Norden chief officer Milan Falsing is reliving one of his childhood passions as he takes over as captain of the Africa Mercy, the world’s largest non-governmental hospital ship.

For two months starting this month, Falsing will be in command of a vessel he visited as a boy more than 20 years ago.

“When the Great Belt ferries stopped sailing in 1997, I wrote to the then owner, Scandlines, which let me come onboard one last time,” he said in Norden’s latest in-house magazine.