HRH, the Prince Consort - Prince Henrik for short - paid a visit to Blue Water’s Danish headquarters in Esbjerg on 2.6. In the morning, the Prince had ar-rived to Esbjerg by ship on board the Royal Danish Yacht m/s Danne-brog” together with her Majesty the Queen of Denmark – Margrethe II.In the course of a very tight pro-gramme for the day, 50 minutes were allocated for the visit at Blue Water.The red carpet had been rolled out, and, in a manner befitting his rank, Prince Henrik was received on the stairs by Kurt Skov, Gyrithe Skov and Jørn Bøllund.From a clear, blue sky, the sun shone on the golden trim and rows of medals on the Prince Consort’s

Royal Visit to Blue Water Esbjergadmiral’s uniform.In Blue Water’s reception hall, the Prince and his 7-person entourage were received by the Management under the flashing lights from press photographers.Following a short company intro-duction in Kurt Skov’s office, a tour among the company’s 192 em-ployees started. Moods were high, and the Prince Consort was especially interested when being introduced to the GPS system, as he could spot a Blue Wa-ter trailer – purely coincidentally –at the exact moment when the system zoomed in on his French residence Chateau Caix. It was waiting there in case the Prince decided to book a wine transport. The surprise grew

even further, when we mysterious-ly produced a photo of the trailer parked between the vineyard and the Prince’s chateau. The Prince took the photograph with him.The local press followed us most of the way around the office, and in honour of the occasion, a young pi-anist from Vestjysk Musikkonserva-torium (Academy of Music) played the piano, permanently residing in the entrance hall. The Prince had a short conversation with the pianist, remarking on his repertoire.Time was short, but we still ma-naged everything. Fortunately, we also had time for a relaxed fare-well with a cup of coffee, a glass of French dessert wine and our canteen’s own home baked almond

and marzipan cakes.As a reminder of the day, Kurt Skov presented the Prince Consort with a fresh from print coffee table book by local photographer Bent Med-vind – showing in pictures the sea and area around the port entrance to Esbjerg.It was a big day for the company and its employees. Gyrithe and Kurt Skov were dinner guests with the royal couple on Monday evening, and were some of the last to say goodnight on board the Royal Yacht, before “Dannebrog” sailed out to anchor for the night. Tuesday, the royal guests had an-other days programme, visiting the island of Manø in the Waddensea – Denmark’s newest national park.

No. 88 House Magazine – also distributed to customers and business relations August 2008

Our agency, project, terminal and stevedore staff had a very busy summer month ahead of them when ”Galaxy III”, the biggest jack-up drilling rig ever calling at Esbjerg, arrived at Sønderhavn (the South Port) in early July.A giant coordination job lay ahead of us together with Semco Mari-time, who was entrusted with the renovation and upgrading of the 26,500 ton rig, which normally operates in the British sector of the North Sea. ”Galaxy III” is owned by the world’s biggest rig operator,

In connection with the Danish Oil & Gas Consortium, DONG Ener-gy’s, invitation to submit tenders for their stevedoring services in the Port of Esbjerg, our Stevedore and Terminal Manager, Per Jen-sen, proudly announces that Blue Water has won the contract.Blue Water has since 1.7 taken care of handling and stevedoring of DONG’s supply vessel ”Northern Wave” and the ”Esvagt Gamma”, discharging and loading drill pipes and other drilling equipment from the DONG E&P Offshore Base in connection with DONG’s drilling operation in the North Sea. The

In April, Blue Water in Esbjerg loaded a large flare boom on board the m/v ”Wilson Tees” for onwards shipment to Holland. (Flare booms are mounted on offshore installa-tions in order to burn any flammab-le gasses that may build up around the rig). The 122 tonne heavy flare boom measured 65 x 8 x 7.5 me-tres and was constructed by Dansk Svejse Teknik (Danish Welding Technique).

From the opening ceremony of Esbjerg Tubular Services’ new facilities on 16.5. A proud Günther Harms (to the left) and his crew are ready to welcome their many guests.

Galaxy III in Esbjerg for RefurbishmentTransocean.When the refurbishment of ”Ga-laxy III” is completed, it will be able to accommodate 120 offshore workers. Semco Maritime is in charge of the actual contractor con-struction project while Blue Water is responsible for the service part covering all services from trans-portation of the new accommoda-tion module, from Semco’s yard at Fiskerihavnen to Sønderhavn, to 24-hour gangway security and crew change assistance etc.

Guided tour of the ”Galaxy III” - left to right: Kurt Skov, Morten Kjeld-mann, Dave Newrick/Transocean, Aberdeen, H.P. Jørgensen and Anders Obel/Chairman of the Semco Board.

Semco’s team - left to right: H.P. Jørgensen, Simon Wall, Morten Kjeld-mann and Neil Robertson.

Blue Water’s Galaxy team - left to right: Mads-Peter Holk Poulsen, Frank Ø. Mouridsen, Peter Knoblauch, Søren Messmann, Kim Beier and Niels Løjborg.

Tug boats pulling ”Galaxy III” into the Port of Esbjerg.

Flare Boom shipped to Holland

Loading of the large flare boom on board the m/s ”Wilson Tees”.

Transporting the flare boom from the factory to Esbjerg Port was a lo-gistic challenge and the largest ever road transport in Esbjerg. In order to move the large cargo onto the quayside, a hole had to be made in the fence behind Blue Water’s of-fice building. The subsequent load-ing went as planned and the flare boom was successfully shipped to Holland.

Stevedoring Services for DONG in the Port of Esbjerg

supply vessels call at Esbjerg se-veral times a week, and handling normally takes place upon arrival - all the 24 hours including week-ends. Per Jensen participates in the rotation togehter with the 7 other Blue Water stevedore foremen who are excited about this new in-teresting project.A co-operation between DONG E&P Offshore Base and Blue Wa-ter already exist; a modern pipe yard (10,000 sqmrts.), establis-hed by Blue Water, for storage of DONG’s drill pipes to the North Sea.

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Blue Water Herning will be ce- lebrating its 5th anniversary on 1.9. At the opening, the number of staff was 3 with Mogens Møller at the helm. The office was originally a ser-vice/booking office, offering the local customers in region Herning a regular contact person no matter whether it concerned road, sea, air or courier. Blue Water’s strategy about being close to the customers has also in this connection born fruit, as the number of staff from the modest start until now has increased to 12. Today the office is divided into 2 activities, one of which is general forwarding - by road, sea, air and courier - through the various traffic

On 25.2., Blue Water Padborg moved from their old office - ”the Hut” - to new, splendid and bright facilities. The staff had really look- ed forward to this day, and it was

Blue Water has taken over the sea and air activities of Otto Hansen & Co, Vejle, Denmark as from 2.6. The acquisition happens as Otto Hansen has decided to focus solely on road transport.This new initiative suits our wish to expand our overseas activities. During recent years, we have seen a reasonable, organic growth in this area. The acquisition of exis- ting activities is, however, always an interesting and somewhat faster process. We have known and co-operated with Otto Hansen for many years.

Gran Spedisjon is a minor niche forwarder with 30 years of experi-ence in transport, freight forward-ing, domestic distribution and lo-gistics. We have known the Gran family - Liv-Mette and Knut-Erik Gran - for several years and know that they run a reputable business. After our takeover of Unifeeder Norway’s forwarding activities earlier this year, we needed to have our own establishment in Oslo, and as the Gran family was consider-ing the future and a possible ge-

Since 2 6., Blue Water is represen-ted with its own office in Helsinki, Finland. With the employment of the two experienced forwarders, Tarja Saari and Ilse Carita Tol-mala, we guarantee our customers a quality service on the traffic to/from Finland now and in future. We know each other’s strong points as we have been working closely to-gether since 2001. In Denmark, Blue Water Aarhus is responsible for the traffic to/from Finland, and during recent years, the activities in Finland have deve-loped considerably, explains Poul Aarre/Blue Water Aarhus. Control-ling the activities in both countries with our own hands, we expect an

5 Years in Central Jutlandoffices in the Blue Water organisa-tion.In 2004, Blue Water Herning was furthermore nominated traffic of-fice for the Baltic States, Ukraine and Russia. Today a staff of 5 are handling more than 50 trailers to and from these areas on a weekly basis. Mogens Møller and his diligent col-leagues have within few years ma- naged to establish contact with many customers and make a name for Blue Water in Central Jutland. As previ-ously mentioned, it is important for us to be close to the customers, to understand the customers’ individu-al needs and find the ideal solutions. We do not focus on systems - we fo-cus on our customers.

