Shipping Trainee in NORDEN
We take in six to eight Shipping Trainees each year in August.
The shipping trainee programme is an intensive two-year programme consisting of both a practical and theoretical part. You can download our 
shipping trainee brochure (678 Kb)
or visit our new shipping trainee site at www.shippingtrainee.dk to find more information about being a shipping trainee with NORDEN.
After graduation our Shipping Trainees are usually offered a position within chartering or operation at one of our offices abroad for 2 to 3 years before returning to our headquarters in Copenhagen.
Visit our new shipping trainee site - Participate in competitionThe shipping trainee site is in Danish. Remember to turn up the volume on your computer before entering the site.
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Competition - win a trip to our office in Shanghai - and "THE WINNER IS"
The winner of the competition at our shipping trainee site - www.shippingtrainee.dk - has been found and Nikolaj Søgaard Hansen, 18 years old from Kerteminde is the happy winner and is awarded a trip to NORDEN’s Shanghai office where he gets to try how life is as a shipping trainee for three days. A big congratulation to Nikolaj - we look forward to hearing about your trip !
Thank you to all who participated in the comptetion.
The Shipping Trainee Programme
The practical part
As trainee in NORDEN you spend six to twelve months in each of our two primary departments: Tankers and Dry Cargo. During the two years programme you also spend four weeks in the Technical department and four weeks in the Bunker department (buying bunker oil for the vessels) and you will have one or two stays with a Port Captain or on board vessels sailing on various destinations. In the departments, then you will typically get a chance to work in operations, in chartering and in control. See more on selected job assignments
The theoretical part
Along with the practical assignments you take the first part of a graduate diploma in Business Administration at the Copenhagen Business School, CBS., where you will learn more about e.g. statistics, IT, economics and business finance. You will follow a specially designed shipping course in Esbjerg (five weeks in total during the two years), as well as courses in maritime law and English at the office in Copenhagen.
We work closely together with a series of other large shipping companies on the theoretical part of the programme. Due to this, you will become part of a network with a lot of other trainees in the shipping industry.
How to qualify
To qualify for the trainee programme you are to – as a minimum – have passed highschool (gymnasium) or business school (Højere Handelseksamen) with a minimum grade point equal to 8.5 on the 13-scale.
You also need Mathematics at B-level (passed with a minimum grade point of 6 on the 13-scale in both the written and oral part) as well as good English skills.
Further information
Working at NORDEN
Corporate culture
Facts on Danish Shipping
Meet a trainee: A worldwide career in NORDEN - article from NORDEN News Magazine
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