Click and watch us party.

In June we celebrated our 12,5 anniversary. Another milestone. Personnel and agents were treated to an afternoon party, including a bbq, inspirational talk, agents of the year-award and our house band.
As always it was very well organized. Organizing a party is definitely something AEGIR does very well too.

AEGIRs beach team is doing very well.
June 9th they won (nr.1) at the Grand Slam tournament in Amsterdam.
Last weekend they obtained the A-status NOC/NCF during a great match at the World Tour Beach Grand Slam. They came in 4th.

Click here for a report.

Next to talking and talking, presentations and networking there has to be time to relax too.
The gathered agents, area sales managers and the board toast to a successful seminar.

Almost there. Our two-day agent seminar is about to begin. It has become a annual event event. Agents from all over will come to Wijk bij Duurstede-Holland. Exchanging news, sharing experience, agent-of-the-year election, bonding and getting to know each other.
The first agents are about to arrive and we are -almost- ready to give them a warm welcome.

Starting June 2013 AEGIR sponsors Jantine van der Vlist & Marloes Wesselink. The two girls form a Dutch beach team aiming for a qualification for the Olympics 2016. Of course they go for gold. Just as we are. That's why we gladly support these fanatic power girls. Go Girls!

More about Jantine & Marloes

Most people wouldn't describe these blade carriers as being good looking. We however do! Mostly, because we've produced them ourselves in anticipation of a complete cpp-overhaul. We used reversed engineering to obtain the required drawings.
Later this year we'll remove the worn out parts and replace them. The job will be -for the bigger part- carried out in the AMPS-workshop in Holland.

Bari-ship started off very well yesterday and this was continued today.
In our AEGIR-stand we've already met with a lot of new and with well known customers.

We do hope to welcome you during this fair!

Heb je interesse of wil je meer informatie? Bel of mail met Rob de Wit: 0343-432509 of  r.dewit@aegirmarine.com

Onze historische roeisloep Ràn ligt in de haven van Wijk bij Duurstede. Hij was al vaker te zien op deze plek. De oude reddingssloep is eigendom van AMPS/AEGIR. We hebben haar volledig gerestaureerd en varen haar met 10-12 roeiers en 1 stuurman.
Ons uiteindelijke doel is mee roeien in de wedstrijd Harlingen–Terschelling. Maar daarvoor is ons roeiteam te klein. We zoeken dus enthousiaste teamleden.

Moet je heel groot en sterk zijn om te roeien? Nee.
Man of vrouw maakt dat uit? Nee.
Leeftijd? Niet echt, maar er is vast een boven- en ondergrens.
Het huidige team bestaat uit mannen en vrouwen tussen de 18 en 60 jaar. Belangrijkste eigenschap is doorzettingsvermogen.
We trainen 2x per week getraind (maandag/donderdag 17.00–18.30 uur) vanuit de Wijkse haven.

In our yellow-blue overalls, our engineers travel the world.
This is where they have been spotted in April.
Week 14: Dubai, Bahrein and on 12 jobs in the Netherlands
Week 15: Tuzla-Turkey, Walvisbay-Namibia, twice in Freeport-Bahamas, Cartagena-Colombia, twice Lisbon-Portugal, Algeciras & Cadiz-Spain and on 4 jobs in the Netherlands.
Week 16: Dubai, Cartagena-Colombia, 2x Freeport-Bahamas, Walvisbay-Namibia, Lisbon-Portugal, Westerbroek, Pernis, Delfzijl-The Netherlands, Spain and 2x Tuzla-Turkey..
Week 17: Antwerpen-Belgium, Walvisbay-Namibia, Baku-Azerbeidzjan, Lisbon-Portugal, 2x The Netherlands, 2x Tuzla-Turkey
Week 18: Cuxhaven-Germany, Walvisbay-Namibia, 2x Tuzla-Turkey, Cadiz-Spain, Harlingen-the Netherlands, Klaipeda-Litouwen, Riga-Estland, Marseille-France, Bremerhaven-Germany. And of course in Singapore and China, working from our offices there.
Where May will bring us? We'll let you know.