Blue Water Padborgindeed worth waiting for. Every-body is happy and proud of the new office, which has given their workday a boost.

Blue Water takes over the Sea and Airfreight Activities of Otto Hansen & Co A/S, Vejle

In our experience, it is a serious company, giving quality and ser-vice pride of place. This is very similar to the way we work, and we are confident that we can carry on the activities to the satisfaction of both customers and staff.We have decided to divide the sea and air activities. In future, the air-freight staff will be based at Blue Water Billund, and the sea freight staff have moved in with Blue Water Aarhus and are already inte-grated in the existing departments there.

Blue Water Finlandeven better and extended service. With the opening of the new of-fice in Helsinki, Blue Water is now represented in all Nordic countries - Norway, Finland, Iceland, the Faroes and Greenland - an impor-tant milestone is reached in our strategy plan.

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tel. +358 20 7551823fax. +358 20 7551849e-mail: bwshel@bws.dk

Blue Water has taken over Gran Spedisjon AS, Oslo

At the signing of the contract - left to right: (standing) Liv-Mette Gran, Allan Junge/Blue Water Esbjerg, Poul Aarre/Blue Wa-ter Aarhus, (seated) Knut-Erik Gran, Espen Gran and Carsten Eskildsen/Blue Water Esbjerg.

nerational change, a merger was the ideal solution for all parties and became reality on 1.7.Liv-Mette and Knut-Erik will carry on their work in Blue Water Ship-ping AS, Oslo - Knut-Erik as day-to-day manager and Liv-Mette will be responsible for financial matters - together with the 4 other former employees of Gran Spedisjon. Due to summer holidays we are not able to bring pictures/details of each individual employee, but will return in the December issue.

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A reception was held by Smyril Blue Water on 24.6 in connection with the appointment of our new General Manager in Torshavn and the inauguration of the new office extension. Our new General Manager, John Frandsen, is, however, not new at all. He is 56 years old and former-ly employed with Smyril Line and Smyril Blue Water since 1999.

On 22.5. a reception party was held at Blue Water Ilulissat to mark the opening of this new office. We are aware that it was about a year af-ter the actual opening, but the op-portunity occurred as Ole Ulriksen and René Jørgensen/Blue Water Aalborg and Nana Olsen/Blue Wa-ter Nuuk had planned a visit to Ilu-lissat. According to Ole Ulriksen, the first birthday is a historically

Blue Water Ilulissat has in co-operation with Royal Greenland arranged that the old local Aasiaat bus will end its days in Denmark After many years of faithful service in Aasiaat, the bus was transferred to Ilulissat to pick up workers for Royal Greenland. In future, it will be used in a good cause in a Danish after-school care.

Smyril Blue Water operates a fleet of 150 trailers on the service be-tween the Faroes/Iceland and the Continent. To meet the ever in-creasing demands for trailer design and standards, Smyril Blue Water has entered into an agreement for the renewal of all reefer trailers in the existing fleet. The trailers are being manufactured to withstand the rough conditions on the North Atlantic. In order to meet all ve-terinary standards on the Faroes, an internal groove and reservoir for the collection of ”fish” water are fitted. Further to this, all trailers will be equipped with a first-grade

In keeping with tradition, Blue Water was strongly represented at this year’s fisheries exhibition in Brussels - by people from our of-fices involved in transport for the fishing industry; Padborg, Esbjerg, Hirtshals, Torshavn, Seydisfjordur and Brest.Customers were looked after and contacts maintained, and it was a pleasure to show the Blue Water flag during the successful exhibi-tion. For our exhibition department it was also a great success, as they arranged transport of 26 loads to and from the exhibition. All cus-tomers were happy with the co- operation and we are already looking forward to next year’s exhibition.

Reception at Torshavn

Many clients, colleagues, family and friends of the ”family” seized the opportunity to call in and see our new fine facilities. The exten-sion was badly needed and has gi-ven us twice as much space as well as a large canteen and changing and shower facilities, explains Bent Rasmussen.

Reception in Ilulissat

important birthday in Greenland as there, at the age of one year, is a strong probablility that the child will survive. Clients, workmen and friends of the family called in to congratulate and enjoy the delicious food, and it was a pleasure having the oppor-tunity to talk a little business with old and potential clients.

SPE/ESE - Fisheries Exhibition in Brussels

Renewal of Smyril Blue Water’s Reefer Trailers on the North Atlantic

refrigerator, ensuring superior qua-lity and conditions for all fresh and frozen cargo. Delivery of the new trailers will take place this autumn.In the middle of May, 13 new cur-tain siders were delivered to Smyril Blue Water. Together with the 30 trailers that were delivered in 2007, these trailers make up our dry cargo fleet. ”Quality transport is an extremely important factor to our clients, and with this new investment we are pleased to be able to fulfil their expectations and demands”, says Bent Rasmussen, Managing Direc-tor of Smyril Blue Water.

In order to give our customers an even better service, Smyril Blue Water has in co-operation with Smyril Line chartered the RO/RO vessel ”Hansa-land” from May to September. The vessel can carry 90 units, and we offer 2 weekly freight departures between the Faroes and Denmark v.v.

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On 19.6., Blue Water Brest attended the French Shipbrokers’ Cocktail, which takes place in Paris every second year. It was held in the beau-tiful surroundings of ”Maison de l’Amerique Latine” where shipow-

Every year, the town of Brest and the local Chamber of Commerce seize the opportunity to pay an of-ficial call to a chosen port abroad - to build contacts in the country concerned - on board the famous French navy school ship ”Jeanne D’Arc”. After Algiers 2 years ago and Ho Chi Minh last year, Casa-blanca in Morocco was the chosen destination this year. Fabrice Rolland/Blue Water Brest was pleased to join the delegation and learn more about the area and visit local contacts and the ports of Casablanca, Mohamedia and Aga-dir.As usual the mission finished with a reception for 1000 invited guests on board the big navy school ship.

After several successive company skiing excursions to the French Pyrenees, this year’s result of the democratic vote of the employees showed a tiny and surprising ma-jority for Eurodisney in Paris. In

On July 11-17, Blue Water Brest was the ”centre” of the big sailing ships’ race ”Brest 08” - an event which attracts between 30-50,000 visitors a day.Our French colleagues seized the opportunity to invite clients for a sail on board the sailing ship ”Etaile Polaire” on 11.7. Every-

On 20.6., Francexport gave a very nice party on the occasion of their 20th jubilee. Francexport is a good old customer of Blue Water Brest, and it was with great pleasure that Fabrice Rolland went to Lyon to participate in the event and meet the whole Francexport family. Left to right: PiotrSzymanski, Man-aging Director Christophe Zedde and Nathalie Bon of Francexport and Fabrice Rolland/Blue Water Brest.

Shipbrokers’ Cocktail Party in Paris

Left to right: Robyn Briand/Blue Water Brest, Marius Dulke/Limarko Shipping, Elena Gadzhieva, Mogens Nielsen and Michelle Minto-Le Dreff/Blue Water Brest and Vytautas Lygnugaris/Mimarko Shipping.

ners and brokers mingled together. We also took the occasion to invite some shipowners and clients to dinner and French cabaret after the cocktail. Eve-ryone had a lot of fun which finished in the early hours of the morning.

Blue Water France visiting Morocco

Meeting with Ticozar, Casablanca - Right to left: Managing Direc-tor Hajaj Zarhane, the Operations Manager of Ticozar and Fabrice Rolland.

Visiting the long-time relation of Blue Water France, Majid Ben-nis, Managing Director of Seatrust Group. Right to left: Fabrice Rol-land, Majid Bennis and part of his staff working for Morocco Shipping Services.

Company Excursion in Francethe weekend of 17-18 May, our French colleagues checked into the old Hollywood Tower Hotel - and they had a great weekend with lots of fun, good food and sensations.

Brest 08body enjoyed the breezy cruise on the bay of Brest in the daytime and the party on board, alongside the quay, in the evening.

Our client, potato exporter Gopex, also took the opportunity to invite their business relations from the Middle East, Egypt, Tunisia, Al-geria, Spain, Italy and naturally France on a sail, reports Mogens Nielsen/Blue Water Brest, who had the pleasure of being invited on the cruise on board the Dutch sailing ship ”Wytske Eelkje”.

Blue Water Brest acted as agent for the Brazilian Navy’s sailing ship ”Cisne Branco” during Brest 08.

Isabelle and Pierre Cadiou.

Pierre Cadiou with some of his clients

”Cisne Branco”

Whether the choice of destination will fall on Eurodisney again, time will tell. As you can see from the picture, our colleagues had ”a small accident” when taking the lift at the hotel - it fell down 12 floors.

