News Dec 2007 UK

No. 86

House Magazine – also distributed to customers and business relations

December 2007

Inauguration of Blue Water Odense’s New Facilities in Tietgenbyen On Friday 2.11, a reception was held at Blue Water Odense to cele­ brate the inauguration of our new facilities in Tietgenbyen.

The house was filled with happy guests, the sun was shining from a cloudless sky and the official speeches of Søren Nielsen, Kurt Skov and Per Offersen (representing the staff) were delivered outdoors.

The presents from the staff club were beautiful bowls of boxtrees which now adorn both main and staff entrances.

The annual customer party was held in the evening in the VIP lounges of the new Arena Fyn. The programme included a brief introduction of the new Arena Fyn and its countless prospects followed by a delicious autumn dinner and excellent entertainment from Teamsinging followed by the eighties band, Planet Pop.

The evening’s guests at the welcoming ceremony at Arena Fyn.

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

Silver Jubilee at Blue Water France On 6.9., Blue Water in France ce­ lebrated the silver anniversary of its French offices. 25 years ago, the office in Brest was established, mainly to act as general agent for Lauritzen Reefers in connection with their shipments of frozen poultry to the Red Sea and the Gulf. Today Blue Water France operates three offices - one in Brest and one in Lorient, involved in all-round shipping, and an airfreight office in Vatry.

In honour of the occasion, French and international clients were invited on a dinner cruise.

It was a fantastic evening with beautiful weather, offering plenty of opportunity to enjoy the beauti-

ful coastal scenery around Brest.

Chance had it that Mogens Nielsen, who is in charge of our French activities for the last 20 years, coincidentally could celebrate his silver anniversary with the Blue Water Group. He was therefore honoured on the occasion by his colleagues in the evening.

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

New Assignment to “Maersk Explorer” in the Caspian Sea Blue Water Baku was awarded the contract as sub-contractor for Maersk Contractors Caspian Sea A/S for ship’s agency, customs clearance and consultancy in connecion with the mobilisation of their semi-submersible drilling rig “Maersk Explorer”. The rig was towed from Azerbaijan to the Russian part of the Caspian Sea, the Centralnaya-1 field in the ­ Makhachkala sector, by 4 tug boats; “Andoga”, “Aura”, “Vadim Seydov” and “Jura”.

The drillings are performed by “Maersk Explorer” for the Russian company, CenterCaspneftegas, and started on 12.11. The operation will take 180 days and covers all connected jobs such as mobilisation of the rig, the actual drilling, test of oil well, shutdown and demobilisation of the rig.

Blue Water’s team took care of

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

Energy Trophy 08

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

Our Quality and Environmental Manager, Kim Beier, is aiming high. Based on the certification of our head office in Esbjerg, we now participate in a competition - financed by the EU, for the reduction of energy consumption in the offices - called Energy Trophy.

Blue Water Esbjerg has taken many energy saving initiatives in everyday working life. Whether we will win the first prize - EUR 3000 - is, however, doubtful, according to Kim.

New Big Contract for Trans­ port of Special Tanker (FSO) from Singapore to Baku Blue Water has just made a contract with Keppel Singmarine in Singapore for transport of a so-called FSO from Singapore to Baku at the Caspian Sea. FSO stands for Floating, Storage, Offloading. The FSO is a sort of tank vessel, which moors at the oil well to pump oil up into its storage, and is capable of pumping this oil into minor tank vessels which then carry the oil ashore.

This special vessel, with a capacity of approx. 28,000 tons oil, is being built at Keppel Singmarine Shipyard in Singapore. Blue Water will arrange transport from Singapore via the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean, the Black Sea - and further on through the Russian Don-Volga river system to the Caspian Sea. The width of the smallest lock in the Russian river system is 17 metres, the maximum draught 3.20 metres and the height 14.00 metres, due to bridges and cables, making certain demands on the vessel’s construction. Therefore it has to be built in two hull strips of the following dimensions: length 132.8 metres, width 15.65 metres,

height 17.2 metres and a draught of 3.00 metres - two large selffloating hull strips weighing 4,000 tons each.

In addition some equipment and accomodation blocks for the FSO - 2,000 tons/15,000 cbm in total need to be transported into Baku.

The hull modules and blocks will be loaded on board two special heavy lift vessels in Singapore.

Transshipment will take place in the Black Sea, where the self-floating strips will be tugged through the river system by tug boats. The other parts and equipment will be loaded on to river vessels and barges and transported through the river system from Azov to Astrakhan and the last section through the Caspian Sea to the oil city Baku in Azerbaijan. Here welding of the 2 hull strips will take place before delivery to the client, LukOil - Nizhnevolzhskneft (LukOil NVN), a subsidiary of the Russian oil company LukOil. Loading will be performed in Singapore in July/August 2008 and delivery must take place in October at the latest as the river system will freeze up in November.

Semco Maritime builds Power Plants in Central America Blue Water won the Transport Contract Semco Maritime is a construction and engineering firm involved in the worldwide marine, oil and energy industry - both offshore and onshore.

The global activities as well as Semco’s branches in Europe, Asia, USA and Central America are controlled from the headquarters in Esbjerg.

Semco Maritime has won a number of very large contracts - in the billion class category - in connection with power plant constructions in El Salvador and Guatemala. In addition to the actual construction of the power plants, the orders cover operation and maintenance for a 10-year period.

The free trade agreement (Cafta) between USA and Central America has resulted in a considerable business development and consequently increasing energy demands.

For this reason Semco Maritime sees interesting prospects in power plant construction in Central America.

An agreement was made between

Semco Maritime and Blue Water for transport of the large projects to Guatemala and El Salvador. It is a very interesting job which increases Blue Water’s activities in Central America. The job includes shipment of large engines (up to 350 tons per engine), transformers and other equipment from Europe and the Far East to Central America.

