Personal contact with customers is a major feature of Samskip operations, a fact confirmed by the company´s participation in the four-day long Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition this September along with eight hundred companies and organizations from 40 countries all over the world.

Send

Read more

Substantial growth in Samskip's Asia operations has led to the opening of the company's fourth office in the region, this one in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The other offices are located in Pusan, South Korea, and Qingdao and Dalian in China.

Send

Read more

The acquisition of the UK shortsea intermodal operator Seawheel by the Icelandic shipping-to-logistics company Samskip was completed on 11 August following approval of the deal by European regulatory authorities.

Send

Read more

Samskip further consolidates its position as Europe's leading intermodal shortsea shipping company.

Send

Read more

Geest North Sea Line, is to long-term charter four more 812 TEU vessels from German owners. All are identical to Geeststroom and Geestdijk, delivered to Geest in January and April 2005, and are being built by the Damen Shipyards Group in Romania for delivery in 2006.

Send

Read more

Bechtel, which builds the Alcoa Fjarðaálproject and Samskip have made a contract on erection and operation of a huge crane at the new Smelter harbor in Reyðarfjörður.

Send

Read more

Former Maersk executive, Michael F. Hassing, will oversee the Icelandic company's future development in the fields of shortsea and international shipping and forwarding.

Send

Read more

On Sunday, 24 April, agreement was reached on a far-reaching form of co-operation between the Icelandic shipping-to-logistics company Samskip and the Dutch Kloosterboer Group whereby Samskip will acquire a number of coldstore companies that belong to Kloosterboer. This move will create one of Europe's leading specialists in reefer logistics for the seafood industry and together the companies intend to grow this sector of their business globally.

Send

Read more

Container short-sea operator TECO LINES, are pleased to announce that the port of Aarhus, Denmark will be added to our liner network. Aarhus will be called on a weekly basis with direct connections from Muuga/Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland with transit times of 2 days.

Send

Read more