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Et shippingfirma på Esbjerg Havn
A Shipping Company in Esbjerg
Niels Winther & Co.
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A Shipping Company in Esbjerg .....................................................
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Et shippingfirma på Esbjerg Havn...................................................
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Ship owners in Nordby at the end of the 1890s .............................
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From sail to steam...............................................................................
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Fra sejl til damp ...................................................................................
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Esbjerg was a cuckoo in Fanø’s nest ................................................
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Esbjerg var en gøgeunge for Fanø....................................................
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The shipping company Niels Winther & Co., Esbjerg...................
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Skibsmæglerfirmaet Niels Winther & Co, Esbjerg.........................
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A new epoch for the company Niels Winther & Co. ....................
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En ny epoke for firmaet Niels Winther & Co ...............................
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Niels Winther & Co. becomes agent for Grimaldi Lines .............
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Niels Winther & Co bliver agent for Grimaldi Lines ...................
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Offshore wind turbines provide new tasks for Niels Winther & Co.
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Offshore vindmøller giver nye opgaver til Niels Winther & Co .
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Niels Winther & Co. is still going strong .........................................
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Niels Winther & Co er still going strong .........................................
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Niels Winther & Co.
Et shippingfirma på Esbjerg Havn
A Shipping Company in Esbjerg
Af
Johs. Bredmose Simonsen
Esbjerg 2003
Niels Winther & Co.
Et shippingfirma på Esbjerg Havn
A Shipping Company in Esbjerg
Udgiver: Skibsmæglerfirmaet Niels Winther & Co ApS
Forfatter: Johs. Bredmose Simonsen
Oversættelse: Sprog & Data
Produktion: Kiva Grafisk, Esbjerg
Tryk: Tarm Bogtryk, Tarm
Oplag: 1.000 stk.
Omslag: Reese Reklame & Marketing
Niels Winther & Co har siden 1974 haft sit domicil i et ombygget pakhus på
adressen Nordre Dokkaj 1. Pakhuset er opført i 1902 og tegnet af arkitekt
C. H. Clausen. For at skaffe mere kontorplads købte Niels Winther & Co i 2003
pakhuset, og vil restaurere den gamle bygning, der er erklæret for bevaringsværdig. (Foto Reese 1999)
Since 1974 the domicile of Niels Winther & Co has been the converted warehouse
at Nordre Dokkaj 1. The warehouse, erected in 1902 and designed by the architect
C. H. Clausen. To gain additional office space, Niels Winther & Co bought the
warehouse in 2003 and will restore the old building, which was declared worthy of
preservation. (Photo: Reese 1999).
Nordby Havn omkring 1850.
(Esbjerg Byhistoriske Arkiv)
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Nordby Harbour circa 1850.
(City of Esbjerg Historical Archives)
Niels Winther & Co.
Et shippingfirma på Esbjerg Havn
Niels Winther & Co.
A Shipping Company in Esbjerg
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kibsmæglerfirmaet Niels Winther
& Co har sine rødder på Fanø. Det
følgende handler om firmaets historie,
som går tilbage til de tider, hvor søfart
var øens hovederhverv.
Helt frem til første halvdel af 1800tallet var Danmarks handel og skibstrafik koncentreret i den østlige del af
landet. Det vestlige Jylland var derimod en landsdel med dårlige veje og
manglende infrastruktur, men Vadehavet, der strækker sig fra Blåvands Huk
til Holland, var egnet til sejlads, og så
langt man kan se tilbage i historien,
har der fra Vadehavets byer, især
Nordby og Sønderho, udfoldet sig en
livlig skibstrafik. I mange år foregik
den hovedsagelig mellem Vadehavsøerne indbyrdes samt til Hamborg,
Holland og Norge med afstikkere til
England.
Denne handel og skibstrafik bragte
velstand til Fanø, især for skippere der
selv ejede skibene, købte ladninger og
solgte dem. Englandskrigen 1807-1814
samt statsbankerotten 1813 gjorde en
ende på de gode tider. Under krigen
udskrev staten skibene til at fragte
korn til Norge, der var isoleret af
engelske orlogsfartøjer i Nordsøen.
Fanøskibe blev opbragt i stort tal, og
ved fredslutningen i 1814 havde alene
he shipping company Niels Winther
& Co. have their roots on the Danish
island of Fanø. This text presents the company’s history, which extends back to the
times when shipping was the island’s principal business.
Denmark’s trade and shipping were
concentrated in the eastern half of the
country right up to the first half of the
1800s. Western Jutland was nothing more
than a province with bad roads and no
infrastructure. However, the Wadden Sea,
which stretches from Blåvands Huk to the
Netherlands, was eminently navigable, and
as far as one can see back in time, a lively
shipping traffic developed to and from the
Wadden Sea towns, especially Nordby and
Sønderho. This traffic was concentrated
for many years around the islands in the
Wadden Sea and on Hamburg, the Netherlands and Norway, with detours to
England.
This trade and shipping brought prosperity to Fanø, especially for the skippers
who owned their own ships, bought cargoes and sold them. But the war of 18071814 with England and the national bankruptcy of 1813 brought an end to the good
times. During the war, the government
conscripted the ships to carry grain to
Norway, which had been isolated by the
English navy in the North Sea. Fanø ships
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Et tidligt billede fra Nordby Havn.
(Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseet)
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An early picture from Nordby Harbour.
(Fisheries and Maritime Museum)
Sønderho mistet 40 af sine største
skibe, og 32 Fanø-søfolk sad endnu i
engelsk fangenskab.1) Det lignede en
katastrofe, men gik ikke så galt.
Hamborg havde også lidt store tab
under den franske besættelse. Handelshusene var flyttet til ikke-besatte havnebyer som f.eks. Tønning, og kun et
mindre antal skibe var hjemmehørende i Hamborg. I det efterfølgende
opbygningsarbejde behøvede Hamborg al den tonnage, der kunne opdrives. Det gav beskæftigelse til den
arbejdsløse flåde af handelsskibe i det
slesvig-holstenske område og kom på
længere sigt også til at gavne Fanø,
hvor øens skibsværfter fik fuld beskæftigelse med at bygge større skibe, og i
1822 blev de første skonnerter søsat i
Sønderho. Sejladsen blev udvidet fra
den nære kystfart til nye destinationer
omkring Nordsøen og Østersøen samt
til Island, og enkelte skibe vovede sig
helt ned i Middelhavet.
Langsomt, men sikkert arbejdede
øens skibsfart sig op og var fra midten
af 1800-tallet et maritimt center med
en betydelig flåde, som i 1876 omfattede 163 skibe med en tonnage på 17686
tons. I de følgende år fik Fanø større
skibe, og øens skibsfart blev global
med sejlads til oversøiske destinationer, som hovedsagelig udgik fra Hamborg og Rotterdam.2)
were captured in large numbers, and when
peace was concluded in 1814, Sønderho
alone had lost 40 of its biggest ships, and
32 Fanø sailors were still sitting in English
prisons.1) This looked like a looming catastrophe, but the worst was avoided.
Hamburg had also suffered major
losses during the French occupation. The
trading houses had been moved to unoccupied harbour cities such as Tønning, and
only a small number of ships were based
in Hamburg. In the subsequent reconstruction, Hamburg needed all the tonnage it could procure. This provided work
for the unemployed fleet of merchant
ships in and around Schleswig-Holstein,
and in the longer term it also benefited
Fanø, where the island’s shipyards gained
full employment building big ships. In
1822, the first schooners were launched in
Sønderho. Navigation was extended from
the near coast to new destinations around
the North Sea and the Baltic Sea to Iceland, and individual ships ventured as far
south as the Mediterranean.
The island’s shipping increased slowly
but surely, and from the mid-1800s it was
a maritime centre with a significant fleet,
which in 1876 included 163 ships with a
tonnage of 17,686. Fanø gained bigger
ships in the following years, and the
island’s shipping became global, with voyages to overseas destinations with departures mainly from Hamburg and Rotterdam.2)
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Nordby Skibsrederforenings bygning
opført i 1891.
(Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseet)
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Nordby Shipping Line Association’s
building, erected in 1891
Fisheries and Maritime Museum
Skibsredere i Nordby sidst
i 1890’erne
I Fanøs historie støder man på navne
af familier, hvor mændene gennem
generationer har været søfolk. Blandt
dem er slægten Winther fra Nordby,
der med et større antal familiemedlemmer var med i udviklingen af skibsfarten fra Fanø, først som førere af
sejlskibe og senere som redere. Desuden havde de ofte bestyrelsesposter i
forskellige sammenhænge som f.eks.
navigationsskolen, Nordby Understøttelsesforening for Ældre Søfolk og
Enker, Nordby Søassuranceforening
og Nordby Skibsrederforening, som
opførte den smukke bygning på
hovedgaden i Nordby, hvor Fanø
Skibsfart og Dragtsamling har til
huse i dag.
Et betydeligt medlem af familien
Winther var kaptajn P. N. Winther, som
i 1872 blev fører af briggen Gylding på
240 tons. På en rejse fra København til
San Miguel på Ibiza i 1887 forliste Gylding.3) P. N. Winther gik i land og blev
skibsreder for et af Nordbys største
rederier, som i 1897 disponerede over
sejlskibe med en tonnage på 8711 tons
fordelt på 12 fartøjer. I 1892-1893 tog
P. N. Winther sammen med brødrene
S. A. Winther og P. L. Winther en stor
beslutning om at få to stålbarkskibe,
Prins Valdemar og Prinsesse Marie,
bygget på Helsingør Skibsværft. Efter
den tids forhold var det store skibe på
henholdsvis 1239 og 1288 tons.
Ship owners in Nordby at the end of
the 1890s
Studies of the history of Fanø concentrate
on the names of families, where generations of the men have been sailors. Among
them is the Winther family from Nordby
which, with its large number of members,
participated in the development of shipping from Fanø, first as masters of sailing
ships and later as ship owners. They also
often held executive posts in various contexts such as the navigation school, Nordby Benevolent Society for aged seamen
and their widows, Nordby Marine Insurance Society, and Nordby Ship Owners
Association, which erected the attractive
building on Nordby’s main street, where
Fanø Skibsfart og Dragtsamling, the
historical museum for Fanø’s shipping and
clothing collection, still resides.
