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Vagtlister og jobbeskrivelser fra MARIE MÆRSK, ok-

tober 2015 samt forfatterens observationer, interviews og

samtaler med samtlige besætningsmedlemmer om bord på

MARIE MÆRSK i perioden 28/10 til 9/11 2015.

Afsnittet er baseret på forfatterens observationer, inter-

views og optegnelser om bord på MARIE MÆRSK i perio-

den 28/10 til 9/11 2015.

Summary

At sea with the MARIE MÆRSK

Morten Hahn-Pedersen was offered a trip on one of the

world’s biggest container ships, the M/S MARIE MÆRSK,

on the occasion of his retirement as director of the Fisher-

ies and Maritime Museum. He signed on with the MARIE

MÆRSK in Rotterdam at the end of October and sailed with

the ship for the next couple of weeks, with stays at harbours

in Bremerhaven, Felixstowe and Tangier, to Algeciras,

where he signed off before the MARIE MÆRSK continued

on her route via the Suez Canal to harbours in Malaysia,

China and Korea.

In this article, the author gives a brief summary of his

main impressions from the trip concerning the dimensions

and fitting out of the MARIE MÆRSK – one of the enor-

mous Triple-E ships which in 2015 were state of the art in

modern ship technology, the ship’s 24-man international

crew and the art of forging an efficient workforce out of

such a heterogeneous flock, the trip itself at sea and in the

harbour, life and work on board, the experience and the sub-

stantial documentary material in the form of papers from the

ship, interviews, records, notes and more than 1,200 photos

on the conditions of modern shipping which were also one

of the results of the trip with the MARIE MÆRSK.

Morten Hahn-Pedersen (f. 1956)

Historiker/kunsthistoriker, cand.mag. 1983-88 museums-

inspektør ved Svendborg Museum. 1988-2015 museums-

direktør for Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseet, Saltvandsakvariet i

Esbjerg og 1994-2015 desuden seniorforsker ved Center for

Maritime og Regionale Studier. Har publiceret en række ar-

tikler og bøger om nyere dansk maritim og politisk historie.

Letmatros Ryan Fajardo gør klar til at kaste den første line i land

under fortøjning i Tanger. Foto: Morten Hahn-Pedersen, 2015.