New Country Manager for Sweden

GL expands business in Scandinavia

Gothenburg, Sweden / Hamburg, Germany - Germanischer Lloyd's expanding business in Sweden yet again requires larger office areas. The new and extended office facilities in Gothenburg have opened today. They now house both the GL Station Gothenburg as well as part of the Area Scandinavia Business Development organisation serving the clients with services for newbuilding and ships in operation. The Gothenburg Station is a busy one with the everyday Fleet in Service surveys and is also experiencing specialized surveys such as main engine fuel conversions. In addition, activities in the certification of materials and components and wind energy technology are steadily increasing.

From the first of June 2009 Mr Robert Edner enters upon Managing Director GL Sweden AB and acting Country Manager. Mr Edner is a naval engineer, has since January 2007 served for GL Norway and in addition during 2008 as Station Manager Gothenburg. Mr Edner has previously worked at the Inspectorate of the Swedish Transport Agency in Stockholm. He has also served in engineering positions with shipping lines, such as Star Cruises from 1997 to 2003. Mr Edner succeeds Mr Roger Lundgren who now resumes full time for his senior surveyor position.

Germanischer Lloyd continues to extend its strong network in Scandinavia serving shipyards, supply industry and shipping companies. The classification society and technical assurance and consulting company is present in Stockholm/Akersberga, Gothenburg and Karlstad in Sweden, Turku and Helsinki in Finland, Oslo, Alesund and Bergen in Norway, Copenhagen, Alborg, Arhus and Fredericia in Denmark and in Reykjavik in Iceland.

About Germanischer Lloyd

Germanischer Lloyd (GL) is a ship classification society and an international technical assurance and consulting company for the energy sector. Both business lines follow the same approach of technical competence, uncompromising quality and first-class services around the world. The company employs more than 6,400 engineers, surveyors, experts and administrative staff in 80 countries. The global network consists of more than 200 locations around the globe.

Ship owners, shipyards, the maritime supply industry and some 130 flag states are the primary customers of GL's ship classification and maritime consulting activities. Germanischer Lloyd classes container ships, tankers, bulk carriers, multipurpose vessels, high-speed ferries and cruise ships as well as yachts and sport boats. With the classification of the gas tanker "MT Gaschem Nordsee", Germanischer Lloyd has passed the 80 million gross tons threshold in April 2009. More than 6,870 ships are currently surveyed on a regular basis by GL. The fleet in service for GL has grown by 10 million gross tons since September 2007.

GL Gothenburg can be reached at this address
Hantverksvägen 15
SE436 33 Askim
Sweden

Press contact
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Tel. +49 (0)40-36149-4509, Fax +49 (0)40-36149-250, pr@gl-group.com
Your contacts are Dr. Olaf Mager and Stefanie Normann-Birkholz.
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