An important member of the Winther
family was Captain P.N. Winther, who was
master of the 240 ton brig Gylding in
1872. The Gylding was lost on a journey
from Copenhagen to San Miguel on Ibiza
Island in 1887.3) P.N. Winther returned to
land and became a ship owner for one of
Nordby’s biggest shipping lines, which in
1897 controlled sailing ships with a tonnage of 8,711 tons in 12 vessels. In 18921893, P.N. Winther together with his brothers S.A. Winther and P.L. Winther took
the major decision to buy two steel barks,
the Prins Valdemar and the Prinsesse
Marie, built at Elsinore Shipyard. By the
standards of the time, they were big ships
of 1,239 and 1,288 tons respectively. Each
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Brdr. Winther fra Nordby fik i 1892
bygget stålbarken Prins Valdemar på
1239 tons.
(Esbjerg Byhistoriske Arkiv)
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The Winther brothers of Nordby had
the 1239 ton steel bark Prins Valdemar
built in 1892.
(City of Esbjerg Historical Archives)
Hvert skib havde en besætning på 20
mand og blev i de første år ført af kaptajnerne S.A.Winther og P. L.Winther.4)
Andre af øens skibsførere, der også
havde skabt sig formuer, gik i land og
blev redere for et eller flere skibe.
Blandt dem var kaptajn Chr. H. Nielsen, Nordby, som på en rejse fra Rio
Grande til Aracaju strandede med
briggen Christian på 197 tons, der blev
vrag.5) Efter forliset forlod Chr. H.
Nielsen søen. Han var da en velhavende mand og blev for en tid Fanøs største skibsreder.
En datter af Nielsen blev gift med
Niels Winther, som senere overtog
rederivirksomheden. Niels Winther var
søn af kaptajn P. L. Winther, kendt som
medreder og fører af bl.a. barkskibene
Embla og Prinsesse Marie.6)
ship had a crew of 20 men and they were
commanded in their first years by Captains S.A. Winther and P.L. Winther.4)
Other ship’s masters on the island who
had made their fortune returned to land
and became owners of one or two ships.
Among them was Captain Chr. H. Nielsen
of Nordby, who was beached on a voyage
from Rio Grande to Aracaju in the 197
ton brig Christian, which was wrecked.5)
Chr. H. Nielsen abandoned the sea after
the loss. By then he was a prosperous
man, and for a time he became Fanø’s
biggest ship owner.
A daughter of Nielsen married Niels
Winther, who subsequently took over the
shipping line. Niels Winther was the son of
Captain P.L. Winther, known as the coowner and master of the barks Embla and
Prinsesse Marie and other ships.6)
Fra sejl til damp
På de lange ruter til Europa fra
Australien og Sydamerikas Vestkyst
med korn, salpeter, huder og guano
havde de store sejlskibe hidtil været
enerådende. Disse jordomsejlinger gik
rundt om det berygtede Kap Horn,
hvor der ti måneder af året næsten uafbrudt var vestlige storme med en frygtelig vindstyrke og sø, som stillede
store krav til mandskab og skibe, hvoraf flere forliste eller fik havarier under
sejladsen omkring Hornet. Sejlskibene,
som på disse lange sejlruter ofte var
undervejs i fire-fem måneder, blev
omkring år 1900 udkonkurreret af
From sail to steam
Up to this time, the big sailing ships on the
long routes to Europe from Australia and
the west coast of South America carrying
grain, saltpetre, skins and guano had
reigned supreme. These circumnavigations
went around the notorious Cape Horn
where, ten months of the year, there were
almost continuous westerly storms with
raging winds and seas which made major
demands on crews and ships, a number of
which were damaged or wrecked while
sailing around the Horn. By about 1900,
the sailing ships, which were often underway for four or five months on these long
routes, could no longer compete with the
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A/S Fanø Sejlskibsrederi havde i 1897
seks skibe. Blandt dem var barkskibet
Thora på 384 tons, der her ses ved
afleveringen fra S. Abrahamsens værft
i Nordby i 1896.
(Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseet)
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A/S Fanø Sejlskibsrederi had six ships
in 1897. Among them was the 384 ton
bark Thora, seen here on its delivery
from S. Abrahamsen’s shipyard in
Nordby in 1896.
(Fisheries and Maritime Museum)
dampskibene, der uafhængig af vindforholdene kunne nedsætte sejltiden
fra havn til havn betydeligt. Damperne
kunne desuden undgå turen omkring
Kap Horn ved at sejle gennem Magellan Strædet, og efter åbningen af Panamakanalen i 1914 gik langt den overvejende trafik gennem kanalen til
Amerikas Vestkyst.7)
Med disse barske udsigter for sejlskibene kan det undre, at Fanøs skibsredere stadig satsede på sejl- og ikke
på dampskibe. Årsagen må være
beskedne økonomiske muligheder
lokalt og en konservativ indstilling
over for den nye teknologi. Rederivirksomheder på øen var splittet op i
mindre rederier, som havde et svagt
økonomisk grundlag. Hvert Fanø-skib
var et selvstændigt aktieselskab med
en bestyrende reder, en bestyrelse på
ét eller to medlemmer, samt to revisorer, der førte regnskab for hvert enkelt
skib. Efter en afsluttet rejse blev det
eventuelle overskud udbetalt til aktionærerne i forhold til deres andel i skibet, og intet blev henlagt til nyinvesteringer.8)
I et forsøg på at redde sejlskibsrederiernes indestående kapital mod
splittelse når skibene blev solgt eller
forliste, stiftede skibsrederne P. N.
Winther, C. P. Holm og skibsbygmester
Søren Abrahamsen i 1897 selskabet
A/S Fanø Sejlskibsrederi med seks
større skibe og en aktiekapital på
500.000 kr. Selskabet kom kun til at
steamships, which were able to reduce
sailing times from harbour to harbour significantly, however the winds were blowing. The steamers were also able to avoid
Cape Horn by sailing through the Straits
of Magellan, and after the opening of the
Panama Canal in 1914, the great majority
of ships went through the canal to the
west coast of America.7)
Given this dismal outlook for sailing
ships, it may well come as a surprise that
Fanø’s ship owners still opted for sail
rather than steam. The reason may well
have been the modest economic options
locally and a conservative attitude to the
new technology. The island’s shipping
industry was split up into smaller lines
which had a weak economic basis. Each
Fanø ship was an independent limited
company with a controlling ship owner, a
board of directors with one or two members, and two accountants who kept the
accounts for each individual ship. After a
voyage, any profit was paid to the shareholders in accordance with their holdings
in the ship. Nothing was allocated for new
investments.8)
In an attempt to save the shipping
lines’ capital from splitting up when the
ships were sold or lost, the ship owners
P.N. Winther and C.P. Holm and the shipbuilder Søren Abrahamsen founded the
company A/S Fanø Sejlskibsrederi in 1897
with six big ships and a share capital of
500,000 kroner. The company only operated for a few years as the ships had difficulty finding profitable employment, and
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Allerede før indvielsen af Esbjerg
Havn i 1874 blev den anløbet af S/S
Esbjerg, der kom med en last
skinner til den nye bane.
(Foto: Hulda Bjørkgren, Køge.
Esbjerg Byhistoriske Arkiv)
Even before the official opening of
Esbjerg Harbour in 1874, the S/S
Esbjerg called in with a load of rails for
the new railway.
(Photo: Hulda Bjørkgren, Køge. City of
Esbjerg Historical Archives)
A/S Fanø Dampskibsselskab fik i
1899 bygget S/S Carla.
(Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseet)
A/S Fanø Dampskibsselskab had the
S/S Carla built in 1899.
(Fisheries and Maritime Museum)
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virke i få år, idet skibene havde svært
ved at finde lønnende beskæftigelse, og
desuden var man uheldige med hensyn
til havarier og forlis.9) Flere Fanø-sejlskibsredere indså, at sejlads med sejlskibe var passé og ville derfor investere i dampskibe. Blandt dem var skibsreder S. Brinch Hansen, købmand J. K.
Borck og skibsfører N. H. Kallesen,
alle fra Nordby, som allerede i 1872 fik
bygget et dampskib på 296 tons i Skotland. Skibet fik navnet S/S Esbjerg,
opkaldt efter den nye by på den anden
side af vandet, og blev det første større
skib, der i 1873, året før indvielsen af
havnen, anløb Esbjerg Havn med en
last jernbaneskinner fra Cardiff. S/S
Esbjerg blev indsat på ruten EsbjergEngland, hvor skibet de næste par år
sejlede 11 ture med 9.450 stude. For at
undgå konkurrence købte DFDS skibet af fannikerne.10)
Et selskab bestående af konsul
Pagh, Esbjerg, skibsrederne D. H. Duysen og P. N. Winther, Nordby, stiftede i
1899 A/S Fanø Dampskibsselskab med
en aktiekapital på 85.000 kr. Selskabet
overtog i Tønning nybygningen S/S
Carla på 316 tons, der fik kaptajn L. J.
Holst fra Nordby som fører. I 1911
købte Holst skibet og solgte det året
efter til Italien.11)
I 1913 fik Fanø endnu et dampskib,
S/S Nordby på 483 tons, bygget i
Aberdeen for et selskab med kaptajn
J. Christiansen fra Nordby som reder.
Skibet, hvis byggepris var 160.000 kr.,
blev allerede året efter solgt til Norge.12)
there was also some bad luck with losses
and shipwrecks.9) Several Fanø ship owners realised that sailing ships were outdated and decided to invest in steamers.
Among them was the ship owner S.
Brinch Hansen, the merchant J.K. Borck
and the ship’s master N.H. Kallesen, all
from Nordby, who had a 296 ton steamer
built in Scotland as early as 1872. The ship
was named the S/S Esbjerg, called after
the new town on the other side of the
water, and it was the first big ship which,
in 1873, the year before the harbour was
officially opened, sailed to Esbjerg Harbour with a load of railway rails from
Cardiff. The S/S Esbjerg sailed the EsbjergEngland route, where she made 11 trips
over the next couple of years with 9,450
oxen. To eliminate competition, DFDS
bought the ship from its Fanø owners.10)
A company consisting of the consul
Pagh of Esbjerg and the ship owners D.H.
Duysen and P.N. Winther of Nordby
founded A/S Fanø Dampskibsselskab in
1899 with a share capital of 85,000 kroner.
