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4-2012 4 Thousands of jobs: A Danish maritime growth rocket

6 Arctic pioneering becoming routine:


10 Arctic Navigation:

An old idea comes to life in a new climate

11 Is gas going to be the next winner

12 Still believing in shipping after four years of crisis

14 Shipping companies to pirates’ hostages


16 E-navigation:

Helping to concentrate on sailing

18 World’s best restaurant chooses wines shipped by sail

19 Consolidation of the Danish maritime media business

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Thousands of jobs:

A Danish maritime growth rocketHow can you talk about growth when world economy and shipping is

struggling even to keep its nose above water. To Carsten Mortensen, CEO

of Norden, chairman of Danish Shipowners Association and head of the

maritime part of a government-initiated growth task force the answer is

simple: Shipping is a cyclic industry and tough times call for establishing

a solid basis for the next upturn.

Thousands of jobs: A Danish maritime growth rocket4 Daily news on www.maritimedanmark.dk

That’s why the whole Danish maritime sector has taken en-

thusiastically part in the government initiated project to ana-

lyze the growth situation and select the best potentials for

further development in the sector.

The maritime growth team – with participation of shipping

companies, maritime suppliers, service providers, trade

unions, business organization and not least universities and

– has established a number of areas of special interest to

meet in an increasingly competitive global market.

Even though the Danish shipowners find themselves in a

pretty strong starting position, expecting to sail home a for-

eign currency turnover for 2012 of 195 billion Danish kroner,

close to the pre-crisis level, the focus on cooperation within

the maritime cluster - including the education and research

sector - is increasing.

A Danish specialty is a strong tradition for political consen-

sus on the maritime industry. Governments from all sides of

the political spectrum have for decades seen shipping as a

stronghold worth their general support and the current min-

ister for business and growth, Ole Sohn, is no exception. He

has from day one in office picked shipping as a major area of

interest.

Thus the recommendations from the growth team is able

to draw on sympathy from all sides of society – business,

unions, authorities, schools and universities – to form a com-

mon approach to creating new jobs – potentially thousands of

them according to Danish Shipowners - by increasing global

focus on the entire sector, attracting new businesses and in-

novating solutions of all kinds through better frame condi-

tions, better education and research and higher efficiency.

SIX RECOMMENDATIONS

The six recommendations point out that Denmark must be at-

tractive to maritime companies, the general frame conditions

must be competitive, increased efficiency, digitalization and

innovation must create competitive advantage, The Blue Den-

mark must be marketed determinedly and its competences,

research and innovation capacities must be strengthened

while all green growth potential must be exploited through

cooperation and partnering.

The Blue Denmark is the name of maritime cluster in a country

small enough to have only one such cluster and big enough to

ship 10 percent of the global trade. Danish shipping compa-

nies and national industrial suppliers and service providers

as well as education and research institutes have for quite a

while been cooperating – while still competing – to gain mu-

tual results but now this effort has been completed with the

governmental initiated task force with growth as its prime

goal.

The Danish shipping cluster has for years been a powerful ex-

porter and provider of general earnings and employee income

far above average. It is significant that even the maritime au-

thorities are considered part of the cluster.

One of the first recommendations is that Denmark should be

attractive to maritime businesses. This calls for the framework

conditions for shipping to be stable, competitive and sustain

growth. At the same time maritime growth opportunities as-

sociated with offshore must be strengthened together with

growth opportunities in the Arctic.

LIKE SINGAPORE

The strong international competition is a challenge to the

Danish maritime cluster but far from considered invincible.

However the general framework conditions must be competi-

tive, the report recommends: Production costs must be com-

petitive and access to better financing for the maritime indus-

try is of the essence.

Danish shipping sees itself as quite efficient and does not

hesitate to aim for being the leading shipping nation of Eu-

rope. Still the recommendations call for a cross-industry in-

crease in efficiency, digitization and innovation to create com-

petitive advantage. A suggestion is a partnership of Lean Ship

of the Future/Smart Shipping.

A role model for Danish maritime aspiration is Singapore with

its high share (73 percent) of foreign shipping companies.

To take up the challenge the growth team quite strongly sug-

gests that The Blue Denmark be marketed much stronger:

- The Danish maritime cluster has strong qualities, and Den-

mark is an attractive place to do business from. A targeted,

strategic and intensive effort to brand Denmark as a good

place to settle could lead to increased growth and employ-

ment in terms of attracting new businesses and offices, the

team highlights.

These actions will also be able to strengthen the maritime

cluster and create a good basis for sales of Danish maritime

companies’ products and services in global markets. A pre-

requisite for a comprehensive marketing of the Blue Denmark

is a common vision and strengths.

