As a company and as individuals we shall be positively curious towards our business environment. By constantly acquiring new and better knowledge, we shall secure our customers and vendors the best collaboration, where all dimensions of our mutual tasks are taken into consideration at all times.
Lars-Erik Brenøe has a profound knowledge of international shipping from more than 30 years as part of A.P. Moller – Maersk. During this time, Mr. Brenøe has held various leadership positions, including 19 years as Personal Assistant to former CEO and Chairman, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, Senior Vice President at Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller’s Secretariat and Executive Vice President at Head of Chairman’s office.
Mr. Brenøe holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Copenhagen in 1986 and the Executive Leadership Programme at IMD in 1998.
Today, Lars-Erik Brenøe is active in various board functions, incl. A.P. Moller Holding A/S, A.P. Moller Foundation, Danske Bank and Odense Port.
Peder Gellert Pedersen is an experienced shipping professional who retired from the role as Executive Vice President in leading integrated shipping and logistics company DFDS in 2022. Mr. Pedersen joined DFDS in 1994 from Fredericia Shipping and has since then build a career across internal positions such as Managing Director for DFDS Baltic Line A/S, General Manager for DFDS Transport Liner Division and Group Deputy Director DFDS A/S. From 2010-2022 he served as Executive Vice President of DFDS’ Ferry Division, which covers all Passenger, Ro-Ro and Ro-Pax activities and their associated terminals.
Peder Gellert Pedersen has an educational background as Licensed Shipbroker, Danish Ministry of Trade & Industry and holds a Diploma in Business Administration. Today, Mr. Pedersen is active in various board functions and as Member of the Business Committee in Danish Shipping.
Flemming Ipsen is a highly experienced shipping professional having served 34 years with the Danish Conglomerate A.P. Moller-Maersk Group. During this period, Mr. Ipsen has taken on various roles within the Group, including Corporate Lawyer and Personal Assistant to Chairman, Mr. Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller and onwards to become President of Maersk Line Asia Region, CEO and President of Maersk Air and lastly in the role as Executive Vice President in A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S until 2011, where he concluded a long-stretching career with Maersk.
In recent years, Mr. Ipsen is best known for serving as Chairman of the Board at Danish founded international shipping group TORM A/S from 2013 to 2015.
Today, Flemming Ipsen is active in a number of Danish companies primarily within the maritime sector.
Anders Østergaard has been in shipping since the start of his professional career back in 2000. First as Trader, and later as partner to Jan Jacobsen shortly after the startup of Monjasa in 2002.
Mr. Østergaard was elected national ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ in Denmark in 2012 by Ernst & Young and today owns 100% of the Monjasa Group, in which he serves as Group CEO and Member of the Board.
Today, the Group consists of more than 30 companies, with revenue in 2023 of USD 4.4 billion – or equivalent to 6.5 million tonnes of fuel products supplied.
Lotte Grønborg Lundberg joined the Monjasa Holding Board of Directors in 2020 bringing with her over 45 years of international maritime leadership.
Mrs. Lundberg joined A.P. Moller-Maersk in 1978 as a Management Trainee before building an international career spanning across leading and executive roles with primarily Maersk Line and Maersk Broker until 2017.
Since 2019 she has been serving as Managing Director of the Danish Maritime Fund. Mrs. Lundberg is a seasoned board professional and besides her daily responsibilities with the Danish Maritime Fund, she is active as non-executive Board Director and Chair in various Danish and international boards.
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Monjasa has agreed terms for 2010-built D-Class Product Tanker from SKS Tankers Holding. The largest ever member of Monjasa’s fleet.
Monjasa has appointed Mikkel Kannegaard as new General Manager for the Group’s Copenhagen office as of November 2017.
The Panama Canal expansion not only brings new routing and transit opportunities to the global shipping community. Marking one year of the official inauguration of the new locks of the Panama Canal, Monjasa reports of increasing supply volumes.
Monjasa has been an active in the Panama Canal since 2011 and established a physical presence for operations and bunker trading in Panama City in 2015.
“Since the opening of the new locks exactly a year ago, we have seen a positive development in the local bunker market,” says Rasmus Jacobsen, Managing Director for Monjasa Americas.
“On a daily basis, we already see 6 ships passing through the new locks, and as the tonnage further increases, we expect this number will increase to 8, 10, or possibly 12. As fuel supplier, this means that we must be able to offer increased flexible to our customers as the waiting time at anchorage for the vessels to transit is gradually reduced. Further, we also acknowledge new customer segments beyond container and bulk carriers voyaging the Canal, including liquified gas tankers and passenger ships. So, what we are looking at is primarily larger single fuel supplies rather than a significant increase in the total number of supplies.”
One way for us to deliver on this promise of quality is by implementing Monjasa’s existing customer satisfaction programme in the Canal upon each supply operation. This is a pioneering approach in this market and we take the feedback we receive very seriously.
On the sourcing side, Monjasa says that several oil cargo majors have taken up interest in the market.
“There are around ten physical bunker suppliers in the Panama Canal, however, as one of the only ISO-certified bunker companies operating here, we set the bar high when it comes to quality, not least the one delivered by our sourcing partners. We are thus pleased to see a development where two-three oil cargo majors have entered the local market as it brings us new opportunities.”
“One way for us to deliver on this promise of quality is by implementing Monjasa’s existing customer satisfaction programme in the Canal upon each supply operation. This is a pioneering approach in this market and we take the feedback we receive very seriously. I believe that such an initiative also assists the overall development of the Panama Canal being perceived as a reliable and increasingly regulated marine fuel hub,” Rasmus Jacobsen concludes.
Monjasa currently manages four barges in the Panama Canal – three in Balboa and one in Cristóbal – and delivers 35,000-40,000 metric tonnes of oil products monthly.
Learn more about our services in the Americas – or contact us in Panama City
on tel.: +507 2 025 231 or panama@monjasa.com.
