ”the new black”, which will take over LNG’s position, says Flemming Mose Christensen.
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Verification, Ed.), i.e. to record the vessel's footprint and thereby verify that the CO2 emission is under control, he says.
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FAYARD A/S For its surface treatment, FAYARD applies the best practicable technology in the form of a high-pressure water purifying plant.
The technology ensures that the actual cleaning process of the surface treatment is made exclusively with water. It also ensures that the working environment for the crew doing the surface cleaning is optimal.
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At 3,000 bars, the surface is cleaned to the steel by water jetting
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All dry docks are carefully cleaned prior to docking out, and all process water is treated in a cleaning system at FAYARD, before the remainder is sent to disposal.
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Kenneth E. Kej is Service Manager with SH Group which has worked with shipyard FAYARD A/S for more than 25 years.
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Our force lies in our crew A wide range of professional groups and expertise position SH Group as a valuable cooperation partner, also for FAYARD A/S. PHOTO: SKOVDAL NORDIC, FREDERIK JOHS
Building new cranes The 43-year-old undertaking has specialised
particularly on load testing cranes of up to 400 tonnes. Basically, a load test involves overloading the crane and thereby assessing whether there are parts of the crane that are worn and ready for replacement. – Our force in the SH Group is undoubtedly our 260 employees who possess widely differing qualifications. We have machine operators, smiths, hydraulics fitters, welders, engineers, electricians and an automation department. This means that we are usually involved right from the start when FAYARD A/S negotiates a deal with a client, says Kenneth E. Kej. SH Group has indeed wide experience in building new cranes, lifeboat davits, winches and A-frames, and this is for the benefit of
“Typically, delivery times for crane parts are long, but we have both expertise, crew and steel ready which we can apply and in a relatively short period of time change into a new spare part.” KENNETH E. KEJ, SERVICE MANAGER WITH SH GROUP
SH Group SH Group develops, produces and services hydraulic and mechanical system solutions for the offshore industry and for the maritime and other industrial sectors.
SH Group's main offices are in Svendborg and the company today employs around 260 people within several different professions and at different worldwide locations. MARCH 2017
In 2010, when FAYARD A/S moved from the port of Fredericia to Lindø, a close cooperation partner came along. For around 25 years, SH Group has worked closely with the shipyard FAYARD A/S, one of the subjects being load tests of ships' lifting appliances. – Just like the ship, its cranes must go through service inspections every five years, and when FAYARD A/S has ships in its yard, we step in and check all service parts of the cranes – brakes, hoses and wires, says Kenneth E. Kej, Service Manager with SH Group.
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SH Group
SH Group is versatile in its competences and can solve many different tasks. Its cooperation with FAYARD A/S has lasted for more than 25 years.
the client, where the ship's crane or other equipment is worn down, and SH Group will be ready to refurbish or replace the parts. 3D scanning With our in-house expert knowledge and professional breadth, SH Group can manage what equals the assignments of five businesses – drawing, design, calculation, automation and implementation. SH Group also uses 3D scanning to reduce working hours on the ship while she is at the yard. The relevant area involved for the company's work on board the ship is carefully photographed and developed into a scanned model which is the basis for their assignment. When the result is finally approved by the client, SH Group can initiate the work even before the ship has been called into port. – Our cooperation with FAYARD A/S goes both ways. We also make offers of our other expert fields and in this connection we can offer a solution of an overall ship maintenance check with FAYARD A/S, so our cooperation is close and valuable for both FAYARD A/S and ourselves, he says.
“Our cooperation is close and valuable for both FAYARD A/S and ourselves”
The following product brands are covered by SH Group: Sepro, which produces high technological handling systems for ROV and Subsea production equipment. NorCrane which delivers total solutions in deck equipment and Xervo with its unique solutions within life boat handling approved for NORSOK.
The business was founded in 1974 and today disposes of large production and test facilities and service departments at Lindø and in Sandnes in Norway.
KENNETH E. KEJ, SERVICE MANAGER WITH SH GROUP
SH Group are specialists in load tests of cranes of up to 400 t.
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LPO UPDATE
New companies
New employees Since the autumn of 2016, LPO has welcomed 11 new employees:
Rambøll A/S (engineering & consultancy) leases offices at LPO as from 1 September 2016.
Niels Winther Shipping (shipping agents) leases offices at LPO as from 1 November 2016.
