After 37 years of employment in Tärntank at our Accounting department, Barbro Rugner has decided to retire at the age of 65. We have appreciated her loyalty and good performance. Tärntank wish her good luck for future adventures together with her family.

Thank you very much for a well done job.

Barbro Rugner’s position has been replaced by Annika Kristensson.

We hope you enjoy our website as much as we do. We are presenting our history, our staff, our fleet and our organization. In addition, there are many nice pictures to look at from the start of our organization until today.

We are looking forward to intense our cooperation with Neste and Preem, two business relations that have been very important for us during the years. We are also looking forward to build up a new cooperation whit our new customer, Mercuria.

These contracts would never have been written without our god records on our vessels. A result of hard work in the land based organization and specially a very hard work onboard our vessels. We would like to put a special thank to all our crew members for their hard work.

On November 1 Anette Thomsen joined Tärntank Rederi AB as Head of Administration in our Skagen office. Her background of six years as Accounting Manager for TBK Shipping A/S and before that, five years as Assistance Accountancy at PWC fits us very well. On the picture above you can se Anette teamed up with her new colleagues (Ann Olofsson & Dick Höglund), outside our Skagen office. We welcome Anette to our team.

Last officers seminar out of two was successfully completed in our Donsö office October 26. This year fortified both external and internal lecturers our conference with current topics that are of great importance for Tärntank. Future demands for leadership on board and ashore increases every year.

- So in addition to leadership, we focused a lot on safety and customer care, which is always high on the agenda of Tärntank says Niklas Johansson, Personnel Manager

In beginning of september Marcus Olander, 27, started at Tarn Chartering AB as charterer. Marcus has a Bachelor of Nautical Science and Shipping & Logistics from Chalmers University in Gothenburg. During his studies Marcus joined Ternvag and therefor also has also important onboard experience which is a useful aid in his daily work at our office.

In the beginning of October Schikran Barkarmo started at Tärntank Shipmanagement AB as Personnel Coordinator. She replaces Anna Nyman, who now is Head of Department at Tarn Cartering AB. Schikran has many years experience from Human Relations and has previously worked at Stena Rederi AB, GreenShip, OSM and Charterfrakt. Schikran fits very well in our company structure and can contribute a lot with all her experience.

We welcome our new colleagues to our team!

Tärntank Rederi AB and Preem AB equips chemical and product tanker Ternvag with a catalytic converter on the main engine and a SCR Catamizer on each auxiliary engine. To make a really substantial environmental investment is very stimulating, says Tryggve Möller, CEO of Tärntank Ship Management at Donsö.

Tärntank expect the installation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 370 tons per year, nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions by 230 tonnes and also the consumption of gasoil with 120 tons per year. Catamizern is a combined catalytic converter and exhaust gas boiler that both recovers the heat in the flue gases and purify them.

For more information, please click here to read more about the construction.

After a long battle against a severe disease, Olle Kristensson passed away on February 15th, 2011. Behind him, he leaves his wife Annika and the children Karin, Annie and Sofie. Olle was a family man who put his immediate family in the first place, but there were still plenty of room in his big heart for very many people. It is said that no man is irreplaceable, but Olle leaves a void space with us, his friends in the shipping companies of Donsö, that can’t be filled.

Music was an indispensable part in Olle’s life, but so were also shipping. Olle was a dedicated, competent and highly responsible as a shipowner. When circumstances called for major changes to secure the future of the company, Olle, who loved his island of Donsö, took the tough decision to move to Skagen, Denmark, together with his family, to establish a new residence for the company. This alone was a major loss for the shipping community of Donsö. Olles dedication to shipping went far beyond his company. We are grateful for Olle’s efforts to promote the Swedish shipping industry in so many ways, and he was always an exemplary representative of all Donsö shipping companies. Olle was an emphatic man who always spread joy and warmth about him. We mourn a very good friend and colleague.The sense of loss after Olle is great, but his memory will for ever be here as a source of warmth and light, a power source that will generate the energy we need to continue in his spirit.

We call on peace be upon him, and send our warmest thoughts to Olle’s family.

”You are on your way. One day, the night becomes white. One day and stars grow out of his arms. Don’t be afraid, there is a darkish harbour. You don’t see it now, but travels there.” (extract and free translation of hymn 432 in the Swedish Book of Hymns).