Shipment of various parts in containers are already taking place, and Blue Water has chartered special heavy lift vessels, with high lifting capacity, for the large units. First shipment will leave Rotterdam, Holland and St. Nazaire, France to Puerto Quetzal in Guatemale in December.

Blue Water is responsible for delivery of the projects to final construction sites in Guatemala and El Salvador respectively. As it is a very special and complicated job, Blue Water has entered into co-operation with DacoTrans/Daco Heavy Lift, with offices in Guatemala and El Salvador and its own specialized transport equipment.

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

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

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

New Smyril Blue Water Blue Water sharehol­ Depot in Gothenburg der in Smyril Line P/F Delivery address in Sweden: GLC Importgatan 26 SE-422 46 Hisings Backa

As a natural consequence of increasing quantities of goods from Sweden to the Faroes and Iceland, we have on 1 November 2007 opened a depot in Hisings Backa, Gothenburg. The depot is operated

by Blue Water’s office in Skandiahamnen, Gothenburg where Janne Ekholm and Björn Jensen are hand­ ling collections to the depot and customs clearance of shipments to the North Atlantic.

Trailers are packed on Thursday afternoon at the depot and shipped on board m/s “Norröna” leaving Hanstholm on Saturday arriving Torshavn Monday and Seydisfjordur Tuesday.

Booking to: Blue Water Shipping Sydatlanten 6 Skandiahamnen SE-40336 Gothenburg Tel: +46 31 76 44 880 Fax: +46 31 53 30 50 Att.: Janne Ekholm /

Björn Jensen E-mail: sbwgot@bws.dk Booking deadline: Wednesdays 12.00 noon Final delivery to depot: Thursdays 12.00 noon

Customer Seminar on the Faroe Islands Jørn Bøllund/Blue Water Esbjerg has during the summer visited our Danish offices, offering client seminars including subjects and concepts such as Incoterms, responsibility rules of the transport industry, insurance and “what to do in case of damage”.

After the Danish tour, Torshavn was next on the list. Around 50 local clients showed up for an

Blue Water repre­ sents TNT Express in Greenland Blue Water Greenland A/S has with effect as from 1.8. entered into contract with the worldwide courier company TNT Express.

Therefore you can now contact your Blue Water office and book your TNT Express shipments both to and from Greenland.

interes­ting evening at the Føroya Hotel. In the afternoon of the same day, Smyril Blue Water’s team in Torshavn was given a lecture in professional handling of claims.

Even though we use the best ferries and airlines, the goods may now and then be damaged on their way across the rough Atlantic Ocean.

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The Faroese shipowners, Smyril Line, have for many years been involved in passenger and freight service on the North Atlantic - between the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway and Denmark. Since 2003, the new modern passenger and freight ferry m/f ”Norröna”, with a capacity of 1500 passengers and 130 trailers, has served this liner service with weekly departures.

1 April 2005, Smyril Line and Blue Water established a joint venture Smyril Blue Water - a transport and freight forwarding company with offices on the Faroe Islands, Iceland and in Denmark - in order to make use of the common synergies between Smyril Line’s superferry m/f ”Norröna” and BlueWater’s well-organised transport system with a comprehensive terminal network in Denmark and more than 600 trucks and trailers on the European highways.

All kinds of goods are transported; fresh and frozen fish, salmon, tem-

perature controlled cargo, consu­ mer goods, building materials etc.

Furthermore Smyril Blue Water offers airfreight and container transport to and from overseas destinations via Blue Water’s global network of agents and branch offices.

Smyril Blue Water provides the best transport service in the North Atlantic, based on a unique ro-ro service and door/door concept with short transit times.

The Smyril activity is important for the Blue Water Group and Blue Water has therefore strengthened its commitment to Smyril Line and entered as shareholder in the shipping line - when a new refinancing of Smyril Line was completed on 29.8.2007.

Other major shareholders include the Faroese companies Frantak and TF Holding and Shetland Development Trust, the Shetlands as well as Ausfar, Iceland.

US Television visits Greenland NBC News has visited Greenland, spending time in both Ilulissat in the north and the capital Nuuk. A lot of focus is put on Greenland these days - especially due to the climate changes. The ice cap is melting much faster than researchers predicted just a few years ago. NBC News painted a really nice picture of Greenland – the culture and not least the beautiful nature.

NBC News had chosen Blue Water to handle and ship its equipment.

To shoot the documentary, a con-

siderable amount of equipment was needed by NBC’s delegation of journalists and technicians – 22 pallets of air freight with a total volume of approx. 32 m3.

The assignment was carried out in smooth co-operation between Blue Water’s offices in Nuuk, Ilulissat and Copenhagen. For our newly opened office in Ilulissat, it was the largest and most interesting assignment to date, says Kenneth Birk Jorgensen/ Blue Water Ilulissat.

Nuuk: Inge Lennert E-mail: inle@bws.d Ttel: +299 325410 Sisimiut: Kenneth ruby Sørensen E-mail: krs@bws.dk Tel: +299 866365 Ilulissat: Kenneth Birk Jørgensen E-mail: kjoergensen@bws.dk Ttel: +299 942210

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

Another In-house Customer at Blue Water Aalborg As from November 2007, the company, Deres Auto in Nuuk, has chosen to have a logistician working in-house at Blue Water Aalborg. The concept is similar to our existing agreement with Inu:IT Kontorhuset, who has made use of the arrangement since the spring of 2006.

The two companies use our Aalborg terminal as hub for their shipments to Greenland, which are sent consolidated by either sea or air.

At the same time, the logisticians optimize the cargo flow from the suppliers (e.g. making them keep the agreed delivery deadlines and use the agreed packing materials) and consequently ensure a high degree of consistency of supply in connection with the suppliers’ total deliveries to the individual departures.

We do not receive the shipments from Inu:IT Kontorhuset and Deres Auto until they have been marked to the correct destination and consignee - by either sea or air.

