About me

My name is Ebbe Holsting, I am 27 years old and from Denmark. I am a Dual Purpose Maritime Officer with the Danish shipping company A. P. Moller - Maersk and currently live in the city of Svendborg on the island called Fyn (Funen in English).

I was born in the city of Roskilde, not far from our capital, Copenhagen, in December 1982 and lived the first six years of my life in the Danish country side in a small village outside the city of Køge. During the summer of 1989 I moved with my family to Kentucky, USA, where I attended 1st grade together with my twin brother, while my two older brothers attended high school.

After a year in the states we moved back to Denmark and moved around quite a bit in the area surrounding Copenhagen before settling down in the city of Naerum on the east coast, 6 miles north of Copenhagen. My twin brother and I completed Danish ground school and continued directly to high school. In november 2000 my twin brother and I had both applied for the Maritime Officer education with A. P. Moller - Maersk, and when we got our high school diplomas in the summer of 2001, we both moved to the city of Svendborg to commence the education. In December 2005 I passed the final exams of the Junior Officer Education and received my first embarkation orders from A. P. Moller - Maersk just after New Year.

After sailing for 1½ years with the company's container vessels, I commenced the Senior Officer Education in the summer of 2007. October 2009 I completed the final part of the education: my bachelor thesis, and October 31st I graduated the Senior Officer Education as a Dual Purpose Senior Maritime Officer. With the education now fully completed, I returned to the fleet late November 2009.

What does "Menkent" mean?

Menkent, also known as Theta Centauri, is the name of one of the stars in the constellation Centaurus. In a mixture of Arabian and Greek Menkent means "The Shoulder of the Centaur", its name thereby given due to its position in the constellation.

Menkent was also the name of my room at Kogtved Søfartsskole, the maritime basic training school I attended for 5 months at the beginning of the course of my education. So the name "Menkent" also holds a fairly philosophic meaning by being "where it all started" in terms of my education.