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Since 1997, Airchem Consumab-les - supplier of aircraft paints, varnishes etc. to many Middle East and Central Asia-based airlines - has been using the services of Blue Water Amsterdam.Blue Water Amsterdam has become a hub for Airchem Consumables and consequently we receive large amounts of dangerous goods, which need to be stored, repacked and then delivered to the airlines or refor-warded by road or sea. In order to cope with this flow, our warehouse is of course prepared and approved for acceptance of dangerous goods. In April, Bob Tisserand/Blue Water Amsterdam paid a visit to Airchem Consumables in Dubai and met

All stops were pulled out and eve-rything went according to plan at the grand celebration of Holland America Line’s 135th jubilee and naming ceremony of their new cruise ship m/s ”Eurodam” (capac-ity: 2104 passengers and 929 crew members) in Rotterdam on 1.7.The event was of great importance to the whole city, which showed it-self in the most favourable way in bright sunshine, when Queen Bea-trix named the ship at a ceremony following a spectacular entertain-ment programme for invited guests. After the naming ceremony, the guests were welcome to take a clo-ser look at the ship before the gala dinner, more entertainment and a giant firework display took place in

Blue Water Rotterdam may call themselves experts in transport of second-hand machinery for the brewery industry. As a result of the successful transport to Vietnam last autumn, our colleagues were once again entrusted with the shipment of a second-hand beer bottling line. This time a machine from Bavaria Beer - 1222 cbm consisting of 25 pieces weighing 401 tons. The

On 3.6., our new Belgium partner, Groep H. Essers (mentioned in the April issue) was in Esbjerg to sign the Co-operation Agreement. Left to right: (seated) Mr. Essers/Groep H. Essers and Kurt Skov, (standing) Carsten Eskildsen, Guido van Dessel and Peter An-kersborg/ Blue Water Kolding.

Naming Ceremony of Holland America Line’s m/s ”Eurodam”

the evening. The lucky guests were invited to stay the night on board. Next day the ship departed for Co-penhagen on her first voyage for paying guests/passengers.

Queen Beatrix is naming the beautiful ship m/s ”Eurodam”.

Hans Poiesz/Blue Water Rotter-dam, his wife Denise and Gyrithe and Kurt Skov/Blue Water Esbjerg at the naming ceremony in Rotter-dam.

Richard Koenen/Holland America Line, Rotterdam with his wife at the gala dinner.

Bill Sharp/Holland America Line, Seattle and Kurt Skov took the opportunity to have an informal meeting on board.

Transport of Second-hand Beer Bottling Lineheaviest part, weighing 106 tons, was packed and loaded by Wagen-borg at the Bavaria premises and shipped on a barge to Antwerp for onward shipment on board m/s ”Richmers New Orleans” to Laem Chabang, Thailand. Time of ar-rival in Thailand was extremely important as Wagenborg would at-tend the discharging. Luckily eve-rything went smoothly.

Visiting Airchem Consumables - left to right: Monney Javadi, Kevin Mon-teath/Blue Water Dubai and Bob Tisserand/Blue Water Amsterdam.

Blue Water Amsterdam visits Dubaiwith Monney Javadi to discuss the co-operation and future plans. It was a very pleasant meeting which resulted in a closer co-operation be-tween Airchem Consumables and Blue Water, as Blue Water Dubai in future will assist Airchem Consum-ables with their local distribution.Antoher successful visit was paid at Ras Al Mamzar Ltd., one of the consignees of NRS Trading, for whom Blue Water Amsterdam sends perfumes, classified as dan-gerous goods, into Dubai every week. In future they will use Blue Water Dubai for their air export out of Dubai.

Change of AddressBlue Water Dublin has moved to new facilities:

Blue Water International A/SGrattan Business ParkUnit 14 CClonshaughDublin 17Ireland

Tel.: +353 (0)1 894 1270Fax: +353 (0)1 894 1272

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Last summer, Blue Water Singapore and 13 other international freight forwarders received an invitation by Keppel FELS Ltd. to bid for an international Freight Forwarding Contract on Keppel FELS’ drilling package equipment.Over the last 10 years, Keppel FELS has awarded approx. 30 projects to Blue Water Singapore, including the shipping of all drilling package equipment and consumable equip-

We are proud that Weber-Stephen Nordic have chosen Blue Water as their new partner in Dubai, says Jesper Kassow/Blue Water Aal-borg, who has arranged transports for Weber-Stephen Nordic for se-veral years.The first year, 550 pallets will be stored in our bonded warehouse in Jebel Ali, from which all logistics will be controlled. Furthermore Blue Water will be responsible for transport to the 7 emirates and the other Middle East countries that Weber decides to focus on. To build the stock in Jebel Ali, containers will be sent from both Chicago and Nørresundby. This activity will also be controlled by Blue Water.Line Jørgensen (Logistics Assist-ant), Kenneth Bindslev (Logistics Director), Paw Sørensen (Ware-house Manager) and Karsten Nielsen (Sales Manager) paid a four-day visit to Dubai to inves-tigate the various logistic possi-bilities. The Weber team visited a number of different transport com-

Large Service Contract awarded to Blue Water Singapore

From the contract signing - left to right: (in front) Senior Purchasing Officer Cecilia Kiong, Purchasing Manager Ng Hoong Fei and General Manager of Blue Water Singapore Jason Goh, (back row) Hock Tiong, Serene Goh and You Rui of Blue Water Singapore and Purchasing Officer Casandra Santhi/Keppel Fels.

Meeting with the logistics department - left to right: You Rui and Hock Tiong of Blue Water Singapore, Senior Logistics Officer of Kepper FELS Dilys Tan and Serene Goh of Blue Water Singapore.

ment from around the world to Sin-gapore and also including shipping from Singapore to all 20 Keppel O & M yards worldwide.After 11 months and many meet-ings and negotiations, Keppel FELS decided to award the two-year contract, covering continents such as Europe, Middle East & Greater China, to Blue Water Sin-gapore. Contract signing took place on 2.6.2008.

Weber-Stephen Nordic entering the Middle East

panies to inspect warehouse condi-tions and logistic solutions. Fortunately Weber’s choice fell on Blue Water, whom they already knew for their Scandinavian ser-vice. Blue Water Dubai’s compe-tent staff was just another obvious advantage.Weber-Stephen Nordic made their entry into the Danish market in 2000 and covers the Scandinavian markets from here as well. Know-ing their onward march, our Dubai team will no doubt have their hands full.

From the visit in Dubai - left to right: Kenneth Bindslev, Jesper Kassow, Paw Sørensen, Line Jørgensen and Claus Laursen/Blue Water Dubai.

Last year, Blue Water secured a contract for transport of a special tanker (FSO - Floating, Storage, Offloading) in sections from Sin-gapore through the Russian river system to Baku in Azerbaijan.In late August, first shipment -13,000 cbm consisting of accom-modation blocks, heli deck and other parts - will be ready for de-parture.Two weeks later, next shipment

Follow-up on Transport of FSO from Singapore to Baku

will be ready. This time a semi-submersible vessel will transport the two hull strips - each measuring 132.8 m x 16 m x 17 m and weigh-ing 4000 mt - from Singapore to Kerch at the Black Sea, where Rus-sian tug boats will take over and tow the strips through the Russian river system to the Caspian Sea. The production of the modules and preparation of the transports pro-ceed according to plan.

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Blue Water has again taken care of distribution of the Yachtsmen’s Marina Guide. It is the silver jubi-lee year of the Guide and this was celebrated with an open house re-ception in the Port of Nyborg on 1.7. Printer Bent-Erik Johansen has, since the takeover of printing house C. Schønnermanns Eftf. in 1996, been responsible for the Guide. Launy Søgaard Kristensen and his colleagues at Blue Wa-ter Odense have in coordination

Bowling tournament: Left to right: Raimonda Valatkeviciene, Carsten Olsen, Laura Cibulskaite, Saulius Lagunas, Jovita Daniene, Saulius Maujaskas, Egidijus Petrenas and Evaldas Mankelevicius.

Our Baltic colleagues had chosen the weekend of June 7-8 for their company excursion. The week-end’s programme included diving from a ship on the Gauja and visit to the Sugulda Castle.

Distribution of ”Yachtsmen’s Marina Guide 2008”

Distribution of ”Yachtsmen’s Ma-rina Guide”.