The company took over the new 316 ton
construction, the S/S Carla, in Tønning,
and Captain L.J. Holst of Nordby became
ship’s master. Holst bought the ship in 1911
and sold it to Italy the following year.11)
In 1913 Fanø gained another steamer,
the 483 ton S/S Nordby, built in Aberdeen
for a company with Captain J. Christiansen of Nordby as owner. The ship,
whose construction price was 160,000 kroner, was sold to Norway the following
year.12)
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S/S Juliane var Vestjysk Dampskibsselskabs første skib.
(Esbjerg Byhistoriske Arkiv)
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The S/S Juliane was Vestjysk Dampskibsselskab’s first ship.
(City of Esbjerg Historical Archives)
Fanøs tid som regulært søfartscenter
var dog ved at være forbi, men mange
søfolk blev boende på øen, og desuden
beholdt Fanø sin navigationsskole.
But Fanø’s time as a regular shipping centre was passing, although many sailors
continued to live on the island, and Fanø
also retained its navigation school.
Esbjerg var en gøgeunge for Fanø
I Esbjergs historie spiller den tætte forbindelse til Fanø en betydelig rolle,
men for Fanø var den nye Esbjerg
Havn og by en gøgeunge, der dog viste
sig at blive til fordel for adskillige fanniker. Ved overgangen fra sejl til damp
var mange sejlskibsfolk blevet ledige,
men de fandt bl.a. beskæftigelse i lodseriet, told- og vandbygningsvæsenet
eller fik hyre med Esbjerg-skibe, flere
som officerer. Denne tilgang af kvalificerede folk, der ved sejladser på de
store have og ved anløb af fremmede
havne havde bevist deres dygtighed,
var af stor værdi for den nye by.
Med kapitaler fra Fanøs sejlskibstid
blev der desuden etableret et større
antal virksomheder i det nye Esbjerg,
hvoraf flere stadig har stor betydning
for havn og by.
Tidligere nævnte Niels Winther, søn
af P. L. Winther og svigersøn af Chr. H.
Nielsen, fik en omfattende uddannelse
inden for shipping i England og Tyskland. I Hamborg havde flere rederier
et tæt samarbejde med Fanø, og under
Niels Winthers uddannelse i disse
rederier havde han følgeskab af flere
fætre og andre familiemedlemmer.
I 1931 oprettede Niels Winther Vestjysk Dampskibsselskab A/S, Esbjerg.
Esbjerg was a cuckoo in Fanø’s nest
The close connection with Fanø played a
major role in Esbjerg’s history, but for
Fanø, the new Esbjerg Harbour and the
town were a cuckoo in its nest, which,
however, proved to be to the advantage of
several of Fanø’s inhabitants. Many sailors
had become unemployed in the transition
from sail to steam, but they found
employment among other places at the
pilot station and the customs and waterside construction authority, or they were
hired on Esbjerg ships, some as officers.
This intake of qualified people, who had
demonstrated their competence when sailing the wide seas and calling at foreign
harbours, was of great value to the new
town.
A large number of companies were
also established in the new Esbjerg with
capital from Fanø’s golden age of sailing
ships, and several of the companies are
still of major significance for the city and
its harbour.
The Niels Winther noted above, son of
P.L. Winther and son-in-law of Chr. H.
Nielsen, obtained a comprehensive education within shipping in England and Germany. Several lines in Hamburg had a
close relationship with Fanø, and during
Niels Winther’s training in these lines, he
was in the company of several cousins and
other family members.
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S/S Niels Winther blev opkaldt efter
rederiets stifter.
(Esbjerg Byhistoriske Arkiv)
The S/S Niels Winther was named
after the line’s founder.
(City of Esbjerg Historical Archives)
Et andet af Vestjysk Dampskibsselskabs skibe fik senere også navnet
Niels Winther.
(Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseet)
Another Vestjysk Dampskibsselskab
ship was subsequently also called the
Niels Winther.
(Fisheries and Maritime Museum)
20
Niels Winther blev korresponderende
reder, og bestyrelsen bestod af boghandler Engers Hansen, Esbjerg, kaptajnerne Knud M. Nielsen og Morten
J. Nielsen, begge fra Nordby. Aktiekapitalen var 200.000 kr.13)
Rederiets første skib, S/S Juliane, ex
S/S Middelhavet, på 1352 tons bygget i
1921, blev købt fra Dampskibsselskabet Botnia. Priserne på skibe var i
disse år meget svingende med de
varierende fragtkonjunkturer. Juliane
blev i 1931 købt for 367.000 kr. mod en
byggepris i 1921 på 1.303.000 kr., og
ved salget af skibet til Tyskland i 1951
var prisen 1.306.800 kr.14)
Skibsreder Niels Winther afgik ved
døden i 1933 og fik således kun kort
tid med rederiet, som fortsatte under
ledelse af edsvorne skibsmægler Niels
Winther, en fætter og navnebroder til
firmaets stifter.
I 1943 døde Niels Winther, og sønnen, skibsreder Erik Winther, overtog
selskabet, der kom til at hedde Rederiet Erik Winther - Aktieselskabet Vestjysk Dampskibsselskab. Foruden Erik
Winther som korresponderende reder
var boghandler Chr. Winther, Esbjerg,
og kaptajn Søren Winther, Nordby, i
bestyrelsen for rederiet.15)
Sidst i 1930’erne flyttede rederiet
sine kontorer til København. I forbindelse med efterkrigstidens erstatningsprogram købte rederiet i 1947 damperen S/S Vejnæs på 1193 tons, bygget i
1918. Skibet, der under dansk flag kom
In 1931, Niels Winther established the
firm Vestjysk Dampskibsselskab A/S, Esbjerg. Niels Winther was managing owner,
and the board of directors consisted of the
bookseller Engers Hansen of Esbjerg and
Captains Knud M. Nielsen and Morten J.
Nielsen, both of Nordby. The share capital
was 200,000 kroner.13)
The line’s first ship, the 1,352 ton S/S
Juliane, formerly the S/S Middelhavet,
built in 1921, was bought from the company Dampskibsselskabet Botnia. The
prices of ships fluctuated greatly at this
time of variable market conditions for
freight. The Juliane was bought for
367,000 kroner in 1931 against a construction price of 1,303,000 kroner in 1921, and
the ship was sold to Germany in 1951 for
1,306,800 kroner.14)
The ship owner Niels Winther died in
1933 and thus spent only a brief period
with the line, which continued under the
management of the licensed shipbroker
Niels Winther, a cousin and namesake of
the company’s founder.
Niels Winther died in 1943, and his son
Erik Winther took over the company,
whose name was changed to Rederiet
Erik Winther – Aktieselskabet Vestjysk
Dampskibsselskab. Apart from Erik
Winther as managing owner, the bookseller Chr. Winther of Esbjerg and Captain Søren Winther of Nordby were on the
line’s board of directors.15)
The line moved its offices to Copenhagen at the end of the 1930s. In 1947 the
line bought the 1,193 ton steamer
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til at hedde S/S Olivia, sejlede for rederiet, indtil det i 1951 blev solgt til Finland. I 1950 overtog rederiet fra
Dampskibsselskabet af 1912 damperen
S/S Jacob Mærsk på 1914 tons, bygget i
1921 og blev afhændet i 1956.16)
Opkaldt efter rederiets stifter fik skibet navnet S/S Niels Winther. Rederiet
havde i de følgende år flere skibe, og
til et par af dem genbrugte man navnet
Niels Winther.
I 2000 sluttede denne rederivirksomhed med sejlskibe og senere dampog motorskibe, som familien Winther
med udgangspunkt fra Fanø havde
drevet siden midten af 1800-tallet.
Rederidriften er dog ikke helt ophørt,
idet Rederiet Erik Winther - Vestjysk
Dampskibsselskab A/S, stadig er engageret i andre rederier.17)
22
S/S Vejnæs, built in 1918, in connection
with the post-war reparations programme.
The ship, which was renamed the S/S
Olivia under the Danish flag, sailed for
the line until it was sold to Finland in
1951. In 1950 the line took over the 1,914
ton steamer S/S Jacob Maersk from the
company Dampskibsselskabet af 1912.
The ship was built in 1921 and was sold in
1956.16) Called after the line’s founder, the
ship was renamed S/S Niels Winther. The
line had a number of ships in the following years, and the name Niels Winther was
reused for a few of them.
In 2000 this line, which began with sailing ships and continued with steamers and
motorised ships, and which the Winther
family had been running from Fanø since
the mid-1800s, closed down. But shipping
operations did not cease entirely, as Rederiet Erik Winther – Vestjysk Dampskibsselskab A/S is still engaged in other
lines.17)
Skibsmæglerfirmaet
Niels Winther & Co, Esbjerg
En betydelig virksomhed på Esbjerg
Havn med udspring fra Fanø er skibsmæglerfirmaet Niels Winther & Co.,
oprettet af skibsreder Niels Winther i
1931, som samme år havde stiftet A/S
Vestjysk Dampskibsselskab.
Efter Niels Winthers tidlige død i
1933 blev firmaet afhændet til skibsmægler Chr. Struckmann, en slægtning
af Niels Winther. Chr. Struckmanns far,
Fritjof Struckmann, var kaptajn på barken Kronprins Frederik, der forliste i
en storm på en rejse fra Grimsby til
Buenos Aires i 1894. Efter ni dages
lidelser med tørst og kulde i redningsbåden var kun Struckmann og tre
andre søfolk i live. De blev reddet af
briggen Rosa af Fanø og landsat i Rio
Grande. Fritjof Struckmann døde på
The shipping company
Niels Winther & Co., Esbjerg
An important company at Esbjerg Harbour which originated on Fanø is the shipbroking company Niels Winther & Co.,
established in 1931 by the ship owner
Niels Winther, who had founded A/S
Vestjysk Dampskibsselskab in the same
year.
After Niels Winther’s early death in
1933, the company was sold to the shipbroker Chr. Struckmann, a relative of
Niels Winther. Chr. Struckmann’s father
Fritjof Struckmann was captain of the
bark Kronprins Frederik, which was lost
in a storm on a journey from Grimsby to
Buenos Aires in 1894. After nine days of
thirst and cold in the lifeboat, only Struckmann and three other sailors were still
alive. They were rescued by the brig Rosa
of Fanø and landed in Rio Grande. Fritjof
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I 1941-42 og 43 gav nogle isvintre en
midlertidig beskæftigelse til N W & Co.
(Esbjerg Byhistoriske Arkiv.)
24
The hard winters of 1941-42 and 43
provided temporary employment
for N W & Co.
