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WOMEN IN SHIPPING

EDITION 10 | SPRING 2018

Spring just arrived here in Hamburg and it is more than high noon for the next issue of our PD Homeport. Our team has decided to put “women in shipping” in the centre point.

No doubt, shipping is an industry which is still dominated by men, however, irrespective of any discussions about gender quotas you will find in this issue an interesting article with Mrs. Karin Orsel former President of WISTA, which is the acronym for Women’s International Shipping & Trading As-sociation. I also like to recommend you to read irrespective of all other news the answers of Mrs. Claudia Pahnke work-ing since 1st August 1990 for Peter Döhle Schiffahrts -KG and an insight into not only female career paths by Mrs. Iris Baguilat, President of Döhle Seafront Inc.

Last but not least you will find one special topic between all female – not feminist! – articles regarding some aspects of the piracy incident of MV “DEMETER” which happened in last October.

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life” (Richard Bach)

Wishing you all a safe journey, an interesting reading and may god bless you all.

Dear Colleagues on board and in the offices,

Dr. Gaby Bornheim

MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD IN HAMBURG

HEADQUARTER | EDITORIAL

MESSAGE FROM THE THE CI-TEAM

Dear Colleagues on board and in the offices,

this is now the 10th edition of the HOMEPORT PD, surely a reason to celebrate!

But also a reason to go back in time and to remeber the beginning. The first edition of the HOMEPORT PD was published in autumn 2013 as a replacement to the former PD Newsletter. The idea behind is easy to explain with a quote from the very first edition „…we are all sitting in one boat and we find a homeport in PD.“ Hence the Döhle CI-Team came up with the plan to cre-ate a constantly published medium containing news, sto-ries and pictures especially for our international seafaring community but also of course for our colleagues ashore.

Döhle CI-Team? Yes, that’s us….. Annette Suhrbier, Simon Biehl and Adrian Ade (picture: left to right). A very warm „hello“ to all of you! We hope you enjoyed reading the past nine editions of HOMEPORT PD and you will continue to do so with the future ones. Beside our daily business within Döhle Group we teamed up a couple of years ago not only to create a new version of our newslet-ter but also to bring forward a consistent image and style of the group and to support it’s marketing strategy. Alto-gether this is corporate identity (“CI”) for us.

Drop us a line at CI@doehle.de

Your CI-Team

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EDITORIAL | HEADQUARTER

HEADQUARTER | NEWS

James Stevenson back to the Is le of Man

Mr. James Stevenson, who was already performing differ-ent functions for Döhle Group in South America and the Isle of Man since 1998, will be Managing Director of Döhle (IoM) Limited. He will be replacing Jörg Vanselow in his position with Döhle (IoM) Limited and closely cooperate with the management board in Hamburg about overall business strategy. Former chairman of the Board of Döhle (IoM) Limited, Mr. Jörg Vanselow, started to focus on the management of Döhle Private Clients Limited since January 1st, 2018. The company having its core expertise in the yacht management shall further grow, whereas Jörg Vanselow will be able to contribute with his vast experience in this field.

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PD NEWS Christen ing & De l ivery o f

a 2 ,700 TEU Newbui ld ing

We are happy to announce that Peter Döhle Schiffahrts-KG took delivery of their next newbuilding, a 2,700 TEU containership from Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. at Jingjiang City, China. The vessel was delivered on 16th January to us and is since then sailing under the vessel name M/V BRIGHT.

e-hea l thy sh ip

Last year our company was approached re-garding an exciting project concerning health management on board of commercial vessels. The project called “e-healthy ship” is supported by government institutions in Germany and the European Union.

