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ISSUE NO. 14 | NOVEMBER 2011 CORPORATE INFORMATION OF THE F. LAEISZ GROUP

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50 YEARS ASHORERIVER CRUISINGPHOTO CONTEST 2011

INFORMATION ISTHE BASIS FOR TRUSTA large German bank uses the slogan “Trust is the beginning of everything” – there is a lot of truth in that. And one fundamental pillar of trust is infor-mation. In many cases where people feel frustrati-on, misinformation is the cause.

We all have to get used to faster changing markets, volatility will continue to rise. Resulting uncertain-ty is not good, nervousness is spreading. Obviously

this also applies to shipping markets and therefo-re we are happy that our chartering company has jointly with ICAP developed an App that allows our investors but also business friends, employees and other interested parties to follow the contai-ner market constantly, which goes very much in line with our open book policy. The device will be available from Dec’11 and can be downloaded from martini-chartering.com.

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EDITORIAL

BOOK REVIEWS

Publishedby OceanumVerlag, 2011

Uwe HansenDirk Poppinga

100 Jahre Viermastbark Passat: Leben und Lernen an Bord

N. H. Schües

Yours truly,

DEAR FRIENDS OF F. LAEISZ

More book reviews on page 8

Recently there have been specula-tions which shape the crisis would have. V-Shape, U-Shape or W. As it looks today, we are facing a pretty sharp γ. But we should bear in mind, that last Christmas nobody foresaw the upturn in spring. As history repeats itself, loadfactors are satisfactory and rates can not get much worse there is room for hope that linercompanies come to sences. Maybe in April 2012 we will be positively surprised again. We at Laeisz continue the same path as always: prepare for the bad and work for the better. One mat-ter where we do not compromise is quality in shipmanagement.

ISSUE NO. 14 | NOVEMBER 2011 | PAGE 2 CORPORATE INFORMATION OF THE F. LAEISZ GROUP

Early September his Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General, paid a visit to the Marine Training Centre in Kiribati. La-eisz recruits many of its’ ratings from that school, which is run by a group of German shipowners. Certainly the main purpose of the visit was to address the impact of the climate change to small Pacific Island Nations. But for the school and all being present meeting Ban Ki-moon has been a great honour and an unforgettable event.

H.E. Ban Ki-moon steering a ship home safely – on the simulator at least.Our future seaman proudly showingthe flag of the United Nations.

POLARSTERN REACHEDTHE NORTH POLE

Master Schwarze from ‘Polarstern’ wrote: 08/22/2011 08:09 AM GMT.

“Dear madams and sirs, dear colleagues,At 09:42 hrs for the 3rd time in its his-tory the ‘Polarstern’ arrived at the north pole. A happening that takes place in the head only, but the head is important. We are pleased.”

Tobias Grau, Grandson of the Passat’s Godmother Gertrud Grau with the mayor of Lübeck, Mr. Bernd Saxe, on Deck of Passat 21st Sept 2011.

On September 21st 1911 Ms Gertrud Grau christened the Blohm & Voss, Ham-burg built Flying P-Liner “Passat”. Ms Grau was greatgrandmother of Pia Grau, daughter of Franziska Grau, née Schües and shareholder in the Laeisz Group. Small world! We celebrated that event on “Passat” today lying in Lübeck.

UN SECRETARY – GENERAL VISITEDMARINE TRAINING CENTRE IN KIRIBATI

JUST A THOUGHT...100 YEARS PASSAT

All eyes on Greece it may be a good idea, to look at ancient times, when democracy was invented in Athens. In the high times 400 bc there was a word for those who valued their individual interest more than that of the démos (τοῦ δήμου, i.e. the people). They called them Idiotis (I guess no translation is needed for that one). Any justified calls for consolidation in the suffering German market should bear in mind, that the maritime sector consists of many employees. Keeping of those as many as possible is the name of the game.


