Blue Water Shipping News
Partners have signed an agreement to investigate the possibility of establishing transport of CO2 from biogas plants in North Denmark, temporary storage facilities in the Port of Hirtshals, and shipping to the North Sea, where the CO2 will be injected into the subsoil. The project, named Greenport Scandinavia, thus involves the entire value chain for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). Green transition "It is a fantastic project that we at Blue Water are delighted to be a part of. We are transp...
Crews from Blue Water and Semco Maritime are in the process of preparing the vessel Aurora Storm, poised to take a key role in Project Greensand. Aurora Storm will transport special containers filled with CO2 safely from Belgium to the Nini West platform in the North Sea. It happens as part of the advanced pilot project in Project Greensand which aims to deliver a significant contribution to the green transition in Denmark. Rebuilding and upgrading Aurora Storm "In the coming weeks, we will w...
At Blue Water, they focus on creating customer solutions that enable minimization of carbon footprint from transport and logistics provided by them. “We aim to be our customers’ supplier and partner of choice. This includes offering and advising on solutions improving the sustainability and efficiency of the supply chain. Therefore, we are always searching for the best available solutions allowing CO2 reduction and matching our customers’ needs,” says Per Jakobsen, Busin...
To the PwC Denmark event for this year’s owner-mangers, Kurt Skov was awarded the ‘Hero of the Year 2022’ prize in the Southern Jutland region, Denmark. The award is characterised by a special focus on social impact which Kurt Skov has demonstrated over the years. When Kurt Skov in 2007 handed over 75% of the company-ownership to the Blue Water Foundation, it was with the primary purpose to secure future ownership as well as supporting good purposes in the spirit of Blue Water...
The service will be an extension to the current Blue Water liner service through to Lihir, PNG, and will now offer customers a further solution into Lae. Steven Lofaro, Regional Director, Energy, Ports and Projects Oceania, sees a growing demand for cargo capacity, particularly for Breakbulk cargoes, in and out of Papua New Guinea. The Kumul service, operating with the MV Gala - a multipurpose vessel with a single lift capacity of 150 mt. enables Blue Water Shipping to provide a regular and eff...
Strengthening the company’s position as the Survival Technology solutions partner, Survitec has announced the appointment of Robert Steen Kledal as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). As CEO, Robert will be responsible for setting Survitec’s strategic direction. He will lead the Survitec Executive team and sit on the Survitec Board. At the start of the year, Survitec launched a new organisational structure designed to make Survitec an even better partner –...
Global reefer trade and the customers’ needs have always been a key priority at Blue Water. For this reason, it is important to be present where the customers are. The opening of a new office in Gdansk further strengthens the growth journey that Blue Water is currently carrying out. Frozen foodstuff production Poland has an increasing potential within frozen foodstuff production and export, which is why Blue Water considers it a great opportunity to strengthen the company’s positi...
Planning of the Blue Water 50th jubilee involved many tasks, one of them being to decide the right gifts for the 2,000 employees of great diversity. At the celebration, all employees received a customised Grünbag Carry Computerbag along with other goodies. Blue Water is implementing several solutions to reduce its CO2 footprint. The fully recycled bags from Grünbag, made from surplus material from tarpaulin production, matched our wish to give a sustainable bag to our employees....
In June 2021, Blue Water transported a hydraulic hammer weighing 653 tonnes and measuring more than 22 metres in height on behalf of BWS' good client MENCK GmbH. In cooperation with the Dutch shipowner Amasus Shipping, the hammer was shipped on board their coaster MV “Arctic Rock” from Hamburg to Rotterdam to be used for the HKZ (Hollandse Kust Zuid) Wind Farm project in the North Sea. Transport of hammer Recently, BWS was entrusted with the return transport of the hammer from Rot...
When Rikke Nielsen, founder of Lykkeliga and former professional handball player, received a phone call from the Blue Water founder and chairman, Kurt Skov, with the message that any gifts for the 50-year company anniversary should be replaced with a request to support Lykkeliga, the joy was overwhelming. “I was surprised and naturally very thankful for this helping hand. Kurt and Blue Water have shown interest in the development of Lykkeliga during recent years, however, I was still surp...