The vision has even got a name: The brand should be rolled

out through the vision of “Denmark - the Core of Maritime

Europe” with strengths as “Commerce Competence & Coop-

eration” and target foreign companies and attract also non-

European companies to establish regional office in Denmark.

Types of maritime companies, which currently do not exist

in Denmark – it might be crew agencies, technical manage-

ment companies and headquarters of classification societies

– should be welcomed.

Knowledge and sense of quality has been a trademark of The

Blue Denmark, and now its skills, research and innovation ca-

pacities should be stronger.

The green growth opportunities must be exploited through

collaboration and partnerships, like a suggested partnership

on maritime retrofit. And all future climate and environmental

regulation should support growth.

By Finn Bruun

Thousands of jobs: A Danish maritime growth rocket 5Daily news on www.maritimedanmark.dk

Arctic pioneering becoming routine:

Great cold potential for Danish shippingThe ice cover in the Arctic has been shrinking in recent years and

simultaneously increased the maritime expectations of significantly

shorter ship travels to the Far East as well as prospects of offshore

servicing of the oil, gas and mining industry, that a still milder climate

encourages in the northern parts of the globe.This is the reasons why the Arctic is included as a special sub-

ject in the Danish maritime growth team’s proposals for a new

strategy for the Danish maritime cluster, The Blue Denmark.

The team expects shipping activity around Greenland to in-

crease as a result of offshore activities and transit along the

Northeast and Northwest passage north of Russia and North

America and points out, that studies by U.S. Geological Sur-

vey and others show that there can be huge yet unproven oil

and especially gas reserves in the Arctic.

It is estimated that the Arctic may contain up to 30 percent of

the world’s yet undiscovered gas resources and approx. 10

percent of oil resources. Approximately 97 percent of these

resources are estimated to exist within the Arctic countries’

exclusive economic zones.

- Maritime activities in the Arctic will therefore constitute a

special growth potential, the team says, stressing as well the

need for increased safety of navigation in the form of special

equipment, high international standards and agreements

with other Arctic countries, and icebreaking services to Dan-

ish ships.

The increased shipping activities in the Arctic, creates de-

mand for special equipment and solutions developed for

Arctic pioneering becoming routine: Great cold potential for Danish shipping6 Daily news on www.maritimedanmark.dk

navigation in the Arctic climate. Increased cooperation in the

industrial field on challenges and opportunities with other

Arctic states may strengthen Danish maritime companies’ op-

portunities for economic activities in the Arctic.

It is, inter alia, essential to ensure that Danish and foreign

ships arriving here, meet the same standards and thus have a

level playing field, the growth team states.

PIONEERS

The Danish Shipowners consider Arctic navigation a pioneer-

ing field for Danish shipping.

Nordic Bulkers were among the very first, but companies like

the Greenland based Royal Arctic Line, who so to speak, are

there already, take interest in the new possibilities, just like

the AP Moller-Maersk owned ESVAGT’s supply and rescue

vessels are active in this segment, most recently with the new

ship, ESVAGT Aurora, which has obtained contract with an

Italian operator in the Bering Sea.

The entire exploration task and the current mining interests

in Greenland will create a lot of new jobs for shipping and in-

dustry.

- It will be huge, when we count all that we are going to trans-

port in and out of the Arctic in combination with the task of

servicing the offshore future: Apart from supply, emergency

and maintenance and service vessels, the job includes hotel

ships as well, a segment in which J. Lauritzen specializes,

Danish Shipowners’ Association points out seeing a clear po-

tential for new jobs and revenue growth:

- Denmark is one of the Arctic states, but we believe that the

area should be open to navigation for all nations. We are not

in favor of protectionism, but in view of the sensitive nature ,

it is important to set the entering bar very high, both in terms

of safety and environmental and climate quality. You must

demonstrate that you can safely cope with unforeseen situ-

ations and can provide a sustainable solution in the field of

environment, vice president of Danish Shipowners’ Associa-

tion, Jan Fritz Hansen says.

- All that we can well live up to in Danish shipping, but if oth-

ers can do the same, they should of course be allowed in, the

shipowners say.

They consider the Arctic adventure a task for the entire Blue

Denmark:

- The ships, the equipment and the know-how to be used in

the cold regions is very different from traditional shipping,

and although they definitely are skilled in the shipyards in the

Far East, they are not always accustomed to build to extreme

cold and are hardly fully equipped for it. There may be a niche

for us, vice president Jan Fritz Hansen says.

