No. 5 / December 2013 Lindø Industrial Park
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LINDØ UPDATE LINDØ INDUSTRIAL PARK A/S NO. 5 / DECEMBER 2013 No. 5 / December 2013 Michael Nymark Hansen, DEAR READER Head of Lindø Industrial Park A/S Goal achieved for the first part of the objective of Lindø Industrial Park PUBLISHED BY /04 Lindø Industrial Park A/S The Port of Odense has purchased the industrial park and will In June 2011 the transport division was set up as an inde- Kystvejen 100 take over the activities as of 1 January 2014, and will then pendent unit under Lindø Industrial Park with the responsibil- DK-5330 Munkebo be responsible for continuing the positive development of the ity of operating cranes and vehicles. Large sums have also Telephone +45 30 10 77 10 area. Details about the sale were favourably received as the been invested here for refurbishment and upgrading of equip- www.lindo-industripark.dk two good neighbours and business partners will now be united ment. Most recently, the huge KAMAG transporters have been in ownership. through a major overhaul before the carriage of the bridge CHIEF EDITOR spans for the Odin Bridge, and all cranes have had mainte- Michael Nymark Hansen /06 /08 When A.P. Moller – Maersk established Lindø Industrial Park in nance checks and have been refurbished. Since its start the September 2009, following the decision to discontinue build- transport division has experienced rapid developments. One EDITOR ing ships and close down Odense Steel Shipyard, the chal- business area of growth is the testing of lifting beams, where Charlotte Wittenberg lenge for Lindø Industrial Park was to create a modern indus- we experience high demand. Along with this the gantry crane [email protected] trial park with active tenants and eventually make the industrial and the Kamag transporters may look forward to a busy pe- park an attractive investment for the right buyer. This was a riod with transporting, lifting and turning the large wind turbine PRINT resource demanding challenge and since its establishment in components to Bladt Industries, Vestas and Siemens. In 2014, OAB-Tryk a/s 2009, between 15 and 22 people in the industrial park have LORC will be ready for testing the wind turbine nacelles in the 5250 Odense SV been engaged and committed for the purpose of developing new testing hall, where the gantry crane will lift the nacelles in www.oab-tryk.dk the project, and A.P. Moller – Maersk has invested more than and out of the hall through the removable roof. /10 /16 DKK 200 million in the conversion of the area. CIRCULATION Lindø Industrial Park has reached a lease percentage of 70 600 DK issues It was a mammoth task to solve. Production halls, buildings and right now we have 70 tenants. After several years' of in- 400 UK issues and areas that previously encompassed the shipbuilding ac- tense work we have now succeeded in gaining ourselves a Reproduction permitted tivities had to be split into smaller leaseholds with regulatory re- good name both nationally and internationally, so we are very with clear source reference CONTENTS quirements of anti-fire partitions, division of supply lines etc. At pleased to pass the ball on to the Port of Odense headed the same time large investments were required to prepare the by Port Director Carsten Aa. I am confident that the Port of LINDØ UPDATE Development of Lindø Industrial Park continues /04 leaseholds for new tenants, for instance insulation of some of Odense is the perfect buyer who will also participate in the Will be published in the big halls that are now leased to Siemens, Vestas and Bladt further development of the area. June and December Moving a bridge /06 Industries for the production of wind turbine components. May I take this opportunity and thank all the employees of the FRONT COVER Test hall and foundation erected /08 In 2009, FAYARD, the first and biggest tenant of the Industrial Industrial Park for contributing their efforts towards the result Christmas atmosphere on Park entered a 25-year lease contract and in 2010 they moved we have achieved today. I also wish to thank tenants and busi- the top of the gantry crane Funen must come back into the maritime footlights /10 in. Today, activities are in full flow in the dock area, where ness partners for a fine and committed working relationship in Lindø Industrial Park FAYARD takes periodical leases in the big Dock 3 for large over the recent four years. New tenants /12 projects - in addition to making ship repair work in their own Visiting South Korea /16 three docks. Since its start, Fayard's activities have added a high rate of action to the industrial park leading to visibility and Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year EWEA offshore 2013 /16 dynamics of great value to the area. Michael Nymark Hansen Page 2 LINDØ UPDATE December 2013 December 2013 LINDØ UPDATE Page 3 By Charlotte Wittenberg, Administrative Coordinator, Lindø Industrial Park A/S Carsten Aa Port Director for the Port of Odense since 2005 Sales and marketing manager for the Port of Esbjerg for 3 years DEVELOPMENT OF Business estate agent for 3 years 13 years in the transport business Residing in Odense LINDØ INDUSTRIAL Married, 3 children PARK CONTINUES As of 1 January Port Director Carsten Aa will take his seat at the helm of both the Port of Odense and Lindø Industrial Park, and he is looking forward to the new challenges. In the new year Carsten Aa will be quite area and the large KAMAG transport- projects of infrastructure and offshore The Port of Odense sion was made that in future the board possibilities of having, say, more large visible in the industrial park in order to ers may operate on Odense Port Ter- and wind turbine projects. Being one The Port of Odense owns an area of 3.4 of directors for the Port of Odense will drilling rigs for repair work and - pos- familiarise with the area and its tenants. minal, which incidentally already took of the very few locations in Northern million sq m distributed over the inner consist of three politicians and two sibly benefits from using the flexible Tenants will feel no immediate changes, place in connection with the handling of Europe with millions of square metres, harbour (the city harbour) in Odense business people in stead of the previ- 150 tonne harbour mobile crane. although different people may be re- the bridge spans for the Odin Bridge”, lifting and transport capacity of 1000 and Odense Port Terminal (the indus- ous combination of five politicians; this sponding to contacts made. Carsten Aa states. tonnes and a depth in the harbour of trial harbour) at Lindø. Our core output will further contribute towards strength- Ready for accomplishment 11 metres the area is capable of meet- is the lease out of areas, cranes and ening the business efforts of the Port of Carsten Aa concludes: “The Port of The primary focus area will still be the Long-term cooperation ing the requirements of projects of al- crew plus loading/discharge of vessels Odense. It is also anticipated that Lars- Odense is ready to accomplish the task offshore trade, including wind, ship re- As early as 2009 the Port of Odense most any sizes. alongside quay - and presently the Port Erik Brenøe, the present Chairman of after A.P. Moller – Maersk which has pairs etc., but production of large pro- and Lindø Industrial Park started work- has 105 tenants. In 2012 the Port of the Board of Directors of Lindø Industri- invested more than DKK 200 million in jects of infrastructure will also be ben- ing together to offer the “There is increasing interest in large pro- Odense erected new headquarters at al Park, will enter the board of directors the area since the establishment of the eficial at Lindø, once the wide areas of common facilities at jects of infrastructure and here we are Noatunvej next to the future Odin Bridge of Lindø Industrial Park on 1 January Industrial Park in 2009”. industry and port are merged. Lindø as a place able to benefit from the unique facilities at the Odense Channel, and intentions once the sale has fallen into place. As of of production and the fine cooperation we already are that these offices as well as those at yet no considerations have been made “The Port of Odense wishes to con- for large have ongoing, and at the same Lindø will continue to house staff with concerning other members of the Lindø tinue the positive development in Lindø time everything will be a little relations to the local activities. Industrial Park’s Board, but the fact that Between them, the Port of Odense and Lindø Industrial Park can offer: Industrial Park and further develop the easier in the future with the Chairman of the Industrial Park con- area in order to create even more jobs, only one owner”, says The cranes of the Port of Odense are tinues will help to ensure continuity in 4.6 million sq m industrial and harbour area and at the same time benefit from Carsten Aa. mainly operating the handling of bulk connection with the amalgamation. 500,000 sq m planned port expansion the synergies acquired through goods, but many of the crane operators with 1,000 m quay the amalgamation. For in- have a history from the Lindø Steel Ship- Port expansion 4,400 m quay with crane cover stance, the flexible mo- yard and are therefore also highly experi- A 500,000 sq m expansion of the port Industrial port of up to 11 m depth Channel of 11 m depth and a minimum width of 60 m bile crane of the enced in handling heavy loads which will terminal at Lindø will soon be a reality.