No. 91 House Magazine – also distributed to customers and business relations August 2009

Blue Water Tour de Paris

In the last issue of Blue Water News we brought an article about our team of 8 colleagues, from our Esbjerg of-fice, who would participate in a bi-cycle ride to Paris arranged by Team Rynkeby. With great enthusiasm, our 8 colleagues now tells about the ex-perience of their life as part of Team Rynkeby Bramming, which numbe-red 40 riders. 7 team in total from all

over Denmark - including our Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen - met at the Place de la Concorde in Paris before the final promenade ride up the Champs-Elysées to the Arc de Triomphe and down the Champs-Elysées again - the culmination of many weeks’ of vigorous training. On our website - www.bws.dk - you can follow the hardships of our team

on the ”Tour”.The purpose of the ”Tour” was to col-lect money for the Children’s Cancer Foundation. The total donation this year exceeded DKK 3 million, which is twice as much as last year. Team Bramming collected more than DKK 430,000 from sponsors and private donations. In case anyone should wish to support a good case, it is still

possible to send donations to: Reg. No.: 7701, account 1650140. Please insert TEAM BRAMMING and your name in the information box.

Left to right: Kurt Skov, Kim Beier, Anne-Grethe Biehl, Helle Glass, Klaus Bindesbøll, Niels Løjborg, Søren Messmann and Aase Bjerregaard Christensen.

At the end of May, Greenland wel-comed three royal visitors, as the three heirs to the Throne, Victoria of Swe-den, Haakon of Norway and Frederik of Denmark, stayed a week to study the inland ice and learn more about the climate change. Kenneth Skovbjerg Pedersen of Blue Water Sisimiut was having a bit of trouble, as he was supposed to deliver two Blue Water Greenpacks (air con-signments) - important spare parts - to the warship ”Ejnar Mikkelsen” before departure for Disko Bay at 1300 hours with the royal visitors on board. Now we were in deep water because the scheduled flight were not supposed to arrive until 1500 hours.Luckily there was a couple of flexible freight people in Søndre Strømfjord,

A Royal Story from Sisimiut

whom we persuaded to let the two parcels on board the chartered plane, with the royal visitors, even though it was against the rules. Did anyone ever doubt that we were unable to handle the situation!Next problem occurred in Sisimiut, when the parcels, in the chaos caused by the royal visitors’ arrival, ended in the royal luggage before Kenneth arrived to collect them. Fortunately Kenneth got to the port at the very moment the luggage was to be carried on board, and he asked permission to take the two parcels, which he deli-vered to the captain personally - and everybody was happy!May we now - with our Blue Water Greenpack product - call ourselves purveyor to the scandinavian Courts ?

We have made an agreement with Egidijus Petrenas that he takes over all shares in UAB Blue Wa-ter Baltic, situated in Vilnius, Lit-huania, with effect as from 9.7. Egidijus, who has just turned 30, is a competent and experienced freight forwarder and has been the head of the office for the past 3 ½ years. The office will continue with the same staff and the same activities, but under the new name of Baltic Shipping Center UAB. We will still consider Egidijus and his team a close partner of the Blue Water Group and part of the family. We also still expect to

be able to develop interesting ac-tivities together. We hereby wish Egidijus and his team the best of luck with their new status and in the future.

Transfer of Ownership in Blue Water Shipping Baltic

Did you know.....that Blue Water has a well-established service with several weekly departures to and from Portugal? Did you know.....that Blue Water has daily departures to Germany and France, of goods for further distribution, with track & trace and delivery security?

Blue Water Odense has since Sep-tember 2008 been in charge of the transport of the World Team’s gym-nastic apparatuses for their world tour. The World Team consists of 28 of Denmark’s absolute top gymnasts, selected according to a very strict programme. The team is touring every third year, and this time the destinations included South Africa, Japan, Australia, India, USA, Costa Rica, Colombia and Great Britain. 2 sets of apparatuses - each con-sisting of 34 pieces - were forwarded around the world, in all directions, to meet the deadlines of the shows. Mentally, it was in particular im-portant for the gymnasts to know that the familiar apparatuses from Denmark had arrived and were available for them at the different destinations.

Transport for DGI - World Team 2008 / 2009 The tour started in September 2008 at Blue Water’s warehouse in Oden-se, where the first set of apparatuses were delivered in co-operation with gymnasts in high spirits.Blue Water Odense has, as co-ordinator, worked together with many of the Blue Water Group’s airfreight offices and competent agents. It was obvious that all par-ties involved were very interested in the project and we have enjoyed a really good co-operation through and through. The majority of the apparatuses were sent by air, but we have made use of sea freight and road transport as well. The World Team and the group sup-porting them have expressed their full satisfaction. Naturally Blue Water hopes to repeat the success, when the next World Team will be touring the world.

The three heirs to the Throne on board the ”Ejnar Mikkelsen” - left to right: Haakon of Norway, Victoria of Sweden and Frederik of Denmark.

One of the World Team’s fantastic shows, which some of us were lucky to watch, when they after their world tour gave 23 performances in Den-mark.

The staff of Blue Water Vilnius - left to right: Egidijus Petrenas, Laura Cibulskaite, Saulius La-gunas, Jovita Daniene, Evaldas Mankelevivius, Saulius Majauskas and Egidijus Balzaris.

Signing of the contract - left to right: Carsten Eskildsen/Blue Water Es-bjerg and Egidijus Petrenas/Blue Water Vilnius.

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In June, Blue Water Houston was en-trusted with the transport of a land rig from Elk City, Oklahoma to New-foundland in Canada.The rig is of the ”Step-down Telescopic Triple” type and is used for oil and natural gas ex-ploration on land. The Canadian owner of the rig contracted the rig to the Cana-dian oil and gas exploration company who awarded Blue Water the transport. The co-ordination and preparation was in particular important for this move, as it was the first time the rig was trans-ported by sea. The rig was transported in 399 parts, which had a total weight of 761 tons. All parts were trucked to the port of Hou-ston and loaded on to a vessel - an ope-ration which took about 3 days and was closely supervised by Lars Jedermann Jørgensen from Blue Water Houston.

Blue Water Aberdeen has been awarded the transportation of 17 offshore accommodation modules from Ferguson Modular in Aber-deen to Rotterdam. The first mo-dule was moved in the first week of July and Blue Water personnel was

Rig Move from Oklahoma to Newfoundland

Two weeks later, when the rig ar-rived at Stephenville in Newfound-land, Lars Jedermann Jørgensen was again ready to follow the dischar-ging to make sure everything was going as planned.The port of Stephenville was for-merly used for shipment of paper for a paper mill and is not constructed to handle multipurpose vessels of the size used for this transport. Luckily everything went according to plan, and we won praise for the succes-sful transport, reports Esben Flinker Nørgaard of Blue Water Houston.. The rig has been contracted to the Canadian company for a period of 6-8 months and will then be moved to a new location. Naturally we hope to become involved in the next move as well if it is going to be by sea.