Arctic pioneering becoming routine: Great cold potential for Danish shipping 7Daily news on www.maritimedanmark.dk

- At the same time, our talented Danish sailors certainly have

a good chance to make an impact here because it is jobs that

require education, training extra skills to - for example - con-

trol advanced photo equipment at the seabed and work with

“joysticks”.

- In addition we have our safety training. Skilled people will be

in demand - and all things being equal, one can well imagine

that a Danish employee will be more familiar with the extreme

cold than say an Indian.

- Danish Shipowners highly priority the new Arctic opportuni-

ties and has a polar group as well as an Arctic group concen-

trating on respectively the more operational and the interna-

tional framework.

But even if expectations for what can result from the oil and

gas in the Arctic, are large, so are the challenges working in

this extremely cold inveronment. Everything is more difficult,

more time consuming, more risky and not least more expen-

sive when operating in arctic cold. And the demands are even

higher.

34 SHIPS WENT THROUGH

In its latest report on the future of technology Det Norske Veri-

tas, DNV, concludes that there is clearly an increasing focus

on the Arctic traffic and the rising possibilities.

However, it is still a limited market. But the fact that 34 ships

sailed through the Northeast passage in 2011 compared to

four in 2010 shows the trend and the way to further growth.

Head of office in the Danish Maritime Authority, Per Sønder-

strup, underlines that it is through IMO, the rules for Arctic

navigation - and Antarctic as well - are determined. The in-

ternational mandatory code for polar shipping - which goes

deeper that normal navigation rules – is not yet in place but is

expected to be adopted in 2014.

No up-to-date forecasts for the size northern shipping traffic

size exists, but Per Sønderstrup tends to expect a scenario

where large fuel savings can be achieved, as long as the situ-

ation with less ice continues.

This will make the route increasingly important especially in

low-value goods in the form of bulk. He doubts that the large

container ships will be attracted.

- It is probably mainly interesting for companies transporting

goods from A to B and with price as the most important factor

whereas the time factor is less crucial. Moreover shipping of

oil from Russia will be a market in itself.

Climate change is yet still projections, but all reports are talk-

ing about less ice and a larger proportion of one-year ice.

- There is no doubt that the one-year ice is easier to sail

through, and this increases interest, says Per Sønderstrup

who personally believes that the northern traffic compared to

the general Asian routes will be of rather small volume, al-

though importance will certainly increase over time.

In addition, the Russian regulation requires mandatory assis-

tance by icebreakers and the ships in use have to be ice class

ships, of which not too many exists today. And ice class ships

may not be profitable in ice free summer months.

It is a long-term growth market, but when the Arctic becomes

more accessible, so does the companies’ interest.

And the expected energy reserves, have great potential. Off-

shore activities far north will attract a large follow industry,

just like the Greenland mineral resources, which has created

interest in other countries - not least around rare earths which

in time will mean more pressure on ports and ships, he says

but emphasizes one thing: All of it requires large investments.

ARCTIC STRATEGY

According to the official Danish Arctic Strategy for 2011-

2022, warming in the Arctic is growing faster than anywhere

else on the planet. The average temperature in the Arctic has

in the first decade of the 21st century surpassed all previous

measurements.

Sea ice has been shrinking, and this creates according to

the strategy paper a basis for new shipping routes that can

reduce costs and CO2 emissions for transports of goods be-

tween the continents.

Ships on the route between East Asia and Western Europe

could save more than 40 per cent of distance and of fuel costs

by sailing the Northern Motorway north of Siberia rather than

the southern route through the Suez Canal.

By Finn Bruun

Arctic pioneering becoming routine: Great cold potential for Danish shipping8 Daily news on www.maritimedanmark.dk

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Arctic Navigation:

An old idea comes to life in a new climate

Arctic Navigation: An old idea comes to life in a new climate

Skyfrosts’ voyage was preceded by an icebreaker accompa-

nied voyage of 6,630 nautical miles through waters with some

ice, bringing the total trip to 21 days instead of the normal 40

days through the Panama Canal. It was the second time the

company completed such a challenge.

Soon it will no longer be unusual with traffic through the

northern passages. In 2011, 34 vessels sailed through, and

this kind of travel will soon enough become routine, now that

the ice in the Arctic Ocean has become an ever more manage-

able task.

Modern icebreakers – some of them nuclear fuelled – add a

technological boost to this development, although it will nev-

er be a Sunday trip. The passage puts both the ships and their

crews to the test and requires preparation as well as special

equipment.

The continued melting of ice in the Arctic Ocean is expected in

a 10-20-years perspective to result in the opening (at least in

parts of the year) of the Northwest Passage over North Ameri-

ca and the Northeast Passage over Russia.

