The international shipping and logistics company Samskip has announced the acquisition of leading global reefer logistics company Icepak. The Icepak organisation has offices in Basildon in the UK; Merchantville, New Jersey and Seattle, in North America; and Sydney, Australia. Read more

Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics and Delphis-owned Team Lines have decided to coordinate their sailings to and from Bilbao. By so doing, the two companies will provide their customers with a higher frequency of sailings and first class schedules. Read more

Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics (Samskip MCL) has renewed part of its 13.6m trailer fleet, adding 77 curtain-sided units manufactured by the Dutch trailer specialist Pacton BV. Read more

Alcoa Fjardaál has entered into an agreement with Samskip whereby the Icelandic shipping company will take care of shipments to Europe of the company's production over the next five years. Read more

Samskip has again upgraded its ScanBalt service by doubling its sailing frequency between the Benelux, the UK, Sweden and Baltic Sea ports. Read more

With effect from 17. August, Samskip is to include a call in Zeebrugge on its ScanBalt service, which links the UK and North Continent with Sweden, Russia and the Baltic states. The service, which currently covers the ports of Hull and Rotterdam, Helsingborg, Klaipeda and Ventspils, will see the 800TEU Samskip Explorer making weekly calls at the PSA HNN terminal in Zeebrugge.

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The transport and logistics company Samskip has acquired the door-to-door business unit of Delphis Team Lines for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition will take effect on 1 July 2007. Delphis Team Lines will now focus on the further development of its marine business and continue to serve as a pan-European platform for both deepsea lines and for shortsea and multimodal container logistics providers like Samskip. Read more

Samskip is backing Icelandic singer Lay Low over the next two years. The breakout musician, who has been enjoying growing popularity in Iceland and abroad, won three awards at the prestigious Icelandic Music Awards earlier this year. Read more

Samskip Reefer Logistics has announced the appointment of new partners in the Middle East, Asia and North and South America as it continues to build its global network. Read more

Samskip Reefer Logistics is strengthening its presence in South America as it continues to focus on developing its coverage of the world’s principal reefer trade routes. The Icelandic company has appointed Transaltic SA to be its representative in Argentina while in Brazil, it will in future be represented by Unitrader International. Read more

Samskip has taken a 50% interest in Canadian frozen food specialist Bayside Food Terminal, thus securing its first coldstore capacity in North America. With this agreement, Samskip can further improve the service it offers its customers with its steadily growing worldwide reefer logistics network. Read more

Moves by Samskip Reefer Logistics to build a stronger presence in the Asian market have taken a major step forward with the appointment of Interocean Shipping Corporation, a Tokyo-based agency organisation, to represent Samskip in Japan, one of the world’s most vital and demanding perishables and frozen fish markets.

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As of 19 March, 2007 Samskip has merged its three main offices in Rotterdam into one in a new building. Read more

Only ten months after Samskip boosted capacity on its Scandinavian and Baltic routes by 50%, the fast growing multimodal container logistics company is to introduce yet another improvement to its Baltic, Russian and Scandinavian service coverage. Read more

Samskip Limited has acquired Glasgow-based Saltire Integrated Shipping Limited. Sandy Valentine and Peter Work. the two shareholders of Saltire, a freight forwarding and NVOCC operator formed in 2004, have sold their business to Samskip Limited for an undisclosed amount. Read more

CREATE3S is the title of a new research project funded by the European Commission. Bringing together some of the leading companies in short sea shipping and ship design, CREATE3S aims to develop a new generation of short sea vessels utilising advanced design and manufacturing techniques, enabling Europe to strengthen its shipping and shipbuilding competitiveness. Read more

Husband and wife Ingibjörg Kristjánsdóttir, landscape architect, and Ólafur Ólafsson, Chairman of Samskip, have formed a philanthropic foundation that they have personally funded with ISK one billion. Income from the foundation, which will derive from dividends and interest, will on the one hand be earmarked for various projects in developing countries, and on the other to enhance life in Iceland by supporting projects in areas of culture, education and the arts. This will be done in accordance with the foundation’s Articles of Association, and decisions made by the foundation’s board of directors. It is estimated that ISK 100-150 million will be available for allocation annually. Read more

The leading European multimodal specialist Samskip and the terminal operator PSA HNN are to cooperate in the development of the Port of Zeebrugge as an important hub for shortsea container activities in Northern Europe. Samskip, together with PSA HNN, has conducted a market study evaluating the benefits and possibilities of expanding its business by using a Belgian gateway. Having reached a positive conclusion, Samskip has accepted PSA HNN’s offer to develop a dedicated solution for its future growth. Read more