The idea behind the project is :+ to increase support on board for medical issues which go beyond the ability of those on board with medical care training, + to look at possibilities to promote a healthy lifestyle on board, + to develop IT-based tools in order to link (for example) the administration of the vessel pharmacy and the recording and administration of medical cases

Further information may also be found on the e-healthy ship website: www.e-healthy-ship.eu

BLUE Net Char te r ing – Launch o f an exc lus ivechar te r ing jo int venture

As already pre-advised in our last edition, two strong partners joined forces for the future: Vert S.A., an affiliate of Costamare Ship-ping Company S.A., and Peter Döhle Schif-fahrts-KG create the chartering joint venture Blue Net Chartering GmbH & Co. KG (“Blue Net Chartering”) to provide exclusive charter brokerage services for the vessels managed by Costamare Shipping Company S.A., Peter Döhle Schiffahrts-KG and other third party customers. From the start on February 1st, the company provides brokerage services for a fleet of 220 container vessels with an ag-gregate capacity of about 1.1m TEUs and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

Chr i s ten ing o f 2x “POLAR CLASS” Newbui ld ings

On January 15th, 2018, a double-naming ceremony of two 3,800 TEU containership newbuildings was held at the outfit-ting berth of Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. at Jingjiang City, China. The godmothers Ms. Charlotte Döhle and Mrs. Patricia Döhle performed their duty perfectly. The ships will be sailing for the next five years under the names M/V POLAR CHILE and M/V POLAR PERU for Maersk Line A/S.

The two newbuildings were delivered on January 15th respectively April 26th 2018 for our Joint Venture Tri-Do Shipping Company Limited, which is a set-up between Peter Döhle Schiffahrts-KG and Mitsui & Co., Ltd.

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WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING & TRADING ASSOCIATION

I N T E R V I E W W I T H

Karin Orsel

+ Anglo Eastern Ship Management together with the International Seafarers Welfare Assistance Network (ISWAN) and WISTA have developed a Gender Diversity booklet, which is shared worldwide and focusses on building and maintaining gender diversity on board of merchant ships. It addresses critical social, cultural and interpersonal issues that can obstruct productivity of a shipboard team. + WISTA and the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers entered into a MoA resulting in a 10 years scholarship program for 5 to 10 WISTA members. + WISTA provided data on the number of female seafarers for the BIMCO / ICS Manpower survey + WISTA provided data for the UNCTAD world economic report + WISTA entered into agreements with various con- ferences to provide female speakers for their events

Sh ipp ing was a lways male dominated - d id that change over the la s t years ?

Yes, absolutely. There are a number of high-qualified young talents entering / active within the industry and at the same time on board the number of women has increased. To name a few: Katerina Stanzel, MD of Intertanko; Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, President World Maritime University; Sadan Kaptanoglu, President Des-ignate of BIMCO; Lena Gothberg, The Shipping Podcast; Sabrina Chao, Chairwoman Wah Kwong Maritime Trans-port Holdings; Sofia Furstenberg, Disruptive Sustainabil-ity Manager at Nor Shipping; Despina Theodosiou, MD Tototheo Group,

Would you recommend commercial shipping industry to young women ?

If you read the above, a definitive yes! There is no other industry that is as international, diverse and interesting as our industry. In addition, the need for highly-qualified talents has never been bigger and with an increasing digitalization and automation, it offers new chances and challenges.

As biggest association for women in shipping the CI-Team lead

an interview with Karin Orsel, who was President of WISTA

International for 6 years and subsequently asked to be a WISTA Inter-

national Ambassador. Moreover, she is the founder and CEO of

MF Shipping Group, a ship management and ship owning company

in the Netherlands.

What i s the purpose o f WISTA ?

Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA) is a global organization connecting female execu-tives and decision makers around the world. WISTA oper-ates in 40+ countries, representing 3,000+ individual mem-bers, connecting shipping and trading professionals from nearly every occupation and sector within the industry.

WISTA is acknowledged as a professional and highly repu-table shipping organization with focus on improving levels of competency in the shipping industry and shall:

+ Attract highly qualified people to the industry+ Attract highly qualified people to the organization + Improve the level of competency through focus on education and knowledge

What d id WISTA ach ieve ?

