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JENS MÆRSK is being towed out of the production hall at Volkswerft Stralsund.

Published by A.P. Møller, Editor: Gitte Knudsen Printers: Scanprint a s On 11 September international terrorism struck again. In an Layout: Kühnel Design AS incomprehensible and repulsive attack on America more Copies: 17,400 Danish, 25,000 English than six thousand people, mainly civilians, were killed.

Local correspondents: Our American organisation, which from 1973 to 1988 had AUSTRALIA: Jo-Ann Bailey its head office in the now destroyed World Trade Center in BALTICS: Diana Stankevica New York, was fortunately spared the loss of human lives, as BANGLADESH: M. Shamimul Huq was our office close to the Pentagon, which services the US BENELUX: Georges Caulier Department of Defence. However, many of our employees EGYPT: Nabil Gayar have family, friends and close business relations who became FRANCE: Alexandre Banos victims of this horrifying attack. Our thoughts go out to GERMANY: Susanne Heinken HONG KONG: Steen Brodsgaard Lund them, to the families of the victims and to the American INDIA: Mahalaxmi Natrajan people. INDONESIA: Brian R. Pedersen JAPAN: Bo Lindberg Andersen The consequences of this attack for the world and thus for KOREA: Jeffrey K. Kim our business are impossible to judge today. Although Amer- MALAYSIA: Loo SookYee ican ports quickly resumed regular operation, disruption is NIGERIA: Timothy Alamu to be anticipated, and the expected American response, NORTH AMERICA:Tom Boyd civilian and military, also calls for the highest level of atten- PHILIPPINES: Ruben S. Fajardo tion from every single person in our entire organisation. PRC: Jens Eskelund SINGAPORE: Sonny Zin America has prepared itself for a long-term campaign. We SOUTH : Melody Barber will do the same. SPAIN: Javier Lopez SOUTH AMERICA: Chris Ruhalter It is a global task to suppress terrorism, and it calls for inter- TAIWAN: Alfred Guo national co-operation and solidarity among all democratic THAILAND: Terdtoon Thaisriwichai powers. : Emily Messinger SAFMARINE: Shelley Rosenberg We will contribute where we can, and there should be no Kevin Freeman doubt as to where we stand: a whole-hearted support to Am- AIR:Tina Linea Tønnesen MÆRSK CONTAINER INDUSTRI: erica and the fight for the preservation of democracy. Heidi Hansen MÆRSK DATA: Hans Arne Niclasen PAPYRO-TEX: Ole Schak MAERSK MEDICAL: Marianne Maltow ROSTI: Karin Nielsen ROULUNDS: Elsebeth Bastholm JESS SØDERBERG THE LINDØYARD: Leo Jensen DISA: ÅseT. Larsen

Volume 40, No. 3 September 2001 ISSN 1395-9158 Reproduction permitted only after agreement with the editor. On 18 June 2001 the Logistics and Maersk Sealand inent local business leaders and «fe Boards of Directors in Ak- were officially opened by the A.P. Møllers partners of very long tieselskabet Dampskibsselskabet Deputy Secretary General of standing, the Lee-Hysan family, and Dampskibssel- Shanghai Municipal People's and a presentation of the Maersk skabet af 1912 Aktieselskab held Government, Mr Møller and Mr office and introduction of the meetings in Beijing. It was the Søderberg. staff, first time such a meeting took place "east of Suez". Besides Bei- On the last day of the visit to Before leaving Hong Kong, the jing, members of the two Boards Shanghai, Maersk China hosted delegation visited Modern Ter- of Directors visited Shanghai a banquet in honour of the minals, where future develop- and Hong Kong. Boards of Directors and Mr ments were described, and fin- Møller. This was attended by ished with a guided tour of the During the visit to Beijing more than 400 including senior container vessel METTE MÆRSK. Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller and representatives of Shanghai's Jess Søderberg held constructive Municipal People's Government. The visit and its main objec- meetings in a friendly atmo- tive have generated interest sphere with Prime Minister Zhu The visit to Hong Kong in- and respect in China, further Rongji and with other Chinese eluded a meeting with Mr Tung strengthening the position of ministers and senior officials. Chee-Hwa who is Chief Ex- A.P. Møller/Maersk Sealand as a ecutive of the Hong Kong Spe- significant and leading factor in Mr Møllers 88th birthday was cial Administrative Region, meet- transport and logistics in China approaching, so State Counsellor ings with a number of prom- and Hong Kong.