The team behind ”Yachtsmen’s Marina Guide 2008”. It is Bent-Erik Johansen to the far right.

with Bent-Erik Johansen arranged transport of the Yachtsmen’s Ma-rina Guide - primarily to; the Da-nish ports, one collective delivery to Poland and delivery to the an-nual exhibition in Hamburg.As the entire delivery process of the approx. 135,000 books must be completed within 10 working days, coordination is very impor-tant, explains Launy Søgaard Kri-stensen after the task was accomp-lished in the middle of May.

During their trip to the Baltic Sta-tes in April, Carsten Eskildsen/Blue Water Esbjerg and Carsten Olsen/Blue Water Herning visited factories in Zalnieku Pagasts in the Jelgava Region in Latvia. Visiting Lykkegaard Latvia - left

to right: the owner of Lykkegaard Latvia Martin Lykkegaard, Car-sten Eskildsen, Raimonds Savickis and Egidijus Petrenas.

Visiting company Carlo Gavazzi in Kaunas, Lithuania - left to right: Egidijus Petrenas, Purchasing Ma-nager Jurate Ceikute/Carlo Gavaz-zi, Carsten Olsen, Raimonda Valat-keviciene/Blue Water Vilnius.

SAPA Profiliai, Kaunas - left to right: Raimonda Valatkeviciene, Carsten Eskildsen, Asta Jukeni-ene/SAPA Profiliai and Carsten Olsen.

There is still hectic activity at our office in Pruszhow (close to Warsaw), reports Henrik Miche Pedersen after a visit to the office together with Carsten Eskildsen. 50 tilt trailers are operating on the traffic between Poland and Den-mark as well as a large number of reefer trailers, however, controlled

Poland

Left to right: Kenneth Lykke Lauridsen, Piotr Piwowar, Pawel Arciszew-ski, Monika Klonowska, Aleksandra Bogucka, Jacek Magdziarek, Maciej Wojciechowski and Henrik Miche Pedersen.

by Blue Water Transport, Esbjerg. Several weekly departures - in both directions Poland/Denmark are offered - both groupage, part loads and full loads.We will now focus on develop-ing new traffics from Poland to our other locations in Europe and overseas - by road, sea and air.

Baltic

Left to right: Raimonds Savickis/Blue Water Vilnius, who is sa-les executive in Latvia, Carsten Eskildsen, the owner of Facta Building Torben Jensen and Egi-gijus Petrenas/Blue Water Vilnius.

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Blue Water Esbjerg recently re-ceived a visit from a young, Ger-man travelling journeyman, dressed in the old traditional cos-

Anne E. Jensen (MEP) paid a visit to our headquarters on 29.4. She is elected by Venstre (the Liberals) and is a permanent member of the Committee on Budgets as well as the Transport Committee in Brus-sels. It also turned out that Anne E. Jensen is familiar with transport- related problems. We were in par-ticular pleased to learn that she ap-

Our professional body, Danske Spe-ditører (Danish Forwarders’ Associa-tion) has for many years offered an education based on modules. After completion of four modules, the stu-dent is entitled to call him/herself Ba-chelor of Forwarding. Many of our forwarders have studied individual modules, and we are proud of being the Danish forwarding company with the highest number of Bachelors.The education comprises subjects such as forwarding economics, forwarding law, sales & service and a road transport, sea freight or air freight module. The last-mentioned modules are fully up to the standard of the internationally

As for Blue Water, the number of par-ticipants in Vestkystløbet 2008 (West Coast Race) set a record with 126 runners. On 8.6., the temperature in Denmark was high and so was the number of spectators. Lots of peo-ple had a great time with their col-leagues and friends, eating grilled sausages etc. This annual event has almost become a traditional festival for many Esbjerg companies.

There were plenty of supporters that is for sure.......From Blue Water Esbjerg alone, 5 busses (3 with clients and 2 with staff) came to cheer on their local heroes, EFB (Esbjerg Football Club) in their second attempt, within recent years, to win the cup at Parken (Copenhagen Stadium). Unfortunately they did not suc-

On 31.3., another crowd-puller, was arranged at Kvik Hockey Are-na in Herning, as Blue Water Her-ning had accepted the challenge of a friendly against Kvik A/S, major client and kitchen manufacturer, at their request.Kvik’s team consisted of players from their logistics department, including warehouse and office staff. Blue Water Herning had to

Paul Farelly and his new Scania 500 contribute to a high delivery service on the Irish market, re-ports Alex N. Olesen of the Ire-land department in Esbjerg.

Competent Forwarderswith Certificates

recongized IATA/FIATA Introduc-tory Course.Our latest 2007/08 graduates are Anne Skov/Esbjerg (sea), Mette Lindhardt Sørensen/Aalborg (air) and Lasse Nørgaard Wolff/Esbjerg (sea).When we start our own academy this autumn, we will still consider some subjects of the Forwarding School as fundamental basic ex-pert knowledge. As previously mentioned, Blue Water Academy is a wider Bache-lor of Commerce degree, qualify-ing the holder for project graduate studies and for earning so-called ECTS points.

Euro-parliamentarian paid a Visit to Blue Water’s Headquarters

At the meeting in Esbjerg - left to right: Anne E. Jensen, Kurt Skov, Allan Junge and Jørn Bøllund.

preciates the forwarders’ important present and future logistic role. She is well aware that we, being the for-warders, control the transports from door to door and that we decide the transport routes. We have noted her mail address, in case we should need a ”friend” in-side the gigantic EU.

Cup Final - EFB / Brøndby, Copenhagen

ceed this time either. Unlike last time against Randers 2 years ago, this match was, however, a fanta-stically exciting match which en-ded 3-2 to Brøndby. Moreover, we were extremely sa-tisfied with the goal scorer of both EFB goals, Søren Rieks, whose fa-ther is a forwarder in our domestic department in Esbjerg.

Friendly against Kvik A/Sget reinforcement from Blue Water Aarhus and Esbjerg and a couple of regular Kvik drivers. After an hour’s ”social play” on the ice, the evening finished with sandwiches and a couple of beers.”By the way, Blue Water won the match 6-5, and I am sure, Kvik will soon want a return match”, predicts Mogens Møller.

tume, a ”kluft”. It is an old tradi-tion dating back to the Middle Ages - young craftsmen travel the world to perfect their skills and support themselves by working. According to the rules, they cannot go home for at least 3 years, and one day’s walk as a minimum should end the tour. Ulrich Schäfer is a skilled bricklayer who has been on the roads for almost 4 years and vis-ited as far-away places as South Africa and Namibia. He is now staying in Ribe for a short period, and being interested in terrazzo, he had heard about our impres-sive floor. The 2004 floor award has indeed not passed unnoticed in certain circles!

Saturday 17.5., 60 sea and airfreight colleagues from our Danish offices met for a workshop in Esbjerg. The purpose of the meeting was to have a broad presentation of all our products and services - and naturally a welcome opporutnity of social gathering.

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10 YearsOn 7.9.1998, Steve Earp joined Blue Water Manchester as a trai-nee, straight from school. Ten years have gone by and Steve is still with us, no longer a trainee but the king-pin of our Swedish export service amongst various other duties. It feels like only ten minutes since he joined us a a shy young man.Steve is now an old married man and appears to spend much of his spare time rebuilding his house with the help/advice of his wife, Claire. We hereby congratulate Steve on his 10th jubilee. ”Always in the mood for a party” must definitely be Heidi’s philoso-phy. Heidi is and has always been one of the driving forces behind parties and social events at our Kolding office. She is always ready to lend a hand and get the party go-ing. Heidi does, however, possess the ability to distinguish between work and pleasure and is always concentrating 100% on performing the imposed duties in accordance with the existing strategy and mo-rale of the company. She originally started doing invoicing in our Be-nelux department and successively moved to the reception and became responsible for the administrative matters of the office. Today Heidi is head of the administration depart-ment at our Kolding office - includ-ing reception, sales secretariat and accounts.

53-year-old Michael ”Forever Young” Marker of the Esbjerg Terminal will be celebrating his 10th jubilee on 1.10. Over the years, Michael has primarily been involved in the MI Denmark ac-tivities, for which Blue Water is responsible for the physical hand-ling in connection with the mix-ing and pumping of chemicals and drilling fluid to offshore clients. Michael was already familiar with these kinds of activities from his 20 years’ employment with Hallibur-ton. According to his colleagues, Michael’s negative point is his abi-lity to win the go-cart race every time the boys go out - but otherwise he is popular and easy to get on with. In private life, Michael has no doubt met his sole mate, Annette, who shares his interests for motor bikes and fashion wear.