Accommodation Modules for ”Jumbo Javelon”

As often before, Blue Water participa-ted in the annual offshore show OTC in Houston in May. 2009 saw the OTC’s 40th anniversary with attendance rea-ching approx. 68,000 despite the global economic recession.This year’s exhibition was the second largest in OTC’s 40-year history, with more than 557,000 sq.ft. of exhibition area filled to capacity by 2,500 compa-nies from 38 countries.Blue Water was part of the Danish pavi-lion which was well visited - especially when we had the traditional morning song and toast !Thomas Bek/Blue Water Esbjerg, Es-

OTC 2009, Houstonben Flinker Nørgaard/Blue Water Hou-ston and Sonya Byfield/Blue Water Aberdeen attended the show over the four days, where they met with both existing and potential customers along with our subcontractors and agents.

Transfer of Ownership in Blue Water Shipping Baltic

Did you know.....that Blue Water has a well-established service with several weekly departures to and from Portugal? Did you know.....that Blue Water has daily departures to Germany and France, of goods for further distribution, with track & trace and delivery security?

Traditional morning assembly in the Danish pavilion.

Left to right: Sonya Byfield/Blue Water Aberdeen, Eirik Ellingsen/Ferguson Modular and Thomas Bek/Blue Water Esbjerg.

Our friends from Aker Solutions paying a visit to Blue Water’s stand.

present to witness the safe loading.The modules, which are manufac-tured at Ferguson’s manufacturing facility in Inverurie north of Aber-deen, will form part of an accom-modation complex on board the heavy-lift vessel ”Jumbo Javelin”.

Unloading at Stephenville - left to right: President - Director Patrick J. Laracy/Vulcan Minerals, Lars Jedermann Jørgensen/Blue Water Houston and Project Manager Shane Halley/Vulcan Minerals.

For more than a year, Blue Water has transported crushing machinery for a local client in Azerbaijan - around 1400 cbm per plant. The cargo has been controlled by Blue Water Baku with assistance from Blue Water Georgia and Blue Water Houston. The crushing machinery was bought by a local company in Azerbaijan from different US vendors in both South Dakota, Oregon and Pennsyl-vania.In May, Blue Water also handled the biggest shipment so far, 110 dump trucks, 12 tractors and 14 crushing machines. The goods were picked up at three different areas in the US

and transported to the port of Gal-veston to meet a ro-ro vessel, which sailed the units to Poti in Georgia for on-carriage to Baku in Azerbaijan.In the port of Galveston, Blue Water Houston was represented by Lars Jedermann and a marine surveyor to make sure everything was handled properly. After loading of all the units, the vessel made for Misurata, Libya and Beirut, Lebanon until reaching Poti, Georgia in early June.In Poti, Blue Water Georgia took over the on-carriage and delivery to the final destination in Baku.

Transport of Crushing Plants

Fra losningen i Poti.

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In relation with Azurite FDPSO project in Congo, Blue Water Sin-gapore was called in by Franklin Offshore to provide transporta-tion solution for 800 cbm mooring equipment to Congo. The solution was charter of m/s ”Ester C”, which in the picture is loaded with the equipment.

A good start of year 2009! Blue Water Singapore received a hot-shot airfreight inquiry from Kep-pel Fels in Singapore for airfreight of 17 units of sheaves - weighing 155 tons in total - from Norway to Singapore.

Blue Water was awarded the trans-portation of 130 marine risers from Aker Solutions in Port Klang, Ma-laysia. The risers were to be delivered alongside the semi-submersible rig ”Maersk Developer” in Singapore Western Anchorage. Jason Goh/Blue Water Singapore explains that time was of the essence in connection with this operation, which was challenging and difficult due to the weight and dimensions of

Successful Move of 78 ton Pedestal Crane

In May 2009, our project oil & energy department of Blue Wa-ter Shipping Singapore delivered another huge unit of pedestal cra-ne, with the dimensions (L)28m x (W)5.8m x (H)8.40m and weight of 78 tons, from Plimsoll MacGregor Singapore to Jurong Shipyard for installation onto a rig. Road survey was done and due to its road limitation, the pedestal cra-ne was not permitted on the road. Transportation using tug and barge was the only option. For this cargo operation, we had also mobilised one unit of 18-axle multi trailer to transport from Plim-soll MacGregor yard to private wharf vicinity and also mobilised

one unit of 500 tons mobile crane to lift the pedestal crane onto the chartered barge. A marine surveyor was hired to ensure that proper sea fastening was done before the sail-away to Jurong Shipyard. The whole logistic planning inclu-ding safety went smoothly, and the delivery to the shipyard was on time for the installation onto the rig.

Maersk Contractors and Aker Solutions Malaysia

the risers; (L) 22.86 m, (diameter) 1.4 m, (weight) 26 tons each. Shipment was performed in 3 batches during Christmas and Chinese New Year

In the beginning of May, Blue Water was awarded the contract for transport of approx. 3000 cbm of risers from Port Klang, Malaysia to Willemstad, the Dutch Antilles. As it was an extremely urgent shipment, Blue Water chartered the M/S ”Leda Trader” which has a top speed of up to 22 knots.To assist with the loading, two ste-vedore foremen from Blue Water’s headquarters in Esbjerg arrived to work alongside with personnel from Blue Water Singapore, explains Tho-mas Bek of Blue Water Marine & Energy.After 24 days’ sail, the risers were dis-charged directly from the vessel on to the platform - once again under su-pervision of our competent personnel.

Transport from Port Klang to the Dutch AntillesThe job was performed successfully due to our team of experienced ste-vedore foremen, naval architect and project freight forwarders making use of each other’s competences and ex-periences.

Blue Water participated in ”Offshore Wind China Conference” in Shang-hai during the days of June 29-30. The Danish Exporters’ Association had arranged a small poster stand for 6 Danish companies including Blue Water. China is considered one of the richest countries in respect of offshore wind resources - estimated at 750 gW along a coastline of about 18,000 kilometres, where 40% of the popu-lation is living and the electricity con-

Blue Water participated in Wind Exhibitions in China

sumption is biggest. The conference was sponsored by Vestas and was well attended, reports Arne Iversen from China.We also participated in ”Wind Power Asia Exhibition” in Beijing from July 8-10 with a stand in the Danish pavi-lion, arranged by the Danish Expor-ters’ Association, where 20 Danish companies participated. The exhibi-tion took place for the first time in 2003 and is now regarded as one of Asia’s biggest wind power events.

The staff of Blue Water Singapore celebrated Chinese New Year to-gether at a reception, enjoying a delicious buffet and watching the traditional Chinese lion dance. The new year is called ”Year of the Ox”.

Did you know.....that Blue Water has daily departure to England and Ireland, where we have our own offices taking care of distribution? Did you know.....that Blue Water offers track & trace of general cargo to large parts of Western Europe via our on-line portal?

Windpower 2009 Chicago also caught Blue Water’s attention as Søren Thorup Nielsen/Blue Water Los Angeles paid the exhibition a visit. Here Søren is together with Casper Nielsen/KR Wind at KR Wind’s stand.

Beijing - left to right: Rikke Berg/the Danish Exporters’ Association and Carol Liu and Arne Iversen/Blue Water Qingdao.

Left to right: Jason Goh/Blue Water Singapore, Angela Zhang/Chief Rep-resentative of the Danish Exporters’ Association, Shanghai, Arne Iversen/Blue Water Qingdao and Bob Cai/Managing director of Shanghai King-line Logistics - Blue Water’s exclusive agent for project cargo to Shanghai.

Group photo of the Danish exhibi-tors in Shanghai.

