BTJ 3/2008 - Baltic Transport Journal

New vice president of DFDS Seaways
The Danish shipping company DFDS, appointed
Carsten Jensen as new Manager of the
Business Unit Passenger and also as new head
of DFDS Seaways. Carsten Jensen, who comes
from a post as deputy director at DFDS Seaways,
simultaneously takes up a position with
DFDS’ Executive Management. Following
Carsten Jensen’s statement, he wants to focus
on making DFDS Seaways a stronger business
and even better workplace in close co-operation
with the Executive Management and the
employees. Carsten Jensen is 44 years old and
has an MSc in Economics and Business Administration.
He gained solid international
experience from SAS, which he moved to in
1995 and where he had management respon- rienced leader, who knows and loves the shipsibilities
with customer relations, marketing, ping company, its employees and customers. I
price policy, sales and operations, including in have no doubts that he is the right person to
Stockholm, before becoming German director ensure DFDS Seaways’ continued success and
for SAS in Frankfurt. “I am very happy to be dynamism,” said Niels Smedegaard, DFDS’
able to hand over the helm to Carsten Jensen, CEO. DFDS Seaways is the passenger-carrying
who brings some excellent ballast to the job. division of DFDS. The company operates the
Partly through his place in the company’s man- passenger routes Copenhagen-Oslo, Esbjergagement
since 2005, partly due to his previous Harwich, IJmuiden-Newcastle and Bergen/
valuable experience from international man- Haugesund/Stavanger-Newcastle. DFDS Seaagement
AD 320trucks positions. 205x135 Carsten (PL) Jensen 07-05-14 will provide 11.33 ways Sida transports 1 around 1.5 million passengers
DFDS Seaways as a sharp analyst and an expe-
per year on six ferry cruise ships.
Gdynia–Karlskrona
EXTRA
CAPACITY
Now you can book more space. And deliver more often.
We’ve expanded our fleet on the popular Gdynia–Karlskrona route. The “Finnarrow” is a new
reinforcement that gives an extra daily departure with capacity for 120 trucks – increasing the
overall route capacity by 60%.
And with another departure time, you’ll be able to fit more deliveries into your schedule.
Maritime
What’s new?
The government of the Republic of
Latvia gave the go-ahead for a EUR
500m natural gas terminal to be built between
2010 and 2013. Anicetas Ignotas,
the Economy Ministry’s undersecretary,
told a parliamentary committee that the
LNG terminal with an annual capacity
of 2 billion cubic meters would cover
an area of 3-9 hectares. With more than
8,000 kilometres of gas-mains and distribution
networks, nearly 1,700 kilometres
of gas-mains and about 6,600 kilometres
of distribution networks, Lithuania has
an extensive gas network.
At the Annual General Meeting of A.P.
Møller Maersk Sir John Bond (chairman
of Vodafone Group Plc.), Mr. Lars Pallesen
(rector at the Technical University of Denmark)
and Mr. John Axel Poulsen (captain
in A.P. Møller Maersk) were elected as new
members of the Board of Directors of A.P.
Møller Maersk. According to the pressservice
of the company, at the same time,
Mr. Svend-Aage Nielsen and Mr. Henrik
Lorensen resigned as nominee directors.
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