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

21 April 2007 was a historic day for Blue Water. It was the day in which the future of the company was presented to the employees at a party on Tobakken in Esbjerg.

Officially, the event was a delayed sixtieth birthday party for owner Kurt Skov. The actual occasion, however, was to present the news to those in-volved – i.e. Blue Water’s employees.

THE BLUE WATER FOUNDATION

Talkshow with Gorm and Kurt

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The Foundation Board of Directors - left to right Ole Frie, Gyrithe Skov, Anne Skov, Niels Kaalund, Morten Petersen, and Kurt Skov. Unfortunately the mayor, Johnny Søtrup, could not participate in the event, but introduced himself and his new role in the Foundation Board of Directors on a video.

to buy Blue Water – even for large sums of money. I have, however, never been tempted to sell.

Because Blue Water has never been for sale – no matter the price!

Blue Water is my life’s work, and it is important to me to preserve the continued existence, independence and identity of Blue Water – and to safeguard that spirit of Blue Water which we still have after all – even though there are many of us today.

Blue Water is a worldwide com-pany. This development must con-tinue – but it is my wish to keep the company on Danish hands with headquarters in Esbjerg where our roots are imbedded.

We will continue to be in control of our own development – and not just be controlled and measured on finances, turnover, share price and the clever people at the stock exchange.

I have considered involving execu-tive employees as share holders. It

is, however, not that simple techni-cally and financially. Also, it wor-ries me that in this way these shares – not tomorrow – but in the future – may be subject to disagreements between the share holders, some-thing that may very well lead to the sale of the company.

Following many considerations and discussions in the family with solicitor and accountant on the fu-ture structure, I have thus reached

the conclusion that the best solution to secure the future of Blue Water is to set up a commercial foundation.

I thus transfer 75% of the shares to the members of the Blue Water Foundation, and in this way also the controlling shareholding in the company. The remaining 25% will remain with the Skov Family in Kurt Skov Holding.

My small family led by Gyrithe and

The present from the staff was presented by Dan Nissen

The news was delivered as a talk show between Kurt Skov and Gorm (well known for his many years with the Danish national te-levision and radio). Gorm (or Hans Georg Møller) was also present at Kurt’s fourtieth birthday party in which he guided Kurt through “Presenting your Life” in a hilarious and fun way. At Saturday’s show the most important news was Kurt’s speech as below:

In the last few years, I have of course given the future of Blue Wa-ter considerable thought. Today, Blue Water is the largest transport company in Denmark still on pri-vate hands – and we have built an interesting company with a good name and healthy financial viabi-lity. Not surprisingly, many compa-nies have contacted me with offers

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

Anne are all happy with this deci-sion. Neither Anne nor I wish for her to take over the demanding po-sition as overall manager of Blue Water. Anne does, however, very much enjoy her job with Blue Wa-ter – and is eager to be part of the future development.The foundation board of directors will be composed of 3 Skov family members (Gyrithe, Anne and Kurt)

and 4 external members – while the operational board of directors apart from myself (Kurt Skov) will be composed of 4 external members: solicitor Niels Kaalund, financial adviser Morten Petersen as well as the new members mayor Johnny Søtrup - adding the local Esbjerg touch – and Ole Frie, who, follow-ing a brilliant international career, has just stepped down as managing director of DFDS Tor Line.

There are no changes to manage-ment which will still be composed of Kurt Skov, Jørn Bøllund (Mar-keting, HR, Insurance and Claims), Carsten Eskildsen (Blue Water Shipping), Dan Nissen (Blue Water International), Carsten Steffensen (Blue Water Transport), Bent Ras-mussen (Smyril Blue Water), Allan Junge (Group Financial Director).I have no plans whatsoever to re-

tire – quite on the contrary – and I will be chairman of both boards – but if I don’t behave – or am men-tally incapable – the external board members can remove me, as the family is a minority on the founda-tion board.

Of course I hope that this won’t happen. I still have a lot of good years left in me, and I still want to run with all you younger and older colleagues – and, based on sound and business-like principles, social involvement and responsibility, de-velop Blue Water to be an even bet-ter place to work while continue to strengthen our market position.

It is, however, a serious decision I have made – setting up and trans-ferring share majority to the Blue

Water Foundation is an irrevocab-le decision – one that cannot be regretted. But I hope for the under-standing and back-up of all Blue Water employees, as my sole rea-son for this action is to secure the continued independence, existence and growth of Blue Water.

It was a superb evening with the participation of nearly 400 Da-nish employees and foreign office managers, all invited to Esbjerg to celebrate the occasion. Apart from the most important news of the evening, Esbjerg Music Hall’s Show Choir and singer Trine Gade-berg delivered excellent entertain-ment. To round of the evening, a band from Esbjerg Music Academy had everyone dancing until late.

Jørn Bøllund was the evening’s toastmaster.

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All Blue Water offices report on hec-tic activity in 2006. Among the most important events of the year we can mention:1.3. was the silver anniversary of Blue Water’s Rotterdam office. The happy event was celebrated with a sail on board “De Majesteit” - an old paddle steamer - in the port of Rotterdam.In March, Blue Water took over the US activities of Transglobal and their staff of 11 people in Copenhagen, Rot-terdam, New York and Los Angeles. The Emirates is a very important hub in the Middle East. Blue Water has therefore been represented with its own office in Dubai since 1991. In March we increased our activities with a small office (160 m2) and warehouse (600 m2) in the strategically important port and free zone, Jebel Ali, situated between Dubai and Abu Dhabi. As our client, the cruise line, Holland America Line, wished to outsource its warehouse and logistics activities in Florida, they invited tenders for these functions. We won the contract and established an office in Fort Lauder-dale - the base port of the cruise ships of Holland America Line in Florida.As our road and intermodal traffic

between Denmark/Scandinavia and Italy is experiencing rapid growth - and to control and strengthen this de-velopment - we established an office in Milan, Blue Water Shipping Italy, in September. In connection with the continuous development of our European traffic, new initiatives are launched all along. We offer weekly departures between Denmark and Turkey and our Turkish partner is ICL/Intercombi Transport & Logistics with head office in Istanbul. The Austrian activity has increased heavily and 15 trucks have been put in on the service, on a round trip basis, between Denmark and Austria.Blue Water offers - in co-operation with Logi Trans, Stavanger - daily de-partures by road between the two oil cities Esbjerg and Stavanger.We have entered into an agreement with BLG (Basler Lagerhaus- und Speditionsgesellschaft) covering the traffic between Denmark and Swit-zerland.The efforts on the traffic to the cen-tral part of Eastern Europe have been increased with special focus on the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hun-gary - now operated with our own

trucks on a round trip basis. The first year of the freight company, Smyril Blue Water, based on the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Denmark was successful and extremely busy. We had our big break as international project forwarder with interesting oil and energy related jobs in Singapore, Baku, Aktau, Houston, Holland, Spain, France and Denmark.Due to hectic activity with project car-goes in Spain - in particular windmills from Denmark to Spain - we esta-blished a department in Barcelona in August - Blue Water Projects - sharing the office with Blue Water Shipping España. The new department is in charge of the many projects through the different ports of Spain and the development of the project activity in Spain.

STATUS 2006

We have experienced a heavy work-load in the port of Esbjerg with wind-mills, various project cargoes, ro-ro and container vessels, offshore base and terminal activities.At the turn of the year Blue Water em-ployed a total staff of 705 people at 42 offices in 22 countries.2006 was a financially good year for the Blue Water Group with a turn- over of approx. DKK 2,3 billion - and a result of approx. DKK 25 million before tax.The net capital as of 31.12.2006 was approx DKK 110 million and the budgets for 2007 look promising.

Kurt Skov

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When Kurt eventually arrived (after delays in Greenland) at his 60th birthday which he celebrated in Tenerife with his family, he got a big surprise; a telephone call from the mayor of Esbjerg, Johnny Søtrup. The mayor congratulated him and informed that he was nominated for the Esbjerg Industry & Trade Award 2006. Each year, the award of Esbjerg Industry & Trade Centre (which name has now been changed to Esbjerg Industry & Trade Development Council) is presented to the nominee at the New Year’s reception which is held at “Musikhuset” (Music hall) in Es-bjerg (this year’s presentation took place on 11.1.2007).In his speech, the chairman of Es-bjerg Industry & Trade Develop-ment Council, John Lesbo, quoted from the nomination list the follow-ing hallmarks of Kurt Skov; “hu-morous, honest, informal, straight-forward, persistent and successful. He is known as an energetic and hard-working man who has man-aged to transform Blue Water from a small newly established company in 1972 into an enterprise that both

EFB - Esbjerg’s football team play-ing in the SAS League (the top league in Denmark) - will in the future be playing their home games at the Blue Water Arena in Esbjerg. Blue Water has made a five-year contract with option for another two years with EFB Elite A/S se-curing the right of using the EFB home ground for our national pro-motion and marketing.The name Blue Water Arena in-dicates that Blue Water is not an Es-bjerg Company, but a Danish owned company based in Esbjerg.

Esbjerg and Denmark can be very proud of. Blue Water has become worldwide and this proves Kurt’s abilities to keep his finger on the pulse and create contacts in the glo-bal market”.With the prize, a pewter dish with inscription, came DKK 10,000 which were immediately passed on to the staff club as - like Kurt said in his speech of thanks - the loyal and competent staff is the company’s foundation stone. A recognition we are naturally very proud of.

BLUE WATER ARENA

Masterplan of the Blue Water Arena in Esbjerg.