Madam Wu Yi hosted a birth- : . day party for Mr Møller, which l^jBk „ * ÉbB&SLa. JJ&H I was attended by a considerable I fflL^ ** jfeJBfc^^B^fr' "^f^Bn«*' ^SMl number of ministers and offi- W I % W^f^F '"''- \ ^SBfBs*«^ H^ cials. In Chinese folklore the mwFw * \' ' number 88 is particularly auspi- " ^SP^HB «• cious as it characterises success, ^fck ^ yf i^Ä f** • } JaK^ happiness and a long life.

During the visit, contracts were ^ "f j^^mBfc. ^fl signed for a further three 35,000 . • Pp ~J^^Bj^fl DWT product tankers from Da- j? lian and Guangzhou and a con- I"" - ^ tract for delivery of container ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - cranes for the terminals in Eliza- JttH beth, New Jersey, was also signed.

The delegation was received in Shanghai by the Lord Mayor and I #'- ri V; the Party Secretary, and new | ; -^i'7.'"'''''"'''''';''''''''"1 ' \ office facilities for both Maersk Prime Minister Zhu Rongji receiving Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller and Jess Søderberg. Visits from China

On 16 May 2001, a Chi- nese delegation headed by Shi Wan Peng, Vice Chairman of the State Economic & Trade Commission, Beijing, visited London's Esplanaden and was welcomed by Jess Søderberg. In the evening Per Jørgensen hosted a dinner in honour of the Vice Chairman. Docklands In addition, other high-ranking visitors came to Esplanaden in May and June 2001, including delegations from: The London Docklands is 1800s, the river was not just a bustling hive of activity - about shipping; there were Shenzhen headed by Vice Mayor s from high-rise buildings and of- several other industries inter- Guo Rong Jun. ^ fices to fish markets and corner mingled with the warehouses, m shops. The booming develop- such as power stations, factories Dalian headed by Mayor Li Yong ment where The Maersk Com- and shipbuilding yards. The Jun. pany Limited has its head- River Thames was a shipbuild- quarters (in One Canada Square) ing centre up until the 1950s, Chongqing headed by Jin Lie, has not always been a shrine to with large firms such as Harland Vice Chairman of Chongqing's all that is glass and modern. and Wolff having shipyards. National People's Congress. West India Dock (alongside The shipping, warehousing and The Heilongjiang Province One Canada Square) was built shipbuilding work was very la- headed by Party Secretary Xu between 1802 and 1806 and was bour intensive at those times. You Fang. the first purpose built trading The workers were aged between dock in the Port of London. The eight and 80 and in the 1930s area was once known as the "Em- there were 100,000 people porium of the World" where all working in the Docklands. The imaginable goods were shipped variety of work and potential in, in clippers and steamers, opportunities attracted many from rum to spices, tobacco to people to live and work in the bananas and elephants to Lon- area. The result was that the don buses. The River Thames population was very multi-cul- was the world's wealthiest tide- tural. The original China Town way with 1,500 wharves packed was in fact in Limehouse (part with warehouses along the 26- of Docklands) and not, as today, mile stretch of the Port of Lon- in Soho, Central London. don. The Port of London continued Madam Li Su Rong, Vice Chairman Although the port was one of to expand with new docks being Shi Wan Peng and Jess Søderberg. the best in the world in the mid- constructed down river. It was

