Time for Action Print

TIME for action the Drag Anchor carrier Janny thought (please see elsewhere on this site for further explanation). That is why she still upports the idea of making the statue in dedication of the Unknown Docker reality. The idea of materializing the statue Unknown Docker - made by Sandy Warnaar - is supported by Cruise Rotterdam and Cruise Europe MD Mai Elmar and other top brass in Rotterdam. The scheme as to how is still under discussion.

Another venture was promoting to get the outside of Cruise Terminal Rotterdam prettier, the way the parking lot has beenfinally  enclosed in particular. Potted plants alongside the Cruise Terminal Rotterdam building and elsewhere at the Wilhelminapier area, have done a world of good.

It was a matter of perseverance and hours and hours of talking to get the potted plants in their proper place. Miracle of micracles; that happened just before the arrival of the Norwegian Epic, the largest cruise liner ever to be in a Dutch seaport. At least the passengers got a flowery welcome, although they'd rather be earlier onboard ship than actually happened.

 

 THERE is more than meets the eye in Janny's home suburb Vreewijk; the oldest but one Welwyn Garden City look-alike in the Netherlands. Entrepreneurs and the organisation of inhabitants of this specific Rotterdam area  can look back upon successful cultural manifestations in the centre of Vreewijk. Janny contributed to special newspapers on the events. Please click on the Ondernemend Vreewijk logo to find more about current events.  

 

 

THE Ketelbinkie Koffietrofee Jury (a bunch of Rotterdam-based coffee tasting journalists) has made the crew of Cappucino happy by awarding them the 1st Prize for the best cup of coffee served in Rotterdam. Professional photographer Ed de Waarheid pictured the Cappucino group in a festive mood. Ketelbinkie Koffietrofee Jury chair Janny can be spotted on the right. Please click on the picture to find more about the Foundation Ketelbinkie.

 

YouTube virtues have been discovered by Janny as well. Please go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaabrmCLgS0 to watch her in the act of TV presenter as recorded and edited by professional cameraman Bob van Bruggen at www.ijsbreker.tv  , or search 1portreporter on YouTube to find Janny's attempts to be what is called a camjo.

 

THERE s a relatively new IT doctor in the house: ICT United's Roderick Guépin. Here he is  the Man@Work Guépin used to cooperate with good old IT Doctor Mike Vuyk, who unfortunately had to step down.  On the positive side is that Mike is still in the background, keeping abreast of the latest developments within and outside ICT United. Please find out yourself at http://www.ictunited.nl

As 2010 goes on the New year's wish conveyed early this year is still valid:Cooperation and effective communication have to work wonders against the crises. Could not we use these tools to fight hard-heartedness of society? A laugh and a friendly gesture make the world a better place!

HAPPY memories about a super 60st birthday party at Maritime Hotel in Rotterdam, thanks to all nice friends and party lovers who came to the party. Here is Janny in the act of a performer, together with the real one: Jos Valster. Also depicted a much earlier performance together with the real entertainer Lee Towers and Port of Rotterdam crooner Hans Magito. Thanks to IT doctor Roderick more pics are put for show on this website. Please go to Janny's Photos

 Janny was sent this picture (left) by fellow WISTA members who spotted the Rotterdam-based party goer in London at the Medieval Banquet. And yes, it was all fun and laughter at the so-called Court of Henry the Eight.

All WISTA members look forward to the WISTA conference which will be held in Athens late September.

 

 

Surprise, surprise: you can find Janny and follow her on Twitter! Much earlier she joined Facebook and LinkedIn

 Please click on the bird to find out where it goes to. That and more tweets of woman and bird can be found on the virtual networks Janny participates, but also to http://www.twitter.com/harbourexpert/

 
Janny ready to co-host conferences Print

Janny is ready to get more assignments for co-hosting conferences. In this pic she is in action at a seminar about sharing valuable information for the benefit of the port community. Prior to Dutch municipal elections she co-hosted what was called LijstDuwers Debate.

Janny did the trick again at Havencongres 2010 in Rotterdam, in the act of roving reporter both at the conference and in Rotterdam the Port Movie. Please click on www.havencongres.nl and on www.youtube.com for further information.

Visitors of www.jannykok.nl as stated by Motigo on 22/03/2009:

1.Nederland6.69280,7 %
2.Verenigd Koninkrijk2783,4 %
3.Verenigde Staten1632,0 %
4.België1321,6 %
5.Noorwegen1041,3 %
6.VS Commercieel931,1 %
7.Netwerk730,9 %
8.Duitsland550,7 %
9.Frankrijk470,6 %
10.Zuid-Afrika350,4 %
 De rest6237,5 %
 Totaal8.295100,0 %

 
Maasvlakte 2 Print

Maasvlakte 2

MAASVLAKTE 2 becomes more and more in shape, since Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands has launched the names of the future docks at the port land reclamation. The construction of 1,000 hectares of additional docks and terminals started ion a sunny, but windy day early September 2008 with what is called 'the first plunge' (of sand) for Maasvlakte 2, after 15 years of discussion and legal procedures.    

Janny's husband Jaap was present to take pictures of the event and to share the 'civil engeneer feeling' with bigwigs of the port community, reporters includes. 

    

 ALSO in orange: the delegation of Women's International Shipping & Trading Association. Spot the looney JK.

 
Rotterdam's heritage Print

protecting treesvreewijk explainedRotterdam's heritage - Vreewijk the oldest but one garden 'city' in the Netherlands - should be cherished. As it happens, the managing housing corporation is inclined to demolish terraced houses. Its target seems to have more profitable new building high-rise as a replacement in the area Yet, the management has proven to lend a willing ear to all those who take the interests of heritage at heart. The corporation has been cooperative to keep history alive in Museum House Lede 40. Please go to www.comwonen.nl and www.historischmuseumrotterdam.nl to learn more. Vreewijk fouders would have given their consent.Architect Grandpré Molière is one of them. His statement about Vreewijk can be found on a plaque. It says (in Dutch): The value of the 1st Rotterdam garden village is not in what has been built, but in what has been ventured, persevered and defied!

 
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