With 11 branch offices throughout Denmark and 45 offices in 24 coun-tries, the company is both national and worldwide and the new stadi-um name will in particular be used for national marketing purposes. Blue Water and EFB have a lot in common. They have both worked hard to obtain their present posi-tion. Solidarity and team spirit are important values which contribute to keeping and developing new talents so that both EFB and Blue Water will have the best teams.

Esbjerg Industry & Trade Award

At the presentation of the Esbjerg Industry & Trade Award; Kurt Skov and the chairman of the Council John Lesbo.

Blue Water’s new Website is on the AirOn 11 April, our brand new and long-awaited website was finally launched. In close cooperation with Blue Water IT, Blue Water’s

webmaster, Dorthe Snow, has worked intensely on having the site ready on time.

Blue Water was awarded the high-est credit rating according to the credit rating scale of Soliditet, AAA (Triple A), for the sixth year in a row. In 2006, triple A, was awarded to 9562 companies in Denmark, which is the equivalent of 6% of the 160,000 accountable Danish companies.

The annual audit of the manage-ment system of Blue Water Ship-ping and Blue Water International took place on 15-16.1.2007 - and we passed brilliantly.

Periodical Audit of ISO Certification

Triple AFurther to a new and modern de-sign, we have put emphasis on making the new website more user friendly. It is our goal to constantly update www.bws.dk with the la test news, campaigns, vacant positions etc.

The communication of news has priority with the latest news added continuously. You should always be able to keep up with what hap-pens at Blue Water. For our faith-ful readers of Blue Water News, we can refer to “News & Press”, under which you may find all pre-vious editions of Blue Water News dated back to 2004.

As a further service, you may find miscellaneous useful information within the freight forwarding and transport business as well as laws, rules and other announcements as PDF.

Of course the website will conti-nue to be developed, so that we may always offer the best possible service to our clients.

During 2007, an update of our en-tire selection of marketing mate-rial - based on our new web design - will take place.

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At the turn of the year, Blue Water established an office in Sweden - more precisely in Gothenburg. Björn E. Jensen - who is an old ac-quaintance of Blue Water (see also New Employees) - is appointed general manager of the office. As Björn has been on his own dur-ing the start-up phase, he has been working from his home base. How-ever, on 1.3. the office became real-ity and we have now moved to the following address:

Blue Water in England wishes to strengthen its road services to/from Scandinavia and in this connection the new Gothenburg office will be playing a pivotal role. In general Blue Water England wants to take over the entire logistics chain on the markets we today consider our core areas. These markets include Russia, the Baltic states, Azerbai-jan, Kazakhstan, Denmark, Swe-den, Norway, the Czech Republic and not least Ireland where Blue Water recently replaced its former agent by a re-established depart-ment for road traffic at our own office in the heart of Dublin. Here our Danish colleague, Lars Højen, is attending to our clients in the local area which has resulted in a high level of service for our clients and a close co-operation with our

Blue Water opened a new branch office at Ilulissat (Jacobshavn) on 1.4.2007. Ilulissat is situated at the Disko Bay and is, according to a lot of people, “the real Greenland” with the world’s biggest calving glacier, icebergs and fantastic sceneryWe have for many years been ser-vicing the town through an agent, but we found that now was the time to attend to the activities in Ilulis-sat ourselves. The establishment of the office is primarily due to the fact that Ilulissat is experiencing a violent process of changes in con-nection with which tourism and the construction industry are prosper-ing.We expect to increase our activities to include discharge operations, re-movals etc. as with the Blue Water

On 1-12-2006, Blue Water esta-blished a representative office in Bremen under the management of Ralf Poppe. Ralf has many years of experience in specialised transport and goods to/from the short sea lines in the North German ports. Shortly after the opening Blue Wa-ter entered into an agreement with Norsk Hydro covering transport of aluminium to Eastern Europe. Norsk Hydro has shipments out of Norway and Russia, among other places, and uses Rostock as tran-shipment and distribution hub for Eastern and Central Europe.The goods are trucked from Ro-stock to the prospering car industry in Eastern Europe. Our contract with Norsk Hydro is very big and

sub-contractors.Blue Water offers daily departures to and from Ireland with 2 to 4 days’ transit. At Blue Water Ips-wich and Manchester, a staff of 24 is involved in the daily opera-tion as well as two salesmen. As from April, our sales organisation will be strengthened by another salesman, specialised in sea and airfreight, who will contribute to securing Blue Water England ad-ditional market shares in a market with a yearly increase of 15 to 20 per cent.Blue Water England has recently - together with the Oil & Energy department in Esbjerg and Blue Water Aberdeen - established a regular service between Esbjerg and Aberdeen servicing the off-shore industry in the two cities.

Furthermore a forwarding assis-tant, Janne Ekholm, has joined Björn at the office and to start with the team will offer road traffic to/from Denmark and the UK as well as general freight forwarding. We are pleased with the many inquiries for worldwide transport which we have already received from clients in Sweden. Sales and service to the other Blue Water offices worldwide will be important activities for the Gothen-burg office.

We are pleased to inform that Blue Water in France has entered into co-operation with Oceanair Freight situated in Charles de Gaulle Air-port in Paris. Oceanair Freight was established in 1991 by Yvan Joret, who still owns the company which today employs six people. The company’s prima-ry activity is airfreight, however, they do also handle sea freight.Over the summer, Oceanair will be moving into brand-new premises with ultramodern warehouse faci-lities.

Left to right: David Fleury (Ope-rations Manager), Cyril Harrant (Airfreight), Nathalie Ferlay (Sa-les Manager), Yvan Joret (Owner), Nathalie Kuhn (Accounting) and J.P. Devos (Sea Freight).

New Airfreight Agent in Paris

Blue Water and the client attending the first loadings. Left to right: Nadine Michels/Ahlman-Zersen (port agent), Aage-Einar Berntsen/Manager Port Operations, Norsk Hydro, Ralf Poppe/Blue Water Bre-men, Morten Lindborg/Quality Ma-nager, Norsk Hydro and Thomas Johansen/Blue Water Copenhagen. The first Norsk Hydro aluminium

activities at Rostock.

Blue Water’s Activities in Germanywe expect to transport close to 5,000 tons (100-200 loads) every month to Poland and the Czech Re-public.Ralf Poppe is commercially and operationally involved in the con-tact to the major companies in Northern Germany and quite a number of new businesses have al-ready been established in respect of both road and sea transport.

BLUE WATER GREENLAND A/S

Aron Mathiesenip Aqqutaa 9,Postboks 3803952 Ilulissat

Tel: +299 942210 Cell phone: +299 520810Fax: +299 942280E-mail: kjoergensen@bws.dk

Blue Water’s third office in Green-land - the old fire station at Ilulis-sat.

offices in Nuuk and Sisimiut. With the opening in Ilulissat, the total permanent staff of Blue Wa-ter Greenland A/S has reached the number of 15 as well as a number of casual labourers who will be called in in connection with ship’s calls and discharging operations, explains Ole Ulriksen/ Business Development Manager for the North Atlantic.To serve as base for the activities we have rented the old fire station which has been restored:

Kenneth Birk Jørgensen is appoint-ed in charge of the daily operation (see also New Employees) and was on the spot ready to attend to his duties in connection with the first call on 7.4.2007.

Blue Water opens its third office in Greenland

Expansion of Blue Water UK and Ireland

Blue Water Sweden

Blue Water, Gothenburg.

Blue Water ShippingSydatlanten 6, SkaniahamnenSE-40336 GothenburgSweden

Tel: +46 31 76 44 880Fax: +46 31 53 30 50Cell phone: +46 70 22 08 068E-mail: bwsgot@bws.dk

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November is a very intense month for the racing enthusiasts in Dubai. In connection with the annual FIA GT race on the Dubai Auto-drome, we were together with our agents, CTM and MSK in Germa-ny, entrusted with the transport of the car models; Aston Martin Fer-rari, Porsche, Corvette and other exciting models. The entire job included both sea and airfreight as well as local customs clearance, distribution, emptying and packing of 30 x 40` containers which, direct after the race, were ready in the pit for reforwarding of the expensive cars to another race in Bahrain or back to Europe.It was indeed a very interesting challenge which, combined with

Blue Water Dubai has - together with our agent in Germany, MSK - arranged transport of racing cars for the racing team of the VW fac-tory and the private BMX team, X-Raid. Racing cars, assisting cars and spare parts for use during the UAE Desert Challenge, were sent by air from Germany to Dubai where the last preparations were made in the Liwa camp which is also known as “Empty Quarter” - a desert area bigger than the Sahara.After the race, the cars were air-

A summit was held at Blue Wa-ter’s headquarters in Esbjerg on 11-12.2. The items of the agenda included future strategy for Blue Water’s activities in the oil and gas segment and at the table were colleagues from the Blue Water offices around the world who have this very niche as their speciality. After an update from the individu-al offices, future target areas and positioning were discussed so that there will also in future be a basis for proactive growth.

