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What’s that elephant the Danes are wearing?

Tatler’s guide to the emblems and quirks of Denmark’s highest honour, the Order of the Elephant.

A curious little diamond-encrusted elephant, a blue sash, a gold collar – and sometimes a big flaming cape…Tatler looks into the history and tradition of Denmark's most privileged Order.

With Frederik X set to become sovereign of the Order as he becomes King on Sunday, you might see a few of these elephants around Copenhagen's royal palaces

By Isaac Zamet

12 January 2024

When Crown Prince Frederik becomes Frederik X of Denmark on Sunday, he will also replace his mother, Queen Margrethe II, as the sovereign of Denmark’s most ancient and distinguished order of chivalry, the Order of the Elephant.

Though it was officially refounded in 1693, the order dates all the way back to the 1400s, when it was established as a religious confraternity by a group of about fifty Danish knights.

In the 1400s, prior to the Reformation which gripped Europe and divided the church, such religious ‘clubs’ as the Order of the Elephant were common features of aristocratic life.

At the time of the Order of the Elephant's birth, Christian I was King of Denmark – and in fact, Norway and Sweden too, creating a personal union known as the Kalmar Union.

During this period, the emblem of the club was an image of the Virgin Mary holding her Son within a crescent moon.

This was hung from a collar formed of links in the shape of elephants.

The confraternity mutated over the centuries but endured a stifled period after the Reformation in which such clubs became suspect.

In 1580, Frederik II – eight Frederiks prior to our current Frederik – revived the order and replaced the medallion of the mother and child with an elephant (a Reformation-safe, Protestant approach – if a quirky one!).

But it was Christian V, in 1693, who gave the club its official statues and founding order.

At this time, it was scheduled as comprising 30 noble knights and one Grand Master (the King) along with his sons.

It was only in 1958 that the statutes were amended by Royal Ordinance to allow the ennoblement of women as members of the order.

Between 1580 and today, around 890 persons have been bestowed with the Order of the Elephant; with Queen Margrethe adding 68 people during her 40 year reign.

The recipients are almost always royal persons and foreign heads of state – though in a rare exception, the order was given to a commoner in 2000.

This was the deceased shipping magnate, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, who was recognised for exceptional contribution to Danish economic strength and Danish society.

Those unfamiliar with the man himself will surely recognise his name from the famous shipping containers.

The A.P. Møller – Mærsk group was actually founded in 1904 by his father. It is now worth $81bn dollars.

At the time of Møller’s membership of the order, he was the only non-royal and non-head of state to hold the honour; though it had previously been held by the pioneering nuclear physicist, Niels Bohr.

Membership of the order comes with possession of its rather eye-catching elephantine emblem.

The elephant is made of white-enamelled gold with blue housings and is about 5cm high.

On its back, the elephant bears a tower of pink enamelled masonry (a design originally intended to reflect the howdah compartments of the Indian subcontinent).

A number of large cut diamonds adorn the elephant, along with a crowned monogram of the monarch reigning when it was made.

One wonders, then, when the first Frederikian elephants will be carved.

At the top of the tower on the elephant’s back sits a gold ring, from which the badge can be hung from the collar or tied to a sash.

On the elephant's back sits a turbaned ‘moor mahout.’

It should be noted that some would regard such a depiction as an exoticising caricature.

Others would regard its appearance merely as an expression of an historical perspective.

One striking detail about the circulation of the elephants is that each Order of the Elephant is – in principle – on loan and must be returned to the Chapter of the Royal Orders of Chivalry when a member of the Order has passed away.

This rather quaint custom means that elephants are inherited and used several times by different members of the order, with some dating back hundreds of years.

Interestingly, the done thing is not to disclose to whom an Elephant has previously been given – though there are some traditional lines of inheritance.

For example, the elephant recently bestowed on Prince Christian belonged previously to his grandfather, Prince Henrik.

This handing over was always to be, on the basis of a traditional line of inheritance.

There are two exceptional elephants which have eluded the rule of the ‘loan’ – one remains in the Chancellery Museum at Paris and a second remains on display at the Dwight Eisenhower Presidential Library in the US.

Another beautiful quirk of membership of the Order is that a member’s coat of arms is always painted and subsequently hung in the Knight’s Chapel at Frederiksborg Castle in Hillerød.