The Danish Arctic Strategy 2011-2020 highlights that the eco-

nomic benefits of these new routes are potentially significant.

Thus, the opening of the Northwest Passage, reduces the

distance from Seattle to Rotterdam with nearly 25 percent in

comparison with the route of the Panama Canal.

The possibility of transiting the Northeastern route will reduce

the distance between Rotterdam and Yokohama with more

than 40 percent in relation to the route of the Suez Canal.

Furthermore, the opening of these alternative routes means

that the military and the commercial shipping will no longer

be dependent on passage through the political instability of

the Middle East or the piracy-ridden routes through the South

China Sea, the Strait of Malacca and the Gulf of Aden.

A NEW POSSIBILITY

The modern passage of the northern passages is still a rela-

tively new phenomenon. We need go no further back than to

September 2010, to find the premiere of Danish commercial

passage: It was when the ice class ship “Nordic Barents” from

the Danish shipping company Nordic Bulk Carriers as the first

freighter ever sailed through the Arctic and Northeast Pas-

sage to Asia.

Sailing with 41,000 tonnes of iron ore concentrate from

Kirkenes in Northern Norway to China was approx. 30 percent

shorter than if the ship should have used the traditional route

through the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. The voyage

took place in close cooperation with the Norwegian Tschudi

Shipping Company and the Russian authorities.

In August 2008, the Danish cable ship “Peter Faber”, assisted

by Canadian pilots, navigated as the first commercial vessel

through the Northwest Passage thus saving 15 days on voy-

age from Japan to Newfoundland for the laying of cables be-

tween Greenland and Canada.

These northern routes have been discussed for many years

and even obtained myth-status, but today withdrawal and

thinning of the ice cover is a fact – even though scientists can-

not be sure, that the current situation is permanent.

Arctic covers more than a sixth of the Earth’s total land mass,

plus the Arctic Ocean and the Arctic coastal states bordering.

Unlike Antarctica, which also have relatively low temperatures

year round, the Arctic region is populated by people, includ-

ing more than 30 different indigenous peoples.

By Finn Bruun

In September this year, the

ice-classed reefer MV Skyfrost

had completed a 2,189 nautical

mile voyage through the Northeast

Passage in just 7 days 12 hours 30

minutes.

10 Daily news on www.maritimedanmark.dk

According to IEA World production of unconventional gas, pri-

marily shale gas, more than triples between 2010 and 2035

to 1.6 trillion cubic metres and in general natural gas can en-

hance security of supply: global resources exceed 250 years

of current production;

In shipping gas – LNG – is strongly in focus for use in sulpur

restricted waters, SECA.

Australia will emerge as a gas superpower as it begins to de-

liver large quantities of LNG from offshore fields. And better

technology and global warming is unlocking the Arctic’s natu-

ral bounty

Breakthroughs in technology opened up America’s shale

beds, and advances in drilling in very deep water have dra-

matically changed exploration in the sea.

But there are reservations. Last year the IEA published a report

entitled, “Are We Entering a Golden Age of Gas?” The question

mark reflects the constraints that public disquiet about shale

gas might put on its development. The heavy “fragging” pro-

ces required to release the gas from the underground shale,

is highly controversial.

In Denmark as well as other European countries the shale gas

is a newcomer. Licenses to explore the underground in North-

ern Jutland and Northern Zealand has been given to Total E&P

Denmark B.V., an affiliate of the international energy company

Total (80 pct.) in collaboration with the Danish state-owned oil

and gas company Nordsøfonden (20 pct.)

A special underground formation called the Alum shale for-

mation was identified as one of the potential candidates for

natural gas deposits in the shale strata of Europe. The Alum

shale strata extend to Sweden, Norway and Poland as well.

Denmark has adopted a strong commitment to renewables

but shale gas enthusiast expect this energy to fill in the gap

between the expected downturn of offshore gas supplies

from the North Sea and full impact of the wind power policy

by 2050. And modern Danish shipping is committed to green

solutions including a strong energy-efficiency focus.

The 2015 rule of maximum 0,1 pct sulfur in fuel for all ships

passing through SECA will make big ships change to the more

expensive low sulfur diesel fuel, when entering, whereas local

shipping, typically ro-ro, is challenged thus making LNG one

of the future possibilities when the delivery infrastructure is

established.

For ocean shipping the massive new output of gas would

be expected to – as with all surplus - make energy prices in

general go down, but so far this has not been the case, and

oil experts warns shipping companies, that energy pricing is

more complicated involving OPEC policies and Chinese de-

mand – even though US has dreams of beating Saudi Arabia

as number one oil og gas supplier. The shale gas is expected

to create as many as 600.000 jobs in USA. Also China has

truly huge reserves of shale gas and depends much on gas in

its energy policy.

