Located on Tuborg Boulevard in the middle of Copenhagen’s shipping district at Hellerup, the office was opened by the newly formed company Stena Rederi AS. In addition, employees of Stena Bulk, Stena Line, Stena RoRo and Northern Marine Management are also now working out of the premises.
Stena Bulk, which recently acquired the remaining 50% of a jointly owned company from Danish Weco Shipping, has moved its staff from its previous office in Rungsted to Hellerup.
“About 14 people are now working here and the fleet of some 60 vessels related to the business area at Stena Bulk that operates products & chemicals. Here, we will also continue to benefit from our closeness to the shipping cluster established here in Copenhagen,” explained Erik Hånell, Stena Bulk president and CEO.
On Thursday, the remote naming ceremony for the MR ‘Stena Immortal’, which was built at Guangzhou Shipbuilding International and is jointly owned on a 50-50 basis by Stena Bulk and Indonesian Golden Agri Resources (GAR), was held in the new office.
She is the eighth in a series of 13 IMOIIMAX tankers ordered by Stena Bulk in 2012, the last of which will be delivered at the beginning of February this year. Following her delivery in September, 2016, she has operated in one of Stena Bulk’s global logistic systems - which currently employ some 60 vessels - with a focus on refined petroleum products, vegetable oils and chemicals.
Around 200 guests witnessed the digital naming ceremony, as the vessel was not at Copenhagen but in Houston where a drone filmed and zoomed in when the traditional bottle of champagne hit the tanker’s bows.
“This ship naming ceremony using available technology is a sign of the times. Our goal is greater efficiency in everything we do and, accordingly, a digital naming ceremony symbolises a measure of sustainability, efficiency and new technology. This is what we are striving for and we want to be at the forefront of this process,” Hånell commented.