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KEY FIGURES MIO. DKK 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 1373 1338 1420 1669 1627 TURN-OVER 1332 1265 1765 2438 2298 For Semco Maritime the future looks green and black. fossil fuels for another number of years as nobody can succeed in producing the suffcient amount of “green” energy required. It is a paradox that the drop in oil prices WE EXPECT TO BE HIT reduces the proftability of the “green” energies, but whatever happens, to us the future is green as well as BY THE DROPPING black,” concludes Steen Brødbæk who – just like every- PRICE OF OIL, BUT ON body else – is closely following the development. “In many ways this is a new situation in the market THE OTHER HAND as the drop has not been caused by for instance a war in the Middle East, and most people had expected the price THERE ARE SOME of oil to increase due to an increasing demand. But some MAJOR PROJECTS parameters were taken into account – the Americans suddenly produce considerably more oil and gas, and REQUIRING AN UN- the global consumption dropped, but our branch has ad- justed to such a situation before, and it is something we CHANGED LEVEL OF shall be able to live with for the next couple of years,” MAINTENANCE explains Steen Brødbæk who is still holding on to the North Sea and First Choice 2015 – even if the world now and then has a tendency of changing a bit. ■ 22 / SEMCO MARITIME HOLDING ON TO THE NORTH SEA