These are G. da Silva Martinus and J.A. Ramos Texeira. Not Dutch guys as you might have guesed. They came all the way from Brazil to be our guests for 2 weeks. The purpose of their visit was an inhouse training at AEGIR.
The result, 2 proud new AEGIR engineers. They will be stationed in Rio de Janeiro where they are employed by our agent MPS. When working on a job for AEGIR, you can recognize them by our famous blue/yellow overalls.

This picture was taken just before they were given their AEGIR-engineer certiicate.
We wish them well!

As of May 1st, AEGIR-Marine Americas LLC has expanded its service network into Brazil. Our Brazilian agent, Marine & Power Service (MPS), will send two of their engineers to the Netherlands for training.
Any stern seal service in Brazil can be ordered from AEGIR-Marine Americas LLC. The MPS engineers will attend you at such occasion. However, they will look and act as AEGIR engineers, wearing AEGIR work gear.  
 
Our aim is to be close to our customers and to support them wherever whenever. This is another step in the expansion of our global service network. We're on our way setting a new standard in service.

Last weekend a WISTA-delegation visited AEGIR in Wijk-bij-Duurstede. AEGIR member Els Menger invited them. WISTA stands for Women's International Shipping & Trading Association (www.wista.net). All their members are managers within the maritime industry. Among our visitors were members from India, Germany and Sweden.
The weather allowed us a drink on the roof terrace. Always a nice extra!
Also part of the visit was the launch of the MV Alice.

In January 2012 we founded AEGIR-Marine Americas. A challenging adventure in an -for AEGIR- new market. How good it is to now see that our efforts pay off. Last April we've had the best sales result since the start.
To be well ahead of budget gives us the confidence that we are on the right track. Especially since almost all of the orders came from US customers. Thanks to the excellent support from our US agent.

We'll keep on going as we are confident that our agents in the Americas will help us to grow furthermore.
I would like to thank all involved in reaching this milestone. For all of you I hoist this very special AEGIR-Americas flag.

Ruud Muis - General Manager AEGIR-Marine Americas

Note the subtle adjustments ;)

From 23-25 may, the exhibition Bari-ship 2013 will take place in Japan. AEGIR is also present and we hope we'll meet our Asian customers over there for a personal talk.

AMPS gets a nice job from a French ship owner. We will cast two CCP blades for a ferry. We're looking forward to executing this job and we'll make some pretty pictures for you. 

Within a month after finishing the The World-job our team packed their bags again for yet another job in Cádiz-Spain. And again we'll be working on a cruiseship. This time it concerns maintenance on the stabilizers and full overhaul of the bow thrusters. Although working in Cádiz is never a punishment and work is not about nice weather, we do hope the weather will be better next time. During the last trip it rained cats and dogs all the time.

Day 1

After UPE inspection showed damaged and bended blades AMPS designed a repair plan that would enable the Baltic Star to continue sailing without docking.
The vessel was trimmed to bring the blades above water to allow dry cropping.

Day 2

Everything was put in place to start the work. All 4 blades were inspected once more and measurements were put on the most damaged blade as a mark for all the blades.All cropped pieces were inspected and measured once more.
The blades were rounded and smoothened with a finishing layer by polishing.
A last Dye test was performed to check the surface for cracks in the new blade edge. The result was positive.

Late afternoon the repair team disembarked. The job had been done.

A beautiful day to start an challenging job on an interesting ship.

Location: PT. ASL Shipyard Batam (Indonesia)
Job: aft seal bonding

He might look somewhat wild, but don't judge a person by his looks. This is a Chief Engineer. A very friendly CE even.
Not only did he offer help, he also provided all of the workers with drinks and friendly words.

It was very pleasant working together!

