MÆRSK President for Three Years
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At the annual general meeting of the Danish Shipowners' Association on May 25, Mr. Ib Kruse was elected President after having served as Vice- MÆRSK President for three years. It is an important and demanding task that Mr. Kruse has undertaken in addition to his other areas of responsibility and POST activity. I am convinced that as President of the Danish Shipowners' As- sociation he will make a fine and competent contribution to Danish ship- ping. We wish him luck. At the Association's annual general meeting, Mr. Kruse said that as a Published by A.P. Møller, Copenhagen consequence of the increase in tonnage following the introduction of the Editor: Einar Siberg Danish International Shipping Register a lack of well qualified officers is Printers: Scanprint, Jyllands-Posten A/S, likely to develop. The number of apprentices has fallen during recent Viby J years. The Society for the Promotion of Danish Shipping, and the Danish Ship Adoption Society together with the Danish Shipowners' Association Local correspondents: and the Danish Maritime Authority have taken an initiative to counter this development. More than 2,000 schools have received information on HONG KONG: Evelyn Chun job possibilities in the shipping industry intended for the young in the 9th INDONESIA: Ken ßioch Sørensen grade who are about to choose their future career. And this is combined JAPAN: Lars Bredo Rahbek with an offer to 120 youths of a week's practical maritime training during NIGERIA: Lucie Thompson the coming summer holidays. PHILIPPINES: Lydia B. Cervantes SINGAPORE: David Tan At the seamen's schools in Fanø and Kogtved these 120 trainees will be THAILAND: Pornchai Vimolratana acquainted with navigation, seamanship, basic engineering, boat hand- UNITED KINGDOM: Robert Kenward ling, maritime rescue and fire service - skills which they will then get a U.S. EAST COAST: Robert F. Osborne chance to try in practice on board the Danish Maritime Authority's train- U.S. WEST COAST: Jennifer Caro ing ship "HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN". U.S. GULF: Gregory Bakalich This is a good initiative which will hopefully make many young people DISA: B. Trier-Hansen seek a maritime vocation so that Danish shipping with competent and re- MAERSK AIR: Marita Petersen sponsible officers may continue to assert itself under the Danish flag in in- MÆRSK DATA: Kim Kruse Andersen ternational competition and earn foreign exchange for Denmark. THE YARD: Jørgen Petersen PAPYRO-TEX: Helge Madsen Apart from the foregoing A.P. Møller each year offers 100 young appren- PHARMA-PLAST: Jørgen Winther tices an education which after five years of theoretical and practical train- Rasmussen ing is completed with an exam as deck officer or engineer. This means ROSTI: Marianne Maltow that we are constantly training more than 550 apprentices in the Com- ROULUNDS: Elsebeth Bastholm pany. That is a considerable effort and it is our hope that we may continue it and thus continue to provide many young people a future at sea. There are many examples of this valuable maritime training eventually leading to responsible positions ashore. Mr. T. Dilling and Mr. Bent E. Hansen thus started their careers as apprentices. Mr. Dilling closed his career as a very capable and respected Managing Director of Odense Steel Shipyard and Mr. Bent E. Hansen is today Executive Vice-President in A.P. Møller responsible for the Technical Organization. And many chief engineers who started in the company as youngsters have ended up in important positions ashore, in the Company or in the associated undertaking. MÆRSK MC-KINNEY MØLLER Volume 28, No. 2 June 1989 Reproduction permitted with acknowledgement of source. During her stay in Århus, the "METTE MÆRSK" was visited by 23.079 people. A new ship: the "METTE MÆRSK" On Saturday April 15, the fourth in a same width. The vessels can carry 500 re- series of 12 advanced container ships was mm frigerated containers, and the holds and named at the Odense Steel Shipyard. The hatches are equipped to accommodate new vessel was christened the "METTE the new 45-foot highcube containers. All MÆRSK" by her sponsor, Mrs Lim, wife in all, the container capacity is equivalent of Mr Lim Kim San, Chairman of the to around 3,900 20-foot containers with Port of Singapore Authority. Mr Lim four tiers of containers on the hatches. Kim San, a recipient of some of his Both vessels have single screws and are country's highest honours, has served in equipped with the world's largest diesel several ministerial posts and was stand-in engine with one axle - a Mitsui-MAN recently for President Wee Kim Wee dur- B&W type K90MC with ten cylinders ing the President's