WISTA achieved to play a positive role in attracting more women to our industry; WISTA has built up a very good brand and nowadays is the first point of contact for indus-try bodies, journalist and other parties regarding women in the maritime industry related subjects. WISTA formed as one of the first maritime associations a diversity com-mittee. Some concrete examples of the work of WISTA and the cooperation with many other industry partners are:

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INTERVIEW | WISTA

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WISTA | INTERVIEW

SIX QUESTIONS TO

What i s your job a t PD?

Claudia PahnkeM A N A G E R C O N TA I N E R O P E R AT I O N S

Claudia Pahnke started with Peter Döhle Schiffahrts-KG as an apprentice for tramp shipping on the 1st August 1990, so this year will be her 28th year of working for the company.

I am working in the container department where I have several different tasks to do. In my pos-iton as Manager Container Operations, I am mainly responsible for the settlement accounting with our two colleagues as well as the administrative parts of our de-partment. Nevertheless, I throw a glance at the daily op-erations and am always there to assist our team of five operators in case of need. This job is closely connected to my function as Quality Manager Chartering and Op-erations, as I monitor the data quality in our department and point out when for example Clauses are missing or contradict each other. I am also responsible for the master data used in our department including the generation of brokerage contracts. This responsibility is closely con-nected to being part of the Navido Team which is in charge of our in-house ERP-system. As a Navido Team member I am actively involved in advancing our ERP system and help to find solutions for users. This also ap-plies for third party clients. Last but not least, I also act as Pool Manager for our income Pools for the container vessels handled by us. This means I have to approve the

monthly Pool Statements, take care that the Pool con-tracts are complied with, agree upon the Pool payments with the accounting department, launch information to the Pool partners, draft Pool Addenda and / or new Pool contracts in close cooperation with our in-house legal department and organize Pool meetings.

Well, in the early nineties it was defi-nitely true. I started with Peter Döhle Schiffahrts-KG as employee number 55 or 56 and women were mostly seen in accounting, bookkeeping or as secretaries. Only very few were engaged in crewing, technical purchase, sale & purchase or chartering & operations. When I look back at my class in business school, half of my classmates were actually women, but there were all in the liner business stamping Bills of Lading or booking containers. The tramp business was not so popular for women as it was said to be tougher. Men were rumored to have a strong language when dealing with other bro-kers and could not be considerate of the alleged fine ears of a woman. I must say yes, you should not be too sensitive, and this is still the case today! Other than

I s i t t rue that sh ipping is a man’s world?

ployees, it was more family-like and information was just a step away. The IT was still in its baby shoes and the chartering data was mostly recorded manually in books. Lots of numbers which we had to distribute manually to individual persons involved in differ-ent departments can now be easily made available by extracting them from our ERP system. With the growth of Döhle Group, the familiar atmosphere has decreased and it is harder to keep in touch with every- body. On the other side, we have now much more meetings to exchange information which is definitely beneficiary. The personal relationship is still as im-portant as it was, especially with other brokers and shipowners. But work life itself has changed. At the beginning of my working life, we had to take turns to come to the office every Saturday for a few hours to watch the phone and go through the Telexes (!) if there were any problems that needed attention. Fax messages to Poland took hours until the message was finally delivered because the phone line broke down several times. Your attendance in the office was required until the problem was solved or the vessel fixed. Today with smartphones you are reachable 24/7, can read and answer your messages and do not necessarily have to be in the office. This is a great achievement especially for working moms. When I leave the office in the early afternoon to be home when my kids get back from school, I can spend time with them but am still avail-able in case of need.

As I said, with smartphones and home computers you can today combine work and family much better than years ago. So it has definitely become more family friend-ly. Nevertheless, it also depends on your job profile itself. If you have lots of external meetings and events to attend, or a lot of travel is involved, then family and friends often have to stay back.

