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VIKING STEADY ON COURSE The global strategy of Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S has shown effective. Flexible solutions for hard times are among the offers. The walls along the corridor leading to the Management of Viking Life-saving Equipment clearly document the proud story of the company. Here is proof of how many times its products have contributed to saving human lives, and even if the latest couple of years are not up- dated as meticulously as before, it still bears witness to a company steady on course. That is refected, too, in the annual reports stating Viking as a company for a decade having shown only positive fgures on the bottom line. From production facilities in Bulgaria, Thailand, Norway and Denmark life saving equipment is shipped all over the world – from the very start being an integrated part of the company’s business strategy. “Our foundation is based on a global strategy, and we got out of bed early. Our strategy has been fueled by the cruise, transport and offshore industries mainly, as we are primarily addressing the professional maritime Henrik Uhd Christensen is holding Viking steady on its global strategy. segment for our rescue equipment,” explains CEO, Hen- rik Uhd Christensen believing that the future will call for an even wider spread segments. explore areas of harsh climatic conditions, and in the “To an increasing degree it will be necessary to future, too, there will be a requirement for exploiting the resources from such regions – unless one believes in getting suffcient energy from other sources than oil. As operations from offshore platforms take place high above the surface of the water free fall life boats are challenged by height as well as ice, so a new concept THE OFFSHORE IN- for such boats will have to be considered,” states Henrik Christensen foreseeing increasing demands for just the DUSTRY HAS ALWAYS type of rescue equipment produced by Viking. “Different types of production methods call for dif- BEEN FAR AHEAD OF ferent requirements to the rescue equipment, and long OTHER INDUSTRIES distances will play a signifcant part in transport to and from the site. You will need, for instance, some special WHEN IT COMES TO procedures if you are not planning on using a helicopter, and our equipment must be able to keep a patient SAFETY AND warm, while at the same time protect him against the TRAINING heat from a fre. Such conficting requirements call for a fexible combination of the standard systems we pro- vide,” explains Henrik Christensen. ▲ 59 / VIKING STEADY ON COURSE