As to be expected, we are present in Istanbul. From March 20 to 23, you can find us at Europort Istanbul 2013.
Together with our agent Seaparts Ltd we love to welcome you.

From left to right:
Pinar Onguc, Aykut Aydemir, Gerben Donselaar (area sales manager AEGIR-Marine) and Niyazi Aydemir.

Ran was being hooked on to the measuring boat with a towing line and lots of measuring equipment. Provided with twelve people we were being towed and measured. A second time followed with only 10 people (just in case).
Afterwards length, height, width and weight were being measured.
All of this together defines the handicap.

We had to drive a long way, wait till dark, but for the coming 5 years our handicap is a fact.

Read here our new AEGIR newsletter.
With a.o. our exhibition calendar, an article about quality control and much more.

This week AMPS flew to Cadiz for a meeting around cruise vessel the World.
The World is not just any cruise ship. It cruises around the world with residents, not passengers. Each appartement has been bought.

AMPS will do maintenance on the seals, bow thrusters and CPP. A great job that will start by the end of March.

This photo shows how and where you can often find an AMPS or AEGIR engineer.
The shaft of this vessel had been pulled out for the renewal of the aft liner. During the remounting of the shaft the coupling needs to be pressed on again. That's what we are doing here. In this small room below the shaft generator.
It's small, narrow and dirty, but it's our favourite place to be. ;)

AMPS is an expert on propulsion systems. We know about propellers and (bow) thrusters.

Many diving company claim they can do all under water propulsion repair. Only few actually can. The propulsion system demands great care. Cropping a damaged blade often leads to destroying the hydrodynamic design. It's a (too) short term solution.
Combining the two specialisms obviously made sense. So we soon agreed on a partnership.
As of today, if you might run into an underwater propulsion problem, we're here.


*AMPS: AEGIR-Marine Propulsion Service
 *UPE: Underwater Proplusion Engineers

About Jan Swiers: over a year ago he said goodbye to the working life. He was offered an early retirement.
However after a year all the house-renovating jobs had been done and Jan started to get bored. Between sailing his Waarschip, reading and walking the dog, he ran into the AMPS job-ad. Why not?, he thought.
He came, had his interview and not before long got himself a new job.

Jan is a marine engineer, worked long for Polaroid and Slender and is very happy to work in the maritime industry once more.

Note the orange cable, a personal charger will be installed very soon.

Propulsion Service makes sure they get dirty hands and puts them on a bow thruster-cleaning job.
AEGIR has them accompany Anton, one of our sales managers. What does a sales person do? What is a sales presentation?

The traineeship has to provide the students with insights on what kind of jobs there are and what these job  involve.

It's our pleasure to have them.









Gyleen de With
Sander IJpelaar
Rutger von Ilsemann

Of course you want everything to go smoothly, and of course things tend to turn out different.
But over all we are satisfied and so is the customer.
We, at AMPS, are looking forward to the next project!

After some adjustments we managed to do so and it worked out just fine. A little flexibility was all it took.

*UPE stands for Underwater Propulsion Engineers.

Inhouse Repair will deal with the thrusters. They will be dismantled and inspected. A full report will be made, including a repair proposal.

The next phase will be rebuilding the thrusters and making them ready for their next assignment. Spring 2013 they will be installed on a sister cruiseship during her next drydocking.

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Ruud Muis overheard two service slogans.
Slogans he totally endorses.
Here they are adapted to AEGIR.

It was a nice job, but now it's ready. Completely overhauled and repaired the propeller looks great again. Neatly packed it's being transported back to the ship.

Just like each year AEGIR will publish a calendar in 2013 too, but this edition will be different. The 2013 edition has been dedicated to craftsmanship. Maritime craftsmanship. We had beautiful photos taken that have to do with the maintenance of ships. Be prepared!

