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* I tn CM Eh LU CD Cover: The Opera House OPERAEN in Copenhagen. Photo: Lars Schmidt Published by A.P. Moller - Maersk, Copenhagen In October 2004 Minister for Economic and Business Affairs Bendt Bendtsen Editor: Gitte Knudsen and A.P. Moller - Maersk removed the last reservations in the Agreement of e-mail: [email protected] Printers: From & Co. 29 September 2003 on continuation of the Sole Concession until 2042 and Layout: Yellow Pencil amendment of various terms with effect from 1 January 2004. Thus, we Copies: 16,000 Danish, 32,300 English have come to an agreement and understanding of the basis for our activities in the North Sea in the short as well as the long term. It is now up to Mærsk Local correspondents: Olie og Gas to utilise the long time frame to ensure Danish society and our- AUSTRALIA: Jo-Ann O'Brien selves the best possible use of the oil and gas in the North Sea. BANGLADESH: M. Shamimul Huq BENELUX: Ruud Bijkerk EGYPT: Nahla Abdel Aziz Richard Yong FRANCE: Cedric Collin As announced, A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S entered into an agreement with GERMANY: Marc Fritzsche IBM Danmark A/S in August this year on the sale of its subsidiary Mærsk INDIA: Nalini Sørensen Data AS. The sale was approved by the EU competition authorities on 18 INDONESIA: Callum Sinclair November. JAPAN: Bo Lindberg Andersen KOREA: Christine Y. Park Mærsk Data very much reflects the electronic evolution that our company, MAINLAND CHINA AND HONG KONG: and the rest of society, have witnessed over the past decades. In 1956, Jens Eskelund A.P. Møller purchased a punched-card machine. This machine was leased MALAYSIA: Loo SookYee from IBM at a price of DKK 38,000 per year and formed the basis for elec- NORDIC AND BALTIC: Henrik Wern tronic data processing in the A.P. Moller Group. In 1970, Mærsk Data NIGERIA: Timothy Alamu became an independent company with a total of 35 employees in its early NORTH AMERICA: John Heenehan days. Today, this number has increased to 3,500. PHILIPPINES: Ruben S. Fajardo SINGAPORE: Sonny Zin With IBM as owner, the Mærsk Data organisation can continue the devel- SOUTH AFRICA: Melody Barber opment and become the global partner that the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group SOUTH AMERICA: Rosi Cordeiro and other Mærsk Data customers need. Thus, the A.P. Moller - Maersk SPAIN: Javier Lopez Group will maintain and carry on the close cooperation with the Mærsk TAIWAN: Poul Resdal Kristensen Data organisation within IBM and may still benefit from the global expertise THAILAND: Terdtoon Thaisriwichai that Mærsk Data will develop with IBM as owner. We should like to thank UNITED KINGDOM: Emily Messinger our colleagues for their cooperation, which we look forward to continuing SAFMARINE: Victor Shieh within a new framework. MAERSK AIR: Maj-Britt Vittrup Nielsen MÆRSK CONTAINER INDUSTRI: Heidi Hansen MÆRSK DATA: Marie-Louise Arnfast ROSTI: Mette Andreasen Management wishes all employees and their families a merry Christmas and ROULUNDS: Elsebeth Bastholm a happy New Year. THE LINDØ YARD: Steen Schougaard Christensen DISA: Åse T. Larsen Jess Søderberg SVITZERWIJSMULLER: Michael Elwert Volume 43, No. 4 December 2004 ISSN Reproduction permitted only after agreement with the editor. Deputy Prime Minister Bendt Bendtsen Inaugurates Container Terminal in India I jBBjf Bendt Bendtsen, Deputy acity of 75,000 TEUs per annum. % HH Prime Minister of Denmark, The CFS will cater to some of the s formally inaugurated Star Track important states of Northern India Terminals India Pvt. Ltd.'s Contain- and will provide state-of-the-art fa- er Freight Station (CFS) at Dadri, cilities in terms of container hand- North India on 16 October 2004. ling, customs bonded warehousing Star Track Terminals India is a and value added services to the joint venture between Maersk India containerised trade. EDI linkage at Pvt. Ltd. and Container Corpor- the CFS and a modern business ation of India Limited (CONCOR). centre are among the features that Present at the inauguration were give this facility a competitive edge. Michael Sternberg, the Danish Am- The adjoining rail terminal links bassador to India, dignitaries from the CFS to most of the major ports the Government of India and in India. Speaker Bendt Bendtsen, Deputy Prime CONCOR as well as management Minister, Denmark, Ravi Gaitonde and and employees from Maersk India Combining the global reach of the A.K. Kohli, Star Track Terminals India Pvt. Ltd. A.P. Moller - Maersk Group with Pvt. Ltd., Per Jørgensen, A.P. Moller - Maersk, R.N. Aga, Chairman, CONCOR, the comprehensive rail-road net- Michael Sternberg, Danish Ambassador to The CFS is located within the In- work of CONCOR, will create posi- India, S.K Goel, Commissioner, Central land Container Depot Dadri on a tive synergies for exporters and im- Excise and Customs, Noida and Hans Ole 45,000 nr plot, with a designed cap- porters of North India. Madsen, Maersk