Yes, I am. My two children are now 11 and 14 years old, and when they are at school, I am at work. We come home almost at the same time so that I don’t have a bad conscious that they are left alone too often. I really enjoy my work, the daily chal-lenges where you don’t know in the morning what to expect apart from the scheduled duties. I am also in the favorable position to live close to the office so that I don’t waste long hours getting to and from work. I am really happy to be able to have a family and a re-sponsible manager position.

I s the sh ipp ing bus iness recommendable for young women?

What has changed in the la s t years?

I s sh ipp ing fami ly f r i end ly?

Are you content wi th your work – l i f e ba lance?

that, women are now much more present in shipping, especially in tramp shipping. This applies for all ranks from junior employee to management level. Whilst in the 90ies, the operation was mainly handled by men, we have now mostly women engaged in operations. The chartering itself is still mostly done by men, but also here women are on the rise. But it was hard work and not always easy to hold one’s ground. When I was sent to our outfit on the Isle of Man in 1996 to establish a chartering department, my time there was definitely affected by the battle with the men in the office. First of all, the new department which they could not re-ally understand at first, and then a woman in charge wanting to participate in meetings and be involved in decision findings! When I handed over to my (male) successor almost 1,5 years later, I can proudly say that I paved the way for him.

Definitely yes. The shipping business offers so many different sections and opportunities where young women can engage themselves. Especially with the ongoing crisis there will be the need to explore new ways and old roads will have to be left. Smartphones and tablets will allow for a better work – life balance. This is a great chance for young people altogether. With these future visions it will also be easier to com-bine family and work.

The requirements from the outside and within the company have increased a lot. On the one hand, this is due to the ongoing shipping cri-sis but on the other hand also due to the expansion of Döhle Group which has grown to be a corporate group. Reporting has become more demanding and our work had to become more streamlined and much more structured. Formerly, when we were fewer em-

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DÖHLE GROUP | SIX QUESTIONS TO SIX QUESTIONS TO | DÖHLE GROUP

Iris Baguilat has been in shipping for 15 years. She started by obtaining a degree in Master of Laws (Marine and Environmental Law) at Dalhousie University, School of Law, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada with a full scholar-ship from the Canadian International Development Agency. Thereafter, she went into private law practice on shipping and also worked with the Philip-pine government in shipping law and policy making.

P R E S I D E N T AT D Ö H L E S E A F R O N T C R E W I N G

Iris Baguilat

What does your career path look l ike?

My career path will be based on my capability to make decisions that are good for the business and having a rela-tionship that are based on mutual trust and hinged on real partnership. My career path will remain as it is – a Filipi-no bona fide business partner with a working relationship that is based on trust and transparency.

What do you l ike most about shipping?

I like that the shipping industry is very dynamic and re-quires full focus on innovative service. With these un-dertakings, commitment required is not just to send and supply crew to vessels, but also to extract some changes in the way we run the business that focus on managing and developing the Filipino seafarers that we place on board. They aren’t just crew, but part of the family that should be treated with utmost respect.

Shipping gives me the opportunity to have an important task that includes providing a better future for seafarers’ families, sending in much needed remittances that helps the economy not that of the country only but also the world. My current role now is a clear exercise of management competence, but also a critical part of nation building.

Is shipping in the Phil ippines a men’s world?

There was a time when women occupying high positions in the country’s manning industry were quite a rarity. As they say, like most in shipping, manning was quite the pro-verbial male territory. This has not been the case though in the past few years, and along with the rising popularity of Filipino seafarers in manning the global fleet, women’s position at the top also saw a stark increase may it be on-board of vessels as officers or as company executives.

There was also another transformation taking place when the industry started growing and needed more structure. Shipowners, who were investing their resources in the Philippines and wanted to make sure they had a steady supply of high quality Filipino seafarers preferred to part-ner with individuals with business background given the diversified requirements for a manning agency.

There was a natural transition as well that a manning agency is actually a Human Resource firm that helps ship-owners recruit and manage people working onboard of a vessel. The initial business model for manning agencies was to partner with retiring Captains. As the industry ma-tures, business models became more varied and having executives with management and leadership experience become a choice.