4 Today Canary Wharf is an ever expanding commercial centre. In the 1960s todays Canary Wharf development ivas still a working port. the advent of the Second World empty warehouses, docks and The people who live and work War that started the changes in wharves. Several plans to re- in the Docklands have not really the Docklands. The area was develop the area were made, but changed either. The area is still very severely damaged and this all failed to materialise until extremely multicultural, whether necessitated major rebuilding 1981, when the London Dock- it is people who have lived here projects of the docks and ware- lands Development Corporation for generations or have been re- houses. With this came the in- was established and put into located by their company to Ca- troduction of the new technique action a dramatic plan. nary Wharf. Even the number of palletisation. New work re- of people working in Docklands gulations and new techniques That was 20 years ago, and to- is not all that different, at an meant that fewer workers were day it is a very different story estimated 100,000. The activ- required and this led to redund- with towers, offices, restaurants ities in the area have, however, ancies and a fall in the stand- and bars; but underneath are still changed dramatically. Gone is ards of living in the area. The the shadows of the docklands' the heavy industry and ship- 1960s saw even more changes, history. Many of the original ping, and in its place are fin- as containerisation and ro-ro warehouses have gone, but they ance, information technology vessels took hold of the ship- have been replaced with shops and corporate business. The tide- ping industry. The larger vessels still selling goods from all over way is still very wealthy, but the that were now being used called wealth has moved from the river the world. The warehouses that at the newly developed, larger and into the high rise office are left are reminders of the Tilbury docks down river. The blocks. docklands' history but have now fate of the London Docklands been converted into bars, selling seemed sealed and in 1980, West alcohol instead of storing it. The Fair enough, the Docklands no India Dock closed and the last infrastructure and access to the longer rings out with the sound dockworker left the Port of Lon- docklands still remains similar of ship whistles, klaxon sirens don. It was the end of an era. to 100 years ago, but river taxis and horse drawn carts, but the have replaced the small skiffs people and atmosphere are still The docklands now looked very crossing the river and the Dock- very much alive as in the ori- different. Gone were the noises lands Light Railway and Jubilee ginal days of the "Emporium of and smells of a flourishing port; Line underground have replaced the World". all that was left were silent, the freight trains that used to call. The Secret of the Oil

Core smple seen under an electron the more advanced analyses are microscope, luith a well-preserved shell made elsewhere in the world. from coccolith algae. The shell is 0.005 mm in diameter. The oil is found in The geologist's first task takes the pores, seen as the dark areas in the place in ordinary daylight, where photograph. the core is thoroughly described. Under these circumstances the oil can be smelt and seen faintly as a brownish colour in the chalk. After that the core is cut into a few smaller pieces for use in ex- tensive tests in the various labor- Behind the decision to ini- the wells from which they have atories. In one of the tests car- tiate production or develop been taken. ried out in the warehouse, the an oil or gas find in one of the core is placed in ultra-violet light North Sea's chalk reservoirs are The warehouse is a workplace for which makes the oil appear as a meticulous seismic surveys, use of some of Mærsk Olie og Gas AS' clear yellowish colour. state-of-the-art supercomputers geologists who frequently study and, not least, thorough analyses both new and old core samples. The results from the laboratory of core samples from the 70- The cores, which have been care- tests are gathered by the geolo- 100 million-year-old hydrocar- fully put in transparent plastic gists who then make a final de- bon-bearing chalk layers. bags and packed in long boxes, cision on possible production or are stored on shelves in a large development from the area in In a large warehouse, not far hall which is filled from floor to question. All the results are pre- from Mærsk Olie og Gas AS' ceiling and from wall to wall. served, as new information from head office in Copenhagen, all similar areas sometimes occa- the core samples (called cores) When the cores are received in sions a re-evaluation of previous from DUC's work in the Danish the warehouse in Copenhagen, results. Most recently, the dis- sector of the North Sea are gath- they are carefully registered, covery of the Halfdan Field has ered — from the first wells on cut through lengthwise, photo- resulted in renewed activity in the Anne structure (later the Kra- graphed and put in their respect- the warehouse. As Halfdan is an ka Field) in 1966/67 to the latest ive boxes, after which they are unusual oil accumulation, it is samples from the Halfdan Field, ready to be analysed by various expected that further studies can among others. These cores con- professionals. Some of the ana- lead to several finds of a similar tain important information as to lyses take place in the laboratory nature elsewhere in A.P. Møller's whether there are oil and gas in in the actual warehouse, whereas concession area.

6 Facts about Oil

Small animals and algae with chalk bones who died and sank to the bottom of the ocean more than 145 million years ago are the basis for the oil and gas in the North Sea. The oil and gas are not found in large lakes or air pockets in the subsoil, but in microscopic cavities (pores) two to three kilometres down in the subsoil. In the Danish sector of the North Sea the oil and gas are found in layers of the same type of white chalk which is found on Møns Klint (Cliffs of Møn) in , among other places. A piece of chalk the size of old-fashioned blackboard chalk will typically contain about one trillion (1,000,000,000,000) microscopic pores.