For those who missed the October issue of Marine Matters with an article on AEGIR, here's a link.
http://conta.cc/R3koJJ  

A new exhibition for AEGIR-Marine and an introduction to Ukraine and Odessa - a modern, dynamic and busy city.
Getting there wasn't easy: a 2-days-delay, forced stay in Warschau due to heavy fog and a lot of reshuffled meetings.

However the exhibition was super! Smaller than SMM, but very nice! We met many customers, talked with a Ukrainian goverment delegation and welcomed the Dutch embassy.
Their press officer interviewed us and was suprised by AEGIR's achievement in this region in such a short time.
Through our new agent we got acquainted to many potential customers and attented a meeting with the Friends of Ukraine.
All in all: the Odessa Exhibition was very nice and successful. A pleasant introduction to both Ukraine and our new agent.

 Anton Pramatarov, area sales manager

Yesterday the first of 2 propeller shafts arrived for maintenance at the AMPS workshop.
It's quite a 'thingy': 14 meters long, 19 tons - without the blades! 

AMPS will revise this propeller shaft: we will remove weared metal on a laith, the hub will get an overhaul and the blades will be polished. We will also executed some minor blade repairs. The second shaft will arrive next week.

In May AEGIR-Marine Netherlands and AMPS already received their ISO certification. For Singapore and Shanghai, there were still some outstanding issues. These have been resolved and now all AEGIR offices are officially ISO certified!

Last month we saw how this large 5-blade-propeller (5.3m) was transported from Turkey. Once in the AMPS workshop we saw the damage done from close by: 3 cropped blades and 5 bended. Not a minor repair and 3 disciplines are required: hydro-dynamics, casting specialists and propeller repair experts.

We started by hot-straightening the bended blades. We made a mold from the best blade in order to cast new tops for the cropped blades. It goes without saying that all of this work is done by certified experts and under class.
All in all it’s a beautiful piece of work in which all of AMPS’ knowledge and expertise comes together. But above all it’s pure craftmanship. Not something just anyone can do.

Since AEGIR is a service supplier by choice and wants to excel in being one, it’s only logical that we want to hear what our customers think about us. We therefore asked People Graphics to carry out a customer survey.
The result is in and we’re very happy to learn that our customers value AEGIR with a 8,5 (out of 10). On top of that 77% recommends AEGIR to his business contacts.

Of course we’re not perfect. Dealing with complaints is an area for improvement for AEGIR. Of course we take this very seriously and have already taken steps to improve ourselves. Rest assured that next time we’ll score well in this area too.

This bow thruster was transported to Wijk bij Duurstede a little while ago. Earlier we carried out an inspection on this bow thruster, because there were some unclear issues. Opening up the inspection cover we found small metal parts. That ruled out a simple repair. Especially since we ran out of dock time.

So the bow thruster was demounted and brought to AMPS in Holland for a complete overhaul.
In the meantime the ship has to sail without.

Our main criteria are:
turnover, commitment and enthusiasm.

After careful deliberation we elected
Pavel Ivanov
as AEGIR-Marine agent 2012.
Pavel Ivanov is AEGIR's agent in Russia.

Second and third became:
Krystof Kaminski (Poland)
Dave Newell (UK) en Apostolos Athanassiou  (Greece)
 
Again we want to thank all our agents for their ongoing commitment and enthousiasm.

A special company is a special company. And it's common sense to pay attention to companies like that. Especially in these 'rougher' times it's important to put the spotlight on a success story once in a while. Therefore an interview in a local newspaper with Ruud Muis about AEGIR-Marine: "We don't sell products, we sell service."

Click here for the interview

It started with a request for repair on a Nakashima propeller; 5.3 m diameter wide 5 blades. 1 blade bent and 3 broken blades to be topped. 

We made a quotation based on the customer's information and flew to Turkey for inspection. The repair appeared somewhat different.

A new quote, some negotiations and the job was a fact. Last week the propeller arrived at our AMPS workshop. Always a great sight.