WE THANK EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS YEAR‘S PHOTO CONTEST. ENTRIES SUBMITTED HAVE BEEN SELECTED ACCORDING THEIR CREATIVITY AND ORIGINALITY, AS WELL AS THEIR GENERAL APPEARANCE. OUR JURY, THE PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER MR. LUTZ HOF-MANN DECIDED ON THE THREE BEST PHOTOS:

1ST PRIZE “PAPER JAM“

Mr. Burkhard Lutzke, Chief Engineer on board „MSC Tanzania“ was awar-ded with the 1st prize for his photograph entitled „paper jam“. The photo is telling a clear cut story. It has all the right ingredients: work environ-ment; showing measures which are work related, is not a shot with a big smile into the camera. The jury thought that this was an original and crea-tive photo. Mr. Lutzke was presented with a Pair of Binoculars „Steiner Navigator 7 x 50“.

2ND PRIZE “SAFETY“

The second prize, a Montblanc Pen „Masterpiece Classic“, was awarded to our 1st Officer Mr. Henrik Stolze for his photograph called „safety“. This photo typified similar attributes as the shot of the winner and the jury (Mr. Hofmann) took some time to decide. Perhaps the missing welding sparks tipped the scale for the second best.

3RD PRIZE “DAILY OFFICE LIFE“

The third prize was handed over to Ms Denise Hoop. A second time winner with a brilliant snap shot titled „daily office life“. Ms Hoop can enjoy the coffee table book „Ships“ by Philip Plisson.

Once again a big thank you to all participantsand congratulations to the winners.

PHOTO CONTEST 2011 – PEOPLE AT WORK


CRUISING DOWN THE RIVER

“COSTAL GROUP“ OF MP’S MET INMECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN

River Cruising enjoys increasing popularity! Both, number of passengers and turnover, increased by around 10 % in 2010 according to numbers of the German travel association (DRV). Our group company ‘Hamburgische

The deputy chairman of the so called coastal circle of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU), Mr. Eckhardt Rehberg, MdB, visited Reederei F. Laeisz in Rostock jointly with other mem-bers of Parliament. Mr. Rehberg assured all present, - which included representatives of other shipowners such as Scandlines, TT-Li-nes and Aida Cruises as well Ver.di – that the federal government shall continue to ensure a competitive legal framework for the maritime cluster. Subjects discussed including subsi-dies, combating piracy and practicability of environmental standards.

Seehandlung’ has just completed place-ments of its River cruise vessels no. 5 and 6. We look forward to continue this series which is facing such more promising fate than oce-an freighters.

Ingbert Liebing, MdB, Nikolaus H. Schües (Reederei Laeisz), Rüdiger Kruse, MdB, Eckhardt Rehberg, MdB, Dr. Helmut Schmidt, Vorsitzender des Ausschusses für Wirtschaft und Tourismus–Bürgerschaft HRO, Gero Storjohann, MdB; Lorenz Caffier, Innenminister Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.


Annemarie Bartsch (right) with S. Santo (left, Hamburg Süd Reise-büro) und Katja Schröder (middle, Baltic Reisebüro) who will be the person in charge for the ‘Freighter Cruises’ from now on, since Ms Bartsch is on retirement. She was employee at F. Laeisz from 01.04.1969 until 30.09.2011.

On 20th of September our traditional meal at the Radisson Hotel in Rostock for the tribute to the anniversaries this year and the digni-fied adoption of the employees into retirement took place.

Among others Capt. Klaus Rank and Capt. Dieter Walther and the chief engineer Jörg Otte have been discharged into retirement after more than 45 years. Hand painted Captain cups with their ships on it were presented to them.

Ms Katharina Rathay had been discharged into retirement after ex-actly 40 years. 5 further employees had been honored for 45 years staff membership at F. Laeisz, 7 employees for 40 years, 2 employ-ees for 30 years and 3 for 25 years seniority. The honors were made by Nikolaus H. Schües, Harald Schlotfeldt and Jürgen Fischer.