This solution has proved to be a big advantage for Inu:IT Kontorhuset, as quite a lot of inappropriate consignments from the suppliers will be rejected even before they leave Denmark. As freight to Greenland is rather expensive, correction of mistakes, if any, before departure will save a lot of money.

We are, to a great extent, our Greenland customers’ auxillary arm in Denmark. It is, however, not possible for us to check whether all the ordered articles are contained in the shipment - as we cannot and may not open the consignments and whether they are marked with the correct consignee.

Projects in Iceland and Greenland During his stay in Iceland, Ole Bøgh Ulriksen visited some inte­ resting potential clients.

Istak, which is 90% owned by Pihl & Søn in Denmark, has through its parent company big interests in Greenland where they participate in several projects. Blue Water assists with airfreight from Iceland via Denmark to Greenland in cooperation with IceTransport.

Ole Bøgh Ulriksen and Peter Ravn from the project department in Esbjerg had set up a meeting with the logistics managers of the Alcoa group from USA, with aluminum factories around the world, who were visiting the melting factory in the eastern part of Iceland.

The reason for the meeting was the fact that Alcoa plan to build a factory in Greenland, starting in 2009. At the meeting we learned that a new factory on the north-east coast of

Iceland may be even further ahead in their plans than the one in Greenland. We will be invited to submit tenders for the building projects.

When production is up and running, quantities will reach approx.1 million tons a year. For the project in Eastern Iceland, a 73 kilometre water tunnel - with a diametre of 7 metres, supplying 6 generator units with a maximum of 144 cbm water per second - was built.

Ole and Peter also paid a visit to Landsvirkjun, the Iceland energy company which delivered the hydroelectric plant to the Iceland factory, and who may also deliver the plant to the second factory in Iceland as well as to the Greenland factory.

Large parts of the hydroelectric plant are imported from other countries and for this purpose Blue Water’s expertise may also be useful.

New extended Freight Contract with Pilersuisoq Blue Water Aalborg has made a new 3-year agreement with Pilersuisoq covering airfreight to Greenland and sea freight of 810,000 cbm retail goods, which up to now have been shipped through Pilersuisoq’s own central storage in Aalborg. This storage will be closed at the turn of the year and we are going to take over the sup-

ply of both sea and airfreight to Pilersuisoq’s branches in every town and settlement in Greenland.

We hope to be able to provide such an excellent service that we can extend the co-operation on sea freight which in total amounts to approx. 40,000 cbm per year, says Ole Bøgh Ulriksen from Blue Water Aalborg.

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

Iceland, we see great prospects of the future - both on sea and airfreight between the two countries.

Iceland is working on a global basis and the agreement therefore implies that our many offices around the world may be useful for traffic needs beyond the Danish border.

Lunch on the way to the airport, together with the IceTransport team, Börkur Holmgeirsson and Bjarni Bjarnason, at the Blue Lagoon with the hot springs.

In the picture you can see Börkur Holmgeirsson and Ole Bøgh Ulriksen.

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

Goods in Transit Insu­ rance to the North Atlantic We often experience that our clients expect that we automatically take out Goods in Transit Insurance for their shipments to the North Atlantic. Unfortunately they do not find out that this is not the case until the damage is done.

If no insurance is taken out, cover is limited to the law governing the respective type of transport; Haque Rules, Warsaw Convention, CMR Convention etc. Compensation in case of damage or loss will therefore be limited.

For this reason, Blue Water has de-

cided to take out Goods in Transit Insurance on all shipments to the North Atlantic as from 1.10.2007, unless our clients inform us that they are not interested in such insurance. This way we ensure that a decision to insure or not is made for every shipment.

We regard this initiative as an extra focus on the quality assurance of our clients’ shipments, and hope that this will create greater satisfaction in respect of any claims for damages.

Blue Water Milan takes over Role as Agent from Armando Vidale Blue Water established an office in Milan in 2006 with the aim to strengthen its many activities and relations within the Italian market.

Our office is ideally situated close to the intermodal terminal in Busto Arsizio by Milan, the main centre for combined transport (road/rail).

The Milan office is managed by Henrik Sidding Nielsen, a Dane stationed in Italy for several ­years.

Our staff is both Danish and Italian which strengthens the daily communication with Italian suppliers and optimizes the information flow back to our clients in Denmark.

As a natural consequence of our

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

Details of Blue Water Italy: Blue Water Shipping Italia SRL. Via Dogana 2 21052 Busto Arsizio (VA) Tel: +39 0331 682834 Fax: +39 0331 695008 E-mail: bwsmil@bws.dk

In October, Søren Nielsen/Blue Water Odense, who is overall responsible for Italy, and Carsten Eskildsen/Blue Water Esbjerg paid a visit to our branch office in Milan, Italy.

Left to right: Gigi Brunelli (warehouseman), Gianni Crippa, Laura Franchi, Henrik Sidding Nielsen, Søren Nielsen and Salvator Montesani (warehouseman). Carsten Eskildsen was photographer.

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

Blue Water’s Project Department in Spain We currently receive reports from our project team in Barcelona, telling about their first interesting year as an independent department, arranging specialised transport on the Iberian Peninsula.

With Jørn Scharck at the helm, greatly assisted by his Danish colleague, Søren Gammelgaard Nielsen, and Aleksandra Kurek from Poland, the department has acted as port agent for 32 ships alone with windmills. Ships chartered for the specific jobs by the colleagues in the chartering department in Esbjerg.

For our team in Spain, the job starts when the ships come alongside for discharging and further transpor-

tation of windmill sections to the final destination.

Planning is an important element in the job, including discharge inspection and protection against damages. In this respect, Søren Gammelgaard has travelled far and wide this year - to Pasajes (San Sebastian), Santander, El Ferril, La Coruna, Villagarcia de Arosa, Marin, Vigo, Cadiz, Algeciras, Valencia and Sagunto. Ports all over the country with different terms/ conditions and equipment, which require comprehensive preparatory work to ensure the best possible achievement.