The discharging operation in Wil-lemstad.

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According to UN’s World Econo-mic Situation and Prospects 2009 Report, Azerbaijan will remain the country with the most dyna-mic economy within the CIS. The report also says that the national economy will increase by 14%. Important figures for Blue Water’s continuous commitment in the re-gion, explains Business Develop-ment Manager for CIS, Kanan Zeynally/Blue Water Aberdeen.It was therefore important for us to

Blue Water has for decades offered transport solutions to the countries around the Caspian Sea. It was, however, not until 1996, with the opening of our first office in Azer-baijan, that we really became one of the leading freight forwarders in the area.We now have our own offices in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan with an experienced staff of 70 people.Our offices offer all kinds of trans-port and logistic services. In ad-

Blue Water has for 10 years been offering groupage services to seve-ral CIS countries on the basis of our Azerbaijan office. Our local trucks in the UK, Den-mark, Norway and the rest of Europe collect the goods for de-livery to our depots in Holland or Denmark. From here the goods are transported directly to Azerbaijan or Kazakhstan by road. The transports are handled by our experienced staff, who know the specific requirements to customs handling, invoice and packing list.

Blue Water Shipping has since the opening of its first office in Baku been involved in some of the big-gest projects around the Caspian Sea. Due to the geographical location, it is necessary to sail or tug all ma-jor units - typically produced in the Far East - through the Russian river system. A very challenging job due to the size and draught of the 19 locks we will have to pass through the river system. The staff of our Moscow, Esbjerg and Singapore offices are, how-ever, very experienced in these

attend the 16th Caspian Oil & Gas Eshibition in Baku. The number of participants had, however, de-creased this year due to the world-wide economic crisis, but the big players in the Caspian oil market - BP, Statoil and Saipem - were as usual represented with big stands. At the exhibition, Blue Water was represented by our local people from the Baku office and Kanan Zeynally/Blue Water Aberdeen.

CIS - our own backyarddition to transport by road, sea, rail and air, we have specialised in shipbroking and general customs handling.Blue Water has also since 1996 been entrusted with some of the biggest projects to the Caspian Sea - including transport of a gas production platform for Technip, a jack-up rig for Transocean Sedco Forex and an FSO tanker for Kep-pel SingMarine.

Baku ExpressAll shipments are followed closely, and the customer receives daily up-date on the precise location of the truck and expected date of arrival at destination.On arrival, our local offices are able to assist with customs clearance, delivery or storage facilities.In addition to groupage, we natu-rally offer full loads as well as out-of-gauge transport by road. For further information regarding road transport to CIS please contact Lasse Wolff/ e-mail: lnw@bws.dk.

Projectschallenging jobs. When combining their experience with the compe-tences of our stevedore foremen, engineers and project forwarders, we have succeeded in arranging some of the biggest projects which include transit through the river system.The latest project included trans-port of the biggest units that have ever been transported through the Russian river system - each unit weighing close to 6000 tons and measuring (L)132.8 m x (W) 16 m x (H) 17 m.

Caspian Oil & Gas Exhibition, Baku

Blue Water Shipping Qatar L.L.C. is proud to have Al-Nasr Group as its local partner. Al-Nasr Group is a well-reputed family business, which also includes the sister company Venture Gulf Group, which is the most reputed oil & gas support ser-vice centre situated in the industrial

Blue Water Shipping Qatar L.L.C.

Left to right: Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al Nasser/Venture Gulf Group, Milo H. Leach/Hydro Milling Group, Arne Iversen and John Daniel/Blue Water Qatar outside the facilities of Venture Gulf Group.

Did you know.....that Blue Water has daily departure to England and Ireland, where we have our own offices taking care of distribution? Did you know.....that Blue Water offers track & trace of general cargo to large parts of Western Europe via our on-line portal?

Blue Water’s stand - left to right: Nariman Mamedov, Kanan Zeynally, Fina Garber and Elnara Huseynova

area of Doha, Qatar, where many of the big oil & gas companies are lo-cated under one roof. Blue Water is also represented with a small office there in addition to the office in the city of Doha - the commercial hub of Qatar.

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Once again, the world’s biggest fisheries exhibition - SPE / ESE - attracted a large number of visitors. Smyril Blue Water had their own stand - with representatives from Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Ice-land - in the Danish Pavilion under the Danish Exporters’ Association. Furthermore, colleagues from Blue Water in Denmark and France with contact to the fishing industry drop-ped by. Blue Water’s exhibition department was co-ordinator for the main part

SPE / ESE, Brussels 28.-30.4.2009of the Danish exhibitors’ goods - ap-prox. 30 truck loads - and after the exhibition, a large part of the goods were to be forwarded to other ex-hibitions around Europe. It was a huge co-ordination job, which also included delivery of fresh fish every day, and resulted in very long work-ing hours for our on-site exhibition expert, Lasse Reuss/exhibition de-partment, Esbjerg. Everything went without a hitch and we are pleased that all exhibitors were satisfied with our efforts.

Our exhibition department in Es-bjerg has for a number of years en-joyed a very good co-operation with Marel Group with headquarters in Iceland. The company participates in 30 exhibitions around the world on an annual basis. Marel Group primarily manufactures processing machines to the food industry, be it meat, fish or poultry. As Marel Group is very strict about both deadlines and service, the solu-tions we arrive at together are often rather complicated. Most recently we had shipments from 5 different countries for the fisheries exhibi-tion, SPE, in Brussels. Part of the

Co-operation with Marel Groupgoods was for subsidiary companies around the world and another part was reforwarded to an exhibition in Barcelona. From here it was sent on to another exhibition, Eurocarne, in Verona. This particular job, which was performed in co-operation with Blue Water Milan, has been commended and mentioned in the Marel Group’s house magazine.On a worldwide scale, Marel Group employs 4000 people and is an ex-tremely important client for our ex-hibition department.

Did you know.....that Blue Water is among the biggest airfreight forwarders in Denmark? Did you know.....that Blue Water has specialists in handling of foodstuffs - chilled or frozen by sea, air or road - all over the world?

Despite the severe crisis in the ma-rine sector, this year’s Nordship-ping exhibition in Lillestrøm was sold out and the number of visitors was 15% higher than in 2007.Once more, Blue Water’s exhibiti-on department had the pleasure of co-ordinating the Danish collec-tive stand - approx. 1000 m2 - and we also had our own stand. We had two forwarders in Lillestrøm both before and after the exhibition to

Nordshipping - Lillestrøm, Norway

co-ordinate deliveries, unpacking and packing, trucking and collec-tion of empties - and everything went smoothly.Elisabeth Thomsen from Blue Water’s canteen in Esbjerg was the chef of the Danish collective stand, where approx. 6000 open sandwiches were made during the 4 exhibition days - a feat for which she gained much praise.

Marel’s stand.