How do you see the future of women in shipping?

I have never seen me being a woman as the reason for any position. I would rather attribute it to qualification, competence, influence, vision, niche, and experience. It would have been the same if I were a man: albeit, with fewer obstacles. As you are fairly familiar with my back-ground, you would see that I grew up in an environment where there is no stereotyping between men and women. Thus, I would admit that it puzzles me when gender is made a factor of anything.

Do you recommend shipping for women?

I will recommend shipping to any person who possess-es the necessary leadership qualification and competence with a heart to manage and develop people, find fulfill-ment in implementing radical and fast paced strategic business solutions, and implement change in an industry that requires strong cooperation amongst global stake-holders. If a person thrives in these challenges and would like to work in a global landscape, then shipping is for

that person regardless of gender. I just happen to be a female who enjoys tick-

ing off challenging to do list in a setting that is predominantly

male.

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AGENCY | CAREERS IN THE PHILIPPINES CAREERS IN THE PHILIPPINES | AGENCY

On March 16, 2018, Döhle Seafront Family Program committee spent time with their seafarers, together with the families, who are residing in Bohol, a province located at the Philippines’ Central Visayas Region.

It was the fourth provincial session since the Döhle Seafront Family Program started in 2014. The Döhle Seafront Family Program was developed as a response to the assessed need of providing guidance to seafarers and their families as they experience relationship pressures related to continuous and prolonged separation. It is a fact that among Filipino sea-farers, families are the driving force to stay on job and drive performance.

The day started with a consultation of seafarers and family members who would like to ask questions regarding their health insurance and remittance process. Finance Manager Caryl Saavedra personally addressed their concerns much to the appreciation of the seafarers and their families. The attendees expressed how much they are thankful for the presence of an office representative qualified to answer in-quiries that they deem very important. As to any culture, a personal touch will always warm the heart of an individual who is in need of support.

The program formally started with welcome remarks by Döhle Seafront President Iris V. Baguilat, Esq. Iris expressed

Döhle Sea f ront Fami ly P rogram

her appreciation to seafarers and families who travelled up to three hours just to reach the program venue in Tagbilaran City. In fact, Fitter Ariel Cesar of MV Cas Avanca was there to attend with his family even if he just arrived home from his onboard assignment the day before the program.

Educhild Foundation Inc, a non-profit organization the Döhle Seafront Family Program has partnered with to deliver various parenting courses, led the discussion regarding deliberate par-enting. Educhild, which stands for Education for the Upbringing of Children, is a non-profit organization formed by parents to help fellow parents in the delicate task of rearing a family.

The attendees said they were very happy to learn more about deliberate parenting and the strength of good communication with your loved ones given the various struggles families of seafarers uniquely have. The discussions centered on the var-ious solutions that can alleviate tensions resulting from sea-farers returning home and struggling to adjust to the routines and demands of family life after his work at sea. Consequently,

even disrupting regular life at home. The attendees said it was very hard to raise fa-therless children, for whatever reason there is behind the absence.

After the group discussions, the facili-tators had one on one discussions with some of the attendees who requested for personal coaching. The seafarers and their spouses brought along children with ages ranging from 8 months to 13 years of age. There were two teachers who led various games and activities for the chil-dren. The older kids, who were from 14 to 18 years of age, joined the family pro-gram discussion with their parents allowing them to understand the various challenges parents go through in raising children.

The program ended with closing remarks from the Döhle Seafront President remind-ing the attendees how important it is to work together for a stable family life so the seafarer can focus more while working on board.

