Blue Water News | No. 99 | April 2012
Blue Water Shipping opens New Office in Rødby on Falster Blue Water Shipping opens its 14th Danish office. This time, Blue Water Shipping establishes an office with primary focus on transport and logistic solutions for port related activities and project transports. It is the intention that the office in Rødby shall ensure roots in the local community on Lolland-Falster as well as create cooperation related to e.g. the construction of the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link and additional, large construction work which is in the pipeline in this area. ”We estimate that our expertise within this type of transport and logistics assignments will contribute in a positive way to the local and regional development on and around Lolland. The Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link is a monumental infrastructure project with a significant number of direct and derived activities which will have a massive impact on local and national business”, says Kurt Skov, Managing Director of Blue Water. The office in Rødby, located in Højbygaard Papirfabrik (paper mill) at the address of Fabriksvej 2, Holeby, will be affiliated to Blue Water’s office in Copenhagen. The Rødby office will be managed by Lars Tue Toftild, General Manager of Blue Water Copenhagen, and staffed in
accordance with the increase in activities. In addition to the focus areas of port agency and project transports, the office will offer its clients the entire range of transport products provided by Blue Water. Simultaneously, Blue Water is a founding partner of a new consortium - Femern Belt Services A/S - a cooperation combining local expertise and international experience. This consortium is also part of the newly established network, FB Suppliers, which through joint efforts aims to deliver services and products to contractors, suppliers and other operators involved in the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link construction.
Left to right: Kurt Skov, Niels Tolstrup, Lars Tue Toftild and Bent Lange.
Blue Water Reykjavik
On 1.12.11, Blue Water Shipping ehf, Iceland moved into new facilities in Reykjavik. Blue Water’s activities are increasing in the Icelandic market. We arrange transport of large quantities of fish and other products from the whole of Iceland to the European market and the Far East. Northbound shipments include both project-related cargo and ordinary commodities. The new office in Reykjavik will, along with the office in Seydisfjordur on the east coast of Iceland, mainly concentrate on developing our North Atlantic ro/ro service, on which the ro/pax ferry “Norröna” (capacity: 130 trailer units) is sailing between the ports of Seydisfjordur, Torshavn and Hirtshals with a service speed of 21 knots, making it the fastest North Atlantic freight service. 4
Furthermore the office will develop new activities within the fields of agency and total logistic solutions in connection with catches of frozen fish and shrimps from fishing vessels calling at Iceland.
Blue Water Shipping ehf Ármúli 7 108 Reykjavik Iceland tel: +354 4702810 fax: +354 4702819 For further information, please contact: Steingrimur Sigurdsson: sts@bws.dk
Growing Pains in Herning
Since the opening of the office in September 2003, where a staff of 3 invaded Central Jutland, Blue Water Herning has experienced a fine and steady growth. Today, we have a team of 15 employees and have outgrown the original office facilities on Taksvej 34. On 19.3, Blue Water Herning moved into new facilities at the address of Baggeskærvej 60 – just opposite MCH Arena & Jyske Bank Boxen – a doubling of both office and warehouse capacity. Blue Water Herning, which started as a service booking office for Blue Water’s worldwide traffics, has since the start expanded its activities to include service to/ from the Baltic states, Ukraine and Russia, courier and parcel service, special and urgent transport as well as handling and sorting of kitchen tabletops.
Handling of Tabletops Over the years, Blue Water Herning has delivered thousands of kitchens to many Kvik customers abroad. A normal delivery consists of corpus (cabinets, doors etc.) from Kvik A/S, Vildbjerg and kitchen tabletops from Kvik’s supplier (and sister company) DFI-Geisler, Nykøbing Mors, to be delivered collectively to Kvik’s kitchen centres in for instance Norway, Finland and Spain. Collection, sorting and packing of the tabletops have always been outsourced to external sub-suppliers. Last autumn, however, Kvik and Blue Water decided that it was time to further cement our long-time cooperation, resulting in Blue Water taking over the total operation as from early November 2011. This means significant improvements in terms of communication, fewer mistakes and damages to the delight of Kvik, their kitchen centres and not least their many customers. “We have noticed a significant improvement after Blue Water has taken over collection of the tabletops. This improvement means considerably fewer claims. We can only be content that we reached an agreement with Blue Water that they should handle our tabletops in-house”, comments Bruno N. Meineche, freight forwarder at Kvik A/S.