As to when the elephants come out to play, there are some rather interesting traditions concerning how and when to wear them.

The Order of the Elephant has three festival days: new year’s day, the monarch’s birthday, and the birthday of Valdemar the Victorious, which, if you didn’t know is on June 28.

On these festival days, the Order of the Elephant is worn on the chest on a gold chain link collar, with links shaped as towers and elephants.

The collar sits on each shoulder. On other important occasions, the order is worn on a bright blue sash with a breast star.

The star of the order is an eight-pointed silver star with smooth rays; at its centre sits an enameled red disc with a white cross, surrounded by a laurel wreath in silver.

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50th anniversary of the first container vessel joining Maersk’s fleet in 1974. Image shows Svendborg Mærsk in Hamburg, Germany.

[dailyanarchistposts]

The Many Faces of Authority

The complicity of nation-states, NGOs and corporations in creating ecological degradation showed itself again recently, when Denmark announced its plans (praised by Greenpeace as a historic event) to phase out oil drilling in the North Sea by 2050.[20] Parallel to their ambitious goals, Denmark builds hundreds of kilometers of new infrastructure for fossil fuels with the European Baltic Pipe project.[21] This project will also connect to Danish sugar factories on Lolland,[22] an industry releasing the second highest Co2 emissions in Denmark,[23] making it clear that Denmark’s ‘green’ ambitions are heavily misrepresented.

Green NGOs like Greenpeace continue to keep inventory on the destruction of nature and bargain the details of destruction with corporations. In 2010 Greenpeace entered an agreement supporting logging companies in the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement[24] and, recently, praised Mærsk – the planet’s largest shipping company and, until 2017,[25] a big player in the oil industry – merely for refusing to ship a specific Antarctic toothfish.[26] NGOs collaborate with state and capital constantly; they are businesses in and of themselves and constantly sell out movements defending forests, rivers and marine ecosystems [R.F. – see Green Capital & Environmental “Leaders” Won’t Save Us].

Promoting a notion of “net zero” emissions and subsequent carbon trading schemes is leading to a major land grab in the Global South. Industrial scale green energies, which increase the total energy market rather than decreasing fossil fuels, also lead to new profits for energy companies and devastate vast sacrifice zones in poor areas. It is no coincidence that all these technocratic solutions proposed by green NGOs are also supported by energy corporations.

The guises of authoritarianism are plenty and its attempts to resolve environmental issues have failed and led to increased degradation. Representative democracy, and other systems based on bureaucratic authority, have taught us change comes through politicians, corporations, NGOs and, of course, personal consumer choice [R.F. – see Return Fire vol.5 pg65]. The underlaying implication of this narrative is that chaotic organizing, viral direct action (and unrestrained) and immediate change in conduct is not the answer.

We need to recognize that authoritarianism and human-centric claims to supremacy over the earth have been and continue to be the root of socio-ecological crisis. This happens via the church, the State, urbanization and modern mechanical science,[27] all of which seek domination and control over the systems of our planet. This is not to say modern science is not useful, but to remember that it comes at a material and energetic cost [R.F. – see Return Fire vol.5 pg33].

[just-a-friendly-wizard]

As a high-ranking member of the Danish mafia, i can confidently say that lego is not the front.

Mærsk is

HELLO?

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Welcome to robot city | MIT Technology Review

That began to change with the partnership between the shipyard and the university. In the ’90s, that relationship got a big boost when the foundation behind the Mærsk shipping company funded the creation of the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Institute (MMMI), a center dedicated to studying autonomous systems. The Lindø shipyard eventually wound down its robotics program, but research continued at the…

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13 November 2024: King Abdullah II said that attracting foreign investments is a priority for the Jordanian economy, and that the Kingdom is keen to facilitate business operations for investors and their projects.

During a meeting with Arab and foreign investors and representatives of major companies, attended by Crown Prince Hussein, His Majesty said Jordan will continue implementing administrative modernisation plans to improve the business environment and attract investments.

The King noted that the Economic Modernisation Vision builds on the Kingdom's strengths and advantages, while unifying efforts to boost economic growth and create job opportunities.