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When our good client and friend, Michel Jestin, took over the small football club of Vannes in early 2008, when the team had just come from third to second division in the French football league, nobody would ever have imagined that they would make it all the way to the final in the French ”Coupe de la Ligue” already in April 2009. But they did !Surrounded by his staff - including the former professional football player, Fredric Cado, now partner in Jestin SAS - Michel Jestin had the pleasure to watch his team play-ing in the final against Bordeaux. They had made it all the way to the Stade de France by having beaten first division teams like Auxerre,

For many years, Blue Water France has been entrusted with regular jobs from Ess-Food France in connec-tion with their export of frozen food. For this reason, Mogens Niel-sen and Fabrice Rolland recently paid the company a visit at their office in Orléans and received a very warm welcome. Left to right: Pascal Amour/Ess-Food, Fabrice Rolland/Blue Water Brest, Tommy Jensen/Ess-Food, Mogens Niel-sen/Blue Water Brest and Vincent Ouzard/Ess-Food.

Blue Water Brest was appointed agents for the research vessel ”Cel-tic Explorer”, operating for Marine Institute, when she called at Brest during the days of May 2-5, 2009.Marine Institute is the Irish govern-mental agency responsible for ma-rine research, and the vessel is ma-naged by P&O Maritime Services.The vessel stayed in the port of Brest for some small repairs on the ROV and for scientist/ crew change. After completion of repairs, the vessel left Brest on 5.5. to partici-pate in a campaign of geological

In April 2009, Blue Water Brest was appointed agents for Global Marine Systems - operators and owners of the cable ship ”Wave Sentinel”. The ship calls at France Telecom berth at Brest, to load or discharge cables for repairs at sea, under the ACMA contract for maintenance and repairs. A contract which runs for a two-year period. The ship is registered in Portland, England, but will be calling at

M/S ”Bjorgvin Senior”, owned by Vetrasputni, Lithuania and char-tered to Nordic Offshore, Den-mark, discharged a cargo of scrap cables at Brest from June 14-16. The vessel will return for a similar job later in the summer.

Company Excursion - better late than never! Once again, the democratic vote among the staff of Blue Water France showed a majority for a skiing week-end with destination Andorra during the weekend of March 13-15. A good choice as the weather was perfect for skiing.

Vannes in the FinalValenciennes and Nice. 76,000 spectators including French Presi-dent Sarkozy watched the match, which Vannes sadly lost 4-0. Fabrice Rolland and Mogens Niel-sen from Blue Water France also watched the match and partied the night away on board a Parisian river boat together with Vannes’ players, staff, friends and sponsors.

Research Vessel at Brest study - ”Coral Fish” - in order to chart a deep canyon in the North Atlantic Ocean between Brittany and Western Ireland and to make a report on the state of the corals in these waters.

Agents for Cable Ship at Brest Brest from time to time to collect equipment from France Telecom.

In keeping with Tradition, Jacky Hamon/Casco hosted the annual golf tournament ”Golf Reflexion”, which this year took place on 7.5. ”It was a bright and sunny day, and I was only one stroke from the po-dium”, says Mogens Nielsen/Blue Water Brest. Better luck next time!

- for companies of the interna-tional conventional reefer ship-ping industry.

This years Reefer Summer Par-ty was held in mid-June in the beautiful Luton Hoo Hotel close to London. About 300 ship ow-ners, operators, brokers and char-terers, active in conventional ree-fer transportation, participated in the event organised by Richard Bright of Reefer Trends and Star Reefers. Blue Water was one of the spon-sors and participated with all the

Reefer Summer Party 2009ladies of our reefer chartering team in Brest: Robyn Briand, Mi-chelle Minto, Marianne Girardin, Elena Gadzhieva - as well as Mo-gens Nielsen and Dan Nissen/Blue Water Esbjerg.The day’s programme also inclu-ded speeches by journalist and economist Liam Halligan, who gave his opinion on the global financial crisis. To cheer up eve-rybody after the serious subject, the comedian L. Vaugham Spence ”Selfenhancement Motivation Guru” gave a performance which made a hit. On their way back home after the sum-

mer party in England, Maestro Ship-ping stopped over in Esbjerg to inspect their vessel ”Maestro Sun” which was in port. They also seized the opportu-nity to enjoy a nice lunch in Western Jutland. Left to right: Michael Dannes-boe, Asger Frederiksen, Jørgen Dan-nesboe and Torben Næsvang.

Did you know.....that Blue Water is among the biggest airfreight forwarders in Denmark? Did you know.....that Blue Water has specialists in handling of foodstuffs - chilled or frozen by sea, air or road - all over the world?

The Vannes team with club owner Michel Jestin to the far left.

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In early June, Carol Liu and Arne iversen/Blue Water Qing-dao went to Jining to visit one of our dedicated customers Jining Sanlong Vegetable and Fruit Co. Ltd. for business review as well as to see the garlic harvest. Jin-Xiang, Shandong is the biggest planting area for garlic in China - around 1.2 million tons of garlic is exported worldwide every year. Thousands of cars were waiting in

Once again, Søren Svennum/Blue Water Aalborg and Jeanette Kjeld-gaard/Blue Water Greenland en-joyed a fruitful trip to St. John’s, Newfoundland and Halifax, Nova Scotia. They primarily visited trawler owners discharging in Greenland, where Blue Water is taking care of handling and reforwarding of the goods to the Far East among other destinations.It was a pleasure to meet again with our existing business relations and interesting to meet new potential

As a member of USAPEEC, Blue Water participated in the annual sum-mer meeting which this time was held in Key Biscayne, Florida. USAPEEC is a committee of exporting poultry and egg producers in the USA, whe-re we have several good and loyal customers of long standing.The meeting offered rich oppor-tunity to see new and old contacts and attend different interesting presentations on what is going on in the business. Blue Water was represented by

USAPEEC 2009, Key BiscayneVictor Sapp/Blue Water New York, Lasse Petersen/Blue Water Fort Lauderdale and Frank Mad-sen/Blue Water Esbjerg.

Visiting Canada

Smyril Blue Water attended the fisheries exhibition ”Fish Expo Faroes 2009”, which took place in Torshavn from May 27-29. This year, we had chosen not to have our own stand, but to visit the stands

Fish Expo Faroes 2009of our customers and colleagues instead. It is always a pleasure to participate in exhibitions on the Faroe Islands, where we run into old friends of the family, says Bent Rasmussen/Smyril Blue Water.

Did you know.....that Blue Water has an on-line portal which facilitates statistics and customer notification? Did you know.....that Blue Water is the leading freight forwarder on the South American market centred around Argentina & Chile and of course Brazil?

Rio Import & Export - left to right: Jea-nette Kjeldgaard, Winston J. Spenser, Holly Lavigne and Søren Svennum.

Andrew Daley - Andrew Daley and his wife Christine, who is looking after administration.

AMP Fisheries - Rex Simmons and his wife Paula, who is taking care of administrative matters.

Ocean Choice - Rick Ellis and Søren Svennum.

NF Mariner Fishing Enterprise Ltd. - Jeanette Kjeldgaard, Edgar Branton and Ray Croft.

Labrador Fishermen’s Union Shrimp Company - Jeanette Kjeldgaard and Kenneth Fowler.

Williams / Arctic Fishery Alliance - Jeanette Kjeldgaard with Paula Tay-lor, Jerry Williams and Harry Earle.

PF Collins - left to right: Søren Svennum, Andrew Collins and De-borah Roche.

Søren Svennum and the girls of Pescadores.

clients. In spite of the world crisis, everybody is optimistic and ex-pects a good season with landings in Greenland.

Left to right: Victor Sapp, Marcelo Russo/Royal Foods of Americas and Frank Madsen.

