1970-1980

1970-1980

Calm and storm

It was the 1970s. The selfmade businessman Sven Salén was gone, the old sailing, singing chums had exited. Enter the young lions, well-educated achievers with profits dancing before their eyes, hungry, business-savvy and recruited and encouraged by the dashing Sture Ödner, schooled in his predecessor’s spirit.

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Winter Water dry docked at the City shipyard in Göteborg for additions and repairs after a fire in No. 1 hold in 1979. The ship was 169 metres long and equipped with an enormous bulb at its prow.

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