On 25-27 September 2013 REEDEREI NORD LIMITED held its annual officer seminar in Limassol, Cyprus. There was an extensive programme with a good mix of suppliers discussing technical issues and a full first day where the focus was solely on non-technical issues – Maritime Resource Management (MRM). The MRM principles can be applied in any job and for that reason over 25 shore-side staff members joined the group of ships’ officers during the first day. The feedback on the topic from both groups was excellent and proved, yet again, that MRM unites not only the people onboard but also ship and shore. There was about 30 ships’ officers attending the seminar and with the many different nationalities represented, the discussions about cultural differences were both enlightening and entertaining. At the seminar there were people from Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Cyprus, India, Peru, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Sweden, U.K. (and possibly a few more countries) attending.
REEDEREI NORD LIMITED’s seminar participants gathered for the Maritime Resource Management workshop
This was REEDEREI NORD LIMITED’s sixth annual officer seminar and Martin Hernqvist of ALL Academy participated also in the first one held in 2008. In 2008, the seminar was held at NORD’s office in Limassol but due to the large size of the group, this year’s seminar was held in the conference hall of the Curium Palace Hotel.
REEDEREI NORD was established in 1964 by late Mr. Klaus E. Oldendorff. The Group currently comprises of two separate management companies REEDEREI NORD GMBH located in Hamburg, Germany, with focus on the dry tonnage and REEDEREI NORD LIMITED located in Limassol, Cyprus, with its main focus on the wet tonnage. Jointly they manage a fleet of nearly 50 vessels including container vessels, bulk carriers and tankers.