Attendees represented the transport, logistics, energy, water, mining, healthcare, manufacturing, and aviation sectors.

The meeting included representatives from KBW Investments (Saudi Arabia), the Saudi Jordanian Investment Fund, Meridiam (France), Amazon (US), Korea Electric Power Corporation, A.P. Møller – Mærsk (Denmark), Kuwait’s Privatisation Holding Company, Jin Cheng Global Ceramics (China), and Airport International Group (France).

The investors spoke about their investments’ success stories in Jordan and their keenness to capitalise on future investment opportunities in the Kingdom.

The Economic Modernisation Vision aims to attract $18 billion worth of foreign direct investment by 2033, which will foster sustainable growth.

Prime Minister Jafar Hassan, Director of the Office of His Majesty Alaa Batayneh, Minister of State for Economic Affairs Muhannad Shehadeh, and Minister of Investment Mothanna Gharaibeh attended the meeting.

[ryz-market]

A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S engages in the transport and logistics business worldwide. The company's Ocean segment is involved in the container shipping activities, including demurrage and detention, terminal handling, documentation and container services, and container storage, as well as transshipment hubs under Maersk Line, Safmarine, Sealand A Maersk Company, Hamburg Süd, and APM Terminal brand names; and sale of bunker oil.

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Maybe just one further clarification: this is not "if it gets implemented." The kite system has been used on various ships since 2007. It can't entirely replace a ship's engine, at least not with the current required speeds, but it can cut down fuel consumption. In theory by up to 15%, though in reality the savings have averaged circa 5%.

Of course, the kite is only practical solution for long ocean crossings with a reliable wind direction. However, it is not the only wind-assistance system in use. Flettner rotors have been successfully installed in a variety of ferries and other vessels. These also have the problem of only working well in certain wind conditions (a flettner rotor works optimally in side wind), but on routes that do have suitable wind conditions consistently the fuel savings can be up to 15%.

The main issues as to why these have not been widely implemented are twofold: one is that shipping tends to be an extremely conservative business, with companies very wary of adopting any technology that might not work. The other is that especially on long-haul cargo vessels, crewing has been pushed to an absolute minimum (the MSC Irina, currently the world's largest container ship, has a crew of just 25, while the slightly smaller Triple-E class ships of Mærsk make do with just 13 crew), and any new technology that can require more crew or more training (for example to furl or unfurl a kite) is seen as an unnecessary expense.

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airsLLide No. 5403: OY-MME, Boeing 737-3L9, Maersk Air, Salzburg, January 27, 1991.

Well known Danish shipping giant Møller-Mærsk also entered the airline business when it founded Maersk Air in 1969. It initially served regional international routes with Fokker 27 aircraft before entering the European leisure market with Boeing 720-jets in 1972.

The leisure business quickly became Maersk Air's main business activity, with the fleet growing and more modern Boeing 737s replacing the thirsty four-holers. Performing a seasonal ski charter flight to Austria, the just one year old Boeing 737-300 awaits the boarding of its passengers.

In the early 2000s, it expanded back into the scheduled international airline business, with mixed results. Thus, in spring of 2005, Maersk Air was sold to an Icelandic holding company and merged into Sterling Airways in the fall of the same year.

Shipping giant Maersk however refocused on the air freight business for which purpose it founded its subsidiary Star Air, flying with Boeing 767-freighters. In 2022, its parent announced that it would revert the airline to the legacy Maersk Air Cargo name in the course of the year.

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اقتصادية قناة السويس تستقبل ثالث سفن ميرسك

استقبل ميناء شرق بورسعيد، التابع للهيئة العامة للمنطقة الاقتصادية لقناة السويس، اليوم السفينة Astrid Mærsk التي تعمل بالميثانول الأخضر، ووصلت السفينة إلى رصيف محطة حاويات قناة السويس و APM Terminal (SCCT/APMT) ، في أول زيارة لها للميناء، وتعد السفينة هي الثالثة التي تعمل بالوقود الأخضر ضمن 18 سفينة تسعى شركة ميرسك إلى الانتهاء منها ما بين عامي 2024 و 2025، وفقاً لالتزام الشركة نحو دعم الممارسات…

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Maersk Line India: How to Register a Complaint for Maersk Line India Pvt Ltd

