Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics has appointed a new local agent in Portugal. In addition Samskip will improve its services to and from Portugal. With the increasing volumes on the existing Samskip services to and from this area, Samskip felt it appropriate to review the set up in Portugal.

Van Dieren Maritime BV has decided to establish a presence in Katrineholm, Sweden. The company will

build a hub for its mid/north Swedish operations at Katrineholms Logistikcentrum (Katrineholm Logistics Centre).

As you might know, Kloosterboer Aalesund and Kloosterboer Terminal Rotterdam are part of the Samskip group since May 2005. Since then both companies have been working under the Kloosterboer brand name.  In order to differentiate our brand and strengthen our product specialisation, we have decided to re-brand our companies to FrigoCare as of the 1st of December 2009.

Samskip in Iceland has decided not to send Christmas cards to customers this year, but instead donate the equivalent amount to the Icelandic Family Aid.

M/V Helgafell arrives in Reykjavik Wednesday 16 December (voy.no. 0949 HEG) and leaves Reykjavik again Friday 18 December at 00.00 (voy.no. 0951 HEG) for Vestmannaeyjar and Europe.  The Arnarfell arrives in Reykjavik Tuesday 22 December (voy.no. 0950 ARN) and leaves Reykjavik Friday 1 January 2010 (voy.no. 0953 ARN) for Vestmannaeyjar and Europe.

As per week 42 Samskip will implement some improvements in the Norway service schedule. The upcoming changes will guarantee a more reliable and punctual service. Furthermore the new service will offer an increased capacity for the Oslo, Moss, Brevik and Kristiansand call.

Her name is Birna Ragnarsdóttir and she has been with Samskip for almost 24 years. She left her home town to go to school in Reykjavik when she was 17 and after graduation she joined Hafskip, a small shipping company. In 1986 she joined the Samskip family. She is now director of Customer Services.

Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics can draw upon 30 years of experience operating flatrack equipment between the Benelux, Germany, the UK and Ireland. Now that experience is being made available to a wider network of customers.

He is known for his contagious laughter and for running the hallways, he is ambitious and resilient, he is in charge of the warehouse in Reykjavik, he is Kristján Tryggvi Högnason, our next addressee in The Interview.

Silver Sea, Norwegian reefer vessel operator 50% owned by Samskip, has added two reefer vessels to their fleet. The vessels previously owned by Eimskip now named m/v Silver Lake and m/v Silver River.

Knút Lützen, a little over 40 and lives in Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands, founded Safari Transport in the year 1995 after working in air transport for 6 years. He had then gotten to know the business well. Knút is our latest guest in The Interview.

Samskip was together with Safari Transport present on Fish Expo 2009 in Faroe Islands the days 27 - 29 of May. This year Fish Expo was moved into the heart of Tórshavn, Gundadalur, and this seemed to be a success.

There is plenty of activity at Samskip‘s coldstore terminal in Norway, the Kloosterboer Coldstore Aalesund AS. The company's turnover has grown by about 40% since going online two years ago, and increased in tonnage to 80,000 annually.

From Tuesday 26-05-2009 Van Dieren Maritime increases the weekly rail service between Herne (DE) and  Göteborg (SE) from 3 departures North- and Southbound per week into 5 departures North- and Southbound per week

From the 12th till the 15th of May 2009 Samskip has been present at the Transport Logistic Fair in Munich. The world´s largest trade exhibition of logistics, telematics and transport came to a close  with a new record for exhibition space and exhibitors. Visited by 48,000 persons from 55 different countries, the fair can be called a success.

For the second consecutive year, Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics participated at the Multimodal show at the Birmingham NEC from the 28th till the 30th of April 09. The show seems to succeed in its goal to become the UK’s largest transport event. According to the organizers Multimodal 2009 recorded a 66% increase in visitor numbers. 

It is the fourteenth time Samskip participates in the biggest seafood show in the world, taking place in Brussels 28 – 30 April.

Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics, DFDS Lysline and Unifeeder in joint venture production cooperation between the Oslo fjord and Rotterdam.

Kloosterboer Terminal Rotterdam BV is the world’s first public cold store that has been MSC certified. The cold store, in Rotterdam since 1991, mainly handles fish entering the European Union via Rotterdam.