Left to right: Lasse Petersen, Vic-tor Sapp, Michael Stentebjerg/Uhrenholt and Olga Starodubste-va/Eastern Poultry.

Left to right: Lasse Petersen, Micah Hendry/Hakan USA and Victor Sapp.

Bent Rasmussen/Smyril Blue Water (in the middle) visiting Hirtshals’ collective stand together with - from left to right: Ole Toft/Marine Service and Ivan Mad-sen/Kølemadsen among others.

The Faroese Prime Minister Kaj Leo Johannesen visiting our col-leagues Faroe Agency.

a 2-kilometre line to sell their har-vest of garlic.Left to right: Wang Linlin/San-long, Carol Liu, Arne Iversen and Sun Youngqin/CEO of Sanlong.

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On 25.4., Blue Water Fort Lauder-dale participated in the Interna-tional Golden Compass Award Dinner in support of the Seafarer’s House in Port Everglades. It was a fantastic evening with 400 guests, and donee of the year was Stein Kruse, CEO of Holland America Line, reports Rasmus Øllgaard from Florida.

The first official meeting in the newly established Cruise & Ma-rine Logistic Network was held in Esbjerg on 14.7. The network con-sists of specialists within logistics to the cruise and marine industry and the purpose is to form a glo-bal network. The parties involved deal with all kinds of transport to the cruise and marine industry and offer specific logistic solutions including pick and pack and spe-cially designed IT systems with 24-hour track & trace of transport by road, sea and air as well as so-lutions to all domestic, internatio-nal and overseas destinations. In the near future, all marketing material will be available and the website is in the process of being designed. For further information

Blue Water Copenhagen is pleased that the cruise season has brought hectic activity to the office. Blue Water has since the first call in May handled 6 calls/approx. 40 containers in Aarhus and Copen-hagen of m/s ”Rotterdam”, m/s ”Prinsendam” and m/s ”Eurodam” respectively. When the season is over, we have handled around 70 containers distributed on 11 calls. We are in charge of provisioning of food especially ordered by Hol-land America Line from different suppliers in the USA. The food is packed in reefer containers and handled by Blue Water, Fort Lau-derdale before we take over the re-maining part of the transport until everything is delivered directly to the ship. We started the year with meetings with all parties involved in order to secure an optimal standard of ser-vice and a smooth handling. After-wards we have maintained a close dialogue, which has resulted in a trouble-free operation so far, expla-ins Thomas Jeppesen of Blue Water Copenhagen.

International Prize Award in Port Everglades

Our partner IWS, Fort Lauderdale - Betty Ann and Fred Rogacki -were also among the guests.

Cruise & Marine Logistic Network

Sightseeing in Esbjerg - the network group at one of the landmarks of the city ”The White Men” at Sædding Beach. Left to right: Rasmus Øllgaard/Blue Water Fort Lauder-dale, Kurt Skov/Blue Wa-ter, Andrea Giachero/Pri-ano Marchelli, Carsten Leder/Tefra Travel Logi-stics, Lisette Trab Munk/Blue Water Esbjerg, Ross Negus/Southamp-ton Freight Services and Richard Buys/Blue Water Rotterdam.

please check: www.marinelogi-sticnetwork.comThe board consists of the directors of the founding companies:

Carsten Leder of Tefra Travel • Logistics, GermanyAndrea Giachero of Priano • Marchelli, ItalyRoss Negus of Southampton • Freight Services, EnglandKurt Skov of Blue Water•

Blue Water is involved in the cruise industry in Florida/USA, Holland, Denmark, the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland, Spain, Dubai and Singapore. The board elected Andrea Gia-chero Chairman of the group and Lisette Trab Munk/BlueWater was elected Vice President.

Holland America calling at DenmarkWe enjoy a close and excellent co-operation with CMP (Copen-hagen Malmo Port) and the border customs house - in both Aarhus and Copenhagen. In Copenhagen, we use CMP for container trucking to and from the veterinary inspection and delivery at the vessel. In Aar-hus, Cargo Service takes care of container trucking.In addition to containers, we handle more than 400 shipments by cou-rier and air, explains Kasper Niel-sen from our airfreight department. All these orders to the vessel comes from Holland America Line’s worldwide suppliers, and Blue Wa-ter serves as consolidation hub for the entire Scandinavia/the Baltic Sea for spare parts etc. to be deli-vered to the ship in the fastest and safest way. The goods may vary from adver-tising material and personal effects of the seamen to essential marine engine parts. Storage of the goods until ship’s arrival requires a lot of work in connection with customs clearance and extensive follow-up.

Did you know.....that Blue Water has an on-line portal which facilitates statistics and customer notification? Did you know.....that Blue Water is the leading freight forwarder on the South American market centred around Argentina & Chile and of course Brazil?

Rasmus Øllgaard, Zaida Pena, Nanna Juul Andersen and Lasse Petersen from Blue Water’s team in Fort Lauderdale participated in the event.

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This spring has again seen a lot of inquiries for import of cars from the USA. Despite the financial crisis, there are still some car en-thusiasts who brave the situation and make their dream come true. US Carteam of Blue Water Co-penhagen has also experienced an increase in inquiries during the last couple of months as the summer has drawn close.

Import of American Cars Several cars are already on their way from the USA and more are ready for loading. This activity is carried out in co-operation with our good colleagues at Blue Wa-ter’s New York office, who are responsible for the US customs formalities, loading etc. US Carteam is ready to make your dream come true!E-mail: uscarteam_cph@bws.dk

Blue Water has been entrusted with a huge, interesting project ”2880 Gjøa” for our very good client NKT Flexi-bles A/S in Brøndby and Kalundborg.Over the past 4 months, we have ar-ranged transport of approx. 50 full loads from the UK to Blue Water Copenhagen, where the goods - 4,800 cbm Buoyancy Modules - are now stored. The goods consist of buoyancy modules for oil and gas pipes going from the bottom of the sea to connec-tions on an oil rig in the Gjøa field off Bergen on the Norwegian coast.NKT’s client, StatoilHydro, has bought the modules as a package con-sisting of 7 flexible pipes among other things. The first 197 modules have al-ready been delivered at Kalundborg to ”Polar Queen” - an installation vessel, which is going to perform installation of both pipes and modules in the Gjøa field. ”Polar Queen” is expected back at Kalundborg in mid-August, when

Project ”2880 Gjøa”delivery of the remaining 128 modu-les is supposed to take place. In addition, we have arranged 4 spe-cial transports by truck - in co-opera-tion between Blue Water Copenhagen and our project department in Esbjerg - as well as marking of the bolts on the modules, which will be replaced du-ring installation.

Did you know.....that Blue Water has 800 trailers (the majority of our fleet) fitted with GPS tracking Did you know.....that Blue Water is one of the biggest suppliers of express & courier services in Denmark?

Loading of the modules on board the ”Polar Queen” - 197 modules in total weighing 315 tons.

The yellow Buoyancy Modules stored at Blue Water Copenhagen.