IEA reckons that the share of gas in the global energy mix

will rise from 21 pct. today to 25 pct. in 2035. That may not

sound much of an increase, but over that period total global

consumption will grow spectacularly. If the obstacles can be

overcome, more gas and lower prices will mean a rise of 50

pct .in global demand for gas between 2010 and 2035.

By Finn Bruun

Is gas going to be the next winnerThe International Energy Agency, IEA, now considers gas – especially

unconventional gas as shale gas - a possible game change if conditions are

right. In round figures the use of gas as fuel means emitting only half as

much CO2 as oil – and it seems to be abundant enough to replace coal as

number two fuel after oil.

Is gas going to be the next winner 11Daily news on www.maritimedanmark.dk

Dannebrog Group is owned by Johan Wedell-Wedellsborg,

who is engaged in a number of different business activities,

but he holds on to shipping even though shipping in general

has been hard hit by the crisis and still is.

-I believe in shipping. You cannot give up, just because it has

been hard times for the past four years. The good times will

return, says Johan Wedell-Wedellsborg, who took over the

shipping company from his father in 2001.

Giving up he is certainly not. On the contrary: He is investing

in new environmentally friendly technology and in newbuild-

ings.

Recently, Dannebrog Group signed a deal according to which,

the so-called Air Cavity System developed by DK Group will

be installed on a newly built 12,580 dwt multipurpose heavy

lift vessel.

The Air Cavity System is an air lubrication technology reduc-

ing the frictional resistance between the water and the hull by

pumping a stream of air bubbles below the hull. It creates a

thin layer of air below the vessel, which reduces the friction

and in this way improve the fuel efficiency by 10 per cent.

-We start with this vessel and we will keep an eye on the cost

savings. If the project is going well, we will also install the

technology on the five sister vessels, says Johnny Schmolker,

CEO of Dannebrog Group.

-We don’t have our own development department like the big

shipping companies such as Stena. We would also like, how-

ever, to be part of the many environmental initiatives taken by

the Blue Denmark. That’s why we have this cooperation with

DK Group. They needed a ship to test their new technology,

Johnny Schmolker says.

THE ENVIRONMENT – AN IMPORTANT FACTOR

The Air Cavity System is the first kind of environmentally

friendly technology that Dannebrog Group has been engaged

in, but it will probably not be the last one.

-The fuel price is clearly a factor to us; it is, however, also

our intention to become more environmentally minded. It

becomes a more important factor to our customers - the big

oil companies - that they can show their customers that they

make an effort to think of the environment, Johan Wedell-We-

dellsborg says.

While many of the biggest shipowners are developing their

own environmental projects, the people at Dannebrog Group

think that the Air Cavity System could be very interesting to

the big Danish fleet of merchant vessels. The Air Cavity Sys-

tem is intended for newbuildings, but is also very easily in-

stalled on existing vessels. It just takes 2-3 weeks at the ship-

yard to have the system installed.

Still believing

The Danish shipowner Dannebrog Group can trace its origin back to 1883,

but is still among the frontrunners when it comes to launching new

technology. The latest initiative is to install the Air Cavity System

on one of the company’s multipurpose heavy lift vessels.

Still believing in shipping after four years of crisis

in shipping after

four years of crisis


NEWBUILDINGS IN 2014

Besides the Air Cavity System, Dannebrog Group has, via

Stena Weco, a J/V between Dannebrog and the Swedish ship-

owner Stena AB, been involved in a new building project for

six newbuildings in China with the option to order four ves-

sels further. The newbuildings will be of 50,000 dwt and will

be delivered from 2014. They will be especially built for trans-

portation of palm oil, which is a Stena Weco speciality.

Dannebrog Group actually consists of three shipping compa-

nies, Dannebrog Rederi, Stena Weco, and Nordana. Nordana

is mainly engaged within dry cargo such as Project, Heavy

Lift and Liner trading , and tanker vessels is the focus area

for Stena Weco, while Dannebrog Rederi is taking care of the

technical side of its owned tonnage in the shipping business.

Besides lots of palm oil, Stena Weco transports clean petro-

leum products and chemicals on the fleet of 35 vessels, of

which only five is owned by the Stena Weco Partners. The rest

is vessels on timecharter.

-It makes it easier to adjust the capacity to the rate level, in

contrast to the big shipping companies with a large fleet of

own vessels. They have a certain level of costs, regardless

of the freight rates being high or low, Johnny Schmolker ex-

plains.