Maersk Line India Pvt Ltd (maersk.com) Maersk Line India Private Limited, a subsidiary part of A.P. Møller – Mærsk, is one of the leading shipping companies in India. It offers regular services of cargo/shipments and export/import of goods to and from 15 of India’s main ports, as well as 45 inland acceptance depots and 25 sales offices at key locations. The company provides excellent service and…

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Swedish comet on its way to the stock exchange: could be Europe's biggest IPO since several years

At Northvolt's factory in Skellefteå in northern Sweden, batteries for electric cars from Volkswagen and BMW, both co-owners of the company, are produced, among other things. The factory here has a capacity of 16 gigawatt-hour batteries, corresponding to batteries for around 300,000 electric cars per year.

Eight-year-old battery maker Northvolt plans to go public next year and has the prospect of reaching a larger, triple-digit billion valuation.

There is money – lots and lots of money – in producing batteries right now. The Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt[1] stands to be worth up to 20 billion dollars in an upcoming IPO, writes the British financial newspaper Financial Times[2]. This is far more than both Visa and Facebook achieved when they went public in 2008 and 2012 respectively.

The eight-year-old Northvolt[3] aims to build the world's greenest battery with the smallest CO₂ footprint in production and subsequent use and with the greatest possible recycling. The company, which both produces lithium-ion batteries and battery systems and is the largest in Europe in its field, was founded by the two former Tesla executives Peter Carlsson and Paolo Cerutti, who are now respectively CEO and deputy commander in charge of day-to-day operations . They have the Danish businessman Jim Hagemann Snabe as chairman of the board. He is also chairman of the board of the German conglomerate Siemens and for some years was chairman of the board of the Mærsk group in Denmark. Previously, he himself was co-CEO of the German IT giant SAP.

According to the Financial Times, the Swedish battery manufacturer will go public in Stockholm, probably in 2024, and with the prospect of 20 billion dollars or almost 141 billion Danish kroner, it will be one of the largest stock market listings for a European company in several years. Northvolt itself will not comment on information about the preliminary plans for the stock market listing, which may change.

The battery market is hot

Northvolt dances with the wave that carries battery manufacturers forward.[4] The batteries are the decisively important part of the advancing electric car market and to be able to store energy – typically green power produced by wind turbines or solar cells.

There is a race going on to develop and produce the most efficient batteries, which are also manufactured in the most energy-friendly and environmentally friendly way with materials that are sustainable and cheap.

At the same time, the rest of the world is struggling to free itself from the firm grip that China currently has on the world's battery production by virtue of the many raw materials that China possesses and which are included in battery production. This has led both the EU and the US to open state support for battery manufacturers to establish themselves in the two areas of the world. Here, Northvolt has a clear trump card by virtue of its Swedish origins.

Among Northvolt's owners are the investment bank Goldman Sachs and the German car giant Volkswagen (VW), which is the world's second largest car manufacturer after Japan's Toyota. BMW, Siemens and the capital fund Blackstone have also bought into Northvolt, which is headquartered in Stockholm, but has production in Skellefteå[5], Västerås[6], Gothenburg[7] (together with Volvo) and Borlänge[8] in Sweden, as well as in Gdansk in northern Poland and in Heide west of the city Kiel in Northern Germany. The construction of a sixth factory will be started before the new year just outside Montreal in Canada and should be completed in 2026. It is part of Northvolt's five billion dollar investment in the North American market.[9] According to the Financial Times, Northvolt is the European entrepreneurial company that has raised the most capital.

Source

Thomas Breinstrup, Svensk komet på vej på børsen: Kan blive Europas største børsnotering i flere år , in: Berlingske 24-10-2023; https://www.berlingske.dk/virksomheder/svensk-komet-paa-vej-paa-boersen-kan-blive-europas-stoerste

[1] Northvolt AB is a Swedish battery developer and manufacturer, specializing in lithium-ion technology for electric vehicles. Northvolt is building a factory in Skellefteå, northern Sweden, and another one in Salzgitter, Germany, as part of Northvolt's plan to increase production capacity of 32 gigawatt-hours by 2023. Its headquarters for research and development is in Västerås, Sweden. https://northvolt.com/