The core is cut through lengthwise. The amount of oil and gas in a reservoir depends on the por- osity, which is typically 20-35% for white chalk. This means that a cubic metre of white chalk can contain 200-350 litres of water, gas or oil.

An analysis of the seismic measurements only provides an indication of the possibility of a find. To obtain more precise knowledge of the individual layers and possible accumula- tions of oil and gas, exploration wells are drilled. During the drilling operations, core samples are often taken from the drilled layers.

The laboratory studies often include detailed geological and chemical characterisation and tests with a view to determining the permeability of the rock. Among the more advanced meas- urements are nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and computer tomographic (CT) scanning, which are well known techniques from the hospital world. In the course of time DUC has gathered about 9 km ofcores fi-oyn the Danish subsoil.

7 A Versatile Supply Vessel

MÆRSK SUPPLIER was de- well-head to a Floating Produc- three mooring legs onboard. livered in August 1999 from tion, Storage and Offloading The increasing depth of water Keppel Singmarine Dockyard in unit (FPSO). as well as increased distance be- Singapore. She is the third vessel • Undertaken spot market activ- tween drilling locations com- to carry this name. The design ities in the North Sea. bined with the very short time of the vessel is based on experi- • Supported ultra deep water for drilling a well of only seven ence and is a testimony to how drilling operation with pre- to ten days, meant that Unocal far the industry has come since laid moorings. had to look at using a different the first MÆRSK SUPPLIER was de- type of Anchor Handling Tug livered in 1967. She was she first A special task Supply Vessel with much larger in A.P. Møllers fleet of supply The oil companies explore for oil winch capacities if they were to vessels, which today is one of the and gas in ever increasing depths continue their operation non- largest in the world. of water. MÆRSK SUPPLIER was stop. designed to cater for this devel- The versatility of MÆRSK SUPPLIER opment and is equipped to sup- MÆRSK SUPPLIER'S enormous is illustrated by the operations it port moored drilling rigs in ultra winch makes it possible to carry has performed. The vessel has: deep water of more than 1,500 a complete eight leg mooring sys- metres. Unocal Indonesia has tem (plus a spare system) on- • Transported, installed and re- been drilling offshore East Kali- board the vessel and the steaming covered insert wires enabling a mantan, Indonesia since 1996 speed of the vessel as well as its conventional moored semi-sub- in water depths in excess of very fast winch made it possible mersible drilling rig to be de- 2,000 metres. The rigs used by for Unocal to use only MÆRSK ployed in much deeper water Unocal Indonesia for this opera- SUPPLIER for the anchor hand- than originally designed for. tion cannot carry the immense ling operation. This task was • Installed a subsea listening cable mooring system required. It is never attempted before. system, which is part of the simply too heavy. monitoring of the UN Nuclear The vessel proceeded from Ba- Test Ban Treaty. As a consequence of this, the likpapan to the drilling location • Recovered and reconnected a moorings have to be pre-laid in Northwest of Aceh province in lost mooring chain to a Single an eight-legged pattern at the Indonesia, a voyage of about Buoy Mooring offshore Viet- designated location and sub- 3,000 km. Onboard were nine nam, at the height of the winter sequently hooked up to the anchors of nine tonnes each, nine monsoon, using a remotely op- drilling rig's mooring wires. The buoyancy buoys of 45 tonnes erated vehicle (ROV). vessels initially used for this op- each, nine clump weights each • Surveyed flexible hoses from eration could carry only one to 10 tonnes, nine fishplates, 2,736

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metre chain of 76 mm and 25,684 metre wire. The nine moorings were deployed and, since the job was completed faster than expected, MÆRSK SUPPLIER was then sent to Singa- pore to tow the drilling rig to location.

The hook-up and drilling went according to plan and after the rig was disconnected from the moor- ings MÆRSK SUPPLIER recovered the moorings and steamed at full speed towards Balikpapan. The vessel overtook the rig and managed to deploy the moorings in time for the rig to proceed dir- ectly to the new location. The rig was moored in 1,700 metres of water without any waiting time.

In the first three months of operation for Unocal MÆRSK SUPPLIER decked 123 buoys, re- trieved and deployed 18,072 metres of chain and 249,693 metres of wire. Unocal ended its deep-water exploration pro- gramme in May, but MÆRSK SUPPLIER and the Semi-sub SEDCO 601 had proved to work well as a pair, and Shell Brunei took over and continued using them for deep water drilling. Anchors and buoys on the deck of MÆRSK SUPPLIER.