While Stena Weco is transporting especially much palm oil,

Nordana, operating a fleet of 18-20 vessels of which 10 are

owned and the remaining vessels are on time charter, is trans-

porting the majority of its cargoes for clients within the energy

sector – everything from oil well supplies, knock down plants,

refineries, wind turbines to steel constructions, but also serv-

ing the basic traditional bulk cargoes like coal, sugar, grains

and raw steel products etc. Among the many special jobs can

be mentioned the transportation of a nuclear power unit from

Russia to India, which took more than seven years.

TIMES OF PROSPERITY WILL SUDDENLY ARISE

Both Nordana and Stena Weco are performing well and are

making profits, but the last three annual accounts have been

marked by the crisis and have shown losses. Now, the com-

panies have a positive cash flow after several restructuring

measures.

It is, however, not the first time that Dannebrog Group is ex-

periencing recessions. In its 129 year long history, the Dan-

ish shipowner has experienced times of prosperity as well as

recessions. Back in times, Dannebrog Group has been among

the largest Danish shipping companies, but has also experi-

enced times, where it struggled for survival.

While not being very optimistic regarding the future outlook

for shipping, Johan Wedell-Wedellsborg mentions that only

10 per cent of the ship yards in China have newbuilding or-

ders.

-Some day it will have an effect on shipping. Besides, many

of the ordered vessels are smaller vessels, and many vessels

are being scrapped. The time of prosperity will come again,

and it will come when you expect it the least, Johan Wedell-

Wedellsborg says.

By Tina Altenburg

Still believing in shipping after four years of crisis 13Daily news on www.maritimedanmark.dk

The reassurance comes from deputy director of Danish Shipown-

ers Association, Jan Fritz Hansen, who is also heading the anti-pi-

racy task force of the European shipping companies in Bruxelles.

Even though piracy is still a highly threatening factor – a few

weeks ago the Danish ship Gertrude Torm was - unsuccess-

fully - attacked with gunfire off Lagos, Nigeria – the overall

picture is a significant decline in the number of attacks as well

as in number of seafarers being held hostage. Less than 200

right now compared to almost 1.000 a few years ago.

- I think we have learned a little faster than the pirates. We

have become more skilled in protecting ourselves and the

naval forced have strengthened their cooperation and protec-

tion capabilities. We follow IMO’s BMP and our permits to use

armed guards are more flexible now, Jan Fritz Hansen states,

indicating that shipping companies are well prepared at sea.

Practically all Danish vessels passing through dangerous

waters employ armed guards, except the biggest and fastest

ships.

Shipping companies to pirates’ hostagesTrust us: We will never forget youThe human costs of piracy are high. Seafarers doing their daily duty are at

risk every time their vessels pass through pirate waters. The good news is

that naval presence and armed guards on merchant ships has significantly

reduced the criminal activities. And for seafarers unlucky enough to get

captured there is comforting assurance from shipowners: - You may feel

alone and abandoned, but we never give up. You are not forgotten.

Trust us: We will never forget you14 Daily news on www.maritimedanmark.dk

The shipowners are convinced that they are in for at long

time commitment at sea, to counter piracy, while efforts in

land – not least initiated by the Africa strategy of the Euro-

pean Union - to build capacity and secure development in

failed states like Somalia are going on. This will take years.

- So we urge governments to hold on to their naval presence

down there, he says being pleased that the official Danish

Anti-pirate strategy is still going strong with new Danish frig-

ates now being inserted in the Bay of Aden to join NATO’s

commitment.

Recently the shipping companies and their costumers in

the International Chamber of Commerce have stated their

common enthusiasm to continue a strong effort to free the

oceans from the piracy menace, and Danish Shipowners As-

sociating is acting in all global fora to focus on the necessary

international engagement.

Danish shipping companies are active in preparing seafares as

well as staff for possible attacks, and the attack on Gertrude Torm

made the company realize just how important the training had

proven when fired upon in a 20 minutes long capture attempt.

- The procedures we have practiced are working, Torm stated

afterwards in Maritime Danmark.

Jan Fritz Hansen underlines that capture of ships with crews

taken hostage creates a very complicated situation, where it

is of utmost importance to use the right consultants.

- Even though Danish shipping has faced only few incidents

through the years, making our trade fairly safe, we might fo-

cus more on the subject when recruiting young people.

- We run training projects teaching seafarers to cope with

these situations and we employ psychologists but we are con-

sidering doing a bit more in education to give young employ-

ees an extra tool in the box.

When things go wrong and an actual capture has been en-

acted holding crew hostage, the situation is serious and hard

to balance.