In connection with the upgrade of the 80 windmills of the Horns Rev 1 windmill farm - which on a clear day can be seen from our main office in Esbjerg - Blue Water is awarded the contract for base facilities and services by a joint venture, consist-ing of the Danish company E.Pihl & Søn and the two German compa-nies Hoch Tief and Weservind, who have been awarded the contract for the actual upgrading by Vattenfal. The project is estimated to take 6-9 months and includes renewal of the access platform, surface renovation of the windmills and foundation work.Blue Water’s part of the project will include supply of office facili-ties, outdoor storage area, reception of 80 platforms divided into half sections, stevedoring in connection with shipment of equipment and material as well as crew mobilisa-

Blue Water Aberdeen have in co-operation with Blue Water Esbjerg completed the charter of two bund-les of chain from Shanghai to Aber-deen for their client Viking Moor-ings. The two bundles - weighing 359 tons - were loaded directly on to the vessel by a floating crane in Shanghai. The journey was com-pleted on 8 March in Aberdeen.This was a tricky movement as the tails on the chain had to be made the correct length for the loading and unloading from the vessel.

In the last week of January, our Aberdeen office completed two air-craft charters from Doncaster to St. Johns for their client Ocean Rig.The two AN12 aircrafts were each loaded with five tether reels which were required for a rig down situa-tion on the rig “Eirik Raude”. The weather conditions in St. Johns did not make the operation simple as snow storm and high winds were experienced at destination - but for-tunately both aircrafts made it in and away leaving the client happy.

Summit in Esbjerg

The participants of the different Blue Water offices.

Claes-Ascan Craseman/CTM, Ham-burg, Claus Laursen/Blue Water Dubai and Franz Spanner/MSK Munich.

FIA GT Dubaithe different teams and Dubai Au-todrome, became a success for the parties involved, reports Claus Laursen/Blue Water Dubai.

Upgrade of Horns Rev 1tion. Furthermore we expect to be ta-king care of the handling of a large amount of cargo for the sub-con-tractors who are involved in the project. The project team is located at the address of Tværkaj 4 and the off-shore operations started on 1.3.Part Charter from Singapore

Discharging of the chains for Vi-king Moorings.

Aircraft Charters for Ocean Rig

Loading of the big reels on board the AN 12.

UAE Desert Challenge 2006

Race in the desert - in the back-ground Dubai’s seven-star hotel Burj Al Arab.

freighted back to Germany for the last adjustments before the impor-tant race, Paris Dakar Rally.

Everybody was very excited when the drilling for Altinex Oil (former Denerco Oil) started in late March as the operation will take place in the Danish sector - Siri Fairway, block 5604/23.The jack-up rig “Noble George Sauvageau” has been chartered to perform the expected 23-45 days’ drilling operation. The drilling will be performed under the existing base contract for which DanCopter,

New Drilling for ALTINEX OILOdfjell Drilling, Catch Fishing, Es-bjerg Safety Consult, Esbjerg Tubu-lar Services and Mærsk Contractor among others are sub-contractors. Blue Water is responsible for the co-ordination of supplies and per-sonnel to the offshore installation. The supplies will be delivered to the rig “Noble George Saugaveau” by the supply vessel “Boa Fortune” for which Blue Water is also acting as agent.

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Calling on our Agent in FinlandOn 1.2., our agent for road traffic between Denmark and Finland, Kauko, celebrated the official ope-ning of their new office, warehouse and logistics terminal in Helsinki. With the new facilities, Kauko is now able to offer their customers an even better service and the new facilities are just another proof of the great progress Kauko have experienced on the Finnish mar-ket. A traffic meeting was held in connection with the reception during which new objectives and initiatives were decided. It was a great pleasure to see that our com-mon traffic between Finland and Denmark has been making rapid progress during recent years.

New Co-operation

with WeberWeber’s biggest markets include Denmark, Sweden and Norway. During recent years these markets have experienced great success and the success has gradually spread to include most European countries in connection with which Weber has made a transport agreement with Blue Water. Finland is anot-her big market where Blue Water is also involved. Weber is booking successfully via our internet portal which offers the opportunity of printing bar code labels.Weber are manufacturers of qua-lity barbecues and they are in par-ticular famous for their globular barbecue which - in Denmark as well as in many other parts of the world - has become the favourite tool within the barbecue world. Naturally we hope that our good co-operation will increase to in-clude other Weber markets in fu-ture.

As from 16.3., Blue Water official-ly changed partner - to Mory Team - on road traffic to/from France. Mory is one of the strongest distri-butors in France with 7600 emplo-yees and 150 offices, 70 of which are national and part of the French domestic network. Mory handles more than 50,000 shipments per day in France with track & trace facilities and of-fers two distribution systems in France.

On 23.2., Thomas Dam Larsen and Søren Riis/Blue Water Copenhagen were sent, with lightning speed, to Riga on an emergency.“The Ford Transit was packed and off we went to PonPower to load a courier shipment consisting of six parcels of ship’s spare parts which were urgently needed in Riga. We proceeded to Karlshamn in Swe-den and took the ferry to Klaipeda in Lithuania where we arrived 16 hours later. Here we suffered our first culture shock. We were waved to the side by not only a customs officer, but an unfriendly police officer, and started getting ner- vous. Having showed our pass-ports, registration certificate and customs documents, the turn came to the small cargo compartment. The spare parts were packed in six long wooden boxes and when examining our luggage, the po-liceman furthermore found vari-ous vitamin tablets, he looked and said: “Boys, no guns and no drugs !!!”. Our hearts were in our mouths

for a few seconds, but we soon re-laxed when he started laughing and wished us a pleasant drive”, Søren reports. “Then the long drive towards Riga started. The infrastructure was frightening as the main roads we drove on were merely gravel roads. After four hours’ bumpy ride through Lithuania and Latvia, how-ever, we arrived in the port of Riga. Security check took 4-5 hours be-fore we were permitted on board. The renovation of the old and rundown ship took place in minus 25 degrees. Despite language pro-blems we succeeded in having the CMR documents signed. We stayed overnight at a hotel and the next day we drove the long way (26 hours) back again”. This was a very interesting and complex project proving that Blue Water is the “Best in Town” and that we really make an effort to concentrate on the needs of our cli-ents and do our utmost to solve any kind of forwarding problem.

Regular transport - “Mory Regular”After arrival at terminal in France, Mory guarantees delivery within 24-48 hours (however, mountain areas up to 72 hours).For import 24 hours must be added. Express Transport/Service -”Mory Gold”Guaranteed delivery within 24 hours throughout France.

New Agent in PortugalBlue Water has entered into an agency agreement with Rangel in Portugal as from 10.11.06. Rangel is one of the strongest and most sales determined actors in the Por-tuguese market - in respect of both road, sea and air as well as domes-tic transport - with 18 offices/termi-nals covering the whole of Portu-gal with four international hubs in Porto, Lisbon, Sveiro and Covilha. Due to its wide national network in Portugal, Ragel is able to of-fer track & trace of all shipments with a transit time of 24/48 hours

throughout Portugal after arrival at Portuguese terminal.Rangel has a staff of 700 and is working together with the Hell-mann Group on sea and airfreight. Furthermore Rangel represents FedEx due to its national distribu-tion network. Blue Water and Rangel have just made a joint sales campaign. In co-operaton with Rangel, Blue Water offers several weekly departures in both directions to/from Portugal - both groupage and part and full loads.

Left to right: Henrik Madsen/Blue Water Aarhus, Tarja Saari, Claus Gutfeld/Blue Water Copenhagen, AnneVepsalanien, Esa Hovatov/Weber, Marja Raikka, Ari Malvela and Poul Aarre/Blue Water Aarhus.

The Chief Engineer of the vessel and Thomas Dam Larsen. In the back-ground you can see the six parcels which we delivered in Riga.

Express Door-Door Courier to Riga

New Agent on Road Traffic to/from France

Left to right: Henrik Madsen/Blue Water Aarhus, Kim la Cour/Blue Water Esbjerg, Warehouse Manager Paw Sørensen and Logistics Mana-ger Kenneth Bindslev/Weber and Jes-per F. Kassow/Blue Water Aalborg.

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On 17.3., Blue Water’s Scandina-vian department in Copenhagen re-ceived a visit from our agent Cargo Partner in Norway - 14 forwarders from Oslo, Trondheim, Stavanger and Bergen respectively. Further-more Blue Water representatives from our Norwegian departments in Odense and Aarhus participated in the joint meeting at our office in Copenhagen where our guests were taken on a tour of our fine office fa-cilities before Henrik Dam Larsen gave an introduction of Blue Water and Reidar Hagelund told about Cargo Partner. The remaining part of the day’s programme included small “work-shops” and a quiz which put a smile on everybody’s face. Afterwards they all spent the evening at Big Bowl in Valby, bowling to their hearts’ content (we bet a couple of

The big Belgian shipping line, Co-belfret N.V., has since January 2006 operated a service between Esbjerg and Zeebrugge, based on a weekly departure, with a ro/ro ferry. A large amount of containers on mafi trailers are shipped in both directions be-tween Denmark and the Continent/UK as well as a number of new cars to Denmark.Blue Water acts as port agent and stevedore for Cobelfret in Esbjerg where the handling takes place at Blue Water’s new ro-ro terminal at Sydhavnen (South Port). Further-more we sell and promote the service on the Danish market and hope for increasing volumes between Den-mark and the Continent in particular, which will create a basis for more calls.In February, Blue Water paid a visit to

Blue Water’s basic strategy has al-ways been focusing on the clients’ wishes. For this reason we want to be close to our clients in a co-opera-tion based on confidence and per-sonal relations. As a consequence the IT department has developed a brand-new transport booking system which is in the process of being introduced to the clients. The Compass Web-booking Sy-stem is designed to make our cli-ents workday easier. The system is simple, user-friendly and ensu-res complete overview. Send your bookings direct via the internet - any time of the day - without delay. You will be able to follow the ETA (expected time of arrival). Previous bookings will be filed in

Cargo Partner calling on Blue Water Copenhagen

Blue Water has acted as Lloyd’s agent in Greenland for a number of years. Now Smyril Blue Water is appointed Lloyd’s agent on the Fa-roe Islands looking after their in-terests in connection with surveys etc. from the office in Torshavn. Hedin Joensen/Smyril Blue Water, Torshavn has been to London to learn the routines and procedures. In the picture he is together with Sonja Flink/Lloyds of London.

our Norwegian guests have been practising at home ...), dining and having a good time together in the nightlife of Copenhagen.