(City of Esbjerg Historical Archives)
havet om bord på barken Copley i
1913, kun 53 år gammel.
Sønnen Chr. Struckmann begyndte
i 1925 sin shippinguddannelse hos
skibsmægler Schmidt, firmaet J. Lauritzens Eftf., Esbjerg. I 1928 rejste
Struckmann til Hamborg, hvor han var
ansat i et rederi- og mæglerfirma i
halvandet år. Derefter fik han en stilling i et lignede firma i Dunkerque,
som havde dansk og islandsk konsulat.
Efter tre år i Belgien kom Struckmann
igen til Danmark og blev ansat i et
mæglerfirma i Kolding, hvor han var i
otte måneder. Chr. Struckmann var
således veluddannet, også sprogmæssig, idet han foruden engelsk, tysk og
fransk også talte flydende russisk.
Ved overtagelsen af mæglerforretningen i 1933 blev Chr. Struckmann
statsautoriseret skibsmægler, og firmaet Niels Winther & Co. havde en kort
tid tilføjelsen Eftf.18)
Chr. Struckmanns virksomhed, der
hovedsagelig omfattede havneklarering og befragtning, fik et samarbejde
med mæglerfirmaet Chr. Jensen,
Befragtnings & Skibsagentur, Århus,
kaldet »Russer Jensen« og hvis telegramadresse stadig er Russjensen.
Dette firma var hovedagent for russisk
skibsfart i Danmark, og Struckmanns
russiske sprogkundskaber var en stor
fordel, da Niels Winther & Co blev
agent for russiske skibe, som i en
årrække anløb Esbjerg med hovedsagelig kul, foderstoffer og stykgods.
Struckmann died at sea on board the bark
Copley in 1913. He was only 53.
His son Chr. Struckmann commenced
his education in shipping in 1925 with the
shipbroker Schmidt of the firm J. Lauritzens Eftf. of Esbjerg. In 1928 Struckmann travelled to Hamburg, where he was
employed for a year and a half in a shipping and shipbroking company. He then
obtained a position in a similar firm in
Dunkirk, which had Danish and Icelandic
consulates. After three years in Belgium,
Struckmann returned to Denmark and
was employed in a broking firm in Kolding, where he remained for eight months.
Chr. Struckmann was thus well educated,
also in terms of language, as he spoke fluent Russian as well as English, German
and French.
On taking over the broking business in
1933, Chr. Struckmann became a authorised shipbroker, and the firm Niels
Winther & Co. briefly gained the addition
“Eftf.” to its name.18)
Chr. Struckmann’s firm, which was
mainly concerned with port clearance and
chartering, entered into a business relationship with the broking firm Chr.
Jensen, Befragtnings & Skibsagentur of
Aarhus, called “Russer Jensen”, whose
cable address is still Russjensen. This firm
was the main agent for Russian shipping
in Denmark, and Struckmann’s ability to
speak Russian was a major advantage
when Niels Winther & Co. became agent
for Russian ships, which called Esbjerg for
a number of years, principally with coal,
feedstuffs and general cargo.
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Billede fra Trafikhavnen o. 1975. I den
lave kontorbygning midt i billedet
havde N W & Co sit første kontor.
(Esbjerg Byhistoriske Arkiv)
Picture from the traffic harbour circa
1975. N W & Co.’s first office was in
the low office building in the middle
of the picture.
(City of Esbjerg Historical Archives)
Trafikhavnen var under besættelsen
beslaglagt af den tyske marine. I 1944
overtog tyskerne også N W & Co’s
kontorbygning.
(Esbjerg Byhistoriske Arkiv)
The traffic harbour was commandeered during the occupation by the German navy. In 1944 the Germans also
took over N W & Co.’s office building.
(City of Esbjerg Historical Archives)
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I krigsårene var der, bortset fra isvintrene 1941-1942 og 1943, meget lidt
trafik på Esbjerg Havn. Ud over at
være agent for nogle mindre skibe
samt en lille tankbåd ved navn Thora,
der lå som oliedepot i Færgehavnen,
var det småt med opgaver. Derfor
måtte Chr. Struckmann søge andre
indtjeningsmuligheder. Niels Winther
& Co fik således agenturet for
Arbejdsgivernes Ulykkesforsikring
G/S. I et samarbejde med firmaet
Lehmann Jensen, Lemvig, blev Chr.
Struckmann i 1943 parthaver i Rederiet Mathilte A/S, der købte skibet M/S
Mathilte af C. Mærsk Brodersen,
Esbjerg, og indsatte det i en paketfart
mellem København og Lemvig.19)
Mathilte, på 186 tons, var bygget i
1877 som dampskib, men fik senere
installeret motor. Skibet havde tidligere sejlet for Fyr-og Vagervæsenet og
Marinen under navnene Løvenørn og
Absalon.20)
Efter afslutningen af 2. Verdenskrig
var Chr. Struckmann i nogle år medejer af kutterrederiet A/S Nordsøkysten, som omfattede flere kuttere hvoraf to var over 60 tons. Endvidere var
han en af initiativtagerne til oprettelsen af Andelssildeoliefabrikken i 19481949 og sad i nogle år i fabrikkens
bestyrelse.21)
There was very little traffic on Esbjerg
Harbour during the war years, apart from
the hard winters of 1941-42 and 1943.
Apart from acting as agent for some small
ships and a little tanker called Thora,
which lay as an oil depot in the ferry harbour, the jobs were few and far between.
Chr. Struckmann thus had to seek other
avenues of income. Niels Winther & Co.
thus gained the agency for Arbejdsgivernes Ulykkesforsikring G/S (The
Employers’ Accident Insurance). In cooperation with the company Lehmann
Jensen of Lemvig, Chr. Struckmann
became joint owner of the line Rederiet
Mathilte A/S in 1943, which bought the
ship M/S Mathilte from C. Maersk
Brodersen of Esbjerg and put it into
packet service between Copenhagen and
Lemvig.19)
The 186 ton Mathilte was built in 1877
as a steamer, but an engine was subsequently installed. The ship had previously
sailed for the Lights and Buoys Service
and the navy under the names Løvenørn
and Absalon.20)
After the end of the Second World
War, Chr. Struckmann was co-owner for
some years of the cutter line A/S Nordsøkysten, which had a number of cutters,
two of which were over 60 tons. He was
also one of the promoters of the establishment of the fish meal and oil factory
cooperative Andelssildeoliefabrikken in
1948-1949, and sat at the company’s board
for some years.21)
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Billede fra Dokhavnen o. 1904. I forgrunden ses pakhuset, hvor N W &
Co siden 1974 har haft kontorer.
(Esbjerg Byhistoriske Arkiv)
I 1951 flyttede N W & Co til Havnegade 6, og havde i 23 år kontor bag de to
flagstænger på den store beboelsesejendom som i 1974 blev nedrevet. På
stedet etableredes en parkeringsplads.
(Foto: Knud Rasmussen.
Esbjerg Byhistoriske Arkiv)
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N W & Co. moved to Havnegade 6 in
1951, where they had their office for 23
years behind the two flagpoles on the big
residential property which was demolished in 1974. A car park was created on
the site.
(Photo: Knud Rasmussen. City of
Esbjerg Historical Archives)
Personalet hos Niels Winther & Co
bestod i flere år af Chr. Struckmann og
en shippingelev, men blev senere udvidet med Struckmanns datter, Hanne
Struckmann, som var én af landets første kvindelige skibsmæglere.
Niels Winther & Co begyndte sin
virksomhed ud fra et kontor i en mindre bygning på hjørnet af Trafikhavnskajen og Cort Adlersgade. Trafikhavnen blev under 2. Verdenskrig beslaglagt af den tyske besættelsesmagt og
Picture from the docks circa 1904. The
warehouse where N W & Co. has had
its offices since 1974 is visible in the
foreground.
(City of Esbjerg Historical Archives)
The staff at Niels Winther & Co. consisted
for several years of Chr. Struckmann and
a trainee, but Struckmann’s daughter
Hanne Struckmann later joined the company as one of the country’s first women
shipbrokers.
Niels Winther & Co. started in business
out of an office in a small building on the
corner of the traffic harbour and the
street Cort Adlersgade. The traffic harbour was commandeered by the occupying German forces during the Second
29
anvendt som base for marinefartøjer. I
1944 overtog tyskerne også Niels Winther & Co’s kontorbygning, og firmaet
flyttede til et midlertidigt kontor hos
bygningsartikelfirmaet Johan Olsen &
Co A/S på Østredokkaj. Efter krigen
vendte Niels Winther & Co tilbage til
Trafikhavnen og forblev her til 1949.
Det år fik firmaet kontorer i Kirkegade 1, men flyttede to år senere til Havnegade 6, en etageejendom der nu er
revet ned. Fra denne adresse virkede
firmaet i 23 år. Niels Winther & Co
flyttede den 1. januar 1974 sine aktiviteter til et ombygget pakhus i det
nordøstlige hjørne af Dokhavnen på
adressen Nordre Dokkaj 1, som siden
har været firmaets domicil.
I 1973 overtog det store shippingfirma Franck & Tobiesen, København,
firmaet Niels Winther & Co. Chr.
Struckmann fortsatte som konsulent i
et års tid, og Hanne Struckmann fratrådte. Chr. Struckmann døde på Fanø
i 1988, 82 år gammel.
Firmaets disponent, Ejvind Otto Jensen, blev som 39-årig i 1974 direktør og
købte i 1978 en fjerdepart af firmaet,
der herefter hed Niels Winther & Co
ApS.
Franck & Tobiesen var generalagent for det polske statsrederi, Polferries. Det medførte, at Niels Winther &
Co fik et løft med at klarere polske og
andre østeuropæiske skibe, som jævnlig anløb Esbjerg Havn.
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World War and used as a base for marine
vessels. In 1944 the Germans also took
over Niels Winther & Co.’s office building,
and the company moved to a temporary
office with the building materials firm
Johan Olsen & Co A/S on Østredokkaj.
After the war, Niels Winther & Co.
returned to the traffic harbour and
remained there until 1949, when the company obtained offices at Kirkegade 1, but
moved two years later to Havnegade 6, a
multi-storey property which has since
been demolished. The company operated
for 23 years from this address. Niels
Winther & Co. moved its activities on 1
January 1974 to a converted warehouse at
the northern corner of Dokhavnen at the
address Nordre Dokkaj 1, which has been
the company’s domicile since then.
