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. 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. 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. Read more

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

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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. 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. 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. 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.

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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.

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Samskip is opening two new offices in the Baltic States. The new undertaking is designed to serve the local markets and as a gateway to Russia and destinations farther east, and will strengthen Samskip's ability to provide clients with secure door-to-door service throughout the growing eastern markets.

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Samskip-supported Danish table tennis player Finn Tugwell is ready for the European Championship, which will be held later this month in his native Denmark. Read more

Samskip's after-tax profit for 2004 was ISK 708 million (m), as compared to an after-tax profit of ISK 366 m the previous year. The increase is ISK 342 m, or over 90%. Group turnover in 2004 amounted to ISK 23 billion, increasing by almost ISK 6 billions, or around 33.5 %, from the preceding year.

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At its Annual General Meeting on 8 March 2005, the Icelandic shipping-to-logistics company Samskip appointed two new directors, Lilja Dóra Halldórsdóttir and Flemming Jacobs. In addition, three existing directors Guđjón Ármann Jónsson, Karsten M Olesen and Samskip's Chairman, Ólafur Ólafsson, were re-elected to the Board.

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The Icelandic shipping-to-logistics company Samskip is set to acquire full control of the Dutch intermodal operator Geest North Sea Line in a deal that will create Europe's largest intra-European intermodal/shortsea container shipping network. Including charter vessels, the combined operation will deploy a fleet of over 20 vessels ranging in size from 200TEU to over 900TEU.

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Samskip took a new 11-thousand tonne vessel into service at a formal ceremony in Hamburg 25 February. The vessel, christened Helgafell, will replace the company's older vessel of the same name sailing between Iceland and Europe.

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We are very sad to inform that the authorities have found four of the 11 crew members from the sunk ship dead.   Read more

On the evening of Monday, 7 February 2005, the Isle of Man flagged vessel M/V Jökulfell sank. On board the ship are 11 man crew Russians and Latvians. Five have been rescued by a rescue helicopter are now on board the Danish navy vessel "Vædderen". Six crew members are still missing and the authorities from Faeroe Islands are leading a search for the missing persons. There is an ongoing search and rescue operation led by the authorities from Faeroe Islands. The wind in the area is 15 m/s, visibility good and the sea is rough. The reason why the ship has sunk is still unknown. Read more

Samskip will as from week 5 again call Varberg Terminal West with the Icelandic service. Read more

Samskip celebrated yet another major milestone in its progress on 22 January 2005, when company executives took possession of the first of two new 11,000-ton container liners built for the company by shipbuilders JJ Sietas in Hamburg.

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In relation to the increased service to the Faroe Islands, which Samskip started in December 2004, Samskip has decided to move our terminal activity for the Iceland and Faroe Islands operation, from Moss to Oslo.

This will be done as from 1st of February, week 5. All LCL cargo to be shipped from Norway in week 5, must be delivered to the Oslo terminal.

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The beginning of the year saw the opening of Samskip's first office in the Ukraine. Located in the capital, Kiev, it will enable Samskip to offer house-to-house transport solutions for domestic shippers as well as international companies.

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