We herewith congratulate Cecile & Allan Samala, F. Laeisz Philippines to the childbirth of their daughter FLS Franccessca Lance Samala.

MORE THAN 40 YEARS F.L.50 YEARS ASHORE

ANNUAL ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

BABY FLS FRANCCESSCA LANCE SAMALA

The one who‘s pictured, who holds the record is Nik Schües who joined the company 01.04.1961.

Clear steering since!

From left to right: Ms Mülleck and partner, C/E Otte, Mr. Hillmer, Ms Taube and partner, Mr. Schlotfeldt, Ms Foth and daughter,Ms Rathay, Ms Schultz, Mr. Behnes and partner, C/E Woitschach and partner, Capt. Pahl and partner, C/E Neumann and partner,Ms Halirsch and partner, Capt. Walther and partner, SM Köhler and partner, Mr. Schües, C/E Trembich and partner,Mr. Ruppert and partner, Capt. Rank and partner, Capt. Billep and partner, Mr. Fischer.


This year the Peter Gast Sailing Regatta was held for the 29th time. Almost three decades ago this Sailing Regatta took place for the first time with only a few ships and some shipping people; today more than 150 ships with about 1500 persons are taking part in the famous sai-ling regatta which leads from Maasholm to the Danish isle Aerö.

Three colleagues of Martini Chartering – Cécile Küppers, Thomas Kolb and Peter Eckhardt – par-ticipated on the SY “Veto”, a Dufour 44 which has already shown last year to be a winner’s ship. Peter Eckhardt sailed as skipper together with his crew of customers and colleagues through chal-lenging weather conditions and managed to ar-rive at Aeroskobing as “first ship home” in class and second on corrected time. The successful race was topped off by a huge party which was sponsored by numerous shipping and service companies out of the maritime industry.

29TH PETER GASTSCHIFFAHRTSREGATTA

VATTENFALL CYCLASSICS

FROM BALTIC TRAVELAGENCY INTO THE WORLD

On August 15th, 2011, members and guests of Martini Chartering participated at Europe‘s biggest cycle race ‚The Vattenfall Cyclassics‘. Amongst 22.000 athletes, Martini raced with an ‚A-Team‘ the distance of 57 km and ‚Team-B‘ tak-ing the longer race course of 100 km. The longer course led from the city center of Hamburg over the famous ‚Köhlbrand-brücke‘ through the southern suburbs of Hamburg and back again towards the city center. With hot temperatures of about 30 degrees both teams finished the race sucessfully with top average speeds of mid/high thirties have been achieved. Due to the postive feedback further plans are already in the pipeline to start with an even larger group for next year.

As usual, volunteers for next year‘s event are welcome. Please contact Martini Char-tering +49 40 36 808 441.

THE FIRST TIME AN ALL-INCLUSIVE-AIR-TRAVEL WITHIN GERMANY BY TUI

The Tourism Association of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the major German travel business, TUI AG gave a press conference in the offices of the Baltic Travel Agency on 24th of August 2011. In addition to the president of parliament of Mecklen-burg-Vorpommern, Ms Silvia Bretschnei-der, Ms Kutz welcomed Mr. Andreas Casdorff of TUI Germany.

BOWLING RESULTS 2011WOMEN

1. Ms Pothmann

2. Ms Jansch

3. Ms Strahl

MEN

1. Mr. Jaretzke

2. Mr. Hilmer

3. Mr. Thiede

WINNING TEAM

Bahn 3 - Patagonia:Mr. RedersborgMs BrumbergMs LeppinMr. WillmsMr. SchuppenhauerMr. Thiede


COMPANY HISTORY

REMINISCENCES OF AN OLD HAMBURG CITIZEN - PART 4 - 1813

Continuing our last edition here are fur-ther passages from the memories of the company founder Ferdinand Laeisz (1801-1887):

“Then the French started to shell the town and quite a few exploded near our house. Our housemaid was injured by a shell splinter just as she was taking my little sister into safety down into the cel-lar. I helped a neighbour, who served in the artillery, to repair the trenches that had been destroyed by the impact of bullets. This was a task eagerly performed by children, they were not aware of the danger they got themselves in.