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Blue Water Aarhus has during the last couple of years developed a small niche within trophy trans-port. Every second month, we ship a full container with trophies from South Africa. Furthermore we have orders from customers for trophies from New Zealand, Ca-nada, USA, Bosnia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Spain, Namibia, Tanzania, Botswana and Zimbabwe, explains Carl Hjort Bækby/Blue Water Aar-hus, who jointly with Søren Lade-kjær (airfreight) and Jesper Kyhn (Sea freight) are dealing with the bookings.Thanks to Amakulu Safari in Grindsted - who is represented in

Trophy Transportboth Denmark and South Africa - Blue Water has secured a foothold within this special niche.

Hunting is a matter of opinion just like any other issues. We do not take part in the discussion, but we do make sure that our partners are serious companies and organisati-ons and that the hunting is organi-sed and legal.All necessary certificates are is-sued in accordance with the Was-hington Convention, protecting endangered species, and all cir-cumstances are checked for each shipment in connection with im-port to Denmark.

Blue Water Rotterdam moved into new office and warehouse facilities on 16.3. The event was celebrated with no less than two receptions - the first official opening on 15.5. for customers and the second one on

Reception at Blue Water Holland

Did you know.....that Blue Water has 800 trailers (the majority of our fleet) fitted with GPS tracking Did you know.....that Blue Water is one of the biggest suppliers of express & courier services in Denmark?

20.5. for colleagues and other busi-ness relations of the shipping and transport industry. Everybody enjoyed the Danish ele-ment; open sandwiches, Danish beer - Tuborg - and Danish aquavit.

When participating in exhibitions in Denmark, Amakulu Safari do not make a secret of who is helping them with the transport.

Trophy Transport

For FurTher inFormaTion please conTacT: saFari@BWs.DK

Blue Water shipping offers you and your trophies a complete transport package including:

contact to taxidermist•local transport (country of origen)•Dip & pack•safe packing•issue of transport documents•sea and airfreight to Denmark •unpacking•customs clearance•local delivery in scandinavia•Translation•insurance•

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Based on the plans for expansion of the Port of Rømø, to include service to the German sector of the wind-mill industry, Blue Water has made an agreement about establishing an office in Havneby, Rømø. The of-fice facilities are under construction and expected finished in October. Managing Director of the Port of Romo, Mikkel Glerup, is looking forward to having an experienced player within transport to the wind-mill industry on the scene, and hav-ing the expertise in place right from the start.

Blue Water Rømø

Falck Nutec offers training and safety education to the offshore sector. Training centres have the-refore been established at strate-gic locations - not only around the North Sea, but around the world. Blue Water Marine & Energy has in this respect during the last couple of years arranged transport of mo-bile training centres to USA and the Middle East among other destina-tions. Falck Nutec’s latest addition is a new centre in Abu Dhabi, for which they have high hopes and ex-pect to educate 20,000 people on a yearly basis.

Transport for Falck NutecBlue Water is not only involved in the actual transport, we also act as advisers for customs formalities of the different markets, where Falck Nutec is setting up new training centres. Last autumn, Falck took over the majority of shares in Ame-rican Alford Group, and in this con-nection Blue Water was entrusted with removal of a complete training centre from Malaysia to the States. Our latest job was to provide assi-stance in connection with delivery of an ambulance to Nigeria, reports Lasse Nørgaard Wolff/oil & energy, Esbjerg.

Blue Water has jointly with J. Lauritzen, Copenhagen and the offshore company, SubCPartner, established a company - Laurit-zenBlueC - with the object of executing orders for complete offshore installations and offshore

LauritzenBlueCwind farms. J. Lauritzen is responsible for the shipping activities, SubCPart-ner for offshore installation and Blue Water for the logistics. The company is managed by Frank Mouridsen/Blue Water.

In June, Odfjell Well Services ce-lebrated its 5th anniversary in Den-mark. Right from the start in 2004, Blue Water has been pleased to have Odfjell not only as a transport client, but also as a tenant of our facilities in the port of Esbjerg. Odfjell Well Services is a service company within the oil and energy industry offering rental of equip-ment for handling of casings on oil rigs among other things.A reception was held on the occa-sion of the jubilee as well as to ce-lebrate the inauguration of the new excellent office facilities and the upgraded workshop.

Odfjell Well Services in New Facilities

We hereby congratulate Odfjell on their jubilee and their new facilities and look forward to another 5 hectic years.

In October 2008, our project de-partment in Esbjerg received an inquiry from BK Aalborg for transport of boilers for a big solar energy plant. The plant, which takes up an area of approx. 2000 acres, is placed in the South of Spain close to Sevil-le. The transport project includes shipment of 40 boilers - weighing between 40 and 80 tons - from Aalborg and Shanghai respective-ly - in 5 lots during 2009/2010.The first two transports are com-pleted. The boilers from Aalborg

Project Transport of Boilers for Solar Energy Plant

were transported by road combi-ned with Cobelfret’s RO/RO ser-vice from Esbjerg to Zeebrugge and Transfennica’s RO/RO service from Zeebrugge to Bilbao. The boilers from Shanghai will be sent as partial cargo by heavy-lift vessel from Shanghai to port of Seville. Our project department in Esbjerg as well as Blue Water Sin-gapore and Blue Water Projects, Barcelona are involved in the pro-ject. Barcelona will take care of the discharging of the vessel and oncarriage to the site.

Did you know.....that Blue Water is shipping approx. 100 cbm general cargo from Denmark to the Far East on a weekly basis with our own sea freight consolidation? Did you know.....that Blue Water is handling more than 3000 cbm on a monthly basis from the Far East to Denmark with our own sea freight consolidation?

Loading of 82-ton boiler in Shanghai. Kenneth Frandsen, Manager of Odfjell Services in Esbjerg, outside the office.

This scissor table is being used for making up various types of casing and tubing on drilling rigs in the North sea.

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134 Blue Water runners and an enormous cheering crowd had a wonderful day in Gryden (part of a big park in Esbjerg) on Saturday 14.6. Our best male run-ner on the long distance (9.2 kilometres) was Peter Lauridsen, finishing with a 38.11.0 clocking, and Mette Thomsen was best female with a 42.30.0 clocking.

We have sniffed out the news about a Danish Champion among us. Steen Schou/IT department goes in for the sport of bridge, and in late April he and his team won the fine title, which also included Prince Henrik’s trophy.

As start of the summer party of our Aarhus office, the staff visited the successful exhibition ”Sculptures by the Sea”. A hired guide showed our colleagues the unique sculptu-res along the beautiful Aarhus Bay

We have for safety reasons in-stalled Card Aids/Defibrillators at the Danish offices. We are a lot of people at the offices every day and it is reassuring to know that we are now prepared for emergencies. A number of employees have atten-ded first aid courses, but anybody should be able to use the Card Aid without prior knowledge.

Blue Water’s staff in Sao Paulo have attended a meeting/course at MSC in Santos in order to follow developments within the reefer business. It was the third time MSC offered their clients an update. In addition to practical and technical details, we also got the opportu-nity to see the port of Santos.

Blue Water Shipping A/SUmm RamoolP.O.Box 24245DubaiUAETel. +971 04-2863955Fax. +971 04-2863544E-mail: bwsdxb@bws.dk

Blue Water International A/S43 Saburtalo Str.TbilisiGeorgiaTel. +995 32519882Fax. +995 32366125tbilisi@bws.dk

Blue Water España was buzzing with excitement at the end of May - not least because they could now chaff their Manchester colleagues. FC Barcelona won the whole lot - the Spanish cup tie, the Spanish League and Champions’ League. There is a splendid view from the office in Via Laitana, where our colleagues watched the team’s tri-umphal procession.