For 2018, Döhle Seafront has lined up var-ious sessions for its Family Program, which is the first to focus on deliberate parent-ing through a partnership with Educhild Foundation, an internationally recognized non-profit organization that is present in over 30 countries in 5 continents.

partners have to manage the transition from living alone and, in some cases, acting as a ‘single parent family’, to being part of a couple again. The wives were also exhausted when it comes to dealing with in-laws given the extended family culture of the Filipinos. In an extended family culture, the member who is earn-ing most is expected to support their siblings and ageing parents even if they have their own chil-dren to raise and spend educa-tion on. The discussions showed that many wives have learned to successfully manage the family in the seafarer’s absence, but their young children are seeing their fathers as strangers, sometimes

Iris Baguilat

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SPECIAL | DÖHLE SEAFRONT FAMILY PROGRAM DÖHLE SEAFRONT FAMILY PROGRAM | SPECIAL

At 8.45 h in the morning I received a call from Hagen, our head of technical department, stating shortly that M/V DEMETER was kidnapped on its way to the port of Onne, Nigeria. Although I was too shocked to say a word he interfered my incredulity by stating “This is not a joke!” Like all other members being part of the Emergency Response Team (ERT) I left everything where it was and went straight to the office. The next relieving news came when I met with my colleagues: Hagen, Tom, Roy, Detlef, Jens, Johannes and Christoph in the office. We were all shocked but also in the state of exemption where everyone only follows to function ‘do what you have to do’ although you have never practiced before.

Detlef summarized in short how he received a call via the emer-gency line from the vessel, then the at first glance positive infor-mation that the kidnappers had left the vessel after 1 ¼ hours on board and then the disturbing information: Master, C/E, C/O, 2/E, BSN and CCK were kidnapped.

The 2/O took over the command of the vessel, it was decided by the ERT that the vessel should not sail to Onne but to Mon-rovia, Liberia. Each of us had to focus on his tasks: To inform the agencies, the charterer, the ship financing bank, the fleet. To prepare declarations for the media. To answer questions to the French navy being the responsible navy force for the area of Onne. To organize the complete crew change for the crew members on board who all did an incredible good job after the shock – following our request not to inform anyone, including relatives to avoid that any piece of information could be used by the kidnappers.

We cooperated with the Federal Police of Germany, Two officers arrived later that Saturday from Neustadt, Holstein where the Federal Police Marine Division is seated. It was decided that one of our ERT members, Detlef, should be the only person to talk to the kidnapper who had their own representative called Sima. Two members of the Federal Police stayed during the complete period of captivity, advised and prepared Detlef for the talks with Sima and attended them.

In Manila and Gdynia the heads of the manning agencies were informing the relatives of the kidnapped crew members on basis of the small information we had at this time. They were taken

care of for the more than two weeks to come to pro-vide them all necessary help, to keep them informed

and with the request not to use any social media to share this incredible news, just to avoid the kidnappers

taking advantage out of any information.

It was decided that Roy and Jens fly to Monrovia to accompany the crew change on 25/26th October in Monrovia.

The following 19 days each and every one of the emer-gency response team did what he had to do.

On 8th of November 2017, the 19th day of the kidnapping in the evening we received the relieving news: our six colleagues were released. Hagen and Waldemar travelled to Lagos to accompany the kidnapped crew members out of Nigeria, first to Frankfurt. On Friday, 10th November Jochen Döhle and I went to Frank-furt , welcomed by members of the Federal Police, checking the rooms of the police at the airport of Frankfurt. We wanted to avoid any hassle on the venue but we could not avoid our six col-leagues to be questioned as witnesses by the police. The Federal Police is confident to get hold of the hijackers one day, based on the detailed descriptions made by our colleagues just two days after the release.

I cannot describe the moment when we met in the safe room in the airport hotel. I will never forget the look of eyes of Leo, Pal, Jomel, Mykola, Renato and Noel.

It is good to know that after a first medical check they had no visible body harm. How to cope with such an outstanding situation with such an undeniable trauma depends on the person and on treatment he receives. We have done everything to help our colleagues and are happy to state that all are fit for duty again. It was an exceptional period of time which showed that we have a team spirit which helped all of us.

Please kindly accept that we cannot reveal all and every detail in this report however we like to state that it was the cooperation of all forces in the company, the crew itself, the crewing agencies, the colleagues in the office and abroad that we coped with this situation. We all hope and pray that such a situation will never happen again.

