Harbourmaster Jeppe Jensen has only had his position for three months, but he already has a good feel for the pulse of Klintholm Port on Møn. For him, it was in many ways like coming home when he got the job. He has previously been a crane operator and harbour assistant in Vordingborg Harbour before returning to the maritime world.
- It drew me back to the blue and maritime, says Jeppe Jensen, who lives on Møn in the town of Lindemark, only about 17 km away. The harbormaster knew the harbor very well before he took office, and the locals knew him too, it turned out.
- When I started here, someone came over and said: 'Well, you finally came to work,' he says with a smile about the harbor, where everyone talks to each other.
From fish to wind
The harbor has gone through a transition from fishing to being a service harbor for both Denmark's largest offshore wind farm, Kriegers Flak, and the German park, Baltic 2.
- Klintholm Harbor has been a relatively large fishing harbor, but it is no longer so. Fishing is no longer here in that part of the Baltic Sea, says Jeppe Jensen about something the locals had to get used to:
- It has been a sore point with the wind area, because the harbor is no longer a fishing harbor. But things have gotten better now.
He also has an explanation for why the relationship has gotten better:
- It's because both Vattenfall and EnBW are involved locally. For example, they participate when there are clean-up days and waste collection here at the port, he says.
The collaboration with the wind industry is also going very well.
- We have a really good and open dialogue with Vattenfall and EnBW. And it's the wind industry that is the biggest player here now, explains the harbormaster.
Open port and curious tourists
Klintholm Port is also a popular tourist destination, attracting many yachtsmen every year.
- Tourism is also a big part of the port, and we have 10,000 guest sailors through here every year. We are a bit of a transit port in a south- and north-bound direction. They are Germans, Dutch, Swedes and Danes. Yesterday we had an Englishman here, says Jeppe Jensen, and makes one point:
- It works well with wind and tourism, because we have both a tourist and a commercial port. Tourists find wind exciting. And we have an open port, so people can come over and see what's going on.
Some tourists even keep up to date with the wind activities.
- It's almost a fixed schedule, and there are some who keep a close eye on when the boats come home, he says of the CTVs that sail out in the morning and come home from service work in the evening.
If there were to be another wind farm, and the possibility of becoming a service port for another farm, it's not at all impossible.
- We are always interested in getting more work in and developing the port. We can squeeze one more player into the current size, and we have all the conditions for wind with harbor depth and everything, promises Jeppe Jensen.
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