The big shipping firm Franck &
Tobiesen of Copenhagen took over Niels
Winther & Co. in 1973. Chr. Struckmann
continued for a year as consultant and
Hanne Struckmann resigned. Chr. Struckmann died on Fanø in 1988 at the age
of 82.
The firm’s 39 year-old confidential clerk
Ejvind Otto Jensen became manager in
1974, and in 1978 bought a quarter share
in the firm, which then became known as
Winther & Co ApS.
Franck & Tobiesen was general agent
for the Polish national line Polferries, with
the result that Niels Winther & Co. gained
more business clearing Polish and other
eastern European ships which regularly
called at Esbjerg Harbour.
Den trekantede Dokhavn blev som første del af havnen indviet i 1874. I nederste højre hjørne ses taget af pakhuset
med N W & Co’s kontorer.
(Foto: Tonny Sørensen. Esbjerg Byhistoriske Arkiv)
The triangular dock was the first part of
the harbour to be opened in 1874.
The roof of the warehouse with N W &
Co.’s offices is visible in the bottom right
corner. (Photo: Tonny Sørensen. City of
Esbjerg Historical Archives)
31
Tarben P. Jensens kutter E 11 Chrestence fotograferet i 1918.
(Esbjerg Byhistoriske Arkiv)
32
Tarben P. Jensen’s cutter E11 Chrestence,
photographed in 1918.
(City of Esbjerg Historical Archives)
En ny epoke for firmaet
Niels Winther & Co
Det var tilflyttere fra Fanø, der oprettede firmaet Niels Winther & Co. Med
den nye direktør for Niels Winther &
Co kom en anden gruppe pionerer ind
i billedet, nemlig de tilrejsende fiskere,
som gjorde Esbjerg til landets betydeligste fiskeriby.
Direktør Ejvind Otto Jensens forfædre på begge sider var født på
Holmslands Klit. De kom til Esbjerg
lige før århundredskiftet og blev begge
betydelige foregangsmænd inden for
fiskeriet. Farfaderen, Tarben P. Jensen,
var således den første skipper, som i
1899 fik monteret en fast skrue til den
3 HK motor i smakken Tumleren.
Endvidere var han en af iniativtagerne
til opførelsen af Sømandshjemmet Gl.
Havn, der blev indviet i 1913.22) Tarben
P. Jensen var en anset og dygtig skipper på kutteren Chrestense, indtil han i
1930’erne gik i land og sammen med
en søn, J. P. Lodberg Jensen, oprettede
en større fiskeeksportforretning.
Morfaderen, Jens Simon Christensen, kaldet Jens Simonsen, hvilket han
også benævnes i den tidlige presse,
viste fremragende evner som fisker
med kutteren Ruth og opnåede den
ære at give navn til en fiskeplads 60
sømil nordvest for Horns Rev, kaldet
Jens Simonsens rende. Jens Simon
Christensen var endvidere medstifter
af Indkøbsforeningen Godthaab og
Skibsforsikringen Union, begge store
A new epoch for the company
Niels Winther & Co.
Immigrants from Fanø had established the
company Niels Winther & Co. With the
new manager of Niels Winther & Co. ApS,
another group of pioneers entered the picture, namely the visiting fishermen who
made Esbjerg the country’s most important fishing town.
The manager Ejvind Otto Jensen’s
ancestors on both sides were born at
Holmslands Klit. They came to Esbjerg
just before the end of the century, and
both became important pioneers in the
fishing industry. In 1899 the paternal
grandfather Tarben P. Jensen was the first
skipper to install a fixed propeller in the 3
HP engine in the smack Tumleren. He was
also one of the promoters of the construction of the seamen’s home “Gl. Havn”
(Old Harbour), which was opened in
1913.22) Tarben P. Jensen was a distinguished and competent skipper on the
cutter Chrestense until he returned to
land in the 1930s and, together with his
son J.P. Lodberg Jensen, established a
major fish export business.
The maternal grandfather Jens Simon
Christensen, called Jens Simonsen, as he
was also called in the early press, demonstrated outstanding abilities as a fisherman on the cutter Ruth. The fishing
grounds 60 nautical miles northwest of
Horns Reef, Jens Simonsen’s channel,
were named after him. Jens Simon Christensen also co-founded Godthaab Purchasing Association and the Ships’ Insur-
33
Esbjerg Havn o. 1940. På billedet ses
Jens Simon Christensens kutter
E 87 Ruth.
(Foto: J. K. Jeppesen. Esbjerg Byhistoriske Arkiv)
34
Esbjerg Harbour circa 1940. Jens
Simon Christensen’s cutter E87 Ruth
is visible.
(Photo: J. K. Jeppesen. City of Esbjerg
Historical Archives)
fiskerejede selskaber. Fra 1935 til 1955
var Jens Simon Christensen formand
for Esbjerg Fiskeriforening, hvor han
med vestjysk lune og grundighed forsvarede fiskernes synspunkter over for
ministre og embedsmænd i København. Ved sin afgang som formand i
1955 hædrede Esbjerg Fiskeriforening
ham med et hædersdiplom. Endvidere
fik han Dannebrogsmændenes hæderstegn.23)
Jens Simon Christensens datter
Marie, kaldet Misse, blev gift med Tarben P. Jensen søn, Johannes Otto Jensen. Otto fordi han var nummer otte af
en søskendeflok på 17.
Johannes Otto Jensen fik som fireårig en kniv i øjet, der blev ødelagt og
erstattet med et glasøje. Han begyndte
som fisker, men kunne på grund af sit
handicap med øjet ikke bestå synsprøven ved en nautisk eksamen og var
dermed udelukket fra at blive skipper.
I stedet blev han i 1929 en populær
bestyrer af Sømandshjemmet Gl. Havn
og siden hædret med Den kongelige
fortjenstmedalje i sølv. Johannes Otto
Jensen døde i 1954. Hans kone, Misse
Jensen, fortsatte som bestyrer af
sømandshjemmet indtil 1962.
Børnene, fem drenge og en pige,
voksede op i dette maritime miljø. En
af sønnerne blev fiskeskipper og en
anden, Ejvind Otto Jensen, fik en shippinguddannelse, som begyndte med en
elevplads i speditionsfirmaet Leman
A/S. Efter afsluttet eksamen tog
ance Union, both big companies owned by
fishermen. From 1935 to 1955, Jens Simon
Christensen was chairman of Esbjerg
Fishermen’s Association where, with West
Jutland humour and thoroughness, he
defended fishermen’s viewpoints to ministers and officials in Copenhagen. On his
departure as chairman in 1955, Esbjerg
Fishermen’s Association honoured him
with a diploma. He was also given the silver cross of the Order of the Dannebrog.23)
Jens Simon Christensen’ daughter
Marie, called Misse, married Tarben P.
Jensen’s son Johannes Otto Jensen – Otto
because he was number eight of 17 brothers and sisters.
Johannes Otto Jensen suffered a knife
injury to his eye when he was four, blinding the eye, which was replaced with a
glass eye. He started as a fisherman, but
was unable to pass the vision test in a nautical exam because of his handicap and
was thus precluded from becoming a skipper. Instead he became a popular manager of the seamen’s home “Gl. Havn” in
1929, and was later honoured with the
royal silver service medal. Johannes Otto
Jensen died in 1954. His wife Misse Jensen
continued as manager of the home until
1962.
The children, five boys and a girl, grew
up in this maritime environment. One of
the sons became master of a fishing boat
and another, Ejvind Otto Jensen, was educated in shipping, beginning with a traineeship in the shipping agency Leman A/S.
35
Esbjergs første sømandshjem,
Sømandshjemmet Gl. Havn, blev
opført i 1903. Billede fra o. 1930.
(Esbjerg Byhistoriske Arkiv)
36
Esbjerg’s first seamen’s home, the home
“Gl. Havn”, was erected in 1903.
Picture from circa 1930.
(City of Esbjerg Historical Archives)
Ejvind Otto Jensen i 1958 til England,
hvor han i nogle måneder var elev på
Den danske købmandsskole i London.
Her traf han sin kommende kone, som
også var under uddannelse.
Ejvind Otto Jensen kom hjem fra
England og fik en stilling ved slagteriet
Tulips shipping-afdeling i Vejle. Han
vendte i 1961 tilbage til Esbjerg og
blev ansat i mæglerfirmaet C. Breinholt A/S, hvor han under direktør
Steen Christensen ledelse arbejdede i
12 år.
I 1973 søgte Ejvind Otto Jensen en
ny udfordring og blev som tidligere
nævnt ansat som direktør og senere
parthaver i mæglerfirmaet Niels Winther & Co, der under hans ledelse fik
en solid fremgang med mange nye tiltag. En anden shipping-mand, Fritz
Thaarsti Sørensen, blev samtidig optaget i firmaet og købte efter nogle år en
anpart, som han ved sin tilbagetræden i
1990 solgte til Ejvind Otto Jensen. I
denne periode bestod firmaets personale af de to skibsmæglere, en bogholder og to shippingelever.
Desværre kom Ejvind Otto Jensen i
1983 ud for et alvorligt biluheld, der
gjorde ham lam og bandt ham til en
kørestol. Stærkt handicappet, og med
jævnlige ture til genoptræning i København blev det vanskeligt at drive firmaet effektivt.
Ejvind Otto Jensens søn, Henrik
Otto Jensen, blev samme år student og
gik umiddelbart efter i gang med en
After the exam, Ejvind Otto Jensen went
to England in 1958, where he was a student for several months at the Danish
commercial school in London. He met his
future wife, who was also a student, at the
school.
Ejvind Otto Jensen came home from
England and obtained a position at the
abattoir Tulip’s shipping department in
Vejle. He returned to Esbjerg in 1961 and
was employed by the brokers C. Breinholt
A/S, where he worked for 12 years under
the guidance of the manager Steen Christensen.
In 1973, Ejvind Otto Jensen sought a
new challenge and was, as noted above,
employed as manager, and later co-owner,
of the brokerage house Niels Winther &
Co., which advanced well under his management, with many new initiatives.
Another broker, Fritz Thaarsti Sørensen,
was appointed by the firm at the same
time, and after several years he bought a
share, which he sold on his resignation in
1990 to Ejvind Otto Jensen. During this
period the firm’s staff consisted of the two
shipbrokers, a bookkeeper, and two
trainees.