9 Finding ail the information fMmmWå^Mwm you need in one place

Along with a new design The new @maersk search engine offers: and news channel, a new name @maersk (pronounced "at Maersk") and a new information structure, the A.P. Møller Cor- Feature Example «SifiBifÉ porate Intranet is getting ready mBBmMm: to introduce a new powerful and Natural Language Interface "Hovy do I create a Vodka report" fast search machine, Inktomi. Proper Name Recognition "Bill Clinton" is recognised as The Inktomi search engine en- being a name, leaving out search results ables all @maersk users, anonym- with "bills" etc. ous and logged in, to perform both simple and advanced Intelligent Stemming When searching for e.g. "computer" searches on @maersk as well as "computers" is also searched on local intranets such as MSKC, Starnet and Maersk Logistics Correctly handles numbers, 1,000 is the same as 1000 intranet. When additional affili- punctuation and mixed terms A.P. Møller is the same as ated offices are connected to A P Møller @maersk, their intranets will be made searchable as well. Password Capable Enables search on restricted sites/documents for authorised Users can select which intranets users should be included in the seärch mm and the Inktomi search engine Automated update of indexes will then search all selected sites in one go. This way users only The new @maersk search engine will be launched in October 2001. have to go to one place to per- form an efficient and precise search rather than having to look in numerous systems not knowing whether the informa- tion is there or not.

2441 MSiÄÄII The sponsor Marianne Haslund-Christensen surrounded by (from the left) Wolfgang Stammer, Managing Director, Volkswerft Stralsund GmbH, Marsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Partner and Søren Haslund-Christensen, Lord Chamberlain.

The new container vessel werft Stralsund for A.P. Møller. hull no. 433 was named JENS MÆRSK is 216 metres long, JENS JENS MÆRSK on 14 August has a beam of 32 metres and a 2001 at Volkswerft Stralsund capacity of 2,833 TEU. The GmbH in Germany by Marianne homeport of the vessel is Frede- MÆRSK Haslund-Christensen, wife of ricia, Denmark and she will be Søren Haslund-Christensen, the commanded by Captain Jens- Danish Lord Chamberlain. JENS Alf Berwald with Bjarni Jacobsen MÆRSK is the second in a series of as Chief Engineer. four container vessels from Volks- Namegivings LAUST and LEDA MÆRSK

The second newbuilding in a series of six container ves- sels was named at Steel Shipyard on 2 June 2001 by Catherine Ladnier, wife of John Michael Robinson, Managing Director and Chairman of Foot- star Inc., one of the largest im- porters of footwear in the USA. The newbuilding was named LAUST MÆRSK.

The third newbuilding in the series was named on 11 August 2001, also at Odense Steel Ship- yard. The sponsor was Ana Maria Furlan, wife of Luiz Fernando Furlan, Chairman of Sadia S.A., Brazil one of Brazil's largest food companies. The sponsor is a re- cognised artist in her native country. The vessel was named The sponsor Catherine Ladnier surrounded by (from the left) Captain Søren Sparre LEDA MÆRSK. Maagaard, John Michael Robinson, Footstar Inc., Knud E. Stubkjær, A.P. Møller and John Skov Hansen, Odense Steel Shipyard. LAUST MÆRSK and LEDA MÆRSK each have a length of 266 metres, a beam of 37 metres and a draught of 14 metres. They are provided with a ten-cylinder MAN B&W diesel engine with an output of 62,200 HP. Fully loaded, the vessels are capable of steaming at 25 knots.

The home port of LAUST MÆRSK is Bogense, and the vessel will be commanded by Captain Søren Sparre Maagaard with Kim Vium Laursen as Chief Engineer.

The home port of LEDA MÆRSK is Ebeltoft, and the vessel will be commanded by Captain Flemming Bach Olesen with Peter Otto Kjeldgaard as Chief Engineer.

The sponsor Ana Maria Furlan surrounded by from the left) Chief Engineer Peter Otto Kjeldgaard, KnudE. Stubkjær, A.P. Møller, Captain Flemming Bach Olesen, Luiz Fernando Furlan, Sadia S.A. and John Skov Hansen, Odense Steel Shipyard.