Alliance Plus (cleaning) leases storerooms and break room at LPO as from 1 January 2017
Thomas Seier, semi-skilled worker – 1 February 2017 Martin Mørk Andersen, semi-skilled worker – 3 January 2017 Allan Mikkelsen, semi-skilled worker – 2 January 2017 Gorm Hagensen, semi-skilled worker – 1 February 2017
Apprentices Technical design trainee Azadeh Zare – 3 October 2016 Harbour engineer Michael Nygaard – 15 October 2016
Supervisor Claus Høgsberg – 1 November 2016
Production technologist Dennis Klejs Jørgensen – 15 February 2017
LPO continually has engineer trainees in the Buildings & Facilities division. At present, Simon M. Larsen, who is a student at Fredericia School of Marine Engineering, is in a traineeship.
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Property service technician trainee Christian H. Madsen – 1 March 2017
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Technical design trainee Kristina V. Hansen – 16 January 2017
Structural engineer Andreas Nyland Andersen – 1 October 2016
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A smile on the road is nice Frank and Chris transport heavy loads for MHI Vestas and are familiar faces at Lindø as the ”wavers”. BY: CHARLOTTE NYGAARD
PHOTO: SKOVDAL NORDIC, FREDERIK JOHS
If you have your daily work at Lindø, you have probably met them several times. Some simply call them the ”wavers”. And Frank Jørgensen and Chris Pihl Christensen of BMS Krangården are perfectly happy with that. Towers and nacelles They are on a manpower lease with MHI Vestas and they are daily in charge of moving components such as wind turbine nacelles and towers from one end of Lindø to the other. This involves transport of tower components measuring up to a height
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of 28 metres and a weight of 276 t. Or nacelles weighing 400 t. During those transports, there is no waving or resting. In stead either Frank or Chris walks in the front and has the remote control of the SPMT (self-propelled modular transporter, Ed.) at tiptoe pace for the required distance to the destination, while his colleague walks behind and is the eyes and ears of the transport. – We are both trained smiths and have been lorry drivers. To work here, you must have a good understanding of hydraulics as this vehicle can carry up to 500 t and has 96 wheels, and it's all
about hydraulics. While we are operating it is always a matter of levelling. When we transport the towers, we have an allowance of 26 centimetres. With the nacelles we have 80 centimetres, Frank Jørgensen explains. Thanks for your respect An ordinary working day can include many trips across Lindø. The busiest day required as much as 37,000 paces, but generally the two gentlemen cover around 20,000 paces daily. And then there are days when they don't go anywhere – when it's too windy.
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Two sets of SPMTs are operating, joined together with a frame, so that even fully assembled offshore wind turbine foundations can be moved by BMS.
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When transporting the towers, the wind speed maximum for the transports is 12 metres/sec. (24 knots). For the nacelles the wind limit is 20 m/sec (40 knots), before the transport is called off. In case of thunder and lightning, the SPMT is not operating with loads. Once the heavy and very costly load has been unloaded, Frank Jørgensen and Chris Pihl Christensen make themselves comfortable in the designed chairs at the front of the SPMT, and the trip back is made at a more leisurely pace. And that's the time for waving. – We know we take up a lot of space on the roads out here when we come with our big loads. So when we drive back again, we wave and greet everybody to say thanks for the regard they have shown us. And sending a smile along the way is always a good thing to do, says Chris Pihl Christensen - with a smile.
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Dry Dock Lindø
1 Dry dock Width: 90 m, length: 315 m, depth: 11 m from quay level. Water volume in filled dock: 241 million litres. 2 Gantry crane 1000 t gantry crane, on tracks, height: 117 m, 77.5 m clearance under hook, span width: 148.5 m.
Dock 3 is Lindø's biggest dry dock and one of the largest in Northern Europe. It is mainly used for docking ships, but the dock can also be leased on a project basis for other types of assignment. BY: CHARLOTTE NYGAARD
3 Dry dock gate Length: 90 m and width: 11 m, hollow, moveable concrete structure, dead load approx. 2,100 t. It is pumped empty of water and moved away for the dry dock to open for approach, moved in place and filled for closing of the dry dock. Electric winches ashore or tugs are used during moving. 4 Dry dock bed Can carry a load of up to 111 t/square metre.
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5 Concrete dock blocks Concrete dock blocks are used in individual formations on the bed of the dry dock to arrange vessels/workpieces. Carrying capacity per block: up to 1000 t. 6 Port cranes Two 100 t port cranes, on tracks, lifting capacity at full reach: 43 t at 68.5 m (maximum reach). 7 Dry dock pumps The three biggest pumps each has a capacity of 9,000 cubic metres of water per hour. The dry dock fills in 8 hours and evacuates in 12 hours. 8 Provisions in the dry dock Power available 3 x 400V/min. 4,000A (approx. 3,765 hp), water available: 100 cubic metres/hour (approx. 28 litres/sec.)