Furthermore we have been involved in a large project for the

Spanish oil company, Repsol.

The project will be launched in the spring of 2008 and includes 16 sections - the biggest weighing 78 tons - coming from Thessalo-

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

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

New Transport Partner in Spain As from November 2007, Blue Water Shipping A/S and Rhenus Logistics have entered into cooperation on road traffic between Spain and Denmark.

Rhenus Logistics is today one of few freight forwarders in Spain with its fine-meshed network of 41 small, local hubs throughout Spain.

One of its major strengths, is the fact that several of Rhenus’ hubs are open 24 hours six days a week, enabling guaranteed delivery throughout Spain within maxi-

mum 72 hours from arrival at the terminal in Spain. Terminal vicinities, however, are guaranteed delivery within 24-48 hours.

In Spain, Rhenus Logistics is currently represented in Barcelona (headquarters), Irun, Madrid, Valencia, Sevilla, Allicante, Tarragona, Zaragoza, Vigo, Bilbao and Gijon - employing a total of 623 people.

The company’s annual turnover in Spain is EUR 800 million, making Rhenus Logistics one of Spain’s leading freight forwarders within

road, sea, rail and air transport.

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

be able to notify the customers of delays, if any, in due time.

Blue Water offers departure from Denmark to the North of Spain every Monday, Tuesday and Friday and to the southern part every Friday - and departure from Spain every Tuesday and Friday.

Danfish International, Aalborg Once again, Blue Water was appointed exhibition forwarder for Danfish International in Aalborg.

Our team of forwarders and warehouse people did a perfect job to everybody’s satisfaction. With 400 participating companies, including 261 from Denmark, the 20th fisheries exhibition in Aalborg was almost fully booked and received positive response from the exhibitors reporting sales beyond expectations. Figures of more than 150 million were rumoured, which by far surpasses the exhibition two years ago.

Danfish has developed over the years, from being a display window for Danish fishermen to an international exhibition, which due to its success has become the biggest of its kind in Northern Europe.

Purchasers from 21 countries and exhibitors from 23 countries - as far away as from Argentina, Canada, China, Russia and New Zealand - participated in this year’s exhibition.

We welcomed many interesting visitors to our stand, both present and potential clients, reports Ole Ulriksen from the North of Jutland.

During the exhibition, a farewell reception was held for Jan Fürst Andersen, who had decided to retire after nearly 25 years with Dansk Eksportforening (The Danish Exporters’ Association) where he was in charge of the fisheries division.

Throughout the years, we have enjoyed working together with Jan and wish him and his wife, Inge, a long and happy retirement.

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

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

Kormarine, South Korea The exhibition, Kormarine, took place in Busan in October. Two years ago, we were also involved in Kormarine, which has since increased by 40% to a capacity of 340 m2 this year. Klaus Bindesbøll/exhibition department, Esbjerg was in Busan to coordinate incoming and outgoing containers and help Standesign build the collective stand. After the exhibition, a large part of the goods were forwarded to Shanghai, to the Marintec exhibition at the end of November, where Denmark was represented with a big collective stand (800 m2).

Kormarine was a success and a large number of visitors attended the exhibition.

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

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

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

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

Carsten Eskildsen/Blue Water Esbjerg and Peter Ankersborg/Blue Water Kolding were in Benelux during week 41, paying visits to Blue Water Rotterdam and ABX Brussels.

This picture was taken at Blue Water Rotterdam’s office - left to right: Peter Ankersborg, Hans Poiesz and Bram de Visser.

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

Visiting China

In August, Arne Iversen/Blue Water Qingdao and Stig Egelund/Blue Water Copenhagen paid a visit to Cargo Services (Far East) Ltd. in Hong Kong and Shanghai. During their stay, sales, operational matters, IT and not least the future were discussed.

China’s incredible development with increasing export to Europe continues. In order to comply with this growth, Cargo Services have decided to increase their present number of offices in China from 26 to 48 by the end of 2008. Part of these new branches will be esta­ blished far inland where increased production and consequently increased export are expected.

Arne Iversen and Stig Egelund seized the opportunity to pay a visit to our long-time partner, the shipping line MOL, in Hong Kong.

Left to right: Marcus Ma, Louis Tang, Stig Egelund, David Prado, Arne Iversen and Kelvin Tse.

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

Visiting Jining Salong Mike Su and Yongqin Sun have for many years been loyal customers of Blue Water. In fact the contact dates back to the early nineties when all garlic from China was loaded in bulk to Dubai and Blue Water Brest was responsible for chartering of tonnage, using Lauritzen Reefers as shipping line among others.

Nowadays, garlic is shipped in reefer containers, and the activity has developed enormously over the last 20 years, during which China has become the world’s main garlic exporter with a world­ wide export volume exceeding one million tons a year.

The family now runs the company, Jining Sanlong, and is still very much involved in garlic export, however the product line has increased to include fruits and other vegetables as well.

Shandong is still the biggest garlic producing province using Qingdao as port of shipment, whereas the Fuijan province is famous for growing exotic fruits - especially pomelos are popular - and uses Xiamen as port of shipment.

Arne Iversen/Blue Water Qingdao, who years back, as General Manager of Blue Water Dubai, was involved in the garlic transport to this destination, called on Jining Salong in both Jining and Xiamen together with Carol Liu/Blue Water Qingdao. During their stay, Arne and Carol also visited a pomelo packing facility.

Naturally we hope that our cooperation will develop further and look forward to a busy season with an extensive worldwide export of Chinese fruits and vegetables, concludes Arne Iversen.

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

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

Transport from Holland to Vietnam Blue Water Rotterdam, and Fred Kegge in particular, found the below mentioned transport - which took place during the autumn months, October and November, from Hengelo in Holland - very interesting.

