Kurt Skov buys out the two Copenhagen shipping companies out and
takes over the business himself.
Blue Water's clientel continues to expand, and Blue Water
Manchester is established. Further to the traffic to England, a
regular groupage trailer service runs between Esbjerg and Dublin in
Ireland.
A regular groupage service to Manchester is established. With our first female colleague, the number of employees increases to 5.
Blue Water is busy with increased ship broking and general freight forwarding. The office moves to Esbjerg Port, and two trainees are taken on.
Blue Water Shipping is established on 1 September as a private
limited company by two Copenhagen shipping companies, N.Schiøtt
& Hochbrandt and Fellowship I/S.
20 sq.meter of office space in Esbjerg Airport is shared by the
three employees: Kurt Skov, Bjørn Siig and Jørn Bøllund.
Kurt Skov (first from the right) and Jørn Bøllund (second from the left) in front of Esbjerg Airport with Blue Water's first two employees.
The first Blue Water office.