Sanne Andersen will be celebrating her 10th anniversary with Blue Wa-

Jubileester Kolding on 1.10. At the turn of the millennium, Sanne was, as for-warder in the Benelux import de-partment, from the start influential with her straightforward manner. When a decision was made, it was put into practice immediately and on we went to the next job. After two child births, Sanne has found a new position for herself at the of-fice as central figure in all efficien-cy promoting and implementation processes. As head of the strategy group in Kolding, member of the nationwide staff network, member of the trainee mentor group and last but not least the newly imple-mented superuser education, Sanne keeps her finger on the pulse in the widespread Blue Water network.

Kirsten Skjødt started with Blue Water Aarhus on 1.10.1998. Kir-sten has been part of the team almost from the very start at Vi-engevej in Risskov (a suburb of Aarhus), where she was responsib-le for all accounting. Before she joined Blue Water, Kirsten worked as an accountant at company Al-bert Nielsen. She is very popular with her colleagues and is charac-terized as a quiet and steady person and always very helpful. Kirsten was a single mother for her two children, Louise and Nicolai, until she met Kent and suddenly had a family consisting of 8 members. In her spare time, Kirsten takes les-sons in flower arranging, and every summer the family goes to Turkey for their holiday.

3 girls from our accounts depart-ment in Esbjerg will be celebra-ting their 10th jubilees this autumn: Birgitte Grønning Laursen and Su-sanne K. Hansen on 1.9. and Per-nille Vistisen Skærlund on 19.10. They all applied for the same job - and they all ended up getting a job, and moreover they were all born the same year and knew each other - a strange coincidence.

Birgitte started with the gigantic job of entering all BWS DK supplier invoices, a job which is now done by the individual offices. Today Birgitte is also taking care of part of the Esbjerg accounting functions and sees to it that the ”boys” of our agency department is up to date with the accounting part in relation to the transport.Birgitte is married to Jørgen and has two teenage children, Louise and Jesper. She is the captain of the family and has always many irons

in the fire.

Susanne’s field of activities has always included overheads and re-sponsibility for the administrative part of the telephony, fixed-line network, mobile and staff broad-band network as well as tax. In 2006 she was appointed manager of the accounts payable department with a staff of 7. Susanne lives together with Jan and has a son named Thomas. She is always cheerful, but also very ho- nourable - the rules must be obeyed.

Pernille is accurate with everything - including her job and her front garden, which is cultivated even in the winter. Pernille is on maternity leave until January with her second child Frederik. The family also con-sists of big sister, Julie, and daddy Jan. Today Pernille’s responsibili-ties include all Danish BWS suppli-ers, statements of account, VAT and repayment of VAT from abroad.

On 1.10, two members of our ware-house team in Baku will be cele-brating their 10th jubilees - Sakhib Isayev and Nasim Gasanov. Sakhib is a fork-lift driver and a very faithful and disciplined team worker. He loves football and his family - wife and a son, 20 years old, who has successfully returned from the Ranks of the Azerbaijan Army, and a daughter, a 13-year-old schoolgirl.Nazim is a packer and the proactive leader of the packers’ team. He is technically well-educated, accurate and disciplined and takes great in-terest in computers and technical novelties. Nazim has a wife and two children - a son and a daughter who both go to school Svetlana Nikolayeva joined our Baku team as secretary and recep-tionist on 5.10.1998. In 2000, she was promoted to coordinator of the airfreight department, playing an important part in connection with both import and export. Svetlana is in particular good at relocating personal effects and highly recom-mended by expats and other cli-ents.Svetlana is a very open and cheer-ful girl who lives with her mother, her son, Erin, and her beloved dog, Lucia. She loves animals, reading books and hiking.

Arnbjørn Madsen will be cele-brating his 10th anniversary with

Smyril Blue Water in Tórshavn on 1.10. Arnbjørn originally served his apprenticeship in a bank, but is to-day attending to our import clients.He is married to Maiken, with whom he has 2 sons and a daughter. We know that Arnbjørn has at least 2 other passions, which nobody in the whole world can change. The first one is the Liberal Party on the Faroe Islands and Faroese self-rule - and he is always ready for a litt- le quick discussion regarding this issue. The other one is Manchester United - and every time they win, everybody at the office will know for sure - so Arnbjørn has been very satisfied for the last year or so.

Back in October 1998 (13.10), Shahin Ismaylov became part of our Baku team as supervisor of the road transport department. Shahin is dealing with customs clearance of shipments arriving by trailer to Baku Customs Post. Starting as trainee, he has acquired a wide knowledge of import and export procedures and loading/unloading of project cargoes as well, not least due to his participation in project jobs, such as BP, Saipem, Sedco Forex etc. Shahin is very competent, knows a lot about customs rules, and is al-ways ready to share his knowledge with new employees. At the home front, he is a devoted father of two little girls and loves cars, angling and dancing.

Inam Abluch started with BlueWa-ter Baku on 28.10.1998 as freight forwarder in the road freight de-partment. Through his former job, involved in container traffic, he had been in close contact with Blue Water Dubai, and from 2001 until the end of 2004 he accepted the challenge of working for our of-fice in Dubai, arranging transports to Baku. Back in Baku again, Inam is busily involved in projects for CSC, Bos Shelf and Saipem. Inam is characterized as diligent and ac-curate and he is very popular and respected among his colleagues. His interests include tennis, chess and his young wife, Ramida, and two charming daughters.

Kenneth L. Kristensen will be ce-lebrating his 10th anniversary with Blue Water Esbjerg on 1.11. Ken-neth is an all-round forwarder who has taken an active share in deve-loping the road traffic to/from Por-tugal, Spain and Poland. Today he is looking after the daily traffic in

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co-operation with his colleagues at our Warsaw, Esbjerg and Copenha-gen offices. At work, Kenneth is al-ways calm and has the administra-tive matters under control. When it comes to team handball, his temper might, however, rise a bit. This is still one of his main hobbies besides his two children, Malte and Oliver and his wife, Rikke.

10 years ago (4.11.1198), Larisa Cherkasova started as assistant in the road freight department of Blue Water Baku, involved in a project for Schlumberger, where she was responsible for invoicing and filing. Larisa is still an essential part of the project team, working closely to-gether with Inam. Larisa is married to Nikolay and has two grown-up children. Nana Olsen Heilmann will be ce-lebrating her 10 anniversary with Blue Water Nuuk on 1.12. Nana joined our airfreight department after many years with Grønlandsfly (the present Air Greenland) and has therefore obtained a large know-ledge of the Greenland freight sy-stems. She is today the airfreight department’s ”first lady” and a breath of fresh air to the office with her smile and laughter. Furthermore she contributes greatly to the social teamwork. Nana is married to Uja-rak, by whom she has two grown-up sons. The whole family enjoys sailing into the Bay of Nuuk to their cottage to catch trout, which they smoke, and shoot reindeer. Nana is an expert in Greenland cuisine, and choir singing and Dolly Parton also take up a great deal of her spare time.

20 YearsBack in December 1988 (1.12.88),

Jubileesat the opening of the Odense office, Jørgen B. Larsen was employed as terminal manager and will therefore soon be celebrating his 20 anniversa-ry. After 10 years in Odense, Jørgen and his wife, Kate, decided to move to the capital of Jutland, Aarhus, and he got a job at our Aarhus ter-minal. Jørgen is well-known among his colleagues for his great helpful-ness and Funen temperament, and the terminal would not be the same without him. Jørgen and Kate re-cently bought a flat under brighter skies in Turkey which they visit as often as possible.

The following 5 persons were all part of the original team which made up the Odense branch office as of 1.12.1988:

Ronald Hansen completed his ap-prenticeship in 1978 and has du-ring his entire career only worked for two employers, however, al-ways as part of the same team. At the age of 53, Ronald is no doubt the most well-known transport salesman in Funen, and through his large network and cheerfulness, he continuously creates new contacts and good client relations. Ronald is married to Dorthe and has four children, Christian, Trine, Andreas and Sarah. Ronald devotes his free time to his family, house and gar-den and playing golf.

Lea Madsen’s transport career started in 1973 when she was em-ployed as assistant in Inter-Ser- vice’s seed department. This special niche remained Lea’s speciality for many years, until she in 2007 was transferred to an administrative role in the continental department in Odense.Lea is married to Bent and the mother of two children. Tommy and Joan. When she is not at work,

Lea is taking care of her family, house and garden and not least her grandchildren.

Per Offersen received his training at a timber merchant, but decided to change line and became an appren-tice forwarder in 1981. Per has just turned 50, and has in his forward-ing career always been involved in sea freight and achieved great expertise in this field. Since 1988, Per has performed the function of manager of the sea freight depart-ment in Odense, but has just been transferred to key account for spe-cial cross trade and project clients. Per has a wife, Vibeke, and two children, Emil and Simone, to whom he devotes a large part of his free time. His other interests include golf, cycling, and handball.