On 5.10, Blue Water Rotterdam loaded a second-hand beer bottling line (with a capacity of 52,000 bottles per hour) including a bottle washer.

The machine was formerly used by the Grolsch Beer Brewery, Fred’s favorite beer.

Blue Water Rotterdam arranged the transport on behalf of SME Logistics Vietnam. The machinery was stored at Wagenborg Nedlift in Hengelo who took care of packing and transport of the overdimensioned parts as well as loading on to a barge at Hengelo.

First shipment, consisting of a pasteurizer weighing 38 tons (16 x 6 x

4 metres) and 10 minor pieces, took place on 5.10.

Second shipment, which was the biggest, consisting of a washer weighing 102 tons (19 x 6 x 5 metres) and 12 x 40’ containers with machinery parts, was loaded on 1.11.

The cargo was shipped by Rickmers on board m/v “Rickmers Shanghai” on 10.10 and m/v “Rickmers Dalian” on 6.11 respectively, ex Antwerp to Haiphong Vietnam.

End of Free Pallet Ex­ change in Switzerland as from New Year As from 31.12.07, Switzerland will no longer exchange pallets automatically and free of charge.

Following in the footsteps of France, Italy, Scandinavia and Great Britain, members of the Swiss organisation for passengers and freight, ASTAG, base their decision on the increased costs involved in obtaining, administering and storing pallets.

In 2008, responsibility for the administration of pallets will rest with shippers and consignees, resulting in transport of empty pallets incurring a charge.

For further information, please call/mail your regular Blue Water contact.

Bremen Blue Water Bremen has changed contact numbers as from 1.10: Tel: Fax:

+ 49 421 27 83 91 0 + 49 421 27 83 91 29

Removal of Offshore Modules A relatively short, but not quite simple transport.

Our good client, Semco Maritime, had completed construction of two offshore modules (80 tons/dimensions: 16 x 9.3 x 5.5 metres and 25 tons/dimensions: 10 x 4.8 x 5.5 metres respectively) and needed assistance to move these modules from Semco’s shipyard in Skippergade to Vestkraftskaj (quay) for installation on board the oil rig “Energy Endeavour” (ex-”Maersk Endeavour”) which was in Esbjerg for an upgrading.

Semco entrusted Blue Water with the planning of the job which included stevedoring (crane, dockers and foremen), loading, discharging and transport of the modules by barge/tug boat. The transport involved one of the tug boats of Svendborg Bugser combined with Port of Esbjerg’s Liebher 400 crane which, for the first time ever, was moved to Skippergade to perform the lift. The entire operation was performed according to plan.

The World’s biggest Freighter twice at Billund was loaded on to a solid platform in front of the aircraft by mobile crane and pulled into the freighter by two large internal winches.

The Antonov 124 is characterized as the world’s biggest commercial freighter with a loading capacity of 125-150 tons depending on destination and type of goods. The reason for using the AN-124 for this transport was the huge dimensions which only fit into this specific aircraft.

Blue Water Billund has recently seen two AN-124 freighters loading cargo for Seoul on behalf of a Norwegian client.

The first aircraft took off in October with 87 tons cargo and during the same weekend aprrox.

15 tons were sent by “ordinary” airfreight.

Our normal consolidation service at Billund arranged arrival of both consignments at Seoul Airport within the same hour making it possible to deliver in one lot.

Two weeks later, aircraft number 2 was loaded with 67 tons.

The cargo, including a hydraulic plunger, weighing 36 tons and measuring 17.5 x 4.6 x 2.5 metres,

10 Many New Colleagues attended the Introduction Seminar in Esbjerg We have known for a long time that Blue Water is a growing company with a high intake of new staff. This was also confirmed when we, in the summer of 2007, started making plans for the autumn introduction seminars for new employees.

We have, for more than 20 years, summoned all new Danish trainees for a week’s introduction and all other new office staff for a 2-day introduction. As a new initiative this year, we also had an introduction team consisting of all new warehouse and terminal staff. A total of 92 new colleagues, fit and eager to learn, assembled in Esbjerg from 21 August to 10 September. During

this period, our new colleagues obtained an insight in Blue Water’s background and activities, our Best in Town strategy, quality requirements and IT systems, and built up a fine internal network which will be useful in the future co-operation between the offices.

Usually new employees from all our Danish offices participate, but this year, our new colleagues from Gothenburg, Sweden and Torshavn, the Faroe Islands were also invited.

We hope some day to be able to offer an English introduction as well, so that our colleagues from abroad will also get a good start to their career in Blue Water.

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

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

Team Day at Blue Water Aarhus Saturday 22.9 was renamed “Team Day” at Blue Water Aarhus, starting with breakfast rolls and a “pick-me-up”. Afterwards the staff was divided into teams and assigned small tasks such as hanging pictures and television set and decorating the conference facilities.

Later on, the HR department from Esbjerg presented small exercises, challenging the team co-operation and communication.

After lunch, the Team Day ended at Fort Østerlund, Silkeborg, where each team, by means of a few beams and some rope, was charged with the task of building a bridge

across a 10 metre wide stream. The results varied a lot. According to the instructor, the bridges ranged from “a stick across some water” to a relatively stable bridge, which under the motto “ well begun is half done” reached halfway across the stream.

Football Event EFB-FCM New trainees August 2007

Safety Seminar in Esbjerg - 8-9 November In connection with Blue Water’s worldwide activities - in particular oil, gas and windmills - the attention is concentrated on HSE (Health, Safety and Environment).

Blue Water have always given high priority to these areas when making logistic and transport solutions.

With the purpose of becoming even more efficient and prepared for the HSE requirements, a safety seminar was held for managers

and key persons, with Esbjerg Safety Consult as adviser and sparring partner.

It is Blue Water’s aim to be the leading company (Best in Town) in the shipping and freight forwarding business when it comes to prevention of damages and accidents (“no accidents”).

