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10-12-15 

RSA & Codan Marine in Sustainable Shipping Initiative 

Jointly issued with: ABM Amro, Gearbulk, Lloyd's Register, Maersk Line, BP Shipping, Cargill, DSME, Rio Tinto Marine, Tsakos Energy Navigation, Wärtsilä and WWF

An ambitious global taskforce charting a course to a sustainable future for the shipping industry received a major boost today with the announcement of six elite new members.

The Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) is joined by: Cargill, which runs a charter fleet of more than 300 vessels; South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, one of the world's biggest shipbuilders; Rio Tinto Marine, the shipping arm of the mining giant; RSA, one of the world's top four marine insurers; the high-profile Greek tanker operator Tsakos Energy Navigation; and Wärtsilä, one of the world's top providers of shipping solutions and equipment.

The new members join SSI founders ABN Amro, BP Shipping, Gearbulk, Lloyd's Register and Maersk Line, which are working with Forum for the Future and the WWF.

"The Sustainable Shipping Initiative has set out to transform an industry which plays an essential role in global trade and affects the lives of billions of people," said Jonathon Porritt, founder director of Forum for the Future. "The growing number of elite international companies coming on board shows that industry leaders understand sustainability is crucial to their future success."

"The quality of these new members is a testimonial to the growing importance of promoting sustainable shipping, both to the industry and to society at large" said, Tom Boardley, Marine Director, Lloyd's Register. "Their addition will deepen the expertise of the group as we look for solutions that will help the industry to improve its business performance, while at the same time lessening our collective carbon footprint."

The SSI will focus on the strategic megatrends which will profoundly affect the industry, including: climate change and new weather patterns; oil shortages and carbon taxes; changing markets and cargoes; labour standards and skills shortage; piracy and marine governance; new ship designs and other technological developments. It will help participants to prepare for, influence, and take advantage of these trends, and play a leading role in shaping the future of the industry. Members, drawn from throughout the sector, will explore how best to react to these megatrends and prepare a case for action as a resource for the entire industry. This will set the agenda for creating a vision of a sustainable shipping industry and a plan to create a step change in its social, environmental and economic sustainability.

"The shipping industry is a global community that currently supports 90 percent of the world's international physical trade," said G. J. van den Akker, President, Cargill Ocean Transportation. "In a world of finite resources, we recognise that the vitality and conservation of our natural resources is extremely important. We look forward to working with our industry partners to help tackle key challenges which our industry will face in the journey towards creating a sustainable shipping industry."

CEOs and board-level representatives will launch this case for action at a members' summit in 2011, chaired by Porritt. The ultimate goal is to mobilise support across the industry for an action plan, which may include technical and engineering initiatives, policy proposals, development programmes for industry leaders and marketing and communications plans.

"Wärtsilä powers every third ship and services every second ship sailing the world's seas. Providing sustainable solutions is the cornerstone of Wärtsilä's commitment to the shipping industry," said Jaakko Eskola, Group Vice President, Wärtsilä Ship Power. "This initiative is an excellent opportunity for Wärtsilä to contribute to ensure that shipping remains the most sustainable way of transporting goods over long distances in the future."

"Given the prominent role of sustainability in our operations, Rio Tinto Marine is proud to join the Sustainable Shipping Initiative and looks forward to working with Forum for the Future and other member organisations to shape a more sustainable future for the global shipping industry," said Michael Harvey, Chief Operating Officer of Rio Tinto Marine.

Richard Turner, Marine Director at RSA said: "The aim for RSA and Codan Marine, is to keep our customers' business moving at all times. This fits well with the Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) agenda, to ensure that the shipping industry successfully navigates through the challenges of global trade and environmental change."

Oh-Yig Kwon, Director of DSME's Basic Design Group, said: "Building sustainable ships will be fundamental to a sustainable industry and, as a leading shipbuilder, DSME is keen to contribute to the Sustainable Shipping Initiative. Our econology programme is developing high-performance ships with greatly reduced CO2 emissions."

RSA and Codan Marine representatives in the planning group are Carolina Samson and Helén Jansson.

10-11-20 

Knowledge is here 

Two of the headlines this time is; 'Steaming towards transparency in shipping' and 'Increasing demand for power facilities'. Please enjoy! Link to Knowledge in pdf format

10-10-25 

Anders Hestbech and Scott Ørmen 

Per Fornander, Commercial Lines Director Sweden, has decided to take up an offer to become CEO for Moderna Sverige. Since our Marine Director Anders Hestbech has previously been the Sales Director for the Commercial Lines he has stepped in as interim, effective from today, while Scott Ørmen, Head of Commercial lines Norway, has accepted to substitute as interim Marine Director. With a background in the maritime world, Scott has the experience to keep the Marine business moving forward.

"This is one of many strengths that we have within our organization", says Scott Ørmen, "the possibility to use our knowledgebase to continue to serve our customers the best way possible". Anders Hestbech adds; "we also have a solid strategy in place and we have very strong management teams, both in Marine and in Commercial lines, to back us up. We can truly live by our brand belief; keeping the business moving at all times, both for us and for our customers".

The normal day to day business will not be affected during this interim period.



For questions and/or comments, please contact;

Helén Jansson, Communication & Marketing Manager, Codan Marine


10-09-24 

UW Manager and Senior UW in Norway 

We are pleased to let you know that Tore Thorsen has taken on the task to lead the Underwriters in Norway. To his and his team's assistance will a new Senior Underwriter be added, Andreas Dalseide.

Tore Thorsen was one of the great forces that came to Codan Marine via Tryg Vesta, where he has been for 28 years, working with fish farm, cargo, freight and hull insurances. Tore holds a degree from Bergen University in Marine biology. Andreas Dalseide has a long background within the marine insurance industry working as a broker, most recently at NorthEdge.