From the start, Claus Bo Larsen made customs clearance his special field, which it still is. A long cus-toms career has resulted in a job as Blue Water’s overall customs manager. A job, he performs with great enthusiasm and specialist pride. Furthermore Claus Bo has a keen sense of humour, for which he is notorious and loved, not only inside Blue Water but wherever he goes. He is also a very active re-feree, the top referee in Denmark and also in the top of FIFA’s and UEFA’s international ranking list. This very interesting part-time job takes him to fashionable football arenas around the world. Claus Bo is married to Vibeke and the father of 3 children, Nicolai, Nicoline and Jonathan.

At the start of Blue Water Odense in 1988, Søren Nielsen was depart-ment manager, but has in more re-cent years performed the function of general manager of the office which today has a total staff of 70.

Søren started his career in 1978 as a trainee with shipbrokers Svane and Gjørding, Kolding, where chartering, stevedoring and ship’s clearance were the main activities. Then followed 2 years in the trans-port department of Lemvigh Müller & Munch, Copenhagen, before he joined Inter-Service, Odense. For many years, Søren performed the function of forwarder in the Italian department of Blue Water Odense in addition to being overall respon-sible for the company’s Italian ac-tivities and parallel with his mana-gerial position. Today Søren is still overall responsible for these activi-ties in addition to the company’s customs activities. Søren is married to Kirsten, who shares his interest for golf. Having played football for many years, he has now finally put his boots on the shelf.

Silver JubileeOn 1.9., Brigitte Jegou (also called Bibi) will celebrate her silver jubi-lee in Lorient, where the accounts department for our French offices is located. This was Blue Water’s first location in France and Bibi has been based here through all the years. She is responsible for all ac-counting which she controls with a very firm hand - almost as if it was her own money. Bibi’s liveliness and good mood are much appreciated by her colleagues just like her contribution to the suc-cess of various staff events.On the home front, she is the proud mother of two daughters, Maxime and Charlotte. Despite her scanty size, Bibi coaches her daughter Charlotte’s basketball team, and this year the rumours have it that they finished on the second place. Well done Bibi!

Last year, Blue Water Aalborg and NNR Global Logistics arranged the transport in connection with Dolly Parton’s Europe tour. It must have been a success as Dolly Par-ton Tours chose the same partners for their 2008 Europe Tour.First concert was in Stockholm, where Kenneth Skovbjerg Peder-sen of Blue Water Aalborg was assisted by our partner, Sky Trans-port, on both sea and airfreight.

Another ”Outstanding” Transport for Dolly Parton

In return for a well-performed job we were given a number of free tickets to the concerts in Stock-holm and Viborg. Kenneth Skov-bjerg Pedersen and Maria Heick/Blue Water Billund were both invited backstage. ”What a great experience to meet the grand little lady”, says the proud Dolly fan, Kenneth.

The Dolly Parton Tour team at- taches great importance to personal contact and service. Therefore we hope, with this year’s successful transport for Dolly Parton Tours, that it will result in other inquiries from the show business. We know for sure that Dolly Parton will re-commend us to others. Blue Water has a fine concept and network ready in case other possi-bilities within this transport niche

should appear on the scene.

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New employees

23-year-old Rasmus Lynge Pedersen forms part of the forwarding de-partment since

15.5. Rasmus served his appren-ticeship with DSV, Nørresundby, involved in deep sea shipping and sea freight to Greenland.

Aalborg

Peter Kjer - 49 years old - is employed as terminal as-sistant as from 16.6. Peter was

previously employed with Danish Interior for more than 8 years.

21-year-old Katrine Linne-rup Kristensen started as for-warding trainee in the North

Atlantic department on 15.8.

Henriette Holdt Hansen - our 20-year-old temp since 1.5. - is now employed as

forwarding trainee at our Billund office.

Billund

As from 1.6., we have employed Bent Jensen Bruun - 39 years old - as IT supporter.

Bent comes from a similar job with Amstcentralen Esbjerg and was previously employed with Viking.

Esbjerg

33-year-old Henriette Daugaard and 26-year-old Rikke M. Andersen, who have both been working as ma-ternity covers since 1.12.2007, have now become perma-

nent staff of the accounts payable department. Henriette received her training as an office clerk at Moelven LNJ Limtræ, Bredebro, but was most recently employed in the accounts payable department of Syddanske Medier, Kolding.Rikke served her apprenticeship and worked as an office clerk at Falck Nutec, Esbjerg, before she joined Blue Water.

Kenneth Sindahl - 37 years old - is appointed manager of the deep sea depart-

ment as from 1.7. Kenneth was previously employed with DSV for 17 years, most recently based in Billund, responsible for their overseas sea freight activities.

Camilla Søren-sen - 19 years old - started as forwarding trainee in the UK department on 1.8.

Mikkel Pug-gaard - 19 years old - started as forwarding trainee in the agency depart-ment on 1.8.

19-year-old Allan Leiberg Brodersen joined the deep sea department as forwarding trainee on 1.8.

As from 1.8., 41-year-old Hans Peter Langkilde is employed as salesman for

the South Jutland region. Hans Peter comes from a similar position with DSV, but received his training and further education at Scan Shipping, Aalborg and Copenhagen.

As from 1.9., 56-year-old Steen Schou - one of the leading autho-rities within

his field - will be employed on a permanent basis in our IT depart-ment. We have worked together with Steen for many years in his previous jobs. He is a specialist in our IRMA/Mocha systems and will furthermore contribute with his program technical knowledge and become involved in projects and file integration. Steen will divide his work hours between the Esbjerg office and his home base in Aarhus.

As from 1.9., 34-year-old Majken Linde-man Magnussen is employed as assistant in

accounts receivable. Majken used to work for Arovit.

As from 1.5., we have enga-ged 44-year-old Helle Johansen as office clerk. Helle’s previous

employments include Smyril Line, Hanstholm.

Hanstholm

17-year-old Tim Slie started as forwarding trainee on 1.8.

On 4.8., Minna Baun Poul-sen - 23-years old - started as forwarding trainee.

Herning

39-year-old Hendrik Martinsen has formed part of our warehouse team - mainly

involved in logistics - since 24.1. Hendrik comes from a job with Ager Spedition.

Kolding

Betina Harlyk - 42 years old - joined our Benelux department as assistant on

16.4. Betina came from a job with IBIZ, Nørresundby where she was responsible for coordination of warehouse and logistics as well as transport related matters.

Linda Szygenda Andersen - 46 years old - is employed as assistant in the Germany

department since 1.6. Linda was previously employed with Leman and just before joining Blue Water, she returned from the USA where she has lived for a long period.

25-year-old Ka-rina Madsen is employed as lo-gistics assistant since 19.6. Just before joining

Blue Water, Karina completed her apprenticeship with Palsgaard, Juelsminde, involved in customer service and logistics.

As from 1.8., we have taken on 2 IT sup-porter trainees: 23-year-old Rene Matthie-sen and 24- year-old Mi-chael Kristen-sen.

Two accounting trainees started on 1.8. - 22- year-old Maria Junge in ac-counts Esbjerg and 23-year-old Camilla Sø- gaard in ac-counts payable.

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19-year-old Thomas Stig Frederiksen started as for-warding trainee in the Belelux

department on 1.7.

On 15.8., 20-year-old Nicole Kjær Nisgaard started as forwarding trainee in the Ger-many department.

New employees

Connie Lange - 43 years old - joi-ned our logistics department on 15.5. Connie has been in the trans-

port business since 1984, involved in container shipments, export, haulage and logistics among other things.

Copenhagen

22-year-old Natacha Koch Pedersen is employed as forwarder as from 1.6.

- involved in airfreight Green-land. Natacha has just recently completed her apprenticeship at Leman.

23-year-old Jim Højbjerg Christensen started as warehouseman on 1.6. Jim used

to be a truck driver working for Danske Fragtmænd and haulier Peter Obel, Kalundborg.

Rikke Hass Ras-mussen - 32 years old - joined our courier depart-ment as assistant on 1.7. Rikke has

a clerical background, been working in the insurance business for 7 years and been self-employed as well.

On 1.7., we welcomed Mi-kael Skinnerup - 28 years old - back in Blue Water. Mikael

has been on a tour around the world, but has now taken up the challenge as team manager of our East European department.

20-year-old Tanja Sindahl in the Norwegian department.

We have taken on 4 new forwar-ding trainees as from 1.9.:

21-year-old Michael Dennis Petersen in the Swedish depart-ment.