Did you know.....that Blue Water is shipping approx. 100 cbm general cargo from Denmark to the Far East on a weekly basis with our own sea freight consolidation? Did you know.....that Blue Water is handling more than 3000 cbm on a monthly basis from the Far East to Denmark with our own sea freight consolidation?

”Sculptures by the sea”

Company Excursion

The annual company excursion arranged by the staff club for the staff (in cluding their partners) of Blue Water Esbjerg, Billund and Herning was held on Saturday 25.4. The day’s programme started at 1200 hours and included lots of physical activities such as team building and not least fun and trickery. The party in the evening, with plenty of food and drink, continued with dancing all night.

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Jubilees

Staff RedeploymentMorten Plauborg Sørensen is after a period with Ocean Freight, Pa-ris transferred to Blue Water New York as from 29.5.

Diana Kaa completed her appren-ticeship with Blue Water Aarhus on 31.7., and moved to Blue Water Gothenburg on 1.8.

10 yearsKaren Stein worked as a substitute in our accounts department in Es-bjerg from 18.1 until 1.11.1999, when she was transferred to a permanent job in the UK/Ireland department. Once she was also hi-red out to airfreight on a part-time basis, but is now 100% back in the UK/Ireland department taking good care of the many administrative du-ties as well as claims. On the home front, Karen is an ac-tive wife and mother for her 3 x J: Jørgen, Jakob and Joakim. She also plays in Esbjerg Post Orchestra to-gether with Jørgen and is a treasu-rer in the local scouts association.

Finn B. Jensen will be celebrating his 10th anniversary with Blue Water Padborg on 1.11. Finn is our man on evening duty, trying to keep control of the foreign truck drivers in particular - who come to collect papers - and confused terminal staff trying to locate some fish.Sometimes a little Polish or Rus-sian knowledge would have been an advantage, but Finn manages to keep calm and sort things out so that the drivers can continue their onward transport. Dorthe Liebmann Knudsen served her apprenticeship with Scandina-vian Germent Service in Odense (the present DHL). Dorthe started as assistant in the airfreight de-partment of Blue Water Odense on 1.11.1999, but the job developed and soon Dorthe became an inte-grated part of the daily airfreight operation. She has since acquired the Forwarding School’s diploma degree including both road trans-

port and airfreight as special sub-jects. Furthermore Dorthe has taken refresher courses to keep up her skills within the fields of hazardous goods and airfreight. In 2006, Dor-the took over the secretarial post in the sales department and is today our local SMS expert as well. On the home front, Dorthe is mar-ried to Michael and the family also includes their two sons Kris and Kevin.

20 yearsFrank Junk joined Blue Water Pad-borg on 1.7.1989 - only 17 years old - and started his career under the management of Wolfgang Schubert - specialist in customs formalities. No one doubts that Frank is trained with order and details as important elements in the daily work, which he masters completely.In 1991, Frank was transferred to our road department in Esbjerg. Germany soon became his favou-rite destination and is today his core competence. The Germany and Benelux department moved to Kolding in 1998 and so did Frank. In 2003, he was appointed head of the department which numbers 9 colleagues.Frank is incredibly energetic and always ready to meet the challenge - and is happy to help his colleagues whenever necessary. Frank never makes mistakes - so he says!!! He always has a ready answer and he is a real joker and party freak!! A lot of people wonder how Frank can be married to Sanne - when he is already married to Blue Water. Frank and Sanne live in Kolding and have two daughters Josephine

aged 5 and Sophie aged 3.We hereby thank Frank for his great efforts and congratulate him on the occasion.

Anette Tholstrup Corell/Blue Water Esbjerg will be celebrating her 20th jubilee on 15.10. Anette originally started as a receptionist, but has over the years developed into a bit of an all-rounder and is today part of our sales administration assisting our 3 salesmen, superuser on our sales system and not least instructor on our internal IT products. Anette is a happy girl and great fun and always ready to lend a helping hand. She is a bit of a shopaholic - with a weakness for boots and shoes in particular (she is probably the person in Denmark who has the biggest amount of shoes in her clo-set). Anette lives in Varde with her husband, Lars, and two sons, Peter and Frederik, and the whole family shares a passion for golf. Anette likes to watch a football match at Blue Water Arena - especially when AFG (her native football club) is playing !

Did you know.....that Blue Water has a close co-operation with approx. 40 different container lines? Did you know.....that Blue Water is handling more than 50,000 x 20’ containers worldwide on an annual basis?

Fred Kegge/Blue Water Rotterdam - after 25 years of complaining with a smile about Blue Water, acting as a beer bottle with a swing top of his favourite beer on his head.

Nicolai Wiedeman, who served his first year of apprenticeship with Smyril Blue Water, Padborg and the recent months in Hanstholm, will be transferred to Esbjerg.

Kenneth Ruby Sørensen/agency department, Esbjerg will be trans-ferred to Blue Water Singapore this autumn. Frank Junk on the day of his jubilee.

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New employeesAalborg Aida Maksumic - 44 years old - is employed as assistant in the department for sea freight

to the North Atlantic as from 1.6. Aida comes from a similar job with Danish Camp Supply and was originally trained at SKAT (tax and customs authorities).

On 1.8., 22-year-old Steve Sonberg Egede joined our North Atlantic seafood department as freight forward-

ing trainee. Steve is not completely unfamiliar with the business, as he has been working temporarily as assistant at the office since 4.5.

Kasper Junge - 19 years old - started as freight forwarding trainee in the airfreight depart-ment on 1.8.20-year-old Trine F. Mikkelsen joined our forwarding department as freight forward-

ing trainee on 1.8.BillundOn 1.8., 19-year-old Nicolai Nørgaard joined our courier and import depart-ment as freight

forwarding trainee.EsbjergHaving complet-ed his education as a multi-media designer, 22-year-old Brian Hundebøl

is employed as marketing assistant as from 1.7. Brian is already a familiar face within Blue Water, as he since April 2008 has been assis-ting the marketing department on a regular basis.

On 1.8., Mia Jakobsen - 20 years old - star-ted as account-ing trainee in the accounts payable department.

As from 1.8., 20-year-old Jakob Winum Andersen forms part of the accounts department as

accounting trainee.We have taken on 20-year-old Simon Skov as freight forward-ing trainee in the deep sea department as

from 1.8.New freight forwarding trainee in the UK department as from 1.8. is 20-year-old Christian Rode

Hansen. Mathias Kipker - 20 years old - started as freight forwarding trainee in the agency de-partment on 1.8.

Odense Stig Jeppesen - 22 years old - forms part of the Scandinavian department since 1.8. as freight

forwarding trainee.PadborgSince 1.7., the 20-year-old forward-ing trainee Michael Hansen forms

part of our Germany department.AarhusMaja Djozis - 21 years old - started as freight forwarding trainee in our Norwegian

department on 1.8.AktauSince 1.6., 37-year-old Mai-ya Kononenko has performed the function of finance manager.

Maiya has 15 years of experience from the banking and investment world. During the last 7 years, however, she has been working for Bertling Ltd.

22-year-old Eldar Sarbasov started as driver of our local pickup on 1.6.