12 Sponsor Maria E. Kockmann with (from the left) Flemming Ipsen, A.P. Møller, Karlheinz B. Kockmann, Gemex Trading Limited and Charles C. N. Yu, Chairman of China Shipbuilding Corporation. i NEXØ and NYSTED MÆRSK

Two new container vessels were named at Kaohsiung Yard of China Shipbuilding Cor- poration (CSCB) on 16 May 2001.

Hull number 746 was named NEXØ MÆRSK by Maria E. Kockmann, wife of Karlheinz B. Kockmann, Chief Operating Officer of Gemex Trading Lim- ited, Hong Kong.

Hull number 747 was named NYSTED MÆRSK by Grethe Hassing, wife of Michael E Hassing, A.P. Møller. t The new vessels have a capacity of 2,226 TEU each and are the final two of a series of six vessels.

The sponsor of NYSTED MÆRSK and her family (from the left) Elisabeth Hassing, Grethe Hassing, Natascha Hassing, Michael Hassing and Camilla Hassing.

13 The new addition is called "the Wing". The Johannes Larsen Museum

In 2001 it is 100 years since and built with substantial fin- art and nature in a Nordic per- the artist couple Alhed and ancial support from the A.P. spective. It is also suitable for Johannes Larsen built their beau- Møller and Chastine Mc-Kinney concerts, and separate premises tiful home on Møllebakken in Møllers Foundation and the have been equipped for the many , Denmark. In 1986 Velux Foundation, was inaugur- visiting school classes. the house, complete with fur- ated. niture and paintings, was opened The inauguration on 29 June to the public as the Johannes The museum's permanent col- was carried out by Elsebeth Larsen Museum. lection mainly comprises art con- Gerner Nielsen, Danish Minis- nected with the artistic environ- ter of Culture, in the presence of On 29 June 2001 a new addi- ment in Kerteminde, and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller and tion to the museum, designed new addition is intended for his wife Emma and Mrs Aino by the architect Poul Ingemann special exhibitions dealing with Kann Rasmussen.

14 Focus on the Environment

Maersk Medical operates mental standard ISO 14001. green accounts from which au- a considerable number of The standard relates to develop- thorities, among others, can fol- g production and development ment, production and the ex- low compliance with the envir- I units which manufacture sterile ternal environment, and also the onmental targets set. Even now s disposables for the global health working environment, in order considerable reductions in en- care sector. The company is the to spread the environmental way ergy and water consumption, for leader in its field, and the de- of thinking through the entire example, and waste in produc- velopment and manufacture of company and increase focus on tion have been recorded, which these products take place in ac- internal environmental condi- is encouraging. cordance with stringent safety tions. The Group's overall envir- and hygiene rules. This means onmental strategy is to imple- Environmental management is that special procedures must be ment environmental certification not a new discipline for Maersk followed when products are de- in all units. Medical, but the fact that efforts veloped and tested, just as the and results are now made visible actual production takes place in In connection with the con- to everybody clearly helps to de- clean and controlled surround- tinual improvement of the envir- velop the company and its em- ings, the so-callcd clean rooms. onment Maersk Medical prepares ployees.

All disposables for the health care sector in Europe are subject to CE marking, and with Maersk Medical this requirement is observed through a fully devel- oped quality control system ISO 9001 with a special medical superstructure EN 46001. Fre- quent inspections from a com- pany accredited by the authorities monitor the Maersk Medical's quality control system, just as the American authorities, FDA, call on the company regularly.

Maersk Medical continues its en- deavours to become the leading supplier of sterile disposables and has just introduced an envir- onmental management system in the units in Hundested and Vassingerød, Denmark. In May 2001 Maersk Medical was cer- tified according to the environ- Clean room at Maersk Medical. a Destination for the New Millennium

1 ggjjg Many are of the opinion It was not until the so-called the volume of freight increased ™ that the last undisturbed "doi moi" (self-purification) in from 1999 by 25% to 1.3 million I country in the old Indo-China 1986 that the country was TEU in 2000. Vietnam is now s is Vietnam, which is often com- opened to foreign investors in the world's second largest produ- pared with a provincial town earnest, and both the gross do- cer of coffee (after Brazil) which, where time takes its own course. mestic product per capita and together with crude oil, rice, fish- And in a way it has. foreign investments have in- ery produce, shoes and clothes, creased in recent years. constitute Vietnam's most im- Since 1975 and up to the 1980s, portant exports. A trade agree- Vietnam was relatively isolated Container services have profited ment with the USA is in the last as regards foreign investments. from the development too, and phase of approval, which will