19-year-old Jeppe Ulrik Jepsen in the East European Department.

19-year-old Marc Lam in the Courier department.

As from 15.4., we have taken on 41-year-old Tom Kristiansen as warehouse assistant. Tom

has a comprehensive warehousing experience and has moreover wor-ked as a bus driver for Arriva.

Odense

30-year-old Rikke Hansen joined our over-seas department as a forwarder on 1.5. Rikke

served her apprenticeship with DSV, Odense and has 7 years of sea and airfreight experience.

As from 16.6., we have enga-ged 63-year-old Karin Taübl as receptionist. Karin has 23

years of experience from similar jobs in the flower business.

21-year-old Lene Husted Andersen in the continental department.

As from 1.8. three new trainees have joined our team:

19-year-old Jacob Birk Jensen in the Scandinavian department.

20-year-old René Krone Junager in the Italian/domestic department.

Nicolai Wiede-mann - 20 years old - started as forwarding trainee on 1.8.

Padborg

On 1.8.2007, Diana Vang-gaard Kaag - 20 years old - started her apprenticeship

with Otto Hansen, Vejle involved in airfreight and courier. In her second year of apprenticeship, Diana will be dealing with over-seas import of general cargo at Blue Water.

Aarhus

56-year-old Bent Refsgaard has been with Otto Hansen, Vejle since 1.7.1970. Over the years,

Bent has been involved in liner service, deep sea shipping and air-freight. Bent’s future responsibility will be overseas export.

As from 1.8., Rikke Skov-bjerg Pedersen - 29 years old - forms part of our overseas

department, involved in general cargo import. Rikke used to work for Modul Transport, Vejle.

Anne-Mette Vendelbo - 37 years old - is another new face in the over-seas department

as from 1.8. Anne-Mette comes from DSV, Aarhus and will in fu-ture concentrate on development of general cargo import.

We have taken on 26-year-old Allan Boll Sørensen as warehouseman as from 1.7.

Allan has worked as a substitute for a number of years and has also been employed with Danfoss.

We have emplo-yed 39-year-old Inna Jensen as assistant in the Swedish depart-ment as from

7.7. Inna was born in Russia, has an MA in English and business economics, and will among other things assist with the commu-nication with Russian and East European hauliers and drivers.

Simon Tough - 31 years old - joined our operations de-partment on 7.4. Simon, who has

12 years of freight experience, has spent the last couple of years working as a logistics specialist for Halliburton Baroid in Aber-deen dealing with shipping of chemicals. Simon has previously worked for OBC, Grampian & Pentagon in Aberdeen also.

Aberdeen

On 1.8., 21- year-old Nanna Amby and 19-year-old Jes-per Kyhn started as forwarding trainees in the Swedish import department and the overseas department re-spectively.

37-year-old Sonya Byfield has taken up the role of business development manager in

Aberdeen as from 8.7. She joins us from Expeditors International, Aberdeen, where she has been a sales executive for the past 3 years. Prior to this, Sonya worked at TNT, Aberdeen as sales office supervisor.

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New employees

Gikalov Kon-stantin Ivano-vich - 28 years old - started as forwarder on 1.7. Gikalov

has 4 years of business experience and comes from a job with Trans-port and Services LLP.

Lalita Daudova - 23 years old - started as customs broker on 16.7.

Mehri Husey-nova - 25 years old - is back in the accounts department as from 22.4.

Baku

Stephanie Le Lesle - 26 years old - is employ-ed as assistant in the overseas department as

from 2.5. Stephanie originally worked in the tourist trade before she changed career and became an export assistant.

Brest

We have taken on a new driver, 41-year-old Ali Ahamad Sheikh, as from 23.6.

Dubai

As from 20.7., we have taken on 27-year-old Nasiruddin Na-sir as warehouse assistant. Nasir

has previously worked for Sasco Shipping, ECL and EXIT 40.

Jebel Ali

Mario Ponzo - 46 years old with 11 years of experience from Schöni, Switzerland - is

employed as salesman and will also lend a hand in the operations depart-ment. Mario comes from a job with Rinascente Logistic.

Milan

As from 2.7., 31-year-old Ber-nard Mulvaney (called Bernie) is employed in our operations

department as coordinator on LCL export for all our US offices and for general cargo export/import. Bernie used to work with import for All-Ways for 4 years and 2 years with export customs service at Hapag LLoyd, New York.

New York

As from 1.5., Dorthe Boas-sen - 41 years old - is engaged as accountant. Dorthe was

previously employed with Bolig-selskabet INI.

Nuuk

Frida Wahlgren - 34 years old - is employed as airfreight assi-stant as from 4.8. Frida is Swedish

and has moved to Greenland with her Danish fiancé. For the last 3 years, Frida has worked for Comfort Audio, Halmstad as sales responsib-le for several European countries.

As from 1.7., Morten Gram Karmsteen - 26 years old - is employed in our forwarding department, dealing with indivi-dual transport solutions. Morten is Danish, trained at Schenker, Copenhagen and has furthermore worked as forwarder (import/export Germany) for Schenker in Oslo.

Oslo27-year-old Sajid Rauf Malik joined our customs department on 1.7. For the last

couple of years, Sajid has been employed in a similar job with Colorline.

22-year-old Tia-go H.V. Bitui is employed as commercial assistant since 22.4. Tiago has

3 years of shipping experience from Zim Shipping Line.

Sao Paolo

Victor Pay - 41 years old - is appointed ope-rations manager as from 2.6. Victor has 11

years of business experience from his previous job with Yang Kee Logisitcs.

Singapore

Jasline Cai Xiu Qing - 22 years old - started as accounting as-sistant on 14.7. Jasline has

experience from similar jobs.

28-year-old Do-reen Ang Lay Ying forms part of the operati-ons department since 14.7. For

the last 3 years, she has worked for Yang Kee Logistics.

Sharon Tan Siew Leng - 34 years old - joined our project, oil & energy department on 1.8. Sharon has

worked for SDV Logistics since 2005.

21-year-old Leona L. Johan-nesen started as trainee on 1.7.

Torshavn

Guri Tórdóttir - 36 years old - joi-ned our customs department on 1.7. Guri has for the last 4 1/2

years been working for Postvæsnet og TAKS (Customs and Tax Authorities).

Another new-comer - 49-year-old Helena Bæ-rentsen - started in our customs department on

14.7. Helena served her apprenti-ceship with TAKS and has since 1984 formed part of the Mail Sec-tion looking after customs matters

As from 25.6., Marija Cickina - 22 years old - is employed to look after ac-counting mat-

ters. Marija was formerly emplo-yed with WAB Elmoris.

Vilnius

Michal Wypych - 30 years old - is employed as forwarder in the export Denmark department (Fu-

nen and Jutland) since 1.6.. Michael has previously worked for Sedim, involved in reefer transport to Great Britain, and a short period for RB Transport dealing with project trans-port by mega-trailers and road trains.

Warsaw

As from 1.7., the 27-year-old forwarder, Mar-cin Przybysz, is employed to look after the

traffic to Denmark - Sealand in par-ticular. Marcin’s previous employ-ments include Fair Cargo, Gefco Polska and most recently a 2-year employment with Tedex Spedition.

Margaret (Margarita) Kremenchuk - 38 years old - is employed as accounting

assistant as from 9.6. Margarita joins us from DGT Logistics, but has proviously worked for IP Bazarbai Company for 14 years.

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Staff RedeploymentMonika Klonowska/Blue Water Poland has formed part of our Co-penhagen team since the turn of the year.

On 16.5., Lone Dupont from Blue Water Kolding moved on to new challenges at Blue Water Nuuk, where she is filling in during a col-league’s maternity leave.

Two of our Esbjerg trainees - Ka-rina B. Pedersen and Lasse Gram - will in their second year of appren-ticeship move not only to a new department, but to a new town. Ka-rina will move to Billund to learn airfreight and Lasse will join our Århus team.

At the same time, Teddi Holm from Billund will be transferred to the deep sea department in Esbjerg.

Thomas Jeppesen will be transfer-red from Aarhus to the sea freight department in Copenhagen.

On 7.7., Kimie Boysen moved from Billund to the North Atlantic airfrieght department in Copenha-gen.

Having completed her apprentice-ship in Aarhus, Lisbeth Thomsen will be moving on to new challen-ges in our airfreight department in Copenhagen.

Sille Schmidt from Blue Water Padborg will continue her appren-ticeship in the distribution depart-ment of Blue Water Copenhagen.