Unfortunately Ejvind Otto Jensen suffered a serious car accident in 1983, leaving him confined to a wheelchair. Severely
disabled and requiring regular trips to
Copenhagen for rehabilitation, it was difficult to run the company effectively.
Ejvind Otto Jensen’s son Henrik Otto
Jensen passed matriculation the same year
and immediately commenced an extended
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Midt i 1970’erne åbnede N W & Co en
stykgodsrute med ugentlig forbindelse
mellem Esbjerg og Lowestoft. På billedet ses direktør Ejvind Otto Jensen
ved et af skibene der betjente ruten.
(Foto: Knud Rasmussen)
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N W & Co. opened a general cargo
route in the mid-1970s with a weekly
connection between Esbjerg and
Lowestoft. The picture shows manager
Ejvind Otto Jensen at one of the ships
operating on the route.
(Photo: Knud Rasmussen)
udvidet handelsuddannelse. Han havde
da ingen fremtidsplaner om at gøre
karriere inden for shipping, men for at
hjælpe faderen i den ulykkelige situation begyndte Henrik Otto Jensen, 19
år gammel, en to-årig shippinguddannelse i Niels Winther & Co.
Efter en hård optræning fik Ejvind
Otto Jensen det bedre og kunne arbejde mere aktivt i firmaet. Henrik Otto
Jensen fik derved mulighed for at fortsætte sin uddannelse.
I 1985 tog han til London og blev
optaget på handelsskolen Hammersmith West London College. Derefter
blev han ansat i Englands ældste rederi, Stephenson Clarke Shipping, og var
en kort tid hos et større skibsagentur
på Themsen, hvorefter han arbejdede
hos rederiet Jeppesen Heaton Ltd, som
drev en betydelig forretning med linieagentur og spedition, der også omfattende en større befragtning til Falklands-øerne.
Henrik Otto Jensen kom i 1988
hjem fra England og fortsatte i Niels
Winther & Co, som på grund af Ejvind
Otto Jensens trafikuheld var droslet
noget ned.
I en alder af 26 år overtog Henrik
Otto Jensen i 1990 ledelsen af Niels
Winther & Co. På trods af ulykken
deltog Ejvind Otto Jensen i sin kørestol aktivt i det daglige arbejde på
kontoret, indtil han døde i 1996, 61 år
gammel.
commercial education. He had no future
plans to make a career within shipping,
but to help his father in his unhappy situation, the 19 year-old Henrik commenced a
two-year shipping education with Niels
Winther & Co.
After strenuous rehabilitation, Ejvind
Otto Jensen improved and was able to
work more actively in the firm. Henrik
Otto Jensen was then able to continue his
education.
In 1985 he travelled to London and
was accepted by the business college
Hammersmith West London College. He
was then employed by England’s oldest
shipping line, Stephenson Clarke Shipping, and for a brief period he was with a
big shipping agent on the Thames, after
which he worked for the line Jeppesen
Heaton Ltd, which ran an important
agency and freighting business which also
included a big freight service to the Falkland Islands.
Henrik Otto Jensen returned from
England in 1988 and continued in Niels
Winther & Co., whose activities has been
somewhat reduced because of Ejvind
Otto Jensen’s traffic accident.
In 1990, at the age of 26, Henrik Otto
Jensen took over the management of
Niels Winther & Co. Notwithstanding his
accident, Ejvind Otto Jensen in his wheelchair was an active participant in the
office’s daily work until his death in 1996
at the age of 61.
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Til ruten Esbjerg-Lowestoft lastes
stykgods.
(Foto: Knud Rasmussen)
General cargo being loaded for the
Esbjerg-Lowestoft route.
(Photo: Knud Rasmussen)
I 1970’erne indgik N W & Co i et
samarbejde med polske Polish Ocean
Line på en Middelhavsrute.. M/S
Ostroleka på 6380 DWT var et af skibene på ruten. (Foto: Jørgen Juhl)
N W & Co. entered into a business relationship in the 1970s with Polish Ocean
Line on a Mediterranean Sea route. The
6,380 DWT M/S Ostroleka was one of
the ships on the route.
(Photo: Jørgen Juhl)
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I et forsøg på at rette firmaet op fik
Henrik Otto Jensen via sit netværk fra
London tilført firmaet nye aktiviteter
som befragtning og oversøisk spedition
samt klarering af de store kulskibe til
det nye Vestkraft. I 1993 købte han
Niels Winther & Co ApS og har siden
været direktør og eneejer af mæglerfirmaet.
Ved Henrik Otto Jensens overtagelse af Niels Winther & Co så andre
af havnens mæglere med nogen skepsis
på den unge mands muligheder, men
det blev ret hurtigt afløst af respekt.
Ud fra kontorer i det gamle pakhus
ved dokhavnskajen har et ungt team
under Henrik Otto Jensens ledelse,
gjort firmaet Niels Winther & Co til en
af havnens førende virksomheder med
havneklarering, linieagentur, befragtning, havariagentur og offshore. I
1970’erne var Niels Winther & Co i en
fire-årig periode agent for ruter til
Irland, Nordafrika, Bengasi, Tripoli
samt til Storbritannien og Japan og har
i dag agentur for forskellige offshorevirksomheder, olieselskaber og importører af korn og foderstoffer. Den
store kulimport til Vestkraft, i dag
Esbjergværket under Elsam A/S, er
også en væsentlig aktivitet for firmaet.
Endvidere er virksomheden EsdanStevedoring en afdeling under Niels
Winther & Co.
Inden for offshore har Niels Winther & Co et samarbejde med A. P.
Møllers virksomheder og andre opera-
In an attempt to straighten out the firm,
Henrik Otto Jensen obtained new activities for the firm via his network in London, such as chartering and overseas forwarding as well as clearing of the big coal
ships for the new Vestkraft power station.
In 1993 he bought Niels Winther & Co.
ApS, and since then he has been manager
and sole owner of the firm.
When Henrik Otto Jensen took over
Niels Winther & Co., other brokers at the
harbour viewed the young man’s chances
with some scepticism, but this was quickly
replaced by respect.
Working from offices in the old warehouse at the harbour wharf, a young team
under Henrik Otto Jensen’s management
has made Niels Winther & Co. one of the
harbour’s leading companies, with customs clearing, line agency, chartering,
average agency and offshore activities. In
the 1970s Niels Winther & Co. was agent
for a four year period for routes to Ireland, North Africa, Bengasi, Tripoli, Great
Britain and Japan, and it is now agent for
various offshore companies, oil companies,
and importers of grain and feedstuffs. The
big coal import for Vestkraft, now Esbjergværket under the company Elsam A/S, is
also an important activity for the firm.
The company Esdan-Stevedoring is
also a division of Niels Winther & Co.
Within offshore activities, Niels
Winther & Co. works in co-operation with
companies of the A. P. Møller Group and
other operators, who are extracting gas
and oil in the North Sea. Niels Winther &
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tører, som udvinder gas og olie i Nordsøen. Firmaet er desuden agent for selskaber, der etablerer og vedligeholder
de store boreplatforme samt andre
installationer med bl.a. flydekraner,
som har løfteevner på op til 12.000
tons.
Niels Winther & Co’s offshore virksomhed har bredt sig til andre havne
og lande. I samarbejde med Mærsk selskaber udføres en større transport af
fleksible olierør på store kabeltromler
der vejer op til 300 tons og har en diameter på 9,6 m. Transporten foregår
direkte fra NKT’s fabrik i Kalundborg
til olieaktiviteter i bl.a. Nordsøen, Afrika og Fjernøsten.
Co. is also agent for companies which
establish and maintain the large drilling
platforms and other installations using
floating cranes with a lifting capacity of up
to 12,000 tons and other equipment.
Niels Winther & Co.’s offshore activities have spread to other harbours and
countries. In co-operation with Maersk
companies, Niels Winther & Co. undertakes major transport of flexible oil pipes
on large cable drums, weighing up to 300
tons and with a diameter of 9.6 m. The
transport is directly from NKT’s production plant in Kalundborg to oil activities
in the North Sea, Africa, the far East and
other destinations.
500 tons stål bliver omladet fra skib
til skib for videretransport til Malta.
(Foto: Jørgen Juhl)
500 tons of steel is transhipped for
further transport to Malta
(Photo: Jørgen Juhl)
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Folk fra Esdan Stevedoring, en afdeling under N W & Co, i aktivitet på
havnen. (Foto: Medvind)
People from Esdan Stevedoring, a
department under N W & Co., working at the harbour.
(Photo: Medvind)
Den store import af kul til Vestkraft er
et stort aktiv for N W & Co. M/S
Washington på 9008 DWT, et af skibene fra rederiet Stephenson Clark Shipping hvor Henrik Otto Jensen en tid var
ansat, sejlede i en 10-års periode i
1980’erne kul fra Newcastle til Esbjerg.
(Privatfoto)
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Vestkraft’s big imports of coal are a major
asset for N W & Co. The 9,008 DWT M/S
Washington, one of the ships from the line
Stephenson Clark Shipping where Henrik
Otto Jensen was employed for a time, sailed to Esbjerg for a 10-year period in the
1980s with coal from Newcastle.
(Private photo)
Et af de større kulskibe, SKS Endurance, 242 m. lang og 38 m. bred,
anløb Esbjerg i 1995. (Foto: Medvind)
One of the bigger coal ships, the SKS
Endurance, 242 m long and 38 m wide, called at Esbjerg in 1995. (Photo: Medvind)
Ved hospitalskibet Anastasis anløb af
Esbjerg i 1993 var N W & Co skibets
agent. (Foto: Medvind)
N W & Co. was the ship’s agent when
the hospital ship Anastasis called at
Esbjerg in 1993. (Photo: Medvind)
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Siden olieventyret i
Nordsøen begyndte har
N W & Co været engageret i transport og
installationer af offshore-moduler.
Since oil was discovered
in the North Sea, N W
& Co. has been engaged
in transporting and
installing offshore
modules
N W & Co er agent for verdens største
kranskib,Thialf, 136.709 GT, 201 m.
lang og 88 m. bred, som kan løfte
12.000 tons i ét løft. I forgrunden ses
det tidligere havundersøgelsesskib
Dana, der indgik i Esvagts flåde under
navnet Dana Esvagt. (Foto: Medvind)
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N W & Co. is the agent for the world’s
biggest crane ship, the Thialf, 136,709
GT, 201 m long and 88 m wide. The
ship can lift 12,000 tons in one load. In
the foreground is the former marine
research ship Dana, which operated in
Esvagt’s fleet under the name Dana
Esvagt. (Photo: Medvind)
M/S Solitaire, verdens største rørlægningsfartøj med en længde på 300
meter, lagde Europipe Gasledning fra
Norge til Holland i 1998. N W & Co er
rederiets agent. (Privat foto)
The M/S Solitaire, the world’s biggest
pipe-laying vessel with a length of 300
metres, laid the Europipe gas pipeline
from Norway to the Netherlands in 1998.