The times became wretched as the allies retreated and the French marched into the town again, thirsting for revenge. My brother, who was on guard on the Michaelis Tower, had not been relieved due to the hasty retreat of the army. Luckily we managed to get hold of some civilian clothes for him and two of his comrades, and they succeeded in getting through the Bergedorf and joining up with their regiment.

My parents could not pay the contribution that had been levied on them – it had been trebled as two of their sons were serving the army – so they fled out of town, forsaking their house and a good part of their belongings. The bare essentials ware loaded onto a barge which was towed to Teufelsbrück where we lived until the war was over. In December 1813, allied troops marched up to lay siege to Hamburg and we began to hope once more.

However, the French held the town for a long time and it is a very sad point in history how they ravaged everything and drove many thou-sands of helpless inhabitants (old people, women, children and the sick) in deepest winter through the city gates where death and ruin awaited them.

It appeared that especially those who had suffered most under en-emy occupation stayed patriotic and kept faith in their German Fa-therland, for farther out in the country, in Holstein, feelings were divided; Danish and French sympathies were opposed to Prussian and Hamburgian. When I eagerly spread the news in the inn at Flot-tbeck of the glorious victory at Leipzig, I was thrown out. I partook in many incidents during the war. A yawl, laden with pepper, had

been captured by French soldiers outside the town and was to be brought to Hamburg, but seamen threw the two Frenchmen over-board at Teufelsbrück , hid their freight in a wood, and celebrated their triumph with a glass of punch. However, they had been seen and a detachment of French soldiers prepared to take them prisoner. I had noticed this, however, and hurried to warn the seamen. I led them safety through Flottbeck Wood, using unknown paths and ig-noring the enemy bullets that flew around us.

On the first day of January, 1814, we experienced the bombardment of Glückstadt by the English and the Swedes and this led to the ca-pitulation of the French occupying troops within a few days. The Crown Prince of Sweden held a review of the army with it’s Prussian, Swedish, Russian, English, and German soldiers. He led the mixed crowd over the frozen river Elbe to France. Soon after, Benningsen, a Russian General, advanced with his army and set up headquarters near us. Now we witnessed combats and skirmishes nearly every day. It was bitterly cold the night before the attack on Wilhelmsburg and Hamburg when thousands of Russians camped around us and burnt down parts of the forest. At dawn the whole army marched across the ice. The first attack took place on an entrenchment on Finkenwerder. The Russian took his entrenchment by storm after Lauenburg Rifles had shot some of the enemy gunners. The surviving troops, mostly Belgian marines, were taken prisoner. The Russians returned during the night without having achieved much. They had many casualties, although the French had more, and, besides that, several hundred Frenchmen had been taken prisoner. A second encounter ran on similar lines and many Russians showed a little enthusiasm to fight, for we collected whole sledges full of cartridges which they had thrown away when advancing. All the houses in our neighbourhood were full wounded soldiers and I often witnessed arm or leg amputa-tions. When the ice broke up, a ferry boat with about a hundred Frenchmen on board drifted down the Elbe to Blankenese where they were forced to surrender to the Russians. Once, I was also in great danger, due to the drifting ice. I slipped off an ice-Floe and drifted downstream until I was rescued an hour later, almost frozen to death. After the river was open again, a number of English gunboats arrived, remained at anchor near to where we lived and then later went up-stream to Altona to shell the Grevenhof entrenchment.“

To be continued in Fleet News no. 15


BOOK REVIEWS

The four masted barque ‚Passat‘, one of the legendary Flying-P-Liner of the owner F. Laeisz from Hamburg is celebrating 2011 its 100th anniversary. For this reason this unique photo documentation has been ori-ginated. Therein two former seafarer of the Passat, Uwe Hansen and Dirk Poppinga are presenting most impressing photographs from the last 2 voyages of the tall ship 1956 and 1957 from their albums.