Cobelfret N.V., Antwerp - left to right: Søren Clemmensen, Mike Gray, Christian Cigrang (Man. Director for the entire group) and Kurt Skov.

Cobelfret Containers, Bruges: Claus Bæk standing between Fred-dy Brauwers and Yves Strube.

Left to right: Ruben de Baets and Bruno van Assche are busy with the Scandinavian traffic at Cobel-fret Containers.

Cobelfret Ferries, Zeebrugge: Martin Storme standing between Søren Clemmensen and Kurt Skov.

Visiting Cobelfret, BelgiumCobelfret in Belgium together with Esbjerg Havn (the Port of Esbjerg). Esbjerg Havn was represented by Sales and Marketing Director Søren Clemmensen and from Blue Water Claus Bæk, who is in charge of sales, and Kurt Skov participated.We spent a couple of interesting days in Belgium. The programme inclu-ded a very friendly reception by the top management of Cobelfret at their impressive headquarters in Antwerp, followed by a constructive talk about freight with the management of Co-belfret Containers in Bruges, where a new impressive head office is under construction. Finally we enjoyed an - for shipping people - extremely in-teresting and fascinating guided tour in the port of Zeebrugge. The port is really bursting with new activities and facilities.

40 customers accepted an invitation to a seminar which was held at Blue Water’s office in Esbjerg at 4 p.m. on Wednesday 21.3. The headlines of the seminar included Incoterms, liability rules of the transport busi-ness, Insurance and What to do in case of damage. Jørn Bøllund told about the trading parties’ agreements of risk during transport and the carriers’ many exemptions from liability and limi-tations of liability. He was in par-ticular very careful in emphasizing the shipping lines’ special possibili-ties of rejection of liability and the cargo owner’s risk of contribution to salvage expenses etc.

After these very serious subjects, the participants were, however, relieved again as it is possible to take out a transport insurance of goods which indemnifies the cargo owner for the full value from door to door. The last half hour of the seminar was an introduction of claims pro-cedures and handling of claims as well as answering questions from the many interested customers. The last item on the afternoon’s programme included sandwiches, beer and soft drinks.The large attendance made us con-sider repeating the seminar not only in Esbjerg, but also at our other offices..

Closing-time Seminar

Compass Web Booking Systemthe system together with invoice amount, which makes it possible, at all times, to retrieve these and other relevant transport informa-tion - and not least without any paperwork.Other advantages of Blue Water’s Web Booking System include:

No waiting time• Guarantee for correct informa-• tionPossibility of notifying consig-• neePrint of proforma invoice• Print of labels• Booking documentation• Security / Access Control•

If you are interested, please call your contact for an introduction.

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In March, Blue Water participated in the Seatrade Cruise Exhibition in Miami. This year we were for the first time represented as Blue Water Shipping, Ft. Lauderdale. The exhibition was a great suc-cess and we had a lot of interesting meetings with the suppliers and contractors of the cruise industry as well as agents and cruise lines - among others Holland America Line and Disney Cruise Line.In keeping with tradition, transport and co-ordination of the stand ma-terial for the members of Dansk

In May 2007, the cruise line, Dis-ney Cruise, starts calling at ports in the Mediterranean. Blue Wa-ter Shipping España will in co- operation with American Cruise-Aid Logistics, Cape Caraveral be in charge of logistics and warehous-ing in connection with the calls at

The German cruise line, AIDA, ap-pointed Nordshipping (associated company of Smyril Blue Water) port agent for their new vessel calling at Hanstholm on her maiden voyage on 20.3. The 650 passengers spent the day on a sightseeing tour of the local area. After the successful call, we expect AIDA’s cruise vessels to be calling at the port of Hanstholm at regular intervals to the great de-light of the whole region.No - sadly this is only a fantasy ........True enough the vessel is new, but she was only having her trials before she was to be delivered to the owners. 650 workmen spent a week on board testing all equip-

ment. The captain had asked us to arrange crew change of three crew members, on the roads, 3-4 nautical miles off Hanstholm.The ship “Aida Diva” was built at Meyer Werft in Papenburg as the first of four sister ships. The three other ships will be delivered in 2008, 2009 and 2010. The “Aida Diva” will be put in on the Mediter-ranean service during the summer months and on the Caribbean dur-ing the winter season. According to the captain, the ship is equipped with a high degree of innovative thinking - among other things tro-pical recreational bathing facilities (2000 m2). For further information please visit www.aida.de.

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

Hanstholm - New Cruise Destination ?

Visiting Disney Cruise - left to right: Ana Norris/Logistics Manager of Disney Cruise, Janne Meinertz/President of American Cruise-Aid Logi-stics, Amadeu Outeiro and Kurt Skov.

Cruise Ships calling at BarcelonaBarcelona. Therefore Amadeu Outeiro and Kurt Skov paid a visit to Disney Cruise in Orlando where they were given a very interesting guided tour on board the cruise ship “Disney Magic” at Cape Canaveral.

Seatrade Miami 2007Eksport Forening (the Danish Ex-porters’ Association) and Wonder-ful Copenhagen etc. were perfor-med via Blue Water. Blue Water’s stand was manned by representatives from the Blue Water offices involved in the cruise activities; Kurt Skov/Blue Water Esbjerg, Amadeu Outeiro/Blue Wa-ter Barcelona, Zaida Pena, Torbjørn Pedersen (sent to Florida for a three months period) and Rasmus Øll-gaard/Blue Water Ft. Lauderdale - as well as Fred and Bette Ann Ro-gacki from our local partner IWS.

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

Logistics Manager Sunne Kim/Holland America Line between Rasmus Øllgaard and Zaida Pena/Blue Water Fort Lauderdale.

Fred Rogacki/IWS and Kurt Skov.

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Blue Water Kolding participated in the local job fair in January to-gether with 50 other companies. The fair was arranged by Business Kolding and the target audience included both Danish and German job hunters. The very impressive number of 1500 Germans found their way to the fair, some by bus from Meckelnburg-Vorpommern and Frankfurt and some by private car from Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg. People crowded around our stand and many of them were interested in a job with Blue Wa-

Blue Water Esbjerg has once again helped Esbjerg Kommune (the mu-nicipality of Esbjerg) with transport documents in connection with a transport to Esbjerg’s co-operation town in Bosnia, Prijedor.Esbjerg Kommune participates - under the management of Hen-ning Kristensen - in the humanita-rian co-operation project with the municipality of Prijedor for the reconstruction of the war-stricken country in order to improve the conditions for the local people in Bosnia.This time Falck in Esbjerg (ambu-lance service) had donated an am-

In early January, the airfreight de-partment in Esbjerg arranged a shipment to New Zealand for the local company, Nyhavns Vod og Trawlbinderi - supplier of trawl to the Galathea 3 Expedition. Before departure, a big trawl was installed, but during the expedition, a smaller boom and trawl were nee-ded and ordered for delivery in New Zea-land.Most Danes have heard about the Galathea 3, which was an expedi-tion with participation of various scientists and other good people,

In November, Carl Hjort/Blue Water Aarhus and Ole Haahr/Blue Water Billund paid a visit to our partner in Hong Kong and China - Cargo Services.In Hong Kong meetings were ar-ranged with the relevant contacts for our large traffic from/to China followed by visits to Cargo Servic-es’ offices in the Guangdong pro-vince - Shenzhen and Guangzhou. The very region north of Hong Kong at the mouth of the “Pearl River” is one of the fast-growing areas. Here we visited the new air-port in Guangzhou, among other places, where Cargo Services have established an office to be part of the rapid growth. After some interesting and profit-able days in South China, we pro-ceeded to Shanghai and called on more clients as well as the Cargo Services headquarters in mainland China and their container depot and secured stores at the Pudong Airport where handling of valu-able textiles to/from Europe takes place. The visit also included a trip to Suzhou where a group of Da-

The biggest airline operating out of Vatry Airport - Avient - gave a reception in the airport on 1.2. during which the General Mana-ger, Andrew Smith, announced the purchase of the airline’s third DC10. In 2006, Avient has among other things flown 4700 tons fresh fish in from Uganda - to many of

Shipment to the Galathea 3 Expedition

who during the eight months’ worldwide expedition (39,000 nau-tical miles) called at many interest-ing and great places. The expedition started in August 2006 and ended on 25.4.2007 in Copenhagen. The press was also represented on board the “Vædderen” to cover the expedition as there were also royal visitors on board - the Crown Prince on the Galapagos Islands and Prince Henrik through the Pan-ama Canal to the Virgin Islands.

Blue Water’s clients among others, several of whom participated in the reception. Combined with a new warehouse (inaugurated in April), the new aircraft will result in an increase of the activities of the airport, predicts Paméla Cher-rier/Blue Water Vatry.

Reception in Vatry

Job Fair in Koldingter - in Denmark or at our offices abroad. It was indeed an interes-ting and hectic day for our two colleagues Sanne Andersen and Peter Ankersborg.