[2] Northvolt plans Stockholm listing for potential $20bn IPO. Battery maker could go public as soon as next year in one of the largest IPOs for a European company in recent years; https://www.ft.com/content/ca7a87b7-8f37-411e-851e-cb83750dba0f

[3] Read also: https://www.tumblr.com/earaercircular/668037918724669440/a-battery-for-cars-made-from-old-batteries?source=share&ref=_tumblr & https://www.tumblr.com/earaercircular/672075783410434048/swedish-northvolt-kicks-off-european-battery?source=share&ref=_tumblr

[4] Read also: https://www.tumblr.com/earaercircular/732253772398657536/automotive-stellantis-and-orano-join-forces-in?source=share&ref=_tumblr & https://www.tumblr.com/earaercircular/682712149928394752/umicore-becomes-major-supplier-for-electric?source=share&ref=_tumblr & https://www.tumblr.com/earaercircular/713316858967801856/canadian-li-cycle-sets-up-a-battery-recycling?source=share&ref=_tumblr & https://www.tumblr.com/earaercircular/709766435386392576/france-allocates-30-million-euros-to-2-battery?source=share&ref=_tumblr

[5] Skellefteå is a city in Västerbotten County, Sweden. It is the seat of Skellefteå Municipality, which had 74,402 inhabitants in 2022

[6] Västerås is a city in central Sweden on the shore of Lake Mälaren in the province of Västmanland, 100 kilometres west of Stockholm. The city had a population of 127,799 at the end of 2019, out of the municipal total of 158,653. Västerås is the seat of Västerås Municipality, the capital of Västmanland County and an episcopal see.

[7] Gothenburg (Swedish: Göteborg) is the capital of Västra Götaland County in Sweden. It is the second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. It is situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, with a population of approximately 600,000 in the city proper and about 1.1 million inhabitants in the metropolitan area.The city's population increased by 9,292 during 2022

[8] Borlänge is a locality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 44,898 inhabitants as of 2020. It is the seat of the Borlänge Municipality with a total population of 51,604 inhabitants as of 2017.

[9] Read also: https://www.tumblr.com/earaercircular/726885760561725440/billion-dollar-investment-for-swedish-battery?source=share&ref=_tumblr

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Should You Buy These 3 Shipping Stocks?

Should You Buy These 3 Shipping Stocks? https://www.entrepreneur.com/finance/should-you-buy-these-3-shipping-stocks/454178 The shipping industry’s long-term prospects look bright amid robust demand. So, fundamentally strong shipping stocks A.P. Møller - Mærsk (AMKBY), Triton International (TRTN), and Navios Maritime (NM) might be solid... via Entrepreneur: Latest Articles https://www.entrepreneur.com/latest June 15, 2023 at 07:53AM

[i12bent]

One of the most prolific Danish architects of the 20th century, Ole Hagen, was born June 22, 1913 (d. 1984)...

He built a large number of square, functional, modernist office buildings, swimming pools, cinemas, etc. - mainly in the Copenhagen area. They are virtually generic Danish - practical, but not beautiful. An example is Codanhus from 1961. He also created sturdy blocks of flats along Roskildevej, such as Tevastehus in 1950.

His high profile works also include Falkonér Centret, the iconic hotel and convention center in Frederiksberg - and the Mærsk headquarters, Esplanaden, Copenhagen.

Among his more aesthetically pleasing works are his own summer house at Hald Strand, 1955 - and his Tulip series of silverware for the A. Michelsen sílver smiths...

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PFA investerer igen i Taulov Dry Port

PFA investerer igen i Taulov Dry Port

Både danske og internationale virksomheder har fået øjnene op for Taulov Dry Port i Fredericia, der er blevet et populært valg, når virksomhederne skal placere de større logistikinvesteringer. Nu investerer PFA og udvider sit danske logistikcenter i Fredericia igen. Siden 2013 har PFA tjent ca. 2,5 mia. kr. til sine kunder på at bygge og udleje ejendomme til lager, varefragt og e-handel. Nu…

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The refrigirated ship  M/S THURØ MÆRSK

In the lower photo we can see a banana elevator

Built in Odense  Stålskibsværft 1964

SR # =  2020:1571 + 2020:1568