"As a true Nordic organization we believe that our possibilities to deliver competence in different areas over the borders are best combined with local knowledge expertise. Tore and Andreas are great complements to our Nordic team" says Ebbe Larsen, Nordic Underwriting Director.



Anders Hestbech

10-09-14 

We are pleased to welcome Anne Systand back 

Starting December 6, Anne Systad takes on the role as Claims Manager Norway and Area Manager in Bergen at Codan Marine.

Anne has more than 20 years experience from the business and has been working as Claims Manager in among others Vesta Marine & Energy, Gard Services and NorthEdge Risk Services as well as with Codan Marine. She has taken exams in Mechanical engineering and Business Administration together with being a graduate from Norwegian Insurance Academy.

"Anne is well known and liked among our customers and colleges, says Dorte Smed Thau Nordic Claims Manager and continues, she adds an extra edge to our organization. Together we have our focus on supplying the best customer service and we will see to that we continue to be the preferred claims lead partner."



Anders Hestbech

10-06-04 

Knowledge is here 

The focus this time is the introduction of our new Director and organisation. We have also compiled some information on safety culture and insurance plans. Please enjoy. Link to Knowledge in pdf format

10-05-05 

The Marine Management team in place 

- Anders Hestbech, Marine director
- Lars Hendriksen, COO
- Ebbe Larsen, UW Director
- Michael Weber, Price & Risk Manager
- Andreas Forsén, Portfolio Manager
- Helén Jansson, Communication & Marketing Manager

We would like to welcome two new collegues to this team; Nick Gaardhoeje, our new Market Director, and Lotte Korstgård, our new EA.

Nick Gaardhoeje has a long background in Sales and Marketing, and building up new organizations is a specialty. The last three years he has been Sales Manager for Codan Industrial Market with an overall key account responsibility. Before that he has, among other things, been working as a CEO at the communication bureau Viscom and as a Sales Director at Dansikring Direct where he was building new business channels and were responsible for their direct marketing.

'We had many great applicants but Nick's ability to quickly understand new lines of business and knowledge of account planning and development are two of many factors that makes Nick the best choice for this position' says Anders Hestbech, and continues 'Nick will contribute with strengths that compliments the great Maritime knowledge that our organisation already has'. Nick starts the first of July.



Lotte Korstgård holds, among other things, a Master in Economics and Management and has studied abroad in Vietnam. Lately Lotte has been working as a Project Manager at Scorpio Strategi where she has been consulting within the areas of strategy and organizational development.

'Lotte has the background a great EA should have, we are pleased to have her onboard' says Anders Hestbech. Lotte starts the 17th of May.

10-04-23 

New organisation structure 

Today we have our new organisation structures in place. Please see the below charts for more detailed information.
»  Codan Marine organisation
»  Survey Association organisation


10-03-10 

Codan buys Tryg Nordic marine portfolio 

Codan Marine consolidates the Nordic market for marine insurance and buys the rights to renew TrygVesta's marine Hull portfolio, which in 2009 was estimated to 400 million Danish kroner in written premium. This reinforces Codan's position as the third largest player on the Nordic marine insurance market.

"With this acquisition we will strengthen our position as the third largest insurer in the Nordic marine market and potentially increase our portfolio up to 40%. This will enable us to offer better service to our marine customers - not just in Denmark but throughout the Nordic. Furthermore we are planning to open a new branch office in Stockholm and umpire at our branch office in Bergen to services the large Norwegian Marine market," says Anders Hestbech, director of marine at Codan.

"With the agreement we consolidate Codan's 100 years of experience in the marine market with TrygVesta's. It will obviously benefit our customers across service, claims handling and risk advisory. Together we are a very strong insurance provider in the Nordic marine market," explains Anders Hestbech.

Codan Marine has a strong international profile, supported by a further cooperation with the parent company RSA, which globally is the world's fourth largest marine insurer.

For further information, contact:

Codan Forsikring A/S

Lisa Gubi Mørz - Tlf.: (+45) 30 37 81 20 - E-mail: lgb@codan.dk

10-02-08 

Portfolio Manager for Codan Marine 

We are pleased to announce that Andreas Forsén is, from the 1st of February, the Portfolio Manager of Codan Marine. Andreas has been employed by Codan since March 2008, and during this time he has been working as a controller in FP&A's Marine team and he has also been Marine's Business Support Manager. While having these two roles he has already been deeply involved with the Hull portfolio matters. In his new role, Andreas will be a part of the newly formed Portfolio Development function within the Codan Commercial lines with full focus on the Marine portfolio.

Anders Hestbech

10-02-01 

New Marine Director onboard 

Today Anders Hestbech takes over the role as our new Marine Director, which means that Lars Hendriksen now will continue as Director for Survey Association and be available as sounding board to the Marine team.

We like to take this opportunity to thank Lars for his great contribution interim and at the same time wish Anders very welcome as our new Marine Director. To keep your business moving at all times, Codan Marine will keep solving claims efficiently, offer proactive risk management services and satisfy your insurance needs.

Codan Marine Team

10-01-27 

Retirement 

We like to thank Ingemar Pålsson for his contribution to Codan Marine's Marine Risk Management services during the last 5 years. He started as Nordic Loss Prevention Manager at Codan Marine and has during the last few years been working for Codan Marine on a consultant basis from Survey Association and its Marine Risk Management office. On his request there won't be any reception before his retirement February the 1st.

We wish Ingemar all the best and we promice to keep his 'detect, control and mitigate' way of living close in mind.

The Codan Marine team