N W & Co. is the shipping line’s agent.
(Private photo)
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N W & Co har et tæt samarbejde med
det italienske rederi, Grimaldi Lines,
hvis store ro/ro multipurpose skibe på
53000 tons siden 1998 ugentlig har
anløbet Esbjerg Havn.
(Foto: Niels Winther & Co.)
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N W & Co. works closely with the Italian Grimaldi Lines, whose big 53,000
ton roll-on/roll-off multipurpose ships
have been calling at Esbjerg Harbour
weekly since 1998.
(Photo: Niels Winther & Co.)
Niels Winther & Co bliver agent for
Grimaldi Lines
Det blev et stort aktiv for Esbjerg
Havn, da Niels Winther & Co i 1998
fik det italienske rederi Grimaldi Lines
til at anløbe Esbjerg. Rederiet har
nogle af verdens største ro/ro-multipurpose skibe, hvilket vil sige, at de
kan sejle med forskellige former for
last. Grimaldis rutenet strækker sig
over Sverige til to havne i Storbritannien, fire i Italien, og desuden til Irland,
Belgien, Malta, Cypern, Grækenland,
Tyrkiet, Israel og Egypten. Ruten, kaldet Euro-Med, blev i 2002 udvidet med
et anløb af Civitavecchia, som er Roms
havn. Med denne havn midt i hjertet af
Italien er Esbjerg den eneste danske
havn, der har en direkte forbindelse til
Rom, hvor godset uden omladning kan
komme fra Esbjerg til Rom på 12
dage. Rutenettet blev i 2003 yderligt
udvidet med anløb af Beirut i Libanon,
Mersin i Tyrkiet og Tartous i Syrien.
En rundtur til 23 havne i 17 lande
tager cirka en måned, og Esbjerg bliver hver uge anløbet af et af de fem
store skibe, der er indsat i linie-sejladsen. Via egen multiterminal i Antwerpen har Grimaldi Lines desuden forbundet Esbjerg med både Sydamerika
og Vestafrika. Grimaldi Lines er dermed det eneste rederi, som kan tilbyde
afsendelse af containere, ro-ro gods og
projektlaster direkte fra Danmark til
disse fjerne destinationer.24)
Både nationalt og internationalt vakte
Niels Winther & Co. becomes agent for
Grimaldi Lines
It was a major asset for Esbjerg Harbour
when Niels Winther & Co. persuaded the
Italian Grimaldi Lines to call at Esbjerg in
1998. The line has some of the world’s
biggest roll-on/roll-off multipurpose ships
which can sail with various forms of cargo.
Grimaldi’s route network extends through
Sweden to two harbours in Great Britain,
four in Italy, and others in Ireland, Belgium, Malta, Cyprus, Greece, Turkey,
Israel and Egypt. The Euro-Med route
was extended in 2002, calling at Civitavecchia, Rome’s harbour. With this harbour
in the middle of the heart of Italy, Esbjerg
is the only Danish harbour with a direct
connection to Rome, where goods can
travel from Esbjerg to Rome in 12 days
without transhipment. The route network
was further extended in 2003 with calls at
Beirut in Lebanon, Mersin in Turkey and
Tartous in Syria.
A round trip to 23 harbours in 17
countries takes about a month, and Esbjerg is visited every week by one of the
line’s five big ships on the route. Via its
own multi-terminal in Antwerp, Grimaldi
Lines has also connected Esbjerg to both
South America and West Africa. Grimaldi
Lines is the only line offering transport of
containers, roll-on/roll-off goods and project loads directly from Denmark to these
remote destinations.24)
The fact that Esbjerg was added to
Grimaldi’s route network gained considerable attention both nationally and interna-
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Grimaldi Group, det italienske vognmandsfirma Mercurio og Niels Winther & Co driver Scandinavian Auto
Logistics A/S, SAL, som blev etableret
i 1999. Firmaet klargører og transporterer med egne lastvogne biler til forhandlerne. (Foto: Reese)
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The Grimaldi Group, the Italian haulage contractors Mercurio and Niels
Winther & Co run Scandinavian Auto
Logistics A/S, SAL, which was established in 1999. The company clears and
transports cars to dealers with its own
lorries. (Photo: Reese)
det stor opmærksomhed, at Esbjerg
kom på Grimaldis rutenet, og havnen
fik herved et blåt stempel. De store
Grimaldi-skibe på 53.000 tons er 186
meter lange og 32 meter brede. På 11
dæk er der plads til 4.500 biler og 750
containere. Som første rederi i verden
påtager Grimaldiselskabet sig alle logistikopgaver vedrørende transport af
nye biler direkte fra fabrik til forhandlerne.
Fra en beskeden start er ruten
under stadig udvikling og afskibede i
2002 ved hvert skibsanløb omkring 100
containere med forskellige varegrupper fra flere firmaer. Rutens fundament er dog en stor del af de omkring
15.000 biler, som årligt kommer over
kajen i Esbjerg. Det er især Fiat, Alfa
Romeo, Ford, Opel, Lancia, Mitsubishi,
Honda og Ducato-varebiler, der fra
Esbjerg sendes videre til bilforhandlere. Hvert havneanløb, hvor ca. 70 mennesker er involveret, giver en omsætning på en kvart million kroner til bl.a.
havnen, lodser, slæbebåde og havnearbejdere.
I 1999 blev Scandinavian Auto
Logistics A/S, SAL, etableret af Grimaldi Group, Niels Winther & Co,
Danbor og det italienske vognmandsfirma Mercurio. Efter en besværlig
start trådte Danbor året efter ud af selskabet, der siden, med Henrik Otto
Jensen som direktør, har haft stor
fremgang.
tionally, and the harbour gained a stamp
of approval. The big 53,000 ton Grimaldi
ships are 186 metres long and 32 metres
wide. There is space for 4,500 cars and 750
containers on 11 decks. Grimaldi is the
first line in the world to undertake all
logistical tasks concerning the transport
of new cars directly from the factory to
dealers.
From a modest start, the route is
steadily developing, and in 2002 the line
offloaded, at each port of call, around 100
containers with various goods from a
number of companies. But the route’s
bread and butter is a large proportion of
the approximately 15,000 cars which pass
over the wharf in Esbjerg every year. Fiat,
Alfa Romeo, Opel, Lancia, Mitsubishi and
Honda are sent to car dealers from
Esbjerg. Each call at the harbour, which
involves about 70 people, means a
turnover of a quarter of a million kroner
for the harbour, pilots, tugboats, harbour
workers and others.
In 1999 Scandinavian Auto Logistics
A/S, SAL, was established by the
Grimaldi Group, Niels Winther & Co.,
Danbor, and the Italian haulage contractor Mercurio. After a difficult start, Danbor left the company the following year,
but with Henrik Otto Jensen as manager,
the company has prospered.
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Grundlaget for Grimaldi Lines rutenet til 23 havne i 17 lande er transporten af biler, containere og ro/ro gods
Foto: Reese
Ved Vestkraftgade har
SAL etableret en
multi-terminal på
25.000 2m med oplagsplads til biler og containere. (Foto: Reese)
The foundation of Grimaldi Lines’
route network to 23 harbours in 17
countries is the transport of cars, containers and roll-on/roll-off goods.
Photo: Reese
Scandinavian Auto Logistics begyndte
i det små med at klargøre og transportere Fiat og Alfa Romeo biler til danske forhandlere. Disse aktiviteter er
siden blevet mere omfattende. I 2003
klargør og distribuerer 20 ansatte dagligt omkring 75 personbiler og 50 varevogne af forskellige fabrikater som
med firmaets egne lastvogne transporteres ud til forhandlerne i Danmark,
Tyskland og flere andre lande.
Ved nedlæggelsen af Vestkrafts
blok 2 i 2001 etablerede Esbjerg Havn
en ny terminal på 25.000 m2. Scandinavian Auto Logistics A/S lejede det
store område og oprettede en multicontainer terminal, der overtog de stevedoring og terminal ydelser, som hidtil var blevet udført af DFDS. På den
tidligere store plads ved kajkanten
blev der anlagt en større oplagsplads
for de mange biler som ventede på
klargøring og transport. Ved etableringen af området med multicontainerterminalen, en ro/ro-terminal samt
udstyr og lastbiler har Scandinavian
Auto Logistics A/S investeret et tocifret millionbeløb.
Scandinavian Auto Logistics began in a
small way by preparing and transporting
Fiat and Alfa Romeo cars to Danish dealers. These activities have since expanded.
In 2003, 20 employees are clearing and
distributing cars and vans of various car
marks on the firm’s own lorries, are being
transported to dealers in Denmark, Germany and several other countries.
On the closing down of Vestkraft’s
block 2 in 2001, Esbjerg Harbour established a new 25,000 square metre terminal. Scandinavian Auto Logistics A/S
leased the big area and established a
multi-container terminal, which took over
the stevedoring and terminal services
which had previously been provided by
DFDS. A big storage yard for the many
cars awaiting clearance and transport was
created on the former big area by the
wharf. Scandinavian Auto Logistics A/S
has invested several millions of kroner in
the establishment of the area with the
multi-container terminal, a roll-on/roll-off
terminal and equipment and lorries.
SAL has established a
25,000 square metre
multi-terminal with
storage space for cars
and containers on the
street Vestkraftgade
(Photo: Reese)
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Ved et af de store Grimaldi-skibes
anløb overrakte dir. Henrik Otto Jensen borgmester Johnny Søttrup en
model af skibet. (Foto: Niels Winther
& Co.)
Foruden flere andre ledelsesfunktioner
er Henrik Otto Jensen direktør for
Scandinavian Auto Logistics.
(Foto: Reese)
Apart from a number of other executive positions, Henrik Otto Jensen is
manager of Scandinavian Auto Logistics. (Photo: Reese)
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Henrik Otto Jensen presented the mayor
Johny Søttrup with a model of the ship
when one of the big Grimaldi ships called. (Photo: Niels Winther & Co.)
