The dockworkers' club, the Landing Club of 1944 at the Port of Esbjerg, has a very good collaboration with the companies at the Port of Esbjerg. This was also evident at the club's 80th anniversary, where Blue Water's founder, 77-year-old Kurt Skov, was a highly praised guest.
- My entire working life has been here at the Port of Esbjerg, and I have had a lot to do with the dockworkers, says Kurt Skov, elaborating on his business:
- We are big here at the port, and we handle the majority of the wind turbines that are shipped out. And we also work with oil and gas. We have our own people, and we also use the dockworkers.
Joint ownership
The relationship with the dockworkers has also meant joint ownership of a company.
- At some point I think a little renewal was needed. So I suggested to the dock workers that we form a joint company. We ended up forming Blue Water Stevedore, where we loaded food products such as feta to Iran, says Kurt Skov, who shows a photo of the loading of the feta, which is hoisted onto a ship on a pallet in cardboard boxes.
But when the company later did not go well anymore, Kurt Skov was also ready to help the dock workers.
- I took over the debt in exchange for getting the dock workers' assets for a case of beer and one krone. So the good relationship continued, says Kurt Skov, leaving no doubt about the good relationship.
The multiterminal
He also remembers another venture.
- The last big thing I did was build the multiterminal. There I took DFDS to task and said: Close your terminal, because I guarantee that things will go better with the multi-terminal, Kurt Skov says about something that turned out to be true.
Kurt Skov also remembers how he came to negotiate with Lenin in the background.
- I negotiated with the then SID chairman Svend Erik Christensen, and he had a statue of Lenin standing, because he was a communist. Svend Erik is still here today, says Kurt Skov and shows a photo of Svend Erik Christensen with a larger statue of Lenin in the background.
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