Grand Départ Copenhagen Denmark (GDCD), a company set up in Denmark to handle and plan the Danish Tour start, chose Blue Water to plan all air transport out of Denmark. In the autumn of 2021, Blue Water began planning the transports. Right from the beginning, GDCD emphasised the importance for this event taking place in Denmark and the ability of the airlines to solve the task on the highest international level. Early in the process, they had a detailed plan for the aircraft and operator...
The global trade and the customers’ needs have always been a benchmark for Blue Water Shipping. For this reason, the company has opened two new offices in Istanbul and Izmir, Turkiye. Both offices will offer a wide range of transport and logistics solutions, including Sea, Rail, Air, combined Sea & Air, Road Solutions as well as Courier & Parcel services. Furthermore, a dedicated team will handle Fair & Exhibitions logistics, while another local team of specialists will handle...
A Safety Award was presented by Thomas Bek, COO of Energy, Ports, and Projects, Blue Water recently. It was awarded to Victor Pay, Transport & Field Operations Manager from the Technical Engineering Department, Blue Water Singapore for his remarkable excellence towards HSSEQ (Health, Safety, Security, Environment & Quality) stopping the job before it was handed to Blue Water’s scope of work. Factory operations Victor Pay was supervising a lifting operation remotely fr...
Kurt Skov has for almost 50 years been the dominant frontline person of the transport and logistics group Blue Water Shipping founded by himself in Esbjerg in 1972 with a small office and three employees. The company has a staff of 2000 distributed at close to 70 offices in 30 countries. The founder leaves the role of the frontline person to his daughter Anne Skov who will become chairman of the Blue Water Foundation owning 75% of the shares in Blue Water. Blue Water Foundation The Foundation...
Energy & Project activities continue to grow for Blue Water, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. Recently, the company signed a contract with BW Offshore (BWO) for the supply of logistics and freight forwarding services, including break-bulk and heavy lift transportation. “Entering this agreement is a testament to our customer-focused mindset, in-house competencies, and know-how as well as execution expertise, enabling us to consistently provide quality, reliability, and value-addi...
Blue Water’s Aid & Development Logistics team was contacted by a customer regarding the transport of a special shipment from Shanghai, China to the NGO Hope Walks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The transport faced challenges due to container shortages in Shanghai and fully booked vessels as a consequence of COVID-19. However, Blue Water succeeded in finding a container as well as booking space on the required vessel thus saving the transport. Medical supply delivery The contact wit...
As part of the SEA-EU (European University of the Seas) European Alliance for promoting and strengthening scientific collaboration between the University of Brest and five other multidisciplinary universities, the catamaran ‘Oceanograf’ undertakes her first oceanographic research cruise. During the cruise, she will be calling at four European ports: Gdansk/Poland, Kiel/Germany, Brest/France and Cadiz/Spain. Modern research vessels Owned by the Faculty of Oceanography of Gdansk, &l...
Blue Water’s scope of the project includes chartering of the bulk vessels from Canada to Greenland as well as coordination of various shipments of material from Canada and Europe to Greenland to be used for the construction of the new airport. Pennecon Heavy Civil Pennecon Heavy Civil is the Canadian company awarded the contract for the airport construction in Qaqortoq. For the past few years, Blue Water has been in dialogue with the company regarding a solution where we assist Pennecon...
United European Car Carriers (UECC) is the provider of sustainable short sea solutions in Europe, and the carrier has through a long time offered a North Sea service route connecting the ports of Zeebrugge, Gothenburg and Drammen on a weekly basis. Now, Esbjerg has been added to the service. Zeebrugge is the hub of UECC, and from here cargo can be shipped with other regular UECC services to additional network. Regular UECC services In April this year, UECC called at Esbjerg Port carrying prim...
Blue Water Shipping is happy to announce that a new General Manager Sea & Air, Norway has been hired to their office in Oslo, Norway. Morten Würgler has more than 20 years of broad international business and logistics experience within air freight, sea freight, perishables and customer service. Morten Würgler has great international know-how from Denmark, Houston, Texas and Norway under titles of Sales Executive and Senior Director in similar corporations to mention a few. Extens...