Cargo Services HQ in Hong Kong• 26 offices in China and • Hong Kong22 new offices in China • within the next 2 yearsAt present 1800 emplo-• yeesAll necessary licences • in China - A-licence, customs clearance, do-mestic distribution, bon-ded warehouse etc.Primary market: Europe • - sea and airfreightSpecialists in domestic • distribution

Visiting our Partner in China

nish companies have established themselves.On the tour we were accompanied by Arne Iversen/Blue Water China (Qingdao) who co-ordinates our activities in China. Part of the time Arne is stationed in Shanghai where he, among other things, is helping our Danish clients during their visit in China.

Humanitarian Aid to Bosnia

René Sigvartsen and Henning Kristensen ready for the long drive to Bos-nia.

bulance and a fire engine. The two vehicles left the ambulance station in Esbjerg on 29.1. and the head of the station, René Sigvartsen, and Henning Kristensen were behind the wheels during the whole long journey.Blue Water has previously helped with transport documents when the municipality arranged transport of refuse containers and a refuse col-lection lorry donated by Marius Pedersen. In addition voluntary organisations and private compa-nies have donated effects such as clothes, bicycles etc. - 130 tons in total have been sent from Esbjerg.

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Our partner, Smyril Line, arranged a team building course for the senior staff of Smyril Line, Smyril Blue Water and M/F “Norrøna” in the autumn of 2006. The course took place over two days in the beautiful surroundings of Vagar on the Faroe Islands. The programme included both process-focused teamwork, cordial discussions about the daily co-operation between passenger/freight department and vessel and not least big challenges and ad-ventures in the beautiful scenery of Selvik. Bent Rasmussen reports:

Blue Water has become strongly represented in the USA. Our in-terests and business areas cover a wide field - from ordinary indu-strial cargo to food products and project cargoes. Maybe we should also mention transport of automo-biles and motor cycles ! One thing is for sure, we do have great suc-cess when our clients need our as-sistance to realize their dreams ! A local policeman contacted our sea freight department in Esbjerg be-cause he had fallen in love with a 1450 cc Harley from South Caro-lina. He bought the 300 kilo bike and we took contact to the seller

Blue Water became involved in a very interesting new niche activity when Dolly Parton, for the first time in many years, was on tour in Eu-rope - which also included Horsens, Denmark on 6 and 7 March.Blue Water Aalborg has during the last couple of years been working closely together with NNR Global Logistics in the USA who are spe-cialists in transport of IT equipment. When NNR got the contract for transport of the equipment for Dolly Parton’s concert tour, they chose Blue Water to be their Danish part-ner. Kenneth Skovbjerg Pedersen/Blue Water Aalborg was assigned to the task and sent to Kastrup to supervise the reception of the three LD7 containers which were com-

The annual squash tournament, Blue Water Open, took place in Novem-ber. Blue Water was main sponsor and 116 teams - divided in 3 ladies’ series and 5 men’s series - played 220 matches and the courts of the Odense Squash Club provided a magnificent Blue Water setting.In the ladies’ series, the long-time Danish champion, Ellen Hamborg, once more came out the winner. In the men’s series, Kristian Frost proved that the old saying “like fa-ther, like son” still holds and that, in both badminton and squash, you need to know how to handle a racket.

The annual Forwarders’ Cup of the Esbjerg Forwarders’ Association took place on Saturday 17.3. Scan Ship-ping and Blue Water were in charge of the planning of this year’s tourna-ment. It was indeed a tremendous day with lots of goals, people and cheers and laughter in the sports centre. The

On 21.2., half Denmark was sur-prised by a snowstorm which para-lysed the northern and eastern part of the country. The winter had been very mild, but suddenly it began to snow so heavily that Blue Water’s

Harley Davidson Fatboyin order to arrange co-ordination in the USA. We arranged that the Har-ley was secured in a solid wooden box, insured and shipped in a 20’ container to Esbjerg. In line with expectations, a big crowd appeared for the stripping of the container - revealing the Harley without a scratch - and testing of the engine. This interesting job led to another transport of the same Harley model and for the very same person. When the forces of law and order calls, we naturally respond readily to them - however this does also apply for you if you have the same dreams ....Give us a call and we will give ad-vice, indicate a price and find the perfect solution for you.

Helle GlassTlf. 79 134004 E-mail: hgl@bws.dk

Kim Thue Andersen Tlf. 79 134027 kta@bws.dk

Team Building on the Faroe Islands

“After half an hour’s walk from Sørvåg, in the rocky landscape, we reached Selvik and were divi-ded in two competing teams. The competitions covered a wide field; theoretical and practical tasks, golf, throwing the javelin, treasure hunt and cooking. In the final analysis, the results were evaluated by the course directors, the Gram brothers, and the best team was declared the rightful winners.When we returned very tired to the hotel, the competitions of the day were lively discussed”.

Blue Water Danish Open - Squash

Snowstorm in Denmarkoffices in Aarhus and Aalborg had to stay closed for a couple of days - however, staffed for emergencies - as the Police and the Road Direc-torate advised against driving if not absolutely necessary.

Transport for Dolly Partoning through Blue Water’s terminal in Copenhagen. Delivery took place on 4.3. at Forum in Horsens where Dolly Parton’s crew was ready to take over.All in all a great success for both NNC Global Logistics, USA and Blue Water. Having proved that we can handle this kind of job, we hope we have managed to open the door to a generally very closed business.

Esbjerg Forwarders’ Cup evening’s party was held at Esbjerg Højskole and the programme inclu-ded delicious food, stand-up comedy and live music. 14 companies divided into 28 teams and 256 players partici-pated - and moreover BWS came out the winner in both the old boys series and the men’s series !

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Mogens Nielsen/Blue Water Brest was invited to Benin in West Africa in January by one of the good cli-ents of Blue Water France, Casco (Jacky Hamon) in Lamballe. Blue Water’s offices in Brazil, Ireland and France have a co-operation with Cajaf Comon through Casco.The occasion was the inaugura-tion of Sebastian Ajavon’s brand-new professional football school in Cotonou “Cifas - Benin”. The school can take 200 talented young people who, parallel with their schooling, will get the chance to develop their talents and maybe some day get a professional foot-ball career abroad. More than

Sales Force in DenmarkIn late February, Blue Water’s en-tire sales force gathered in Esbjerg for one of its five annual meetings. The purpose of the meetings is ex-change of experience across the offices as well as updating of the company’s many activities and services. During recent years, se-veral new colleagues have joined our sales team and therefore the meeting was extended to include a social evening gathering - fun bowling (no one plays to win) - and dinner at the local Mexican restaurant.

Blue Water Odense looks forward to moving into brand-new facili-ties - 1600 m2 office and 4000 m2 warehouse - as from 14.5.

In 2006/2007, Blue Water arranged several shipments by sea and air to Chile for our good client, Billund Aquakultur Service - manufacturer of fish farming plants with water recirculation and recycling.During a trip to South America, Frank Madsen of the deep sea de-partment in Esbjerg therefore paid a visit to Billund Aqua’s office in Puerto Montt in Chile where also a very large part of the Chilean sal-mon farms are located. Technical Director Ole Sørensen and Director Marcelo Varela Feliú gave a very interesting guided tour of the fully operational plant which is situated at the foot of the volcano Osorno in the beautiful Chilean scenery.Billund Aquakultur Service expects more projects in Chile and other places around the world where Blue Water is also playing an ac-tive part.

Music while we workIn Esbjerg we have made an agree-ment with the West Jutland Acade-my of Music. The barter includes entertainment - a small closing time concert on our grand piano - by students of the academy the last Friday of every month for the next year. In return we lend a hel-ping hand - both financially and in terms of transport - for instance in connection with a big event in the spring “Children and Big Band” with the aim of making children interested in big band music.

Blue Water TbilisiNew telephone and fax details:

Tel. + 995 3243 9388Fax. +995 3243 9389

Instead of an office Christmas party, Blue Water Vilnius made an excursion to Anyksciai - a famous Lithuanian tourist site boasting beautiful scenic landscapes with cultural and historic monuments.Left to right: Egidijus Petrenas, Saulius Lagunas, Jovita Daniene, Gintare Mileniene, Saulius Ma-jauskas, Virginija Slavinskaite and in front Evaldas Mankelevisius.

At the first concert in January, Blue Water’s staff enjoyed listening to Anna Ilsøe singing accompanied by Kaare Nyborg on the grand piano.

During the weekend of March 10-11, Blue Water France went on their annual skiing weekend - this time to Andorra in the Pyrenees. As usual our colleagues enjoyed them-selves with good food, a few drinks and most of all a lot of fun.

Visiting Benin, West Africa1000 guests participated in the ce-lebration with the government of Benin at the head as well as former professional French football stars, food suppliers and local friends.The Cajaf Comon Group is the biggest importer of frozen food products in Benin. The group im-ports mainly from Europe and South America, but also frozen fish products, caught and frozen on fish trawlers off West Africa.Naturally Mogens also seized the opportunity to call on the head-quarters of the Cajaf Comon Group during his stay in West Africa.

Change of Address - Odense

Visiting Puerto Montt, Chile

Left to right: Marcelo Varela Feliú and Ole Sørensen with the volcano Osorno in the background.

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Blue Water Shipping A/SEmil Neckelmanns Vej 205220 Odense SØ

Tel: 66 13 06 33Fax: 66 14 75 70

New Employees

Jubilees10 years

Helena Zabrodina started with Blue Water Baku back in 1997, helping Samed as a cashier and working with account books in the old-fashioned way. Today Helena performs the function of deputy chief accountant using modern sophisticated group accounting programs and control-ling a huge amount of account pa-perwork, international and local in-voicing, cash flow and other duties of utmost importance. On the home front, Helena is bringing up her 14-year-old son, Ruslan, and supporting her mother and younger sister.

