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The sculpture was designed by Svend Wiig Hansen and installed in 1995.

More recently, it has become a centre for shipping offshore wind turbines.

In addition to handling 65 percent of all Danish wind turbines, which supply 3 gigawatts (4,000,000 hp) of offshore wind power, components have been shipped to various British wind farms.

The slaughterhouse and meat packaging facility, Esbjerg Andels-Slagteri, established in 1887, became Denmark's sixth largest by 1962.