#03 DECEMBER 2014 Cooperation among Danish ports is the way forward 160 tons of legs for repair CO2-friendly heaps of scrap Development well founded LOOKOUT #03 DECEMBER 2014 PUBLISHED BY LINDØ port of ODENSE Port of Odense Noatunvej 2 5000 Odense C www.odensehavn.dk Lindø Industrial Park A/S /04 Kystvejen 100 5330 Munkebo www.lindo-industripark.dk CHIEF EDITOR Carsten Aa, CEO EDITORS Susanne Willers, Head of Sales, Estate Lease & Communication /12 /14 [email protected] Charlotte Wittenberg, Administrative Coordinator [email protected] PRINT OAB-Tryk ApS 5250 Odense SV www.oab-tryk.dk /17 /18 CIRCULATION 2,000 DK issues 600 UK issues Reproduction permitted with clear source reference LOOKOUT CONTENTS Will be published 4 times a year This passed year… /04 FRONT COVER Port of Odense – December 2014: All of the Blue Denmark must look beyond our borders /08 The Christmas decorated sailing ship S/Y SUMMERWIND 160 tons of legs for repair /12 (www.odenselystbaadehavne.dk) with a view to North Atlantic CO2-friendly heaps of scrap /14 House and Promenadebyen. Development well founded /16 Photo: Kennett Krebs World’s best job /18 2 LOOKOUT / DECEMBER 2014 SAME VISION – LONGER PERSPECTIVE welve months have passed Lindø Industrial Park who have followed Cooperation, such as Lindø Apprentice- with the Port of Odense and us for several years, and not least those ship Center, across enterprises, organi- Lindø Industrial Park as one who have joined us in recent months; sations, institutions and authorities will T organisation. It has been Thank you for your very positive reception often constitute an added value for the a year of excitement and of the merger between the Port of Odense participating players and it will be part development for all of us in the two en- and Lindø Industrial Park – and thank you of the continued development of LINDØ terprises and it has been a great pleasure for all the indispensable activities you at- port of ODENSE. Clusters, networks, in- to be able to continue the high tempo of tract to our areas. terest groups etc. represent active and urban development on the Port of Odense development-focused businesses, and and industrial development at Lindø. It is a well known fact that activity re- also in future will we be an active player, quires both facilities and employees, and when The Blue Denmark is marketed We also got a new common name and new qualified staff will only come if we all both at home and abroad. logo and in future LINDØ port of ODENSE take responsibility to contribute to the will be our name for the combined areas, food chain – and not least where hopeful The Blue Denmark – and, locally, The and we are well under way with changing young people get the opportunity to ed- Blue Funen – is a great national re- the signs on the areas. With our new name ucate and train into qualified employees. source, and we will contribute actively to we have united the well known Lindø with To support this process, LINDØ port of participate in making the many strong the ownership in Odense, and we thereby ODENSE, the Danish Metalworkers’ Union Danish competencies in this field vis- utilise the best from both worlds. (Dansk Metal) and the technical college ible, so that international projects are Syddansk Erhvervsskole have taken the drawn to Denmark and placed where The vision for the areas remains un- initiative to set up Lindø Apprentice- the facilities are the most suitable. Lo- changed, but the perspective is longer. ship Center, where Lindø-apprentices cal and regional specialities constitute We have initiated development projects; will have the opportunity of sharing their the road ahead. more housing and recreational areas on practical training between several en- the City Port; and right now, thousands terprises. In this way, enterprises that With these words I wish to thank tenants of square metres of unexploited areas at cannot manage a full apprenticeship and employees for good cooperation – and Lindø are being converted into storage can share with other enterprises for the I am confident that 2015 will be yet another areas for heavy units. We have great de- benefit of the apprentice, who will get enterprising year at LINDØ port of ODENSE. mands – and the willingness to develop. broader practise, and for society that will get more and better trained workers. I wish you a Merry Christmas I also wish to take the opportunity in this The interest in this initiative is increasing and a Happy New Year. last editorial of the year to thank the many and enterprises at Lindø are positive and enterprises at the Port of Odense and at see the opportunities. Carsten Aa, CEO DECEMBER 2014 / LOOKOUT 3 THIS PASSED YEAR… The activity level in our area has been overwhelming in 2014. New enterprises have joined us and in