Zahir Rzaev started with Blue Wa-ter Baku in June 1997. Zahir has a professional university background as a transport engineer and has in the past worked for the company, Tamin Transport. Zahir forms part of the operations department, looking after the very important and complicated activities transport by rail and ferry. Zahir is an expert in oversized, out of gauge loads by surface and his field of responsibility includes HSE con-trol of the warehouse and the domes-tic trucking department. Zahir has a wife and two sons aged 17 and 19.

Anette Bay - Team Manager of the continental department at Blue Wa-ter, Odense - will be celebrating her 10th jubilee on 1.5. Anette has a wide knowledge of the various types of transport and has, over the years, been involved in many different ac-tivities and destinations. Anette lives in the little town of Fraugde close to Odense with her family; her hus-band, Ole, and their twin girls, Sarah and Camilla. Anette is especially pleased with the location of the new office facilities in Odense as this means for her less than one kilome-tre’s ride to work.

20 yearsDan Nissen will be celebrating his 20th anniversary on 1.7. Dan has been with Blue Water through his entire career - from trainee to direc-tor of the division called Blue Water International covering the major part of our branch offices abroad. Dan has received all-round shipping and transport training and education. Mainly involved in sea freight, he is furthermore overall responsible for sea and airfreight of the entire Blue Water Group. Indeed a whole-time

job in connection with which heavy demands are made on him. How-ever, Dan tackles the job head-on and manages brilliantly supported by his family - his wife, Charlotte, and the twins, Line and Mikkel - despite the fact that he is often away on busi-ness or working late.

25 yearsMogens Nielsen/Blue Water Brest will be celebrating his silver jubilee on 2.8. Mogens started as trainee at Blue Water Esbjerg and after a peri-od of postings in Copenhagen, Man-chester and Lorient respectively, an agreement was made for a one-year posting as General Manager of Blue Water France. One year followed after another - and Mogens has now been in France for 20 years and is responsible for our offices in Brest, Lorient and Vatry as well as our South American branch office in Sao Paulo, Brazil. ”C’est la vie” !!

Jan Vesterbæk/warehouse, Esbjerg will be passing a milestone on 28.5. - 25 years of employment at the Blue

Water Terminal in Esbjerg. Whether it is the many loading/unloading operations (minimum 50,000) which have made his hair turn grey, we do not know. Jan’s characteristics - his temper, speed and indispensable control of the situation - are still intact, however, his sharp tongue has become softer which is also in accordance with his present appear-ance. We hereby thank Jan for his ef-forts and contribution until now.

On 12.5., Kim Beier will celebrate his silver jubilee with Blue Water. The first 20 years of his employ-ment, Kim was involved in a number of different activities including air-freight, oil & gas and ship’s agency with postings in Norway, Greenland and Kazakhstan. After his return from Kazakhstan in 2001, Kim was appointed in charge of HSE ( Heath, Safety and Environment), based on the Esbjerg office, but also across the offices in connection with world-wide projects. Kim was, in 2004, the ”string-puller” behind the certifica-tion of our Quality and Environment System.

BirthsOn 17.11., Carsten Seeberg/Blue Water Kolding became a father of a big girl (4.3 kgs/52 cm) who is going to be named Emilie.

Søren Jørgensen/Blue Water Odense and his wife, Anja, in-creased their family by another girl (3 kgs/50 cm) on 12.12.06.

Another proud father is Martin Terndrup/Blue Water Odense, whose son (3.9 kgs/57 cm) was born on 28.12.06.

Björn E. Jensen/Blue Water Gothenburg and his wife, Annabel, became parents for the third time on 20.1. when little Leon Kristján (3.9 kgs/52 cm) first saw the light of day.

Scott Western/Blue Water Aber-deen became a father for the first time on 21.1. when his wife was delivered of a little boy who will be named Lyle Scott Western.

On 30.1., Claus Simony of the marketing department in Es- bjerg and his wife, Jane, increased their little family by a set of twin girls (each weighing 3.2 kgs and measuring 49 cm). The family also includes big sister, Laura, who is two and a half years old.

Claus Clemmensen / stevedore foreman became a first-time father on 21.1. when his wife gave birth to a little boy (3.2 kgs/50 cm).

Another proud first-time father is Maichael Karmark/Blue Wa-ter Aarhus whose little son (3.4 kgs/52 cm) was born on 22.3.

AalborgAs from 11.12.06., we have taken on Dennis Jensen - 26 years old - as forwarder in the department for North Atlantic sea freight. Dennis served his apprenticeship and was employed with PR Shipping, Es-bjerg for four years during which he was involved in deep sea ship-

Dennis Jensen

Another new member of the North Atlantic sea freight department is 27-year-old Louise Mortensen who joined the department as assistant on 12.2. Louise was previously em-ployed as temporary replacement at Blue Water’s office in Kolding, but has now moved north - to Fre-derikshavn - with her family.

Louise Mortensen

Esbjerg36-year-old Dorthe Snow is em-ployed as marketing assistant as from the turn of the year. Dorthe’s previous employment was as mar-keting co-ordinator at Vrøgum Vin-duer and in the past she has also been involved in all kinds of office and secretarial duties. Furthermore she has lived overseas with her family for two years. Dorthe’s new field of activities includes main-tenance of our website - which is being redesigned for the time being - and assistance in connection with marketing jobs in general.

Dorthe Snow

We have taken on a new warehouse trainee, 17-year-old Andreas Jensen - as from 20.1.

Andreas Jensen

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New Employees

Torben Nyborg - 27 years old - joined the forwarding department on 2.1. Torben served his appren-ticeship with Kurt Beier and has also been working for DFDS - three years in Esbjerg and in Copenhagen since 2006.

Torben Nyborg

Claus Glass - 40 years old - is the newcomer at our terminal. Claus’ primary responsibility is container trucking at our RO/RO terminal. Claus used to work for Roland Munch as a truck driver for 22 years.

Claus Glass

At the same day, Christian Nielsen - 47 years old - started as stevedore foreman. Christian is originally a fisherman, but decided, in 1990, to supplement his skills with a super-structure of education and took his master’s certificate examination. During the recent eight years, Chri-stian has worked for Rohde Nielsen as master of various engineering vessels.

Christian Nielsen

The 26-year-old accounting assis-tant, Linda Tosti, joined our credi-tor department on 1.1. Linda was already familiar with Blue Water as she, from 21.9.06 and till the end of the year, was employed as replace-ment during maternity leave. Linda served her apprenticeship with ND Revision and has furthermore worked for the trading company Jørn Bolding A/S.

Linda Tosti

On 12.3., Jannik Beiter - 33 years old - joined our stevedore team. During the last ten years, Jannik has been working offshore as rig-ger in the Norwegian and Danish sector of the North Sea - the recent four years as rigger foreman for Semco Marine.

Jannik BeiterOn 1.4., we welcomed Steen Hartvigsen back in “the family” - more precisely in the project de-partment At first however, Steen will lend a hand to our offshore base department. Up to 1999 Steen formed part of our agency depart-ment where he also completed his apprenticeship. Since then he has tried different things - also outside this business and his latest job was with Esbjerg Offshore Base.

SteenHartvigsen

As from 26.3., we have engaged 32-year-old Heins Christensen as sup-porter in the IT department - prima-rily involved in operation/support. Heins has 12 years of experience within this field, the recent 5 years from Berendsen in Copenhagen.

Heins Christensen

As from 27.3., Tania T. Sørensen - 30 years old - forms part of the customs department as assistant. Tania has just finished her ma-ternity leave, but was previously employed with Peppercorn, Team Freight, GLS Danmark and JP Salmon.

Tania T. Sørensen

Another familiar face - 50-year-old Aase Bjerregaard Christensen - has returned to Blue Water and a job in the HR department. Last year (after 7 years with Blue Water) Aase de-cided to try her knowledge of the HR field in a job with Syddanske Medier. However, when the opportu-nity arose, she decided to come back and now we all look forward to her maintaining and looking after the soft values of the HR department.

AaseBjerregaard

On 10.4., Lisen Kandilis - 30 years old - started, directly after her ma-ternity leave, in a combined job in the HR department/reception. Lisen served her apprenticeship as an office assistant at the SAS head-quarters in Kastrup. Half of the day, Lisen will look after secretarial du-ties for the HR department and the other half day she will attend to the switchboard and other duties in the reception.

Lisen KandilisAs from 16.4., an old acquaintance, 39-year-old Peter Lauridsen - is back in the business. Peter served his apprenticeship with Blue Wa-ter 14 years ago and then “took a break” and started his own business on the island of Fanø. Peter has now joined Blue Water Transport’s Nor-wegian department which recently moved from Padborg to Esbjerg.

PeterLauridsen

Jeanette Søndergaard - 40 years old - started as administrative assistant in the oil & energy department on 1.5. Jeanette received her training and education as a forwarder at DFDS, Copenhagen where she was employed for 8 years. Furthermore Jeanette has gathered experience from TotalFineElf and Vik Team and her latest job as export assis-tant with Arovit.

JeanetteSøndergaard

HanstholmLast summer we brought an article on the take-over of Nordshipping in Hanstholm, but regret to admit that we did not bring any staff informa-tion, which we hereby remedy:As from 1.11.06., the former owner and director of Nordshipping, 49-year-old Peter T. Olsen, who joined the company in 2001, became part of the Smyril Blue Water team where he performs the function of manager of the shipping depart-ment.