illness. which can generate around 54,000 BHP, Just as the very first ship in the series, the providing a speed of approximately 44 "MARCHEN MÆRSK", described earl- kilometres per hour. ier in Mærsk Post nr. 2/1988, the Taking part in the christening at the Odense After a successful trial run in Skagerrak, "METTE MÆRSK" was contracted by Steel Shipyard are the sponsor, Mrs Lim the "METTE MÆRSK" left for Århus for the A.P. Møller Company through DMK. (centre), together with her husband, Mr Lim some finishing touches, and on Wednes- These ships are the largest and technically Kim San, and her daughter. Mrs Beng Siu day April 26 at 10 a.m. the vessel was most advanced to date in the Company's Tin. taken over by the Company. Instead fleet of container ships. They are 294.13 of sailing immediately, though, the metres long, 32.22 metres wide with a "METTE MÆRSK" remained in Århus depth of 21.50 metres, have a maximum In the cargo holds below deck, there is to allow people in Jutland the oppor- draught of 13.50 metres and a dead- room for 8 tiers and 11 rows of containers tunity to come on board and inspect the weight of approximately 61,000 tons. - one more than in other vessels of the ship. c> 3 There was an official "open house" on the Britta and their two children Michael, 5, guests on board ship while she lay in ship from 9.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. on and Mirech, 2, were presented with Århus 23,079. Thursday May 4 (Ascension Day) and flowers, champagne, chocolate and Lego For the convenience of the guests, a Saturday May 6. Thursday provided trucks before going onboard. By the end special route through the ship was beautiful summer weather for the oc- of the visiting day at 6.00 p.m., 10,247 marked off. Throughout the day there casion and 9,292 people came aboard. people had been on board and, during the were between 1,000 and 1,200 people on Even though Saturday turned out to the two days of "open house", 19,539 people board simultaneously, so it was quite grey and windy, there were so many who in all had come to visit the "METTE crowded in the corridors, on the stair- braved the weather that by 9.30 a.m. Cap- MÆRSK". Besides these, 3,540 guests ways and, not least of all, on the bridge it- tain Leif Robenhagen Jensen could greet had been specially invited by the A.P. self, where advanced equipment greatly guest number 10,000 on board. This Møller Company and affiliated com- interested children as well as adults. Des- turned out to be Mr Ebbe Nørkjær from panies to attend specially-planned ar- pite the crowds, however, things went Studstrup who, together with his wife rangements, making the total number of smoothly because both officers and aspir- ,4s clearly shown here, it was quite crowded on board. To facilitate the visitors' coming and going, a large tower with two stairways was set up. ants posted along the route were prepared The more than 400-metre long queue of to offer information about the ship and children and adults waiting to come on board her equipment as well as to answer the the "METTE MÆRSK". many questions asked. Even though there was a great crush at Guest number 10,000, Ebbe Nørkjær, together times, the visitors showed great patience. with his wife Britta and their two children Everyone took whatever waiting there Michael, 5, and Mirech. 2, being welcomed was with good humour and, even for on board by Captain Leif Robenhagen those who had to queue up for up to two Jensen. The children were obviously a bit hours to come on board, there were no confused by all the attention. displeased expressions - only smiles. At 8 a.m. on Monday May 8, the "METTE MÆRSK" departed,' heading for the Suez Canal and on to Singapore where the A.P. Møller Shipping Com- pany is the largest single operator, with no less than twelve port calls every week. From here, the "METTE MÆRSK" will become part of Maersk Line's compre- hensive liner network. Captain Leif Ro- benhagen Jensen is Master, Mogens Krog Larsen Chief Engineer, John Criddle Chief Officer and Poul Erik Würtz An- dersen Steward/Cook. On the bridge, both children and adults showed a great deal of interest in the very advanced equipment. Even though many people had to queue up for more than two hours, they showed great patience and took it all with good humour. ,.- ....» The A.P. Møller Shipping Company's new A new supertanker: the supertanker, the "NICOLINE MÆRSK", passing Singapore on her way from the "NICOLINE MÆRSK" Arabian/Persian Gulf to Chiba in Japan. On Friday December 16, 1988, the first built, the "REGINA MÆRSK", which measure, the ballast tanks are completely of four VLCC's (Very Large Crude Car- had a deadweight of 285,000 tons and a segregated; thus, ballast is not carried in riers) commissioned by the A.P.