The seminar therefore concentrated on evaluation and renewal of our present Safety Management System - safety philosophy, policy and objective.

Sunday 23.9, around 100 local Blue Water clients were invited to a football match at Blue Water Arena in Esbjerg.

We met at our headquarters at 1530 hours for a briefing on the day’s match and the line-up, by EFB’s Sporting Director Niels

Erik Søndergaard.

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

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Fishing Trip

Danish Football Awards 2007 was held in Cirkusbygningen in Copenhagen on 12.11. The Danish National Team and a number of “old” Danish football players among ­others participated in the event.

The DBU jury awards prizes not only to the Player of the Year, the Goal of the Year etc., but also to the Referee of the Year. We are naturally proud to announce that Claus Bo Larsen, who is in charge of our customs department in Odense, was the winner of this honourable title in an often severely criticized job. As Claus expressed it; “It is not often I am greeted with such an applause from so many Premier League players”.

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

Staff Redeployment EFB - Brøndby FC 3-2

As from 1.10, Torkil Petersen is transferred from Smyril Blue Water Torshavn to Blue Water Billund to learn more about airfreight.

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

At the turn of the year, Jesper Lisby will return to Copenhagen after a couple of years in New York together with his wife, Ida, who has been assisting with accounts matters. Ida is now going to study at the university.

Wedding Pictures from Blue Water Denmark’s Sports Day 2007

Trine Kirkeby/accounts department, Blue Water Copenhagen married Toke Hegnslund on 18.8.

Njogu Demba-Nyrén (also known as Demba), playing for EFB in the top league, has started a project; a football school in his home town Bakau in Gambia, to which sponsors have produced more than 1500 football shirts, shorts, boots and footballs.

On 26.10, Telesikring A/S arranged a support campaign, in which Demba and several of his team mates participated, and the first shipment was loaded on a Blue Water truck for transport to Gambia.

The picture shows Blue Water’s driver, Erik Pedersen, the Managing Director of Telesikring, Michael Jensen, Demba and his cousin Malik.

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

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

Tenna Miklasz/Blue Water Padborg and Carsten Carstensen entered into matrimony in the Church of Bov on 1.9. On the same occasion their little daughter, Cecilie, was christened.

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Jubilees 10 Years Vadim Zakharchenko started at Blue Water Baku’s warehouse on 2.1.1998. Vadim’s flair for IT has made him a valued colleague, and he is now working as IT specialist for our Baku office. Vadim is looking after our ISO data base and has made great improvement to the system interfacing with the operation, filing and reporting. Vadim combines this job with the supervising of packing of household and personal effects for the airfreight and road traffic departments. Vadim is 36 years old and has a wife and a 4year-old son.

In 1997, Elshan Topchibashev, holding the rank of Captain, withdrew from the army and joined Blue Water Baku as warehouse supervisor on 2.1.1998. In 2000, Elshan was promoted warehouse manager, controlling all incoming and outgoing goods to/from our Baku warehouse, which has a team of 5 warehouse people and 7 drivers.

Elshan is a very disciplined, organised and hard-working person. He is 45 ­years old, married and has a son aged 13 and a daughter aged 12.

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

Jeanette Kjeldgaard/Blue Water Nuuk will celebrate her 10th anniversary with Blue Water on 1.2.

Jeanette received her training in the Greenland sea freight department of Blue Water Aalborg. After a couple of years, however, she wished to change location to the other end of the transport. Usually a stationing lasts about two years. Jea-

nette, however, happened to meet prince Charming in Nuuk and her period was extended.........

Jeanette is now expecting her second child (Sofie wanted so much to become a big sister) and will go on leave shortly after her jubilee.

We will look forward to her coming back as General Manager, a job she has performed since August 2005. Jeanette’s husband, Michael Munch, is also heavily involved in Greenland trade and industry and we hope the couple will stay in Greenland for a number of years.

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

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

Søren Jørgensen started as forwarder in the Scandinavian department in Odense back in March 1998.

With his wide experience of the Scandinavian market, Søren has contributed greatly to the rapid growth of the office’s Scandinavian activities. Before Blue Water, Søren was employed with ASG and Albert Nielsen. Today he and Pia Skytte are in charge of the Scandinavian department with a team of 8.

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

On 23.3, Henrik Madsen/Blue Water Aarhus will celebrate his 10th jubilee. Henrik started with Blue Water Aarhus after his, now almost forgotten, past career in the East Jutland education system and with Dan Transport, Copenhagen.

Having performed the function of forwarding assistant on Norway and Sweden respectively, Henrik took over the responsibility of the Finnish traffic which he had helped develop - from 2 ldm to more than 30 trailers on a weekly basis. If we know Henrik well, he is not going to stop here. Lately he has become responsible for the local forwarding activity of the office. On the home front, Henrik has grown up too and lives in his own house in Skovby with his fiancée, Katrine, and his son, Malthe.

25 Years Hans Poiesz will be celebrating his silver jubilee with Blue Water Rotterdam on 1.2. In 1983, Hans, wearing his Sunday best, his wedding suit, was at a job interview with Kurt Skov at the office in Sluisjesdijk. It must have worked. In any case, the employment contract was signed.

Hans has over the years been involved in many different activities in addition to being General Manager of the office. These activities include ordinary forwarding, groupage, reefer transport, accounting - some may think of the last mentioned in particular as quite comprehensive plus a lot of other things.

Hans has, together with his team, succeeded in creating an all-round office with a continued growth. The team now looks forward to moving into bigger facilities - hopefully in the autumn of 2008.

Jonfinn

Simonsen/Smyril

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

In private life, Jonfinn is a talented football player and cook and a very social person.

30 Years It is hard to believe that 30 years have gone by since the young girl, Annette Hansen, left the local ice factory, Grotte Is, to join Blue Water on 20.02.78. In those days, Annette’s domain was the enormous accounting machine (approx. 3 x 2 x 2 metres) and the large ledger cards on the first floor of a little office building in Cort Adelersgade 1 - only 10 metres from our present headquarters.

