The Møller Centre is a dedicated, residential executive training and conference centre in Cambridge, its full title is The Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller Centre for Continuing Education, named after who, which was a Danish shipping magnate?
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Møller Centre The Møller Centre is a dedicated, residential executive training and conference centre in Cambridge. It is located at Churchill College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. It was founded with a gift of approximately £10 million to Churchill College, donated by the A.P. Møller & Chastine Mc-Kinney Møller Foundation, a Danish institution, set up in 1953 by shipping magnate A.P. Møller. Its full title is The Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller Centre for Continuing Education, named after Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, the son and successor of A.P. Møller.
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Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Arnold Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller (13 July 1913 – 16 April 2012) was a Danish shipping magnate. He was a longtime figure at A.P. Moller – Maersk Group, which was founded by his father.
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Peter Willemoes Peter Willemoes (11 May 1783 – 22 March 1808) was a Danish naval officer.
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Royal Denship Royal Denship was a Danish multi-facility conglomerate ship and yacht builder. Presently in administration, the company has created some of the world's largest super yachts.
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Tharald Brøvig Jr. Tharald Brøvig Jr. (21 May 1942 – 24 September 2017) was a Norwegian ship-owner and investor.
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Maritime London Maritime London is a not for profit trade association for companies that provide professional services to the international shipping industry. The chief executive is Douglas Barrow. Maritime London run a scholarship scheme to allow young people to train to become Merchant Navy officers.
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Torrey Mosvold Torrey Josef Mosvold (9 July 1910 – 18 October 1995) was one of Norway's leading shipping and industrial entrepreneurs.
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Tom Fenchel Tom Michael Fenchel (born 19 March 1940 in Copenhagen) is a Danish marine ecologist and professor first at the University of Aarhus, later at the University of Copenhagen. He is a highly cited scientist and known for, among other things, Fenchel's Law.
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Frederik Meijer Frederik Gerhard Hendrik Meijer (December 7, 1919 – November 25, 2011) was an American businessman, the chairman of the Meijer hypermarket chain in Michigan, US.
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Jørgen von Cappelen Knudtzon Jørgen von Cappelen Knudtzon (28 April 178429 July 1854) was a Norwegian businessman and patron of the arts. Born in Trondheim to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he travelled to Hamburg, Germany to study commerce. Upon his father's death, he inherited the family business, though his brother-in-law Lorentz Johannsen became its director. With the family firm's trade ships Knudtzon often travelled to foreign destinations in Southeast Asia. At one occasion the ship wrecked; in the subsequent tumult he made friends with the Scot Alexander Baillie, with whom he would later travel around Europe.
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Mærsk E-class container ship The Maersk E Series comprises eight 14,770 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) container ships. Each sister ship bear names beginning with the letter "E". Until 2012, they were the largest container ship ever constructed, and are among the longest ships currently in use at 399 metres (1,302 ft) long and 56 metres (184 ft) wide. They are owned by the Danish A. P. Moller-Maersk Group. The first in the class built was "Emma Maersk" by Odense Steel Shipyard Ltd., Denmark. The E-class was followed by the Triple-E class, which is even larger and more fuel-efficient.
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Hilmar Reksten Hilmar August Reksten (29 October 1897 – 1 July 1980) was a Norwegian shipping magnate. In the autumn of 1973 he was counted among the world's richest men, possessing a fleet worth about £300,000,000. At his death in 1980, all was lost; he left behind a debt of about £100,000,000.
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Jens Christian Christensen Jens Christian Christensen (21 November 1856 – 19 December 1930), most often called J. C. Christensen with the 'J' pronounced as an 'I', was a Danish politician normally considered the most important Danish political figure between circa 1900 and 1920.
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Maersk Drilling Maersk Drilling is a drilling rig operator based in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is a subsidiary of the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group, established in 1972. Maersk Drilling is one of the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group's core businesses.
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Arne Næss Jr. Arne Næss Jr. (born Arne Rudolf Ludvig Raab; 8 December 1937 – 13 January 2004) was a Norwegian businessman, shipping magnate and mountaineer.
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Carl Frederik Tietgen Carl Frederik Tietgen (19 March 1829 – 19 October 1901) was a Danish financier and industrialist. The founder of numerous prominent Danish companies, many of which are still in operation today, he played an important role in the industrialisation of Denmark. Notably also forming conglomerates, several of Tietgen's companies attained a monopoly-like status, which cemented their durability.
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Christopher Paus (businessman) Christopher Paus (født 1943) is a Norwegian businessman in the shipping and offshore industries, who resides in London. He is married to Cecilie Paus (née Wilhelmsen), who has owned Wilh. Wilhelmsen with her siblings since 1978, and is the son-in-law of Tom Wilhelmsen, one of Norway's largest shipping magnates.
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Ivar Knudsen Ivar Peter Bagger Knudsen (1 April 1861 – 23 March 1920) was a Danish engineer. As the director of Burmeister & Wain (B&W), Knudsen led the development of the MS "Selandia" , the biggest, most advanced diesel-powered vessel of its time.
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Nils Otto Møller Nils Otto Møller (7 November 1897 – 14 April 1966) was a Danish sailor who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.
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Heering House The Heering House (Danish: Heerings Gård) i a Neoclassical house overlooking Christianshavn Canal in the Christianshavn neighbourhood of Copenhagen, Denmark. It takes its name after Peter Heering who owned it from 1838 until his death in 1875 and it continued to serve as headquarters for his company, Peter Heering, until 1977. The building is now home to the Nordea Foundation, the owner since 1999, as well as six residences available to foreign researchers and specialists, and a museum dedicated to banks and saving banks.
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MV Maersk Rapier MV "Maersk Rapier" is a commercial product tanker owned by the A.P. Moller–Maersk Group and chartered to the United Kingdoms Ministry of Defence (MoD). The vessel serves as the primary strategic link for the collection and transportation of purchased fuel from oil refineries to British and NATO fuel depots.
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Thomas Fearnley (shipping magnate born 1841) Thomas Nicolay Fearnley (born 9 April 1841 in Amsterdam, died 17 May 1927 in Oslo) was a Norwegian shipping magnate, industrialist and philanthropist.