Transport Excellence: Working smarterMette Heileskov Bülow Vice President of Transport Excellence

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Mette Heileskov Bülow

• Shipping & Logistics MBA from Copenhagen Business School

• Studies include general law, maritime law, insurance

• Eleven years experience in the shipping and freight forwarding business before joining Vestas in 1995

Vice President, Transport Excellence

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1,000 km of turbines – transport in a nut shell

• 3,320 turbines were shipped in 2009. End to end, this would span 630 miles, or the distance from Houston to Amarillo, Texas, or Denmark to Paris, France

• 900,000 tons of steel was shipped in 2009

• One complete wind turbine equals 10 truck loads = 33,200 truck loads in 2009

• Specially designed trailers and rail cars

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Transport constrains:We think out of the box

• Traditional way of shipping – “1 ship per project”

• Cost effective way of shipping – combining projects to the best for our customers

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Consolidating transport projects:1 project = more than 1 order

Benefits to the customer:

• Reduced transport cost per MW – up to 12%• Faster transport• Flexibility – ie. size of ocean vessel

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Cost efficiency:Trading in trucks for trains

• One tower base section on a truck = $40/mile

• One tower base section on a train = $10/mile

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Contributing to success:Consolidation, cost reduction and continuous improvement

• Consolidating air and sea freight

• Reducing transport costs

• Continuously improving global transport processes and our worldwide infrastructure

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Safety first:Because we put people before MW

• Lone Star Transportation LLC subscribes to the Driver Alert service.

• All Lone Star drivers attend a Smith System Defensive Driving program.

• Lone Star has benefited from a substantial decrease in DOT (Department of Transportation) recordable accidents.

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Making transport greener:Minimizing the use of the planet’s resources

• 271 tons of carbon dioxide are SAVED by using railway transport instead of trucks.

• It will take 6,311 tree seedlings over 10 years to remove the same amount of carbon dioxide from the environment

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Excellent Customer Experience:Changing the way we do business

• Reducing transport costs per MW

• Delivering timely, cost efficient transport solutions

• Taking a global approach in everything we do

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Let’s quantify!

Outbond transports in 2009: EUR 511m

EUR 83,000/MW…

...and it will go down

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