INDUSTRY NEWS
RESPECTED INDUSTRY LEADER LEAVES HIS MARK ON A2SEA AFTER 12 YEARS
During this summer Kaj Lindvig, Senior Advisor celebrated his 60 years birthday and at the end of August said goodbye to A2SEA as an employee, however will continue the relationship as a consultant.
RECEPTION
A reception was held for Kaj in late August 2013 at A2SEA, Kongens Kvarter 51 in Fredericia.
In 2001 Kaj took the plunge to join the newly established company. The company wanted to rebuild two container-feeder vessels into offshore wind installation vessels and succeeded in getting an order for installing the first 80 offshore wind turbines in the world in 2002 – at Horns Rev outside Esbjerg.
DEVELOPMENT
Since then the company has developed rapidly. Kaj was CEO until 2008 where the management group was extended and he continued as Chief Sales officer responsible for sales, service and business development.
DONG ENERGY/SIEMENS WIND POWER
A2SEA, who in 2009 and 2010 was acquired by DONG Energy (51%) and Siemens Wind Power (49%), is today a company with more than 500 employees and a turnover of more than 1.2 bn DKK.
OFFSHORE WIND INDUSTRY INVOLVEMENT
Concurrently with his work at A2SEA, Kaj has tried to influence the development of the Offshore Wind Industry, and in the period from 2005 to 2013 he was a member of the board of directors of the Danish Wind Industry Association.
He was also a board member of Offshore Center Danmark from 2009 to 2013. Through these organisations he has had the possibility, with his visionary points of view, to influence the development; and from 2002, he has also been a popular speaker at Danish as well as international conferences and exhibitions within the industry.
BACKGROUND
Originally educated Bachelor of Commerce from the Business College in Aarhus, Kaj has held several different management positions in South Danish companies, before, in 1995, accepted a position as Division Director of Semco Energi in Esbjerg and was also responsible for the merger of Semco Energi and Semco Marine to Semco Maritime in 1998.
LINDVIG CONSULTING
Kaj has decided to move on from his position with A2SEA and will, through his new-established company, Lindvig Consulting, concentrate his future work on being a board member in various Danish companies, primarily within the offshore
TIA ELIZABETH GOES STRAIGHT TO WORK ON ARRIVAL IN THE UK
The crew of Tidal Transit’s third personnel transfer vessel, the Tia Elizabeth, flew out to the shipyard in Cartagena in Spain in late August to sail her up from the Mediterranean – she left Cartagena for the port of Grimsby on 22 August 2013.
IMMEDIATE CONTRACT
Tia Elizabeth has immediately gone to work on a short contract for RES Offshore, working on the maintenance of the Hornsea met mast.
EXISTING VESSELS
She joins Tidal Transit’s two existing personnel transfer vessels, Ginny Louise and Eden rose; they are currently in service with Scira Offshore Energy on the Sheringham Shoal
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Each vessel provides four crew members and twelve passengers with comfortable beds, bathrooms, galley, internet access and entertainment facilities, allowing wind farm
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offshore wind Farm. These two vessels have been in constant use by the offshore wind industry since their arrival in 2011 and 2012 respectively, and have achieved 100% safety rate on their first 10,000 transfers.
VESSEL SPECIFICATIONS
The specification of these vessels greatly exceeds the current fleet being used for the same purpose in the UK. The vessels MCA Cat 1 coding and 10,000 litre fuel tanks allow them to work up to 150 miles offshore, well within the range of the UK’s forthcoming Round 3 offshore wind farms.
wind sector as well as on consultancy work for the same sector’s various suppliers.
At the moment Kaj is a non-executive board member of companies such as Steel Team in Hammelev, SubC Partner in Esbjerg and K2Management in Århus and will also continue as a consultant for A2SEA.
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engineers and support technicians to live and work offshore for up to several days at a time.
WIND INDUSTRY OPPORTUNITY Leo Hambro, Co-Director of Tidal Transit says: “Tidal Transit is a growing young company, based in North Norfolk. We took advantage of the challenge offered by renewable energy, in particular the construction and maintenance of offshore wind farms along the east coast, and made a big investment in this industry sector. The arrival of each of our vessels has created employment for suitably qualified local crews; Tia Elizabeth has already offered the same opportunities.”
Tidal Transit Limited
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