Are you going on maternity leave? Then we won't see you again! That's what Christina Heintze was told when she told her colleagues that she was expecting her first child five years ago. "They were sceptical, but the shipping company was not. All I had to do was confirm when I expected to be back. The company emphasised that I needed to feel ready to work again, so I might have to wait until the baby was born to give a final date."

Jonas Muff Kofoed is at home in Odense, but soon he will be travelling to work again. He is chief engineer on the container ship SAN RAPHAEL MÆRSK, which sails a regular route between Europe and South America. When he sailed tankers, he only knew the place and date of embarkation shortly beforehand because the ship was not in regular service. Fortunately, that's not the case this year.

In the skipper's private cabin hangs a picture with the embroidered text: "The Lord is mighty above the waves of the sea." It was sewn by his grandmother and hung on his grandfather's ship, his father's ship and now in the home of 55-year-old Jens Nørgaard Nielsen, because it is a fundamental truth for him.

On 1 September, the Royal Yacht Dannebrog arrived in Fredericia in brilliant sunshine and with enthusiastic Danes to welcome Her Majesty Queen Margrethe. Also on board was Jakob Jørgensen, First Lieutenant and Operations Officer on the Royal Yacht Dannebrog.

It was an ordinary 15 December 2020 on board the SOV vessel ESVAGT NJORD, which services offshore wind farms on a daily basis. On board, Frederik Oksholm was on watch from 5am until lunch at 11am. At around 11.30am, he heard a huge bang while he was vacuuming in the reception area. He thought it was something at the hatch. It wasn't.