Mikael Junge - who since 7.1. has performed the function of cross logistics and terminal manager with base in both Copenhagen and Kolding - is in addition appointed general manager of our Kolding of-fice with effect as from 15.8.

Peter Ankersborg - the general ma-nager of our Kolding office up to now - continues as cross develop-ment manager for Germany, Bene-lux, Switzerland, Austria, Eastern Europe, domestic traffic and gene-ral transport. These activities did already belong under Peter, but he will now have more time to con-centrate on them. Peter’s base will still be in Kolding.

During the summer, Kenneth Lykke Lauridsen, who originally comes from Esbjerg, will move from War-saw to Copenhagen.

As from 1.9., Anders Mørkebjerg Knudsen from Odense will be transferred to our Milan office.

As from 1.9., Kenneth Skovbjerg Petersen/Blue Water Aalborg will be transferred to Sisimiut for a 2-year period. Kenneth will take over as manager of the office after Kenneth Ruby Sørensen, who will return to Denmark this autumn to a job in our project department in Esbjerg.

John Frandsen has taken over the managerial responsibility for the Smyril Blue Water office in Tors-havn as from 1.6. John has perfor-med the function of salesman for Smyril Line/Smyril Blue Water since 1999, and knows everything about the clients, procedures and systems.

As from 1.7., Frank Madsen is transferred from manager of the deep sea department in Esbjerg to a job a coordinator for our worldwide food activities.

On 1.10., Morten P. Sørensen will be leaving our airfreight depart-ment in Aarhus to go to Paris to work in-house at our agent Ocean Freight.

Our Italian experts at Blue Water Odense and Copenhagen - Claus Andersen and Steffan Ploog (Odense) and Thomas Johansen and Thomas Møller (Copenhagen) packed their suitcases in week 26 and went to Italy to visit our agents there together with Henrik Nielsen/Blue Water Milan. First destination was company Odino Valperga in Ancona, our agent since 2008, a very new and excellent co-operation. Blue Water and Odino Valperga offer groupa-ge departure from Ancona every Tuesday and Friday and full loads every day.

Lunch at Blue Water Milan - left to right: Claus Andersen, Laura Franchi, Amelio Dettoni, Mario Ponzo, Gianni Crippa, Thomas Johansen, Thomas Møller, Mari-luz Santos and Steffan Ploog.

Visiting Marvi - left to right: Thomas Johansen, Thomas Møller, Claus Andersen, Milena Fontana, Steffan Ploog, Vittorino Tranquillo, Maria-no Centomo and Henrik Nielsen.

A fantastic lunch with Odino at re-staurant Arnia del Cuciniere. Left to right: Thomas Johansen, Simo-ne Santarelli, Carlo Casoli, Marco Ruzziconi, Henrik Nielsen, Claus Andersen, Steffan Ploog and Tho-mas Møller.

Next stop was our ”old” agents, Inter Co, Reggio Emilia and Mar-vi Sped, Arzignano (VI), together with whom we offer the same; groupage Tuesday and Friday and full loads every day.Last stop before we arrived at Blue Water Milan was our new agent, Gruber Logisitcs, Verona. Blue Water Milan was established in September 2006 and has since 1.9.2007 been in charge of groupa-ge operation in the north-western part of Italy. In addition to its close co-operation with Blue Water in Denmark, this office offers regular departures to the rest of Europe.

Visiting Agents in Italy

One of Italy’s oldest transport companies, Gruber Logistics with headquarters in Ora (BZ) in the north-eastern part of Italy, has de-cided to enter into a partnership with Blue Water for all overland transport of industrial cargo.Gruber Logistics was established in 1936 and has today 14 offices

New Agent in Italy

Visiting Gruber Logistics, Verona - left to right: Thomas Johansen, Thomas Møller, Claus Andersen, Henrik Nielsen, Steffan Ploog and Matteo Ravazzin/Gruber Logi-stics.

worldwide, 400 employees, around 570 transport units and a turnover of EUR 151 million in 2007.Flexibility at the terminals, wide knowledge of the Scandinavian market and the locations are just a few of Gruber’s important strengths. In addition, a large num-ber of trucks on the roads every day makes Gruber’s nationwide network unique in the north-eastern part of italy.Blue Water is already loading many trucks from North-East Italy and expects, with this new part-nership, to be able to increase and improve the service.Blue Water offers groupage de-parture from Verona Tuesday and Friday and full loads every day. For further information please call your regular Blue Water contact or Henrik Nielsen on phone: +39 334 6830169.

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Lay-out:Claus Simony

Print:Jørn Thomsen A/S

Birthday List SeptemberHeidi Frost Rasmussen, Esbjerg - 30 years old 1.9Mavis Pinto, Dubai - 40 years old 7.9

OctoberBent Kruse, Aarhus - 60 years old 2.10Stewart Greig, Aberdeen - 40 years old 6.10Dick Heijmen, Rotterdam - 60 years old 12.10Hannis Mortensen, Torshavn - 40 years old 27.10Rafik Sulaymanov, Baku - 40 years old 31.10

NovemberCarsten Eskildsen, Esbjerg - 50 years old 3.11Bent Bruun Jensen, Esbjerg - 40 years old 7.11Nils Lønne, Esbjerg - 50 years old 12.11

Kurt Johansen, Kolding - 60 years old 13.11Aurore Dupont, Vatry - 30 years old 15.11Sonny Jensen, Manchester - 30 years old 26.11Elmar Huseynov, Baku - 40 years old 27.11Angela Kimbrough, Los Angeles - 30 years old 28.11Ruslan Mardanov, Baku - 30 years old 28.11

DecemberEliane Plouzané-Hénault, Brest - 40 years old 6.12Mio (Joana) Makero, Sao Paulo - 70 years old 8.12Jogvan Clemmensen, Hanstholm - 40 years old 13.12

Inna Jensen, Aarhus - 40 years old 15.12Ane Tene Thomsen, Aarhus - 40 years old 15.12Morten Olsen, Odense - 40 years old 17.12Torbjørn C. Pedersen, Copenhagen - 30 years old 19.12Lone Willumsen, Esbjerg - 40 years old 20.12Tommy Møller Andersen, Esbjerg, - 50 years old, 24.12Solklar Haraldsson, Copenhagen - 60 years old 27.12Kristian Kragh, Odense - 30 years old 31.12Parfinder Singh, Dubai - 30 years old 31.12

Births Christina Husted Christensen/deep sea department, Esbjerg gave birth to her second daughter, Sofie (3.9 kgs/52 cm) on 11.2.

Carsten Olsen’s/Blue Water Her-ning little daughter, Palina (4.1 kgs/54 cm), was born on 10.4.

Rafik Suleymanov/Blue Water Baku became a father for the se-cond time on 23.4., of a little girl (2.4 kgs/48 cm) named Amina.

Micke Lyngholm-Pedersen / Blue Water Kolding and his wife, Han-ne, increased their family by a litt-le girl, Emilie (3.7 kgs/54 cm), on 16.4.

Sofie had a baby brother, William (3.5 kgs/50 cm), on 17.4. Jeanette Kjeldgaard/Blue Water Nuuk is the proud mother.

Linda Skøth Larsen/Esbjerg ac-count department, Esbjerg gave birth to a little girl (3.6 kgs/54 cm) on 22.4.

Per Nørgaard/IT department be-came a father for the fourth time when his wife, Charlotte, gave birth to their little son William (4.2 kgs/54 cm) on 30.4. It was a very fast and easy delivery, which Char-lotte and Per managed on their own before the midwife arrived. But then, they have of course tried it a couple of times before.

Erik Lorensen/Padborg terminal welcomed his third daughter (3.8 kgs/51 cm) into this world on 4.6.

Søren Andersen’s/Blue Water Aarhus wife, Maj, was delivered of a little boy (4 kgs/53 cm) on 29.6.

Brian Jeppesen’s/Esbjerg terminal little son (3.9 kgs/55 cm) saw the light of day on 5.7.

On 3.8., Magdalena Polka/Blue Water Warsaw gave birth to a little boy (3.1 kgs/52 cm), who will be named Stanislaw.

Weddings

John George/Blue Water Dubai was married to Sini Philip in St. George MT Church in Kerala, In-dia on 31.5.

Nino Tsagareli/Blue Water Tbilisi married her fiancé, Otar Paqsashvi-li, on 7.6.

Dennis Madsen/UK department, Esbjerg married his girlfriend, Lisa, on 26.6 in Thailand.

Mehri Huseynova/accounts de-partment, Baku married her fiancé, Alim Qusanov, on 27.6.

Rovshan Mammadov/Blue Water Dubai and his fiancée, Arifa Alek-berova, got married on 31.6.

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