Amongst others they show touchingly the last encounter of the Pas-sat with her half-sister ‘Pamir’ which was sunken right after in the hurricane ‘Carrie’. With dramatic photos they show the storm which was following this encounter and almost would have been turned out as a desaster for the Passat as well.

In addition to the photo documentation you will find text of the wri-ters who documents the thrilling voyage of this aged sailing ship, which transported saltpeter from Chile to Europe for many years. In 1930’s the vessel sailed under Finish flag with wheat to Australia. 1951 the Passat was been converted in a training ship. Today it is serving as a museum ship on the Priwall in Travemünde.

Uwe Hansen, Dirk Poppinga,100 Jahre Viermastbark Passat: Leben und Lernen an BordPublished by Oceanum Verlag, 2011ISBN: 978-3-86927-006-7

The idyllic farmers and fishers Island Altenwerder before the gates of Hamburg, only the far visible church tower remained after the construction of contai-ner terminal and the excellent timeless work of their most im-portant son of Johannes Holst (1880-1965). He was known as the painter, who was the great

period of the windjammer with their towering masts at Cape Horn, which put a monument to the Ewern and vessels of Blankenese, Finkenwerder and Altenwerder and painted a gripping race scenes. He was proud to be, whose master was the nature of an autodidact. Walter Koenig knew the painter personally and intensively focused in his work. In 1998 put it a first volume on Holst above, which very quickly reached the port of maritime art lovers. Now, a work is available with new insights about the career of the artist, with restored text and images of „the unknown Holst“, which will sur-prise some Holst lovers. For the first time, the author creates a list of works, that all previously known paintings from Holst recorded.

Walther König, Johannes Holst, „Maler der See“Published by Koehler Verlag, 2011ISBN-10: 3782210050

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MEET THE MARTINI CHARTERING TEAM

Located in the Laeisz Hof in Hamburg, Martini Chartering GmbH is the shipbroker who handles the charter activities for container ves-sels controlled by Reederei F. Laeisz.

Furthermore Martini Chartering is acting as competitive broker for various clients on an international basis.

Being in close touch with the market, Martini is keeping its own ves-sel database of container and multipurpose vessels which enables the broker to produce a number of market reports. One of the most important reports is the weekly Martini Chartering Market report which consists of Chartering, Sale and Purchase as well as Container FFA information. This report is being produced together with ICAP Shipping. ICAP pcl is the ‘world’s premier voice and electronic in-terdealer broker’ with about 4.900 employees and offices in more than 10 countries.

Peter Eckhardt and Sigrid Pilch are heading the chartering exclusive tonnage whereas Sven Wickland and Thomas Kolb are concentrating on the competitive business of the company. In this regard it is very important to have a feeling for the market, being well connected and up to date. In order to transport this information to the client, Mar-tini is presently working on the ‘Container App’ which will first be available for Blackberry users but later on followed by an application for the I Phone/I Pad. ‘This is a new step for the container charter-ing market and I am very excited to be able to offer such a product to our customers’ as Peter Eckhardt, Managing Director of Martini Chartering puts it. ‘We will be one of the first brokers if not the first to offer an up to date market template in the container chartering industry. This will include our usual market information but also interest- and exchange-rates as well as stock market information updated by the minute”.

Besides the Chartering activities, Martini Chartering is taking care of all postfixing activities which are handled by Cécile Küppers and Stella Nottbrock. Both of them are working very closely together with the operating departments of our customers. Their main task is to accompany the clients through the duration of the charter contract.

GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER

Top, from left to right: Sven Wickland, Stella Nottbrock, Sigrid Pil-ch, Cécile Küppers Below, from left to right: Thomas Kolb, Sven Baatz, Peter Eckhardt.

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