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The EURO 2012 Football Championship
Betting pool winners “RHL Barmbek” and “Wappen von Frankfurt”
"Wappen von Frankfurt", Winner Euro 2012
“We are happy to have won. We have been
having a lot more fun on board lately. Thank
you very much to everyone who arranged
and participated in thebetting game. We
hope to win the next one, too!”
The EURO 2012 Football Championship
offered the unique opportunity to get entire
vessels and the complete office staff
at RHL, Wappen and WLCM talking about
more than spare part deliveries, crew
changes, inspections and vettings.
Instead of only checking results and cheering
for a favoured nation, we started a
small betting game on an on-line platform.
Every ship and every employee ashore
was asked to use footballing knowledge,
Capt. K. Panshin and Chief Cook R. Radovan
“We really liked the idea of WLCM conducting
a EURO 2012 betting pool, and participated
in it with big interest. Fate of only ending up
in second or third place loomed in the last
round ... But we were pleased to have won the
prize for second place. It really helped that
Captain K. Panshin has plenty of experience
in predicting soccer games.”
clairvoyance or simple luck to make
points, calculated from the results and the
goals scored in each game of the EURO
2012 Championship.
The prize was not the coveted Henri Delaunay
Trophy, yet all involved competed to
win an official table football set (1 st prize), an
espresso machine (2 nd prize) and a voucher
for Amazon (3 rd prize).
Beautiful pictures from Poland and the
Report from our Shanghai office
We left the Shipyard on ChongMing Island
With the delivery of newbuilding SS1182,
which left Shanghai Shipyard on August
19 th 2012 under the name of “RHL Concordia”
(4600 TEU widebeam) and simultaneously
went into charter for the Chilean
Liner Shipping Company CCNI (Compañia
Chilena de Navegación Interoceanica),
our Site Office Team’s time on ChongMing
Island ended.
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Ukraine, the modern stadiums and exhilarating
games did the rest to ensure 23 days
of football-fan heaven. It was fun to see the
exchange of football expertise: What are
the French Striker’s statistics? Will Italy play
4 or 5 men in the back line? Who will be
in Mr Löw’s starting formation this time?
The cheers that erupted on the 7th and 8th
floor of the Astraturm when the right result
had been guessed – resulting in ups and
downs on our publicly displayed ranking
board – must have been heard throughout
the office block, and I am sure that it was
no different on our fleet’s vessels.
After the final match on July 1 st 2012 at the
Olympic Stadium in Kiev, there were happy
and sad faces. Spain was happy with the
Henri Delaunay Trophy, and equally happy
were the crew of the “Wappen von Frankfurt”
that won the first-prize table football
set, the crew of the “RHL Barmbek” with
the espresso machine, and the crew of the
“RHL Felicitas” with the voucher for Amazon.
So now we are all looking forward to the
next betting game during the Fifa World
Cup 2014 in Brazil!
John Goes
“After almost two years of building activity,
we have now packed our bags”, said
Site Manager Stefan Schindler. Office The team that built hull newbuildings SS1181 and SS1182, with our Site Manager, Stefan Schindler (centre)