- But one thing is certain. Though we are no Navy Seals swear-

ing to get a comrade out at all stakes and we cannot jeopar-

dize a negotiating process, everyone may rest assured never

to be forgotten even if things take time, he says adding:

- We have an industrial standard for dealing with the pirate

issue, we stick to IMO’s Best Management Practice, and our

consultants are professionals. We know what we are doing.

Today our piracy preparedness is more than just some rolls of

barbed wire around the hull. It is a holistic approach.

By Finn Bruun

Trust us: We will never forget you 15Daily news on www.maritimedanmark.dk

While aviation in all modern times has relied heavily on digital

navigation down to the smallest detail, shipping has had no

such demands. But that is going to change now.

Not that a modern container vessel is low tech – on the con-

trary. But no international ruling has so far determined a cer-

tain common e-standard on the bridge.

- We are hosting the coming 3rd international – as we hosted

the two first – conference on e-navigation, head of e-naviga-

tion project in DMA, Thomas Christensen says.

The e-navigation EfficienSea project lead by DMA was finished

earlier this year but the next project – ACCSEAS – is under

way. It is an EU project covering the North Sea and consists

of 11 partners from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, the

Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

The Danish Maritime Authority is among the ones in the fore-

front of two work packages concerning the development of

new services and tests and user feedback.

- Within ACCSEAS we are working on different prototypes

around navigation service experimenting with new solutions.

At the same time we are engaged in the Mona Lisa project

aiming to optimize shipping routes and monitoring of ships

on route, he says.

Of course we have looked into the aviation industry to com-

pare. Their strength is not so much the technology itself as

their being very well organized and well regulated. When a

plane starts from Barcelona to Copenhagen, the control cen-

ter in Copenhagen already know practically everything be-

cause of a flow of information between the two.

- We are working in a holistic way focusing on the regulatory

aspect as well as the operational and the technological sides.

It is a long process leading to a plan in IMO - not a complete

e-navigation system, but a detailed description of the whole

architecture and the - services.

DANISH FINGERPRINT

- With our experiments and participation in the projects we

hope to put our fingerprint on the project and move things in

a right direction, he says.

E-navigation: Helping to concentrate on sailing

E-NAVIGATION

The Danish Maritime Authority, DMA plays an active role in creating and

testing an international e-navigation system that is due for IMO’s

implementation planning process in 2014. By creating practical results

and testing, DMA delivers important input and is on top of that hosting

the most important conferences on e-navigation.

E-navigation:

Helping to concentrate on sailing


E-navigaton takes a lot of testing. The Danish Maritime Au-

thority have for at long time been engaged in developing

practical solutions.

E-navigation: Helping to concentrate on sailing

E-NAVIGATION- Our next conference is to take place in January on the DFDS

“Pearl of Scandinavia” and our efforts are spin-offs from the

very first conference where we started to demonstrate proto-

types.

- The IMO approach to e-navigation is very top-down and high-

ly analytic. We take a more practical stand testing prototype

services on specially equipped ships and full scale simula-

tions, he says.

The IMO e-navigation plan is in sight but Thomas Christensen

has no knowledge of when the whole system will come into

actual use onboard the world fleet.

- We hope to be able to have the system implemented in

stages. It’s a very large and complex structure spread out on

a large front.

- If we could pick certain elements, and roll them out we might

have a great win in short time, he says mentioning that some

of the tools made for experimental purpose have been put to

practical use: Input and storage of navigation warnings. They

were created to show the info visible from the navigation chair

on the ship’s bridge. Today we make internal use of it and it is

distributed to the Danish Navy’s command center.

- We are working to integrate various pieces of information

in the navigation systems providing the navigating officers

with a better basis for decision making. Most accidents –

including the big disasters – are due to human error and e-

navigation helps by selecting the most relevant information.

The ship’s route can be plotted in on a chart background and

be combined with VTS info and the projected movements of

other ships showing only the ones necessary to concentrate

on blanking out less important data. Even meteorological

data for the route can be integrated. We have done that on

the DFDS ships between Oslo and Copenhagen. Also the pos-

sibility to plan the route according to current can be helpful

and enable the captain to steer away from counter currents,

Thomas Christensen explains pointing out the advantages for

navigators automatically to receive important warnings and

nothing else.

- At the same time the system should ease the ever increas-

ing paper workload that modern captains face, much to their

regret – as it keeps them away from the bridge, he states

indicating that the purpose of the DMA in e-navigation from

the start has been two-fold: On the one hand, to get rid of

some of the often heavy administrative burdens experienced

by navigating officers in their work and, on the other hand, to

increase safety of navigation, locally and globally.

- In some cases, the two purposes seem to melt together,

Thomas Christensen says.

