Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics is pleased to announce an improvement to the Ireland services within Samskip's Pan European Network. The new sailing schedule on Ireland will be operated by four vessels and will be effective 1st, January 2011. The new service offers increased reliability, flexibility, capacity as well as improved geographical coverage on the continent and Ireland.

By sending Christmas gifts this year with Samskip´s domestic network, Landflutningar-Samskip, a good deed is done as the comapny revenues of the gifts will go to an organisation supporting Icelandic families for Christmas.  A payment of EUR 13,000 was made in advance today.

Samskip has appointed Christian Danielsen as new managing director of Samskip in the Faroe Islands. Christian is M.Sc in Economics from Aarhus University in Denmark and comes from a position as finance manager at the company Articon in Torshavn.

Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics will introduce a new weekly service linking the Netherlands with Norway's West Coast. With this new service, the company offers direct calls between Rotterdam and Hamburg and the ports of Stavanger, Haugesund, Bergen and Ålesund in Norway. Using its own fleet of equipment, Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics provides this service on a