the course of the year many special projects have been carried through. Here is a selection from the year that was. 4 LOOKOUT / DECEMBER 2014 SSED YEAR… Odin’s Bridge, the much-awaited ring road around North-Odense, was opened in June, and the three employees in the Port of Odense bridge watch next to Odin’s Bridge, quickly got into their rou- tines. The bridge spans where manufac- tured in China and shipped in two 2000- ton sections to Lindø, where they were re-loaded with the assistance of the In- dustrial Park’s heavy load transporters from the ship to the barge that would take the bridge spans into the Canal to the place of mounting. DECEMBER 2014 / LOOKOUT 5 In May, the first wind turbine foundation manufactured at Lindø was hoisted by Lindø Industrial Park’s 1000-ton gantry crane. Bladt Industries were in the process of manufacturing 41 jacket foundations for Baltic 2, the offshore wind turbine farm in the Baltic Sea, and the interplay with Lindø Industrial Park crane division was in full swing. In March, Mogens Jensen, Danish Minister for Trade and Development, visited Lindø Industrial Park and was on a tour of LORC’s testing hall. The MÆRSK GALLANT rig arrived at Lindø in the early summer and was berthed for about three months. Fayard repair yard had landed this extensive order and a large number of employees, both local and from outside, participated in the tasks. Local hotels, youth hostels, summer cottages and similar housing were filled to capacity to house the hired mobile workforce. - Henrik Sass Larsen, Minister for Business and Growth, was the main speaker, when LINDØ port of In September, LORC – Lindoe Offshore Renewables Centre - inaugu- ODENSE and Funen Maritime Cluster held a confer - rated its testing hall by testing a Vestas nacelle. People were invited ence in June about The Blue Funen. The theme was to an extensive programme including a conference as well as fes- to visualise the strong Funen competencies as a tivities. More than 300 people had accepted the invitation and Ane corner stone of The Blue Denmark, and a vast num Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla held the highly praised inauguration speech. ber of businesses and educational institutions from (Photo: LORC) all over Funen participated. / DECEMBER 2014 66 LOOKOUT In June, the Royal Yacht DANNEBROG, called at Odense, and along Odense Canal, big and small were standing with flags and cheered the Royal Couple. On the terrace of the new administration building of the Port of Odense at Noatunvej, The Sixtus Battery was ready to salute when DANNEBROG sailed by. The Royal Couple also visited the North Atlantic House and the Odense City Hall. In May, the French company Technip started assem- bling a very large marine crane which Fayard was to mount on the special vessel the North Sea Giant, which called at Lindø in early December. In addition to Fayard’s many activities on crane and vessel, Lindø’s transport division participated on a large scale in the process with technical calculations and complicated lifts. SH Group brought four 54-metre long jackup legs to Lindø, which had to be worked on before re-mounting in the rig that is expected to berth at Lindø in early 2015. The transit took place with two legs at a time on Lindø Industrial Park’s heavy) load transporters. See the article on pages 12-13. (Photo: SH Group Danish Maritime Days is the new international event in And this is what Lindø Industrial Park looked like one summer morning Denmark which was held in October for the first time. in 2014. The jackup rig with Fayard and the wind turbine foundations Various maritime events were scattered over the four with Bladt Industries were particularly visible in these first weeks of dis- days and in the Bella Centre, the Danish Maritime Fair charging the foundations. The rental percentage at Lindø in this period took place. LINDØ port of ODENSE participated on a was almost 100. common stand under the Funen Maritime Cluster – a positive exposure of The Blue Funen. DECEMBER 2014 / LOOKOUT 7 Text: Finn Bruun / Photo: Maroinca Lauridsen WE ARE ALL WORLD CHAMPIONS, BUT… ALL OF THE BLUE DENMARK MUS LOOK BEYOND OUR BORDER The Danish ports have a substantial potential, if, in internal cooperation and together with the maritime and offshore industries, they can attract more projects to Denmark, rather than struggle to become the one and only. LINDØ port of ODENSE wishes to fight harder to strengthen the common efforts externally and then have the ports concentrate on their individual competencies. 8 LOOKOUT / DECEMBER 2014 ALL OF THE BLUE DENMARK MUST OND OUR BORDERS DECEMBER 2014 / LOOKOUT 9 Port of Esbjerg LINDØ port of ODENSE oday, Danish ports have a strong foothold in a The Danish climate profile is also an asset in relation to ports.