The Legend of Dannebrog and others

ffiSÄ Danes have been in the Bal- i 15 June 1219, a red cloth with a Desire turned to love, and they iSSll tie States for centuries. In white cross fell from the sky. even received the blessing of each period in history where Against this the Estonians had Mayor Kanne whose fatherly Danes have arrived at the Baltic no arms, and as a consequence of love softened his heart to such an shore, legends have been created. the successful battle the Danish extent that he let all craftsmen The Danish Cultural Institute King Valdemar started to use the and merchants come to trade at and the Estonian-Danish Society symbol as the flag of his nation. the gates to the upper part of the in Estonia have initiated the tra- town. The thankful craftsmen dition of celebrating Valdemar's The Legend of the and merchants named the area Day (also known as Dannebrog Danish King's Garden the Danish King's Garden. Day) every year on 15 June in the In the 14th century it was illegal Danish King's Garden on the side for craftsmen and merchants Celebration in 2001 of the Dome Hill in Tallinn. from the lower part of the town This year an open-air show was to trade at the gates to the upper arranged, with a local theatre re- The Legend of Dannebrog part of the town on Dome Hill. enacting these legends and with The Danish King Valdemar had One day a wheel from the poor the entire setting in medieval everything except a flag for his merchant Metsala's wagon got style with actors, musicians and nation. One day in the year 1219 stuck in the lower part of town. merchants dressed in medieval he went to the land of the Esto- On that same day the beautiful clothing. The six companies Balti nians to find a flag. He was Grete went for a walk through ES, , Loksa Ship- attacked and a great battle was town. She was the daughter of yard, Maersk Eesti, Maersk Lo- fought between Danes and Esto- the tough Mayor Kanne, the of- gistics Eesti and Svitzer Eesti nians. On the side of the Dome ficial representative of the Dan- were represented by a large ban- Hill the Estonians managed to ish King who was in control of ner designed to suit the style of force back the Danes. Just as the the area at that time. In the midst the day and placed on the old Danes were about to retreat, on of his distress Metsala met Grete. town wall over the town gate.

18 Jess Søderberg visits Maersk Hellas

Erik Nielsen • On 18 May 2001 Maersk Hellas Limited was privileged to welcome Jess Søderberg on a visit to Greece, during which he met the staff of the offices in Piraeus and Thessaloniki.

A lunch in Piraeus was attended by Hans Grunnet, Danish Am- bassador to Greece, Konstantinos Maniatopoulos, President of Pi- raeus Port Authority, and other dignitaries from Piraeus' re- nowned shipping community.

Maersk Hellas hosted a dinner in Thessaloniki for Apostolos Ge- nitsaris, President of the Thessa- loniki Port Authority, Christos Akkas, Consul General of Den- mark, and a number of other business partners of Maersk Sealand. Halri, Maersk Hellas.

New Bulk Carrier

• MAERSK SERAYA was named on 16 May 2001 at the Imabari MAERSK SWAYA Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. in Kaga- wa Prefecture, Japan, by Gail Toni Brown, wife of Christopher M. Brown, Managing Director of Sesa Goa Ltd., Panjim, a com- pany which has a very close co- operation with A.P. Møller. The official cord-cutting was per- formed by Motoko Kanezashi, wife of Mitsuo Kanezashi, Dir- ector of Sesa Goa Ltd., Panjim. MAERSK SERAYA is owned by Catalina Shipping S.A., Panama and is on long term time charter to A.P. Møller. She is a geared and grabbed panamax bulk car- rier with an overall length of Left to right: Captain Ram Sevak Sharma, Mitsuo Kanezashi, sponsor Motoko 225 metres and a beam of 32.2 Kanezashi, Christopher M. Brown, sponsor Gail Toni Brown, Toshiyuki Higaki, metres. President oftLmabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. and Chandra Kant Chukla, Chief Engineer. New Repair and Storage Facility