We shook hands with new customers, got re-acquinted with old customers and shared good stories or a beer with all our customers. And we did business - of course.

We would like to thank everybody that visited our stand and made our SMM 2012 a great event. 

What he likes about AEGIR is: the short lines of communication, the team and being part of building a top company.
We are very happy that he will be part of our team starting right now.

Of course AEGIR-Marine and our sister Propulsion Service will be present at the SMM 2012. Our stand will be renewed, but familiar. We'll keep you informed!

before                                                                                                                                  after

This bow thruster was delivered as a crate full of loose parts. We picked up each piece, cleaned it and if necessary repaired or replaced it. Finally the bow thruster was utterly clean, 100% functioning and neatly wrapped shipped back to its owner for installment.

Just the other day I received a phone call from a superintendent. He was in South Africa attending a ship and he called me for one reason only. He wanted to share his appreciation for our AMPS-engineer Grant Mather. He was very happy with the way service was being handled and executed in Cape Town. He literally said: it is an absolute pleasure to work with AEGIR / AMPS. The skills, attitude and performance of both company and staff are ‘exceeding my expectations’.

I said: Thanks! We'll keep up the good work to make our customers happy!                                    Ruud Muis, director

AMPS& AEGIR have joined forces and together we have formed a rowing team. Hence on we will train and train and train until we are ready to compete.
To eternal fame and beyond!

We look back at a good ánd pleasant fair. The facilities were good. The temperature high, but the atmosphere was just fine. We welcomed a lot of visitors. Had some real good talks and enjoyed all the good things Greece has to offer.

Gerben, Els, Ruud and Apostolos want to thank everybody that visited our stand.

A small impression
of day and evening...

Did AEGIR already renew their ISO-certification in April, now AMPS (AEGIR-Marine Propulsion Service) and AEGIR-Marine Production BV are ISO certificated as well. Although both companies are part of the AEGIR group, they are also independent. They therefore had to obtain the certification on their own.
It was a lot of work, but now that it's done and the ISO-certification has been granted, we are more than satisfied.

Last week we have been audited by ABS (American Bureau of Shipping). This audit took place because of the Manufacturing Assesment Certificate for our AEGIR-Marine PRIME seals. We're proud of this certificate and happy that the surveyor confirmed our status again.
 

Type approval

We also got the Design Assesment Certificate (valid for 5 years). This is the so-called type approval for ABS. The most important detail of this certificate is that we don't need to invite a surveyor for every single retrofit.

Recently we visited we a ferry operator in Slovenia. They told us how they had been waiting for 4 weeks already for a reply / offer from an OEM.
That is right up our street. In a fantastic 'one-two' with the office we delivered a suitable offer 15 minutes later. Half of that time we needed to send all drawings! :)
The day after we received the order!

A job in Miami. AEGIR's service engineer saw that the AFT liner was grooved. The only solution was to place a spacer. Obviously he did't have one on him, but there was still time. AEGIR -of course- had one in stock and put immediately a courier -with a spacer in his backpack- on the plane.
Once in Miami the spacer did not fit! A little research revealed that the original used to be a MANEBAR that had been converted to MK2. They just 'forgot' to credit this in the drawings. ?Fortunately our mechanics don't give up that easily. He called a local workshop and had the spigot removed and the drilling holes drilled into slots.
The result: it fitted just perfectly. The spacer was placed and the ship left the port without downtime.

                                                                                  Miami Docks

A close collaboration between our Greek agent, our Area Sales Manager and Ruud Muis led to an order for 8 vessels.
We will deliver spares (PRIME SEAL
750 AFT& FWD seals) and service for all vessels. Dockings are scheduled for
2012 & 2013.

This one comes from a Russian customer. Russia is a difficult market, so becoming a 'preffered supplier' means something! According to the customer it was due to excellent quality combined to advanced service. The work starts in April.

Another special order came for a Dutch owned vessel. We were asked for a retrofit to our PRIME SEAL secure stern seal, size 600.
We will deliver and install the seal, including a Kamewa-type liner, before the end of April.