Annette is Blue Water’s walking history book. If anybody asks how things were done years back, she has all the answers.

Annette uses all her energy in the salary section of the personnel department. Her old family name, Hansen, was long ago replaced by Nielsen, and she spends most of her spare time in EfB (Esbjerg Football Club), just like her 3 boys !

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New Employees Aalborg On 16.8, Nichlas W. Hansen - 22 years old - joined our department for North Atlantic sea freight, where his primary field of responsibility will include the Faroes/Iceland. Nichlas recently completed his apprenticeship with Tomex in their shipping department, where he was mainly involved in container transport.

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

Mette originally served her apprenticeship with Blue Water, but during the last couple of years she has worked for Kühne and Nagle and Leman.

Billund Kimie Boysen - 26 years old - forms part of our import/courier department as from 1.10.

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

Esbjerg As from 1.9, we have employed Lis Parker - 53 years old - in the customs department. Lis has 29 years of experience from her job with the customs service before she, in 2001, changed to a job in the forwarding business - first with Stewart Parker Spedition, Padborg, then Padborg Grænsespedition and most recently PR Shipping, Esbjerg.

38-year-old Maj-Britt Nymark Schütt joined our customs department on 3.9. Maj-Britt received her training and education as a freight forwarder at AB Shipping, Esbjerg and has since been employed with C.L.Nielsen & Søn, Taastrup, Danbor, Esbjerg and most recent 8 years with Procurator Safety, Esbjerg.

Lars Byskov - 35 years old - started as foreman at Blue Water Stevedoring on 26.10. Lars was originally a grocer, but has during recent years been working at a factory warehouse.

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

Poul Henning is a qualified naval architect with experience from his previous jobs with Knud E. Hansen (consulting naval architects), Copenhagen, the shipping line Knud E. Larsen, Ørskov Christensens Staalskibsværft, Frederikshavn and, since 2000, Viking Life-Saving Equipment, Esbjerg.

As from 5.11, we have taken on 32-yearold Kenneth F. Hansen as forwarder in the deep sea department. Kenneth served his apprenticeship with C. Breinholt and comes from a job with Teamfreight, Esbjerg where he was involved in deep sea LCL export.

Another new foreman, 37year-old Bent Kristensen, started at Blue Water Stevedoring on 19.11. Bent has a military career as well as 5 years of experience with Mærsk.

As from 1.12, Malene Skogemann - 34 years old - forms part of the personnel department.

Malene comes from a secretarial job with Sydvestjysk Sygehus (hospital) and has previously worked in the salary and personnel departments of Syddanske Medier and Vestfrost.

Hanstholm Karsten Dam Jensen - 25 years old - is employed as forwarder as from 15.9.

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

Frodi Bis­koptø Poulsen - 24 years old - started as trainee at Smyril Blue Water, Hanstholm on 1.11. Frodi, who originally comes from the Faroe Islands, has studied market economy at the North Jutland Business Academy in Aalborg and has previously worked as a truck driver for OCD on the Faroe Islands.

Kolding 37-year-old Ing­ rid Neupart Lynggaard forms part of our logistics department since 1.5. Together with the rest of the team, she co-ordinates jobs for our warehouse clients. Ing­ rid was previously employed with Riis Retail, Kolding.

As from 16.7, we have taken on Henrik Sner­ling - 32 years old - at our warehouse.

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

Waldemar Nadral - 33 years old - is employed as warehouseman at our export terminal as from 30.8.

On 1.9, 34year-old Ronny Jensen joined our Benelux team as forwarder. Ronny was for more than ten years employed as forwarder with Arling Transport.

Franz Josef Nisters - 61 years old - is the newest addition at our warehouse as from 1.10 and is mainly attached to the export terminal

As from 16.10, Jette Guldberg Jacobsen - 32 years old - is employed as assistant in our Benelux department. Jette’s most recent job was with IAT, Esbjerg where she had contact to various countries and attended to related administrative matters.

As from 1.11, 32-year-old Tinna Arenkiel performs the function of forwarder in the Benelux import department. Tinna was previously employed with H. Daugaard where she, during the recent 9 years, has been involved in import.

Copenhagen As from 10.9, Allan Skouborg - 31 years old is employed in the continental department to look after traffic to/from Germany, Benelux, France and Austria. Allan has worked for HCS for four years and received his training and education at Thermo Team and is familiar with Eastern Europe and Benelux.

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New Employees As from 1.12, we have taken on 43-year-old Morten Ploug Christiansen as forwarder in the key account department. Morten is an experienced forwarder and has for several years been working as in-house forwarder at Tupperware among others. In his latest job with DSV, Morten’s sole responsibility was to provide service to FLS. Odense Ulrik Præstegaard - 55 years old - started in the Italian department on 20.8. Ulrik has a long experience as he has been in the transport business for 36 years. Ulrik served his apprenticeship with Sunesen & Schoppe, Odense (shipbrokers) and has furthermore worked for Samson Transport and Scancon, Odense.

A new salesman focussing on airfreight and courier, 33-year-old Launy S. Kristensen, joined our sales team on 1.10. Having served his apprenticeship in the airfreight department at Blue Water Odense, Launy changed to MSAS in Billund where he, for a year or so, gathered experience before he returned to our Odense office to a job as manager of the airfreight department. During the recent 3 years, Launy has worked for DHL in Odense.

As from 1.11, Marianne Larsen - 55 years old is employed as service assistant.

Mariannne will help out in the kitchen, canteen as well as conference facilities.

As from 1.12, 27-year-old Steffan Ploog joined our Ita­ lian department as forwarder.

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

Aarhus We have taken on 37-year-old Søren Ladefoged as warehouseman as from 1.9. Søren comes from a similar job with IKEA. Torben Rasmussen - 43 years old - joined our Norwegian department on 12.11. Torben’s previous employments include Bay Trucking, Jumbo and Combi Fragt.