Peter T. Olsen

As from the same date, Frank D. Poulsen - 48 years old - also joined Smyril Blue Water. Frank has worked for Nordshipping for four years and continues as assistant in the shipping department.

Frank D. Poulsen

KoldingOn 8.1., Henrik Berg Lucas - 19 years old - started as trainee at our terminal/logistics warehouse.

Henrik Berg Lucas

As from 1.3., we have taken on two new trainees in the accounts depart-ment: 20-year-old Louise Storm Jensen who will be involved in ac-counting matters for Smyril Blue Water and 19-year-old Pernille Hebsgaard Jensen has become part of the creditor department.

Louise Storm Jensen

PernilleHebsgaard Jensen

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New EmployeesIn Kolding we have a couple of “not quite new” employments:

Since 1.9.06., Kurt Mickinn - 56 years old - forms part of our logistics ware-house where he mainly looks after the storage for our client Sioen. Kurt has a long experience as a truck driver.

Kurt Mickinn

As from 25.9., we have taken on two terminal workers; 43-year-old Verner Hansen (afternoon) and 58-year-old Kurt Johansen (export terminal).

Verner Hansen

Kurt Johansen

As from the turn of the year, 31-year-old Sine Myrnes Benkjær joined our storage logistics depart-ment. Sine’s previous employment was as transport responsible at Riis Retail, Kolding. Sine served her ap-prenticeship with Haugsted, but has furthermore been employed at Blue Water, Copenhagen where she was involved in administrative matters in the Germany department.

Sine Myrnes Benkjær

As from 8.1., Xhavit Hasani - 27 years old - is employed as forwarder in the Eastern Europe department. Xhavit was previously employed with DSV, Horsens where he also re-ceived his training. As Xhavit speaks several languages fluently - among others Albanian and Serbo-Croatian - he has the linguistic qualifications needed for this specific area.

Xhavit Hasani

Ulla Outzen - 41 years old - started as assistant in the forwarding department on 15.1. Ulla’s previous employment was with Easy Food, Ødsted.

Ulla Outzen

As from 1.2., we have employed Stine Stouby Grønkjær - 31 years old - as trainee in the Benelux department.

Stine Stouby Grønkjær

As from 1.3., we have taken on Kenneth Duedal - 21 years old - as new trainee in the German depart-ment. Kenneth used to work as sub-stitute at our terminal, Obviously he must have left a positive impres-sion as he, after a tour around the world, is back ready to take on new challenges at the office.

KennethDuedal

Preben Skov - 51 years old - is ap-pointed new logistics manager as from 1.4. Preben has a long career as logistics manager with Dalum Papir, Odense.In addition to being responsible for the logistics warehouse in Kolding, Preben will look after various mat-ters across the division as well as the development of Blue Water’s overall solutions in the area.

Preben Skov

Sandra Jul Jensen - 28 years old - is engaged as sales secretary. Sandra started as temporary replacement back in November, but her status has now changed to permanently employed. Sandra is also a quali-fied export technician and has been involved in sales and marketing in her previous job with Dansk Data Display. Furthermore she has gat-hered experience from her trainee periods at DFDS and Delfi Tech-nologies.

Sandra JulJensen

A new salesman, 44-year-old Kent Cyril Larsen - joined our sales team on 1.12.06. Kent served his appren-ticeship with Samson back in 1984. He has furthermore been employed as manager of the Benelux and de-velopment department at DFDS and later as division manager res-ponsible for the Scandinavian traf-fic for the same company in Hor-sens. Kent’s latest job was a 5-year employment as sales manager of Combifragt, Hvidovre.

Kent Cyril Larsen

On 2.1., Katja Kowacz - 35 years old - joined the East European de-partment as administrative assist-ant. Naturally Katja, who originally comes from Poland, speaks fluent Polish and consequently her field of responsibility includes commu-nication with the East European drivers and service to and searching for new hauliers.

Katja Kowacz

CopenhagenOn 1.2., Louise Nordsted Jacobsen - 21 years old - started as trainee in the Scandinavian department.

Louise NordstedJacobsen

Another trainee, 24-year-old Fre-derik Brink Jensen started in the UK/Ireland department on 12.3.

Frederik Brink Jensen

The sales team was increased by another salesman, 46-year-old Carsten Rasmussen, on 1.5. Car-sten is a skilled shipbroker trai-ned and educated in Holbæk and has furthermore been involved in groupage sales at DSV before he, three and a half years ago, changed to DPD. Carsten’s field of activity will mainly include road transport.

CarstenRasmussen

On 1.5, 21-year-old Jens Lillebæk Nielsen, started as trainee in the road transport department.

Jens Lillebæk Nielsen

Another trainee, 26-year-old Ten-na van der Sman - joined the sea freight department on 1.5.

Tenna van der Sman

OdenseAs from 1.12.06., Brian Nielsen - 37 years old - joined our terminal team.

Brian Nielsen

At the turn of the year, 43-year-old Leif Argjum started as warehouse-man. Leif used to work for DLF, Odense.

Leif Argjum

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New Employees

In our niche department we wel-comed a new member - 27-year-old Luise Crone Dons - on 8.1. Luise served her apprenticeship at Schen-ker, Aarhus where she was invol-ved in transport to/from Sweden and Finland. During recent years, Luise has also found time to make a sporting career (dancing) for her-self in Holland and Germany.

Luise Crone Dons

As from 1.2., Jeanett Pedersen - 37 years old - forms part of the deep sea department. Jeanett served her apprenticeship at Dantransport, Billund and was most recently employed as manager of the sea freight import department of DFDS in Odense.

Jeanett Pedersen

On the same day, 41-year-old Clau-dia Vitalis joined our airfreight department. Claudia received her training and education at Dantrans-port, Fredericia. Claudia has also, for a number of years, been em-ployed as manager of the airfreight import department of DFDS, Odense.

Claudia Vitalis

Lisbeth Hemmingsen - 37 years old - is employed as forwarding assis-tant in the continental department as from 1.3. Lisbeth comes from a position as export assistant with Østergaard Group and has further-more 5 years of transport experi-ence from her previous jobs with DFDS, Padborg and FDE, Padborg. Lisbeth is also a trilingual com-mercial correspondent (English/French) and was once employed as such with Medimatic in Hellerup.

Lisbeth Hem-mingsen

PadborgSille Christina Stahl Schmidt - 23 years old - is engaged as trainee in the German department as from 1.3. As Sille has been our perma-nent “Friday girl” since November 2006, we have had plenty of time to sound her out.

Sille Christina Stahl Schmidt

On 1.3., Karen Malling Nielsen - 49 years old - started as office assistant in the invoicing department. Karen was previously employed with Areal Bank AG, Flensburg.

Karen Malling Nielsen

AarhusAne Tene Thomhav - 37 years old - is employed as assistant in the Swedish department as from 18.12.06. As Ane has been working as temporary replacement for seve-ral months she already knows our systems - and whims !

Ane Tene Thomhav

As from the turn of the year, Anette Weber - 41 years old - is employed as controller in the Norwegian de-partment. Anette has a long experi-ence in Norwegian transport from her jobs with Samson Transport and DFDS among others. For the recent 12 months Anette has worked for Combifragt.

Anette Weber

Rie Petersen - 23 years old - started as trainee in the Finland/local dis-tribution department on 5.2.

Rie Petersen

As from 19.2., Mads Rejmers Veje - 34 years old - is employed as as-sistant manager of the Norwegian import department. During the last 10 years, Mads has performed the function of assistant manager at Rygaard and Frode Laursen respec-tively.

MadsRejmers Veje

Erling Elmstrøm - 42 years old - is employed as assistant manager of the Swedish department as from 19.3. Erling’s past career includes jobs as assistant manger at Glib-strup A/S and warehouse man-ager at Maersk Logistics CFS in Aarhus.

Erling Elmstrøm

The 24-year-old forwarder, Anne Jespersen, joined the deep sea de-partment on 1.5. Anne’s previous employment was with Norfolk Line, Esbjerg.

Anne Jespersen

AberdeenJacquelin Johnston (Jacqui) - 38 years old - started in her job as busi-ness development manager on 12.3. Jacque has many years of sales ex-perience and her most recent job was with TNT UK Ltd. where she was employed for 5 years.

Jacquelin Johnston

Aktau34-year-old Natalya Volkova is employed as administration ma- nager as from 20.11.06. Natalya has gathered experience from her past career in the newspaper business.

Natalya Volkova

Olga Takanaeva - 29 years old - joined our Aktau team as logistics co-ordinator on 19.3. Olga has since 2005 been working as assis- tant project co-ordinator for Bertling Kazakh Logistics.

OlgaTakanaeva

BrestAs from the turn of the year we have taken on 23-year-old Magali Neveu as assistant in the deep sea department. Magali started in a temporary position back in October and is therefore familiar with the routines.

Magali Neveu

At the same time, another new col-league, Michael Johannesen, joined our Italian department as assistant. Michael was previously employed with Thermo Transit, Middelfart.

Michael Johannesen

We have taken on Rasmus Naeve Bildstrup - 26 years old - as trainee in the sea freight department as from 1.4.

Rasmus Naeve Bildstrup

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New EmployeesDubaiAs from 14.11.06, Lancy Bosco Al-meida - 43 years old - is appointed manager of our airfreight depart-ment. Lancy originally comes from India and has a wide knowledge of airfreight after ten years with GAC in the airport of Dubai and in Abu Dhabi. Furthermore Lancy has gathered sales experience from Danzas.