A couple of mysterious crates arrived in Wijk bij Duurstede. 'What do we have here?', the warehouse guys wondered.
When opening they found some bow thrusters for AMPS. They had already been dismantled completely!
We don't see that often!

AMPS Controls is a new development within AEGIR-Marine Propulsion Service (AMPS) and did a great job in Mexico. An AMPS engineer performed an overhaul on a CPP, he checked all wear parts, did measurements and replaced seals (afloat).

At jobs like this it's hard to leave the controls out. And so when the seals were replaced, de shaft and propeller back in place it was time for controls. Our Controls engineer flew to Mexico and did all the necessary maintenance and adjustments.
Of course all this was done within time scheduled and by now the ship sails again as before. Or better ;)
 

Late Tuesday evening…a dealer from Poland calls the AEGIR office.
He desperately needs seals for a vessel, docking in Las Palmas. For some reason the seals on board of the vessel are not the correct ones (not ours).

Of course ;) AEGIR has the wanted seals in stock. Early Wednesday morning the dealer receives our offer. He confirms the order and within the hour the correct seals are packed and on their way.
They arrive early Thursday morning. In time to be installed.

Not long ago one of AEGIR’s engineers was working on board of a German vessel. The superintendent told him that the FWD seal had never been renewed. Not since new built, 12 years ago. An OEM-engineer once took a look, but turned around halfway down the stairs saying: “It’s absolutely impossible to ever replace the FWD seal. There’s no room.” That being said he left.
 
AEGIR’s engineer Ronald thought ‘nothing is impossible’ and had a hole sawn in the steel plate above the seal. Head down he lowered himself next to the seal. He couldn’t see a thing and had to do it all by touch.
Everything went will, till he came upon a small pipe. It had to be loosened, but there was only room for one hand. It didn’t took long before they found a solution: they asked a tiny Phillipine crew member to help. That worked! The pipe was loosened and a little later a new FWD seal was installed.
The superintendent was more than satisfied and AEGIR happy with a job well done.

During a visit in Finland, a superintendent mentioned the problems he had time after time with fishing nets in the propeller. I was surprised to hear that no net prevention system had been installed. The customer already decided for PRIME SEAL products and so I offered him our APS (AEGIR Protection System). A simple, but highly effective product that prevents nets to enter the seals. It is compatible with all existing systems and can be relatively easily mounted.
The superintendent was immediately convinced and so at the next docking, his vessels will be equipped with APS PRIME SEAL.
Sometimes it's really a piece of cake to make someone happy!

Marcel van der Hoff - Area Sales Manager

 Marcel v/d Hoff- Area Sales Manager

Last week I (area sales manager AEGIR) was in Åland, an island between Sweden & Finland. There's a lot of shipping going on there.
I just got there when panic broke. A vessel ran aground and bottom damage was suspected. They decided to dock a.s.a.p. Since class renewal was only a couple of months away and sterntube seals needed to be replaced they decided to take the class renewal forward in combination with the bottom inspection in dry dock.
Within a single hour AEGIR supplied them an quotation with all relevant parts. Since AEGIR keeps record of every vessel, the owner didn't have to go through his books. We confirmed the order the next day and the seals were delivered from stock on time for docking. That's how AEGIR likes to do business.

It has been 18 months since I visited Shanghai. Being back to support our Asian colleagues at the Marintec '11, I'm struck by the speed of China's development. It is impressive. And the same goes for the fair. Marintec China is big in terms similar to SMM. The entire maritime industry is represented here.

Today's mission

That's what I search for during this visit. It soons become clear, in these economically challenging times price is even more important than it was. As a European manufacturer AEGIR had already incorporated that message. But more important: being cheaper is not enough. To survive within this international battle, you need
- a competitive price
- guaranteed top quality
- and the highest service level possible.