27-year-old Mi-roslava Surjenko is employed in our key account department to service a major client - a job she

is very well prepared for due to her wide experience.

IlulissatMalik Zeeb Olsen - 24 years old - is our jack-of-all-trades - warehouse manager, driver,

interpreter - since 1.6.2008. Malik is a nice chap, who is not afraid of hard work and has an extra job as substitute policeman in Ilulissat.

Los AngelesAnthony Torres - 42 years old - started in our operations department on 5.3. Anthony

has a long business experience, which most recently included jobs with Transit Air Cargo and Packair Customs Brokers & Forwarders, Los Angeles. Furthermore Anthony has lived in Switzerland for 7 years, where he was involved in interna-tional distribution and shipping.

OsloJoanna Garalc-zyk - 30 years old - performs the function of finance control-ler in SOD (dis-

tribution department) since 11.5. Joanna was previously employed with UPS, but has for the last year been on maternity leave with her little son Philip.

Lars Gundersen - 45 years old - is employed as forwarder in SOD (distribu-tion department) as from 1.7.

For the last 5 years, Lars has been working for Cargo Partner.

As from 1.9., 48-year-old Lisbeth Lund is employed as ac-counts assistant. Lisbeth’s previ-ous job was as

financial controller with Unifeeder since 1991.

As from 1.9., 50-year-old Geir Sund is ap-pointed general manager of our Oslo office. Geir takes over the

responsibility after Knut Gran, who has been acting general manager since July 2008 and will continue in the company.Geir is already well-known and popular among a large number of Blue Water colleagues, as he has been employed with Cargo Partner and Kuhne & Nagel, both former agents for Blue Water in Norway.Geir has a wide transport experi-ence, mainly within road transport, domestic transport, sales and logistics, but he is also familiar with sea and airfreight. Geir’s career includes jobs as sales manager for Nor Cargo, road manager for Kuhne & Nagel, Norway and most recently a job as head of domestic for Cargo Partner Group, Norway.

Rotterdam20-year-old Denny Twigt is employed as warehouse assistant as from 1.7. Denny is

a familiar face as he was a trainee at Blue Water Rotterdam for two years, when he was still at the Harbour and Transport School. Denny completed his traineeship with Rotterdam Short Sea Terminal and worked there for one year afterwards.

Sao Paulo21-year-old Marcelo Feal Oliveira joined our Sao Paulo office as ac-counting assist-

ant on 4.5. Marcelo is a student of business administration with focus on foreign trade, and has worked at Mackenzie’s Junior Enterprise as a project manager. Working with Blue Water will be Marcelo’s first experience in shipping.

Did you know.....that Blue Water has a close co-operation with approx. 40 different container lines? Did you know.....that Blue Water is handling more than 50,000 x 20’ containers worldwide on an annual basis?

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Birthday List

Births WeddingsMehri Huseynova/Blue Water Baku gave birth to a baby girl (3.3 kgs/49 cm), Melhriban, on 23.3.

On 6.5., Anne Roed Skov/Oil & Energy department, Esbjerg increa-sed her little family by a baby girl Frida (3.1 kgs/51 cm). The family of 4 also includes the proud 3 year elder brother Victor.

Mette Sønderskov Christiansen/Blue Water Billund gave birth to a baby girl (3.4 kgs/51 cm) on 17.5. The little family, which also inclu-des big brother Andreas, is reported in good shape.

On 20.5., Heather Zhang/Blue Wa-ter Qingdao was delivered of a child - a big fine boy (4.7 kgs/56 cm).

Thomas Zuidema/Blue Water Rot-terdam and his wife have increased their little famility by a baby boy (2.6 kgs/48 cm) - Olivier - born on 26.5. The family also includes the proud big sister, Britt, aged 6.

On 14.6., Heins Christensen/IT department, Esbjerg became a fat-her for the third time. The family, which also includes two fine boys, was very happy to welcome a baby sister (3.6 kgs/52 cm).

Cynthia Goh’s/Blue Water Sin-gapore little boy (2.7 kgs/47 cm), Ryan Ee, first saw the light of day on 23.6.

Torben Nyborg/forwarding depart-ment, Esbjerg married Anne Sofie Weidinger in Hjerting Church on 20.6.

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On 24.6., Rasmus Bildstrup/Fin-land department, Aarhus proudly announced the birth of his little son (3.1 kgs/52 cm).

Aurore Dupont/Blue Water Vatry gave birth to a baby boy (2.7 kgs/48 cm), Raphaël, on 29.6.

Linda Tosti/accounts department, Esbjerg became a mother for the first time on 5.7. - of a baby boy (3.1 kgs/51 cm). The proud father’s name is Thomas.

Jesper Kassow/Blue Water Aalborg became a father for the second time on 25.7. when his wife, Pernille, gave birth to a baby girl (3.4 kgs/51 cm) - Anna.

Carsten Jensen/Blue Water Kolding became a father for the first time on 1.8., when his wife, Jessica, gave birth to a baby girl 3.8 kgs/52 cm).

On 12.08, Pamela Cherrier /Blue Water Vatry became a mother for the first time of the little girl Neyah (3 kgs/48 cm).The new mother and the baby are fine.

Søren Messmann and his wife, Mette, became parents for the se-cond time, when Mette gave birth to a baby girl, Ida (3.1 kgs/51 cm), on 9.8. The family also includes the very prod big sister Sine.

Our Russian colleague in Brest, Elena Gadzhieva, married Patrice Azria at the town hall of Le Relecq Kerhuon on 17.7. As you can see from the picture, Elena is pregnant and is actually expecting twins.

Thomas Kim Møller/Blue Water Copenhagen entered into matrimo-ny with his fiancée, Helle, on 25.7. The wedding took place in Skive and on the same occasion Thomas changed his name to Thomas Lind-blom Møller.

SeptemberCarsten Olsen, Herning - 40 years old 3.9.Sharon Tan Siew Leng, Singapore - 30 years old 4.9.Mohammad Qasim, Dubai - 30 years old 19.9.Zhou Fang, Qingdao - 30 years old 19.9.Shahin Ismaylov, Baku - 40 years old 22.9.Jan Olav Edvardsen, Oslo - 40 years old 26.9.

OctoberHans Poiesz, Rotterdam - 50 years old 2.10.Neil Daniel, Dubai - 40 years old 18.10.Inga Safarova, Baku - 50 years old 19.10.Adriano Venetucci Gouveia, Sao Paulo - 30 years old 21.10.Prabhal Shetty, Jebel Ali - 40 years old 24.10. Ole Ulriksen, Aalborg - 50 years old 30.10.

NovemberMargaret Kremenchuk, Aktau - 40 years old 6.11.Guro Dyrud, Oslo - 40 years old 19.11.Anette Tholstrup, Esbjerg - 40 years old 25.11.

DecemberKlaus Odby Jensen, Esbjerg - 30 years old 1.12.Alex Gottfredsen, Copenhagen - 60 years old 19.12.Torben Nyborg, Esbjerg - 30 years old 22.12.

Christina Husted Christensen/deep sea department, Esbjerg married her fiancé, Henrik in Jerne Church on 8.8.

On 8.7., Mette Jessen/Blue Water Bil-lund changed her surname to Mad-sen by secretly marrying her fiancé, Anders, at a town hall wedding.

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