Amsterdam Joey Schouren 27 years old - is employed in the airfreight export department as from 1.10. Joye has four years of experience from his previous job with ITG Schiphol where he was involved in warehousing and customs clearance as well as import and export documents.

25-year-old Henrique Ma­ nuel Pontes (also called Erik) is employed to take care of airfreight import as from 1.11. Erik used to work for DHL (live animals) and KLM, loading and unloading aircrafts.

Aktau Anna Shemetova - 27 years old - is employed as logistics co-ordinator since 3.9.

Anna has previously worked for Karasu Operating Company, ACE Forwarding and Bertling, Baku.

She has also worked for Bertling in Aktau for a period back in 2002.

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

Alexandr has gathered experience from his previous jobs with Aktau Brok Service, Exim-Trans, Mobilex and Istkomtrans.

26-year-old Aimash Shaumurunova is em­ployed as customs broker as from 23.7.

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

Baku 27-year-old Elnara Huseynova, who has studied law, joined our team on 1.10.

Elnara’s field of activities include visa and registration for our clients and she will also assist with monitoring arrangement in connection with packing of personal effects.

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

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

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

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

On 13.12, we welcomed Ravi Sharma - 30 years old - as customs assis­ tant in our airfreight department. Ravi has gathered airfreight experienced from his previous jobs with Freight Works and Dnata.

Dublin Gareth Sansom - 25 years old - started as forwarder at our Dublin office on 13.7. In his previous job with Speed Cargo, Dublin, Gareth was involved in road traffic between Denmark and Ireland, which will also be his domain in his new job.

Gothenburg As from 15.11, we have employed 51-yearold Herbert Hertz to develop our road forwarding activity.

Herbert comes from a similar position with Ewalds Cargo.

Houston Yuri GomezMartinez - 23 years old - is employed as accountant as from 13.8. Yuri’s list of employment includes Spring I.S.D., Haz-Mat Packing and Wal-Mart Super Center.

Ilulissat Kristian Sangren - 24 years old - started as warehouseman on 1.11. Kristian has previously worked for Royal Arctic Line for 3 years and as driver for Hotel Arctic.

Manchester 28-year-old Sonny Jensen has since 21.5. formed part of our Scandinavian department as forwarder.

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

Milan As from 3.9, 35year-old Laura Franchi is employed to look after the Danish traffic. Laura has gathered experience in this specific activity from her previous jobs with Fiege/Goth and Armando Vidale.

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New Employees At the same day, Gianni Crippa - 59 years old - joined our Milan team. Gianni was a truck driver until he, 10 years ago, changed line of work and became involved in the actual forwarding process at the office. Gianni comes from a job with Norfolk Line in Luino and Busto Arsizio.

New York Michelle Afonso - 26 years old is employed as assistant dealing with export documents as from 29.10. In future Michelle will also assist with accounting matters.

As from 16.11, 34-year-old Eva Zsubori is employed as freight forwarder, respon­sible for export documentation. Eva was born in Hungary, but has lived in the USA since 2001. Her previous experience is in the meat production industry as marketing manager at Eckerle Bt, Kiskoro, Hungary and as export manager at Delhus Rt, Budapest.

Nuuk As from 6.8, we have taken on Inge Lennert - 40 years old - as assistant in the airfreight department. Inge used to work for Nuuk Ugeavis and Tele Greenland.

Henrik Boll Madsen - 31 years old - started in our trawler and sea freight department on 1.11. For the last year, Michael has worked for DSV, Nuuk. Furthermore he has been employed in the logistics department of Pisiffik, Sisimiut for four years. Henrik received his training and education as an airfreight forwarder at Mahé, Copenhagen.

Singapore Shah Jahan - 37 years old - is our Singapore salesman as from 3.9.

Shah was part of our operations team from 1999 to 2001 and has in the meantime been working for Goodway Agencies and Uti Worldwide.

Sao Paolo Vanessa Batista da Silva - 26 years old - has since 21.2. performed the function of assistant in the operations department. Vanessa has actually been in the business for 10 years and is an experienced lady as she started at the customs broker, Satel, followed by a job in the reefer transport business.

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Torshavn Kristian Gustafson - 21 years old - is our new trainee in the airfreight department.

Rotterdam As from 1.11, Debby Windrid­ ge - 32 years old - is employed as assistant in the reefer department to take care of documents and invoicing as well as the contact to the customers. Debby was previously employed with ECT Containerterminal, Maersk and Transfracht International/Conliner. Her latest job was outside the business, however, she soon wished to return to the shipping world.

from 1.9.

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

on 6.8.

20-year-old Brigita Vanagel started as assistant in the department for road traffic to/ from Denmark

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Birthday List January Jan Lundsgaard, Esbjerg - 40 years old 6.1 Anette Bay, Odense - 40 years old 15.1 Ann Spanheden, Aalborg - 50 years old 30.1 February Finn Nielsen, Esbjerg - 30 years old Henrik Amtoft, Esbjerg -40 years old Published by: Blue Water Trafikhavnskaj 11 6701 Esbjerg Tel.: +45 79 13 41 44 Fax +45 79 13 46 77

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March Shiraj Khan, Jebel Ali - 30 years old Susanne Almind Nørbygaard, Esbjerg - 40 years old Jacob Lützhøft, Herning - 40 years old Stig Alminde, Esbjerg - 40 years old

Editors: Gyrithe Skov: gskov@bws.dk Jørn Bøllund, Kurt Skov Published in: 7,600 copies E-mail: bwsebj@bws.dk www.bws.dk

Lay-out: Claus Simony

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April Jens Christian Eldevig, Nuuk - 40 years old Henrik Holt Christensen, Odense - 30 years old Ole Holst Andersen, Aarhus - 40 years old Print: Jørn Thomsen A/S

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December 2007