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ESVAGT STEADY ON THE COURSE The new owners at the helm of ESVAGT are ready to brave the waves and maintain the usual steady course of the shipping company. Safety and support to offshore wind power will take higher priority. It lurked on the horizon for a couple of years, but last strategy. We have the full support from our new owners year ESVAGT was sold. The original founding fathers to continue the way we have been running for years. We of the company, ESE Holding, and their later partner, were benchmarked against similar companies, but none A.P.Moller-Maersk, sold their shares to the equity funds, could be compared to us, so there was no reason for 3i and AMP. This, however, did not mean any radical drastic changes,” states Ib Hansen, Head of Commercial, changes as a well-managed ship needs no change of who is continuing working in the direction that ESVAGT course. had selected before the sale. That means equal staking at oil/gas and wind power. A strategy the dropping oil “It actually meant no change to our daily work. Our prices in no way has made less relevant. clients could feel no difference. Only some of them asked if it would change anything as, obviously, they wanted “It suits us well that we can go on working as before, to be sure that we would continue living up to our usual but I would like to say that wind power has not turned concept. We work with the same management, staff and less interesting now that the number of new oil/gas pro- 42 / WIND INCREASING ITS IMPORTANCE IN ESVAGT