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Trip reports / Re: Visit onboard "Urho" Finnish icebreaker
« on: September 19, 2013, 09:41:19 AM »
Outstanding, Cornelia, - simply outstanding! Your detailed photo documentation gives
an in depth impression of this interesting ship.
Further, I think that your work points to suggest to the admins to establish a new category on shipspotting. Something like "Ship documentation" where the whole ship is covered, outside and inside, and covering active ships as well as museum ships.
From my own experience I could mention MS LOFOTEN of Hurtigruten. During a stay in Svolv

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Trip reports / Re: FINNLINES trip from Travem
« on: September 12, 2013, 06:14:57 AM »
G'morning Cornelia

I have enjoyed very much looking at your photos from your trip. Excellent photos, excellent
scenes and ships, - and an excellent photographer :-)

Now I am looking forward to seeing your next set of shots.

Regards
Niels

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Shipping News and information / M
« on: August 20, 2013, 04:05:03 PM »
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Niels

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Shipping News and information / Emma meets Maersk
« on: August 01, 2013, 07:42:50 AM »
According to Danish media today Emma Maersk - after a total refit of the engine room - is now loading in Malaga from where she will steam east. Sometime in August she will meet Maersk Mc-Kinney M

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Shipping News and information / Re: Triple E
« on: June 17, 2013, 10:33:49 AM »
Rumours are running that she will get her name by the Danish Queen, who is very experienced in this Majestic-name-business.

My bet is that there will also be an open-ship event for the general public just as
Maersk Line used to do previously. Time to make a contingency plan for booking of a hotel room in Copenhagen :-)

Niels

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Help and Advice / Re: Maersk ship color
« on: April 15, 2013, 06:46:27 PM »
Thanks Ron
One of the 355 ships chartered by Maersk Line. 239 ships owned.
Niels

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Help and Advice / Re: Maersk ship color
« on: April 14, 2013, 06:31:32 PM »
Hi Tore!
Which ships do you refer to?
Quite often the chartered ships have black, grey, or other hull colors.

Previously ex-SeaLand and ex-P&O Nedlloyd ships had black hulls.

Niels

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Shipping News and information / Re: Hapag-Hamburg S
« on: April 01, 2013, 09:17:02 AM »
A merger with/acquisition of HS by Maersk Line is not likely at all. Several reasons for this:
1) The latest ML-merger (Maersk-Sealand with P&O Nedlloyd) was as close to a total disaster as you can possibly get, and the market share benefits vanished quickly.
2) A merger will cause a long and time-consuming battle with the competition authorities of EU.
3) The return of invested capital of ML (2.4%) is the lowest of the four "strategic core businesses" of the Maersk Group in the Annual Report of 2012.
4) A stated objective for ML is "to grow in line with the market, funded by own cash-flow". This means that increasing the ML-market share is not an objective.

So, in spite of combining services with several other liner companies including also MSC and CMA CGM, what we will see is probably a Maersk Line in organic growth investing only in own assets, as was the case of the establishmnet of SeaGo Line.
Niels 

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Shipping News and information / Re: First photos of first Triple-E
« on: March 02, 2013, 07:25:27 AM »
Andrew and Jan: This is a GO!
Why don

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Shipping News and information / Re: First photos of first Triple-E
« on: March 01, 2013, 08:03:14 PM »
jan_t: excellent guessing, I must say :-)
In case you join the party, I shall be there as well. And after the few glasses of "bubbly" sponsored by Maersk, I shall sponsor a - to be decided - number of cold Carlsberg beers
at some nearby humble "Wirtshaus" while we are discussing the future of containershipping.
Niels

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Shipping News and information / Re: First photos of first Triple-E
« on: March 01, 2013, 08:44:22 AM »
My above remark about the "standard design" of this Triple-M ship was not quite fair.
First the closed bridge wing design - like the Emma-class - has been used, and further
it looks like an extra deck has been added to the accomodation/bridge superstructure compared to the large MSC/CMACGM ships. Anyway the superstructure design is in line with
other smaller Maersk-ships, including the latest SAMMAX-class. Lennart Rydberg has posted excellent photos of the capacity-boosted MAERSK LANCO in G

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Shipping News and information / Re: First photos of first Triple-E
« on: February 27, 2013, 07:34:45 PM »
Thanks again, Jan.

That's what I call a ship.
... and for a change it is nice with two funnels on this standard design.
Niels

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Shipping News and information / Re: First photos of first Triple-E
« on: February 19, 2013, 12:14:12 PM »
Thanks again, Jan.

Some strong names indeed, and from the Moller-family and its origins (Magleby and
Marstal, and maybe even Madison (don't recall at this moment)), as well as from
the Royal Danish family (Mary is crown princess, and princess Marie is married to the
brother of the crown prince. Quite convenient names in this connection :-) ).

I think that Matz is a new name for Maersk ships, pls correct me if I am wrong.
Who is this guy? Maybe in the Swedish branch of the Moller family?

Niels

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Shipping News and information / Re: First photos of first Triple-E
« on: February 19, 2013, 07:59:55 AM »
Thanks Jan for this interesting news as to the name of the ship.

And as a reminder/pointer:
On the dedicated Triple-E website www.worldslargestship.com Maersk has announced:

"On March 18, we will relaunch this site with more exciting news and pictures of
the first Triple-E. Stay tuned."

Nothing less than a public relations revolution by Maersk compared to what
happened with Emma Maersk :-)

Niels

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Shipping News and information / First photos of first Triple-E
« on: February 08, 2013, 10:19:56 AM »
On www.maerskline.com - Facebook - photos of the first Triple-E  in the dock of
Daewoo Shipbuilding.
One of the photos shows the new propulsion design with 2 four-bladed propellers
instead of 1 six-bladed propeller.

Also on the Maersk Line site the story of the new nose for Maersk Brownsville built
in China and shipped to Europe. New name SEAGO PIRAEUS.

Niels

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