Lancy Bosco Almeida

As from 19.11., we have taken on 27-year-old Mohammad Qasim as assistant in the deep sea depart-ment. Mohammad is from Paki-stan where he was working for Delta Shipping and Mega & Forbes (agents for Senator Lines).

Mohammad Qasim

GothenburgAs from New Year, Björn Jensen - 38 years old - was appointed ge-neral manager of our new branch office in Gothenburg. Björn is well-known to Blue Water as he during the years 97-99 was employed as forwarder and manager of the road departments in Esbjerg and Dub-lin respectively. Björn served his apprenticeship with Erik Halskov Jensen and has also been around P & O Ferrymasters and, outside this line of business, with Robi/Skade-service where he was involved in sales and administration.After his period with Blue Water - when we decided to scale down our activities in Ireland to solely include food transport - Bjørn was employed as manager at our agent Hamann in Dublin.Hamann has its headquarters in Düsseldorf in Germany and Björn continued his career there until he, in 2003, was appointed general manager of Hamann in Gothen-burg. Björn is now married and has three little children.

Björn Jensen

As from 1.4., we have employed Janne Ekholm - 27 years old - as forwarder. Janne’s previous em-ployments include Fragtservice, K & N and IHG.

Janne Ekholm

IlulissatKenneth Birk Jørgensen is in charge of the daily operation at our newly established office in Ilulissat as from 20.3. Kenneth is already familiar with Greenland as he in the past has been working in Nuuk, been in the navy and sailed along the west coast of Greenland. Ken-neth comes from a job with Stark, Aalborg where he was packing containers to Greenland.

Kenneth Birk Jørgensen

MoscowAnna Usikova - 23 years old - has formed part of the transport depart-ment as assistant since 15.1. Anna graduated from the Moscow State Management University in 2005 and has since then been employed as customs clerk with Moscow Eastern Customs.

Anna Usikova

Qingdao23-year-old Cindy Nini (or Sun Nini in Chinese) is employed as as-sistant in the operations department as from 10.11.06. Cindy is assisting with issuing of documents and it is her first job after she graduated from Qingdao Vocational & Tech-nical College.

Cindy Nini

Sao PauloWe have taken on 19-year-old Natália Salazar Padovan as assis-tant in the operations department. Natália was previously employed with the freight forwarding com-pany, Cargo World Logistica Inter-national, involved in import from China.

Natália Salazar Padovan

Another assistant, 23-years-old Ju-liana Dantas Falcin, has joined our Brazilian team. Juliana has gathe-red experience from her previous employment with the company Woith S/A where she co-ordinated logistics of various auto-parts im-ported from Europe for distribution to the company’s units all over Brazil.

Juliana Dantas Falcin

Adriano Venetucci Gouveia - 27 years old - has started in his first job after his graduation in Interna-tional Relations. Adriano is looking forward to developing his career in international trade. His field of responsibility will include co-ordi-nation of the financial activities for all export shipments from South America.

Adriano Venetucci Gouveia

Paul Kragesteen - 43 years old - is appointed airfreight manager. Du-ring the last ten years, Paul has been employed with Faroe Express - for the most recent period as ma-nager. In Blue Water, Paul is also a familiar face, as he many years ago used to work at our terminal in Es-bjerg as stevedore foreman prima-rily looking after the reefer vessels.

Paul Kragesteen

As from 1.3., Ivan Fossabrúgv - 36 years old - is appointed sales mana-ger. Ivan received his education and training as an exports technician in Denmark and was employed with United Seafood and Skagerak Fis-keeksport until he, five years ago, took on the challenge as production and sales manager of Kollafjord Pelagic.

Ivan Fossabrúgv

VatryThomas Thevenot - 27 years old - is appointed airfreight manager as from 21.11.06. Thomas’ profes-sional record includes a job as lo-gistics manager with Air Liquide Welding and two years of employ-ment with Maproute in Montreal, Canada.

Thomas Thevenot

VilniusOn 12.2., Laura Cibulskaite - 25 ye-ars old - started as ocean freight as-sistant. Laura has experience from her previous jobs within transport and administration.

LauraCibulskaite

TorshavnWith the purpose of developing our air and express activities on the Faroe Islands we have employed the fol-lowing new colleagues as from 1.2.:

24-year-old Magnus Joensen is com-pleting the last 7 months of his ap-prenticeship in the airfreight express department. Magnus served the first part of his apprenticeship with Faroe Express.

Magnus Joensen

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Special Birthdays

Weddings

MaySusanne Holm Hansen, Copenhagen - 30 years old 3.5.Stephen Kenny, Manchester - 50 years old 7.5Valeska Hørby, Esbjerg - 30 years old 10.5Dean Garnett, Ipswich - 40 years old 18.5Jytte Kvist, Esbjerg - 50 years old 28.5

JuneBo Stokbæk Jensen, Kolding - 30 years old 4.6Henry Aranha, Dubai - 40 years old 10.6

Peter Toftdal Olesen, Hanstholm - 50 years old 12.6Helle Jürgensen, Kolding - 60 years old 18.6Anette Rosenbæk Larsen, Copenhagen - 40 years old 21.6

JulyBirgitte Biskopstø Henriksen, Odense - 40 years old 13.7Carsten Seeberg, Kolding - 30 years old 23.7Larisa Cherkasova, Baku - 50 years old 29.7

AugustDenise Hanselman, Rotterdam - 40 years old 4.8Rene Jørgensen, Aalborg - 40 years old 4.8Wesley Peters, Rotterdam - 30 years old 7.8Orla Kjærsgaard, Aalborg - 40 years old 13.8Rovshan Mamedov, 30 years old 21.8Lene Steenberg, Aarhus - 40 years old 23.8Poul Aarre, Aarhus - 50 years old 23.8Fabiana Martins, Sao Paulo - 30 years old 29.8Tom Krøyer, Odense - 40 years old 30.8

From our Singapore office it has been reported that Sally Yap mar-ried Vince Lim on 6.1.

Zaida Pena/Blue Water Fort Lauder-dale and her husband Eduardo Gar-cia confirmed their marriage and celebrated the happy event with a party in private surroundings on 17.2. Naturally the celebration was inspired by Cuban customs and tra-ditions and the guests were dressed in guayabera shirts.

At the end of March, our Es-bjerg Terminal took leave of Hans Mikkelsen (62 years old) who chose to retire early. We hereby thank Hans for his commitment and efforts through the years - also at the time when he formed part of the dockers’ gang, as truck driver, before he was actually on our pay-roll. We will always remember his dead straight rows of cargo, his fan-tastic sense of order and his good memory. Qualities we all benefited from in connection with the hand-ling of the large annual shipments of seed potatoes to North Africa.

Staff RedeploymentAs from 1.1., sales manager Kay Organ changed sales district and base from southern England based in Ipswich to the northern region and based at Blue Water Manches-ter.

To strengthen our UK activities, Michael Poder Hansen has moved to England with his family. Based in Manchester, he will remain over-all responsible for the Danish traffic and the UK department in Esbjerg. Jan Lundsgaard Larsen and Søren Jessen Dahl will see to it that the daily operation of the export and import department in Esbjerg is running smoothly.

As from the middle of February, Søren Gammelgaard (former mem-ber of the forwarding department in Esbjerg) was transferred to our project department in Barcelona.

Dennis Sørensen/Blue Water Pad-borg has taken over the empty chair in the forwarding department in Es-bjerg as from 1.3.

As a consequence of the long-standing difficulties in recruit-ing the right people to Padborg, a whole department moved from our Padborg office to the headquar-ters in Esbjerg on 1.3. In future, distribution of fish to the South of Europe and salmon from Norway, will be arranged from Esbjerg by a team consisting of; Amdi Pedersen and Alice Sun Nicolaisen - and on a part-time basis Carsten Kjær and Carsten Bøtcher.

In the oil and energy department in Esbjerg, a great deal of staff rota-tion has taken place lately. Thomas Bek will in future concen-trate on development and sales (do-mestic and international) within the oil and energy sector and not least link our oil and energy related de-partments in Denmark and abroad.closer together.Anne Skov has taken over the day-to-day responsibility of the oil & energy activities in Esbjerg.During the spring, Mogens Thys-sen will be transferred to Dubai and having spent two years in Dubai, Lasse Wolff will, after an overlap period, return to a job in the oil and energy department in Esbjerg.

In Aberdeen Stewart Greig has taken over the management of the office. Stewart is 38 years old and has, since 2000, performed the function of operations manager at the Aberdeen office.Scott Western - who is 33 years old and part of the team since 1998 - will take over the job as operations manager.

Around 1.4., Nanna Juul Andersen/Blue Water Copenhagen started in a new job as forwarder at Blue Water’s office in Fort Lauderdale, USA.

Nino Arkania - who is 34 years old and employed with Blue Water Tbi-lisi during the last four years - has taken over the position of general manager of our office in Georgia.

Retirement

In January, our good customer, Hakan Foods, came all the way from Dubai to Brazil to visit our of-fice and investigate the structure in South America in order to find the best way to arrange their transport. Hakan Foods has opened a branch in Brazil and expect to increase their product line. Left to right: Paulo Rossi/Hakan Foods Brazil, Ashley Bahceci/Hakan Foods Dubai, Priscilla Souza and Andrea Duclerc/Blue Water Sao Paulo.

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