If you offer these things Made in Europe & Serviced in Asia can be propagated as a quality statement.

 Ruud Muis

One of our customers orders a SC2 seal for emergency repairs to one of its cruise vessel. The order comes in and is processed. The PRIMESEAL seals are sent and the invoice is made. As part of training a salesperson checks everything again and takes a look at the latest service report. It turns out that there is no need for a SC2, but a SC1. Our sales office suspects that an error has occured and as a precaution they order the correct seals.

Hand carried to Cyprus

Our area sales manager decides to fly to Cyprus. Just in case, and an extra visit can not hurt. Before the repair has begun the new seals in place and are indeed the right ones.

So no, service can not go too far. Not as far as AEGIR is concerned.

Since January 2011 AEGIR has been active in Turkey. Up until then, AEGIR engineers visited Turkey regularly on service jobs, but never for Turkish shipowners or shipyards.

Our sales manager has just returned from his 4th trip. This time he also visited Izmir in the southwest. So far he is excited about Turkey.
"It's an interesting country with great potential," he says. "And our agent in Istanbul is a success too. In addition, many Turkish ship owners / managers now use Primeseal spares and the service is growing well. This absolutely works."

Yesterday, AEGIR-Marine Asia received the order for spares and service for the world largest bulk carrier.
This vessel is not just any vessel. It's huge!
Dimensions: length 343 meters, beam 63,5 meter, draft 23 meters, dwt 364.767 dwt!

After our succesful project with the world largest container vessels, this is another proof that AEGIR is recognized by major ship owners as a reliable quality supplier, able to service any size and type of vessel in the world.
It makes us proud that AEGIR is more and more a preferred supplier and partner for ship owners and managers around the globe.

Service & Quality

On the way (this time in the States) I always check how others do things. Especially their approach of service and quality have my interest. This time I ran into this slogan that I immediately recognized it as one that suits AEGIR-Marine and our vision on service:

Very true, I would say. A little later I found this one:

Definitely true too. Whether a product or a service, the only thing that really counts is the customer's experience. And so the customer -and his needs- should always be centered.                                                                                                  Ruud Muis

Cyprus - Wijk bij Duurstede (the Netherlands)
08.30 Customer from Cyprus sends an email request.
10.00 Quotation at the customer's desk
12.00 Oral order confirmation
12.30 The -by chance present- area sales manager pays a visit to customer and arranges the final details.
16.00 Spares are packed and on their way to the airport.
21.00 The spares are being transported hand-carried by aircraft.

As of 15 september Gerben Donselaar (area sales manager AEGIR-Marine) takes over responsibilty for Cyprus. Together with Hans Dekker and our local  agent he visited the island.
His first impression:

Very nice temperature (35 gr.) which results in no appointments between 12 o'clock and 3, but time for lunch and beautiful views.

Our program was full, many appointments, quotations and even direct assignments.

In short: a great week. Cyprus seems a great opportunity for a sales manager. Certainly one of AEGIR-Marine.

PS. Striking detail: many expats in Cyprus (mainly Dutch, Germans and Russians). You could do worse!

A very rewarding visit

It's always special to be in St. Petersburg, in Russia. If it's about the maritime industry, there's a lot going on in Russia. And that's exactly what NEVA 2011 shows us. The fair is busy and going here definitely was the right thing to do for AEGIR.

Of course we attended the reception at the Dutch consulate. It resulted in some very interesting contacts. We'll certainly get back to that later.

Ruud Muis has just returned from his trip to Walvis Bay. He has visited the workshop, the harbour and made this short impression of the harbour, the office and the workshop of AEGIR-AMP.
They just finished polishing a propeller.

Our principal was very pleased with our company and would like to thank our Asian  

Aegir's vlag has already been waving next to the Dutch flag for some time now. Today AMPS'(AEGIR-Marine Propulsion Service) flag joined them. It had to get used to it, but once the wind took hold of it, it waved sisterly alongside.