Do you remember what you have done on 21st October 2017? It was a Saturday, beginning of autumn in Hamburg, not too cold, pleasant anticipation of a weekend. At 8.45 a.m. in the morning this anticipation was gone. And it took more than 19 days to come back to a normal state.

M/V DEMETER19 days in a s ta te o f emergency

Dr. Gaby Bornheim

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SPECIAL | M/V DEMETER M/V DEMETER | SPECIAL

Everyone knows the saying “Behind every successful man, stands a strong woman”. But is it really true? We wanted to verify that and interviewed the Romanian wife of a sailing C/O. Let’s see what she said:

“All my life is related to the sea - I live close to the sea since I was born, the man I love spends half of his time at sea, many friends of mine work at sea , I’ve always worked in marine fields, so the central point of my life is around the sea…I’m afraid not to become a mermaid someday. :) I’ve got married with my first love, my classmate from high school, who later became a sailor. People often ask me if it is not hard for me, being a sailor’s wife?

Well... is not easy, because you have to be aware from the beginning that life, with its ups and downs, often is shared virtually with your other half. The plans we make are always on short-term, the main events in our family, including vacations, are planned according to arrival or departure in the voyage, arrival of the ship in the port, the ETA :o). During the voyages, I am both, a mother and a

Nicoleta Azamat

father for our two children, I'm the backbone of our family during all this time. But the best thing is to become a mother and a wife when my husband returns home. Then, joy and relaxation come packed together. So, in our home we have more holidays than other families, because our house is full of happiness, joy and presents every time my sailor comes home.

The strong woman

behind a seafarer

We are happy to announce our PD Photo Contest 2018.

This year is football world Cup in Russia. We like to quote Nobel Prize Winner Mr. Oscar Arias by saying “football unites people and nations”. The PD Photo Contest 2018 will carry the motto...

»United«.

PD PHOTO CONTEST

2018

Entrance Requirements

Organizer of the PD Photo Contest is Peter Döhle Schiffahrts-KG, Elbchaussee 370, 22609 Hamburg, Germany („PDS-KG“).

Please note: With your participation in the PD Photo Contest you accept the following participation conditions. Deadline: Any photos being send to us later than August 15, 2018 cannot be considered in the PD Photo Contest judgment. Image copyright: If any person(s) is/are shown on a photo, the Participant confirms that those person(s) have agreed with the publication of his/their portrait. The Partic-ipant also confirms that he/she has taken the photos him-/herself (owns the right of the picture) and the sent photos are not reserved to any third parties, such as publishing houses. The image copyright for the sent photos stays with the Participant. The Participant, however, agrees that PDS-KG and affiliates or subsidiaries of PDS-KG (“PD Group Members”) may use all photos being sent to it free of charge for the following purposes: for the production of promotion calendars, for the exhibition of the winning photos and the reporting of the PD Photo Contest, for any marketing campaigns in print media or internet, such as but not restricted to the homepage of the PDS-KG and PD Group Members. PDS-KG may use the sent photos for other purposes only with the allowance of the respective Participant.

ANNOUNCEMENT | PHOTO CONTEST

Let us participate in your world :o)

You may become participant of the PD Photo Contest if you are an employee of Döhle Group and send your photos in .jpeg/.png-format latest till 15th of August 2018 to:

photo-contest@doehle.de

You may send three photos at most and the individual e-mail size should not exceed 5 MB. Your photos should be taken with a minimum resolution of 3 megapixels, thus please use the highest achievable quality.

Kindly provide us with some details about the photo as well (date, place, motif) - and is there a story attached? In order to enable us to assign the sent photos to you, please make sure that your e-mail contains all necessary personal information: full name, home address, job title and company.

We are looking forward to receiving more of your wonderful impressions!

PD CI-Team

Once again, it’s time for another worldcup

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SPECIAL | THE STRONG WOMAN BEHIND A SEAFARER

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