Melody Barber • SATI (Southern Africa Trans- logistics facility, storage and port Investment) is a land-based maintenance depot in Cape transport infrastructure company Town. It was officially inaug- formed in August 2000 by urated on 22 May 2001 by Alec Staff in Hakata. Maersk (Pty) Ltd, Ervin, South African Minister Safmarine (PTY) Ltd and Maersk of Trade and Industry and Knud A/S. In its first investment E. Stubkjær of A.P. Moller. All New Office venture SATI, in collaboration kinds of repairs can now be un- with the Industrial Develop- dertaken and performed to a high ment Corporation, has formed standard and the depot handles in Japan a subsidiary, SATI Container both refrigerated and dry gen- Bo Lindberg Andersen Services, which has invested in a eral-purpose containers. S On 28 May 2001, Maersk new, specialised reefer container K.K., Japan celebrated the offi- cial opening of its new office in Hakata. This is approximately 80 km from the Moji, the largest port in the Kyushu region where the A.P. Moller Group has had a presence since 1928. Lately, the industrial centre has shifted to- wards the Hakata area and in order to provide optimal service to our customers in the region the new office has been established.

Cargo handling in the port of Ha- kata has steadily increased, with an estimated annual volume of 500,000 TEU. Currently Maersk Sealand has one weekly direct call at the port of Hakata in the Minister Alec Ervin surrounded by (to the left): Raftiq Bagus, Trade & Investment Siam Japan Express service, which South Africa, Tony Farr, SATI, Lars Reno Jakobsen and Peter H. Ehrenreich, connects the region with the rest A.P Møller, (to the right): Karin L. Pickard, Western Cape Investment and Trade of the world through our global Promotion Agency and Knud E. Stubkjær, A. P. Møller. service network.

Employment Fair

Heba El-Shabrawy • In the light of the increasing Maersk Egypt was repres- importance of having high qual- ented, and it proved to be an ity staff available within Maersk excellent marketing activity, and to continually improving the allowing the company to build quality of its service, Maersk new relations. Egypt participated in the employ- ment fair of the American Uni- versity in Cairo, which was held on 11 May 2001. It was the fifth Left to right are Ahmed Bashir, AUC employment fair at which Kim Staeger-Holst and Nabil Gayar. National Distribution Centre in Shanghai

David Herrero Garcia., Board Director and General Counsel, Acerinox and 11 Maersk Logistics (China) Sigurd Erlendsson, Maersk Espana. opened a new National Distribu- tion Centre (NDC) on 14 June 2001 in Shanghai, China. The Web Bill of Lading new 14,000 m2 facility is in the Jiuting economic development

Javier Lopez zone of Songjiang District, an • Maersk Espana S A. entered a of Lading represent 9.1% of all ideal location for an integrated new era in its working relation- Maersk Espana's Bills of Lading. logistics centre in the greater ship with Acerinox S.A. when the Acerinox also makes its bookings Shanghai area. two companies signed a Docu- via Maersk Espana S.A.'s web mentation Agreement on 4 May site. More than 7% of the total The new NDC will offer cus- 2001. The agreement enables bookings in Spain are handled tomers specialised supply chain Acerinox to print its Maersk by electronic means, making management services, including Sealand Bills of Lading at its own Maersk Espana S.A. second in cross-docking, storage, sorting fa- premises. Acerinox is the first Maersk Sealand's world-wide cilities, im-port, export and dis- customer in Spain to take ad- ranking of e-booking users. Span- tribution in China. The distri- vantage of this facility, and cur- ish bookings via the Internet bution centre is an important leg rently the company is Maersk represent 17.5% of the total in the pan-China distribution Sealand's largest e-commerce bookings made via electronic network of Maersk Logistics customer world-wide. Their Bills means all over the world. (China).

Fremantle

j MAERSK CONTAINER DEPOT Container This Depot was officially opened by the Honourable Alannah MacTiernan MLA,

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Jo-Ann Bailey S Maersk Australia has in- is situated next to the port area. creased its presence in Australia The depot has been operating with the opening of a new owned since 5 July 2001 and was At the inauguration are (left to right) and operated container depot in officially opened by Alannah Tom Behrens-Sørensen, Maersk (China), Fremantle, Western Australia. MacTiernan, Western Australian Bo Graboivski, Alan Ashton and The 1,200 nr container depot Minister for Planning and Infra- Stejfen Schiøttz-Christensen, Maersk has a capacity of 1,000 TEU and structure . Logistics (China). Personalia

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