Offshore vindmøller giver nye
opgaver til Niels Winther & Co
Verdens største vindmølleprojekt til
havs blev i 2002 etableret på Horns
Rev. Med en investering på to milliarder kroner blev der bygget 80 store
vindmøller, som står på mellem seks
og 14 meter vand. Havmøllerne er
giganter, der hver vejer 450 tons. Deres
nav er 70 meter over havoverfladen,
mens vingespidserne når 110 meter op
i luften. Vindmøllerne vil bidrage med
godt to procent til det danske elforbrug. Det svarer til 150.000 parcelhuses
elforsyning. Et sådant gigantisk projekt
på det barske hav kræver en stor indsats af specialskibe, udstyr, forsyninger
og menneskelig indsats.
Niels Winther & Co havde en betydelig erfaring i at håndtere store rørarbejder i forbindelse med offshore og
fik derfor logistikarbejdet med transporterne af fundamenter og møller til
Horns Rev. I samarbejde med vindmøllefabrikken Vestas har firmaet
stået for koordineringen af transporten
til lands og til vands. Det kunne ses på
havnen, hvor Tværkajen og store dele
af Trafikhavnen blev inddraget for at
give plads til møllevinger og tårne.
Under arbejdet med opførelsen af
møllerne har Niels Winther & Co
udført alle havnefaciliteter for Vestas
og klaret al stevedore og lastning af
skibene. Som agent for 11 fartøjer har
firmaet deltaget med de mest moderne
logistikløsninger inden for transporten
Offshore wind turbines provide new
tasks for Niels Winther & Co.
The world’s biggest offshore wind turbine
project was established at Horns Reef in
2002. With an investment of two billion
kroner, 80 big turbines were erected in
between six and 15 metres of water. These
turbines are giants, each weighing 450
tons. Their hubs are 70 metres above the
sea surface and the tips of the blades
reach 110 metres up into the air. The turbines will provide over 2% of Denmark’s
electricity. This is equivalent to supplying
150,000 single-family houses. Such a gigantic project in the harsh sea demands a substantial input of special ships, equipment,
supplies and manpower.
Niels Winther & Co. had substantial
experience in handling major pipe works
in connection with offshore projects, and
they were therefore given the logistical
work for the transportation of foundations
and turbines to Horns Reef. In cooperation with the wind turbine manufacturer
Vestas, the firm was responsible for coordinating the transport on land and water.
This can be seen at the harbour, where the
wharf Tværkajen and major parts of the
traffic harbour were included to provide
space for turbine blades and towers.
During the erection of the turbines,
Niels Winther & Co. was responsible for
all set-up port facilities for Vestas and all
stevedoring and loading of ships. As agent
for 11 vessels, the firm offered the most
modern logistical solutions within the
transportation and placing of the 80 foun-
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og placeringen af de 80 fundamenter
og vindmøller. Det er blevet til mere
end 400 skibsanløb med en transport
af ikke mindre end 38.000 tons for
både Vestas og andre firmaer som MTHøjgaard, A2Sea og det hollandske
Mammoet-VanOord. Desuden har
Niels Winther & Co haft et samarbejde
med omkring 170 virksomheder, der
som underleverandører har medvirket
til projektet med alt lige fra industrier,
hoteller og bagere.25)
Niels Winther & Co har en ekspertise, der åbner nye muligheder for
andre mølleprojekter både til lands og
til havs, således løste firmaet nogle
store opgaver ved etableringen af 13
havmøller ved Samsø i 2003.
dations and turbines. There were over 400
port calls of ships transporting no less
than 38,000 tons for both Vestas and other
companies such as MT-Højgaard, A2Sea
and the Dutch Mammoet-VanOord. Niels
Winther & Co. also had a working relationship with around 170 subcontracting
companies ranging from industry and
hotels to bakers which contributed goods
and services to the project.25)
Niels Winther & Co. possesses an
expertise which opens new possibilities for
other wind turbine projects both on land
and at sea. The firm thus completed a
number of major tasks in the establishment of 13 offshore turbines at the island
of Samsø in 2003.
Som et af de første shippingfirmaer i Danmark blev. N W & Co i
1995 ISO 9002 certificeret. Ved
overrækkelsen af certifikatet ses
fra venstre bogholder Alice Christensen, som i 2003 havde 25-års
jubilæum i firmaet, derefter Henrik Otto Jensen, Michael Nielsen,
Søren Frank og Ejvind Otto Jensen. (Foto: Uffe Bølling)
I samarbejde med Mærsk selskaber
står N W & Co for transporten af fleksible olierør på kabeltromler fra
NKT’s fabrik i Kalundborg til offshore i bl.a. Nordsøen, Afrika og Fjernøsten . (Foto: Niels Winther & Co.)
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Together with Maersk companies, N W
& Co. is responsible for the transport of
flexible oil pipes on cable drums from
NKT’s production plant in Kalundborg
to the offshore industry in the North
Sea, Africa, the Far East and other
destinations.
(Photo: Niels Winther & Co.)
In 1995, N W & Co. was one of the first shipping company in Denmark to gain ISO
9002 certification. From the left at the presentation of the certificate: Alice Christensen,
bookkeeper, who celebrated her 25th year with the firm in 2003, Henrik Otto Jensen,
Michael Nielsen, Søren Frank and Ejvind Otto Jensen. (Photo: Uffe Bølling)
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N W & Co fik i 2002 store opgaver
ved opførelse af 80 hav-vindmøller på
Horns Rev. (Foto: Medvind)
N W & Co gained major orders in 2002
in connection with the erection of 80
offshore wind turbines at Horns Reef.
(Photo: Medvind)
Niels Winther & Co er still going
strong
På de øvrige forretningsområder har
Niels Winther & Co en stabil fremgang
og står for 40 % af den stadig stigende
godsmængde på Esbjerg Havn. I 1995
blev Niels Winther & Co ISO 9002 certificeret og er desuden som eneste
firma i Danmark certificeret Multimodal Transport Agent.
Gennem de seneste fire år er Niels
Winther & Co vokset med 300% på
omsætning, indtjening og personale og
blev derfor af dagbladet Børsen kåret
som årets Gazellevirksomhed 2002.
Denne anerkendelse blev fulgt op
med endnu en udmærkelse til en
anden del af firmaet, Esdan-Stevedoring, der af dagbladet Børsen blev
kåret som Gazellevirksomhed 2003. En
Gazelle-virksomhed er udvalgt blandt
Danmarks hurtigst voksende virksomheder.
Det gamle mæglerfirma med direktør Henrik Otto Jensen i spidsen for et
personale på 14 personer er i stadig
udvikling og står klar til nye opgaver
døgnet rundt
Skibsmæglerfirmaet Niels Winther &
Co’s lange historie fra 1931 til 2003
viser, at firmaet med udsyn og dygtighed er blevet en succeshistorie på
Esbjerg Havn.
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Niels Winther & Co. is still going
strong
In its other areas of business, Niels
Winther & Co. is steadily advancing, and
is responsible for handling 40% of the
ever increasing quantity of goods at Esbjerg Harbour. In 1995, Niels Winther &
Co. gained ISO 9002 certification, and the
firm is also the only certified Multimodal
Transport Agent in Denmark.
Over the last four years, Niels Winther
& Co. ApS’s turnover, earnings and staff
have grown by 300%, and the firm was
therefore named Gazelle Company of the
Year 2002 by the national financial daily
newspaper Børsen.
This recognition was followed up with
yet another distinction to another part of
the firm, Esdan-Stevedoring, which was
named Gazelle Company of the Year 2003
by Børsen. A gazelle company is chosen
from among Denmark’s fastest growing
companies.
The old broking firm with Henrik Otto
Jensen at its head of a staff of 14 is still
growing, and the firm is ready for new
tasks 24 hours a day.
Niels Winther & Co.’s long history from
1931 to 2003 shows that, with vision and
competence, the shipping company has
been a success story in Esbjerg.
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Noter
1. Holm-Petersen, F. og A. Rosendahl. Fra Sejl til Diesel. Bd. I.
København 1951-1953. p. 179.
2. Kromann, N. M. Fanøs Historie.
Bd. III. Esbjerg 1933. p. 258
3. Holm-Petersen, F. og A. Rosendahl. Fra Sejl til Diesel Bd. III.
København 1951-1953. p. 335
4. Kromann, N. M. Fanøs Historie.
Bd. III. 1933. p. 281
5. Holm-Petersen, F. Fanø-Sejlskibe.
1956. p. 56
6. Kromann, N. M. Fanø-sømænd i
storm og stille. Bd. I. 1934. p. 189
7. Ibid. p. 182
8. Frederiksen, Niels. Fra sejl til damp
på Fanø. I årbogen Fra Ribe Amt
1977. p. 571
9. Holm-Petersen, F. og A. Rosendahl. Fra Sejl til Diesel Bd. III.
København 1951-1953. p. 13
10. Holm, Poul. "Tre foretagender på
Esbjerg Havn. Firmaet C. Breinholt 1875-1953". I Sjæk'len 1995.
1996. p. 60
11. Holm-Petersen, F. og A. Rosendahl. Fra Sejl til Diesel Bd. III.
København 1951-1953. p. 421
12. Ibid. p. 479
13. Ibid. p. 459
14. Røder, H. C. Dansk skibsfarts
renæssance. Bd. II. København
1962. p. 184
15. Danmarks Skibsfart i Tekst og Billeder. Bd. I. 1951. p. 232
16. Holm-Petersen, F. og A. Rosendahl. Fra Sejl til Diesel. Bd. III.
København 1951-1953. p. 457
17. Oplyst af skibsreder Erik Winther,
København
18. Journalist Lizzi Bolthers interview
med Chr. Struckmann i 1983, findes som fotokopi på Esbjerg Byhistoriske Arkiv.
19. Oplyst af indkøbschef Svend
Lübecker, København
20. Holm-Petersen, F. og A. Rosendahl. Fra Sejl til Diesel. Bd. III.
København 1951-1953. p. 470
21. Dagbladet Vestkysten den 3. marts
1981
22. Bredmose Simonsen, Johs. Fiskerne og byen, Fiskeriet fra Esbjerg
indtil 1940. Esbjerg 1997. p. 77
23. Ibid. p. 197
24. Ugeavisen Esbjerg den 5. februar
2003
25. Dagbladet JydskeVestkysten den
31. august 2003
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