A LOT OF QUESTIONS

Among the topics of the January e-navigation conference are

status of the IMO E-Navigation Strategy Implementation Plan

in 2014 and questions like: How do we benefit from indus-

trial innovation? What are the benefits and risks of electronic

devices in shipping? Who will pay the costs of e-Navigation

such as necessary infrastructure, services, communications?

E-Navigation drivers – regulation or market forces? How can

we provide users the information they need when they need

it and how can ship and shore users work effectively together

By Finn Bruun

17Daily news on www.maritimedanmark.dk

Initiated by Anjou winemaker Olivier Cousin, TransOceanic

Wind Transport and Rosforth & Rosforth, part of the cargo was

destined for restaurant Noma - rewarded the ‘Best Restaurant

in the World’ for the third consecutive year in 2012.

“Growing biodynamic wine takes a lot of time and a lot of

work. When you have invested all that effort, it makes little

sense to ship the wine to Copenhagen on large trucks”, says

Sune Rosforth, owner of wine company Rosforth & Rosforth.“

Most of the 8.000 bottles were unloaded to Rosforth & Ros-

forth’s warehouse in Strandgade, before Tres Hombres deliv-

ered 300 bottles directly to the pier at Noma.

“It’s certainly something we will do again”, says Sune Ros-

forth.

”It is better for the wine to drift quietly on board a sailing ship

from Brest to Copenhagen, than to tumble around in a refrig-

erated truck down the German Autobahn. And it’s actually not

much more expensive”, says Rosforth.

Noma is headed by Executive Chef René Redzepi, and has

earned much attention and praise in the short amount

of time it has been open, including two Michelin stars,

becoming almost synonymous with Copenhagen fine

dining.

Noma’s innovative and ground-breaking ap-

proach to cooking has created a maelstrom in

the culinary world. The restaurant, for exam-

ple, has taken the used old concept of the

amuse bouche and turned it into a daz-

zling array of one-bite starters that in

themselves are worth the flight ticket

to Denmark.

The Tres Hombres, sailing for the French TransOceanic Wind

Transport, is the world’s only engine-free cargo sailing ship.

A fast but safe design from 1930s Germany, the oak and

douglas fir hull was purchased at a very low cost by the three

founders - Arjen, Andreas and Jorne.

It is the second time that the Tres Hombres has docked in Co-

penhagen. The first time was in December 2009, when she

took part in the Climate Change Conference. Her second Dan-

ish call was historical - it was the first shipping of pure organic

wines by sail from France, and also the largest coastal cargo

that the Tres Hombres carries within Europe – about 14 pal-

lets or 11 tons.

Each bottle has been labeled with a specific TransOce-

anic Wind Transport tracking code, stating they have been

“Shipped by sail power - the carbon-neutral option”. It reveals

information such as product description, route, sailed nauti-

cal miles, tons of CO2 saved, logbook, and photos, thereby

guaranteeing the products were shipped CO2-free.

World’s best restaurant chooses wines shipped by sailThe sailing cargo ship Tres Hombres docked in Copenhagen on August 14in

a CO2-free wine shipping operation. No less than 13 French biodynamic

winemakers gathered their Danish exports to ship their production by sail

power only.

Photo: Michel Floch

World’s best restaurant chooses wines shipped by sail18 Daily news on www.maritimedanmark.dk

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and equipment produced in Denmark is installed on most modern ships.

The maritime media in Denmark has long been divided between so many enterprises that none of them have been able to match the

success that the Danish maritime sector has achieved. We will change this.

On October 1 two of the strongest players in the Danish maritime media market merged – ErhvervsMagasinerne and Maritime

Danmark. Together the two companies secure a dominant position in both printed and electronic communication of maritime news

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In just five years, the news portal maritimedanmark.dk has become the Danes’ preferred source of daily news from the maritime

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og FiskerBladet - and a long maritime tradition, the strongest company of the maritime print market in Denmark.

”By joining forces, we will get more resources to increase quality, while being able to offer advertisers a combined entry to all of The

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they want them to,” says René Wittendorff, CEO of the new Maritime Danmark ApS.

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Carsten Mortensen, chairman of Danish Shipowner’s Association:

- We have all the prerequisites needed compared

to other great shipping nations.

Danish Minister for Business and Growth Ole Sohn is ready to

boost the effort to make Danish shipping even more competitive.

Make use of the advantages

Minister with blue ambitions

Jenny Braat, managing director of Danish Maritime:

Crisis makes us stronger

Det kører på pumperne i Skagen

Overskud - men pengene bliver på bogen

Karstensens Skibsværft - overblik og udsyn

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