Harbour officer Jeppe Jensen has only had his position for three months, but he already has a good feel for the pulse of Klintholm Harbor on Møn. For him, it was in many ways like coming home when he got the job. He was previously a crane operator and harbor assistant in Vordingborg harbor before returning to the maritime world.
- It drew me back to the blue and the maritime, says Jeppe Jensen, who lives on Møn in the town of Lindemark, only about 17 km away. The harbor master knew the port very well before he took office, and the locals knew him too, it turned out.
- When I started here, someone came up and said: 'Well, you finally came to work,' he says with a smile about the port, where everyone talks to each other.
From fish to wind
The port has gone through a conversion from fishing to being a service port for both Denmark's largest offshore wind farm, Kriegers Flak, and the German park, Baltic 2.
- Klintholm Harbor used to be a relatively large fishing port, but it is no longer. The fishing here is no longer 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 port is no longer a fishing port. But it has gotten better now.
He also has an explanation for why the relationship has improved:
- This is because both Vattenfall and EnBW engage locally. For example, they participate when there are clean-up days and waste collection here at the harbour, it says.
The cooperation with the wind industry is also going extremely well.
- We have a very good and open dialogue with Vattenfall and EnBW. And it is the wind industry that is the biggest player here now, explains the harbor master.
Open harbor and curious tourists
However, Klintholm Harbor is also a popular tourist destination that attracts 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 the south- and north-bound direction. They are Germans, Dutch, Swedes and Danes. Yesterday we just had an Englishman here, says Jeppe Jensen, and establishes one thing:
- It works well with wind and tourism, because we have both a tourist and a business port. Tourists find wind exciting. And we have an open harbor so people can come over and see what's going on.
Some tourists even keep up to date with the wind activities.
- It is almost a regular service, and there are some who keep a close eye on when the boats come home, he says about the CTVs, which sail out in the morning and come home from service work in the evening.
If another wind farm were to come, and the possibility of becoming a service port for another park, then it is not at all impossible.
- We are always interested in bringing in more work 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 all, Jeppe Jensen promises.
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