India Pvt Ltd. Michael Ditbmer, Permanent Secretary, Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, R.N. Aga, Chairman, CONCOR, Bendt Be?idtsen, Deputy Prime Minister, Denmark, Per Jørgensen, A.P. Moller - Maersk, A.K. Kohli and Ravi Gaitotide, Star Track Terminals India Pvt. Ltd. MGM - Global Procedures in a Global Company MGM is the name of an extensive project for change, to be launched in 2005 in the container business of A.P. Moller - Maersk. When MGM has been fuliy implemented the entire container business will use the same operational IT systems to handle the shipping process, and MGM will replace existing local procedures and systems. The key words behind MGM are integration, automation, standardisation and globalisation. The MGM Readiness Team and HIT Team. MGM Readiness Team The MGM Readiness Team is a central planning and facilitation unit, within the MGM project organisation. The objective of the Readiness Team is to contribute to the overall coordination of the implementation and changes within MGM. The Readiness Team offers support and guidance to the business and system organisations, whose responsibility is to ensure successful implementation of MGM. I jj| Global Standardisation will experience increased efficiency The Project Organisation J •§ MGM is supported by the in the shipping process, in terms of MGM's project organisation covers I three global IT systems; MARS, speed as well as quality. a wide field with representatives 1 GCSS and MLIS, which together from both the Global IS (Informa- 2 are central in handling the shipping The MGM Programme tion System) portfolios and the busi- process, from quotation to settling In 2003 a project organisation — ness organisations. The top man- of accounts. The use of global sys- the MGM Programme — was set up agement in the container business tems ensures uniform procedures to assist in the technical, commer- is responsible for the overall busi- in all offices and makes it possible cial and organisational implemen- ness strategy, whereas the areas are to share experience across frontiers, tation of MGM. This will result in responsible for local tactical and resulting in a consistent high ser- great changes in the procedures of operational implementation. At pres- vice standard. the container business. New tasks, ent the MGM project organisation new jobs, new reporting routines consists of approximately 30 em- Integration Increases Efficiency and even organisational adjust- ployees from 160 countries. The MGM systems are integrated, ments will be introduced and old so they can share and forward in- tasks discontinued. The MGM Pro- More detailed information about the formation to each other. In the fu- gramme's systematic and coordin- MGM Programme is available on ture, it will be possible to automate ated approach to implementation Enable: tasks and thus release resources to of the procedures will ensure a http://enable.apmoller.net/mgm/ other, value adding functions. With smooth transition between the new @maersk/BusinessArea/enable/ this system integration, customers and the old way of working. Global Projects HIT Team The HIT Team is part of the MGM Readiness Team and consists of a group of Maersk Sealand employees, specifically selected and brought to Copenhagen with the purpose of returning to their respective areas as implementation experts. They will assist the areas in implementing MGM with expertise in: • System knowledge • Training of super users • Global process knowledge Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller. The Opera House Assigned to the Danish Nation As planned from the start of the ernment officials, employees and able asset — not only for our gen- construction work in 2001, advisers connected to the Opera eration, but also for future gener- OPERAEN (The Opera House) was Project. ations. I am delighted that with on Friday 1 October at 11 a.m. this magnificent opera a building assigned by Mærsk Mc-Kinney In his speech before the signing has been created, which leaves some- Møller to Prime Minister Anders ceremony Mr Møller said: "It was thing valuable for posterity, a testi- Fogh Rasmussen at a ceremony in our clear wish that OPERAEN - mony to the future of what archi- the foyer. The Opera House was the gift - should be second to tecture and the art of building could built and presented to the Nation none, that the new house — besides produce in our time. It is a great by the A.P. Møller and Chastine opera and music - must include privilege and a great responsibility Mc-Kinney Møller Foundation. first-class ballet facilities and first- to receive this gift. The Danish class acoustics, stage and audience State and the City of Copenhagen The preliminary steps for construc- arrangements". "Mr Prime Minis- therefore declared themselves ready tion began in June 2001 with dem- ter! I ask you — on behalf of the right from the start to vouch for olition of the existing buildings on Government, Denmark — and not the running of OPERAEN.