At Blue Water, they have been preparing for the transition from Aalborg to Aarhus for a long time. With their own terminals of more than 40,000 sq metres in Port of Aarhus, they are ready to continue the high-quality packing and handling of cargo to and from Greenland. In this way, the change will not affect the level of service for their customers. Receiving and handling cargo Blue Water is upgrading 6,000 sq metres terminal in Aarhus, making the facilities more efficient for receiving and h...
Blue Water Shipping announced that they are expanding their operations in Malaysia. The company has been represented in Malaysia since 2009, and now the business is growing further. It has always been in the Blue Water DNA to be locally present on a global scale. With more than 60 offices worldwide, it is now time to further upgrade the setup in the Asia Pacific region. Delivering high quality logistics solutions Delivering logistics solutions of high quality is supported by having connection...
The day after the war broke out in Ukraine, Blue Water was contacted by a client who needed their assistance unloading four aircraft over the weekend. The aircraft would land at the Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport (RZE) in Poland about one and a half hour drive from the Ukrainian border. Safe cargo delivery Blue Water's scope was to get the cargo safely to the border of Ukraine including the handling, counting, and reloading of the cargo and to make sure the delivery was complete. The next ste...
Recently, Blue Water was entrusted with transporting two moulds for turbine blades from Aalborg, Denmark to Le Havre, France for one of the pioneers in Wind Energy: Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE). In addition to the sea transport, the job included transfer of the cargo from SGRE’s warehouse in Aalborg to the loading quay, loading on board the vessels in Aalborg and discharging in Le Havre. Transporting two moulds The transport of the two blade moulds for Siemens Gamesa B75 &...
During the spring of 2020, Blue Water and SpaceInvader entered a climate partnership, and the journey towards more sustainable road transport began. If possible, the aim was also to contribute to minimising the effect of other challenges such as shortage of capacity and drivers, as well as high freight rates. The two partners have now signed a three-year cooperative agreement. According to the two players, future solutions must be developed in solid climate partnerships where innovation and cou...
At Blue Water, they are deeply concerned about Russia's continued military actions in Ukraine. They continuously follow the situation and assess how the increasing amounts of sanctions against Russia impact their activities and ability to service their customers. They are pausing all new bookings, contracts, and activities in Russia and Belarus – this includes any transit through Russia and Belarus. Blue Water fully respects the sanctions and will comply Blue Water fully respects t...
Blue Water is deeply concerned about Russia's continued military actions in Ukraine. They continuously follow the situation and assess how the increasing amounts of sanctions against Russia impact their activities and ability to service their customers. The company is pausing all new bookings, contracts, and activities in Russia and Belarus – this includes any transit through Russia and Belarus. Blue Water fully respects the sanctions and will comply Blue Water fully respects the sancti...
Kiilto, one of The Nordic countries’ renowned manufacturer of hygiene and cleaning products, pays great attention to limiting CO2 emissions in own production and from transports. With weekly transports from the factory in Assens, Denmark to the warehouse in Oslo, Norway, their solution called for optimisation of truck loads. Each truck was usually loaded with a maximum of 33 pallets, which took up the entire trailer floor. It was not possible to load pallets on top of each other, which le...
Blue Water is pleased to announce the acquisition of Guyana-owned and operated Falcon Logistics Inc. and its proceedings as of February 16, 2022. "The acquisition of Falcon Logistics is a very exciting event in the world of Blue Water. It is yet another substantial commitment in the Caribbean region, and we are pleased to welcome more than 40 new colleagues in Guyana to the Blue Water family," says Thomas Bek, COO, Energy, Port & Projects, Blue Water. Maintaining full compliance In recent...
For years, Blue Water has been active within Oil & Energy and Renewables projects in the southern hemisphere. Due to the growing demands for transport and logistics services to projects of the Oil & Gas, Wind, Renewables, Infrastructure, Mining and Hydrogen industries in Australia, Blue Water has expanded its presence by establishing offices in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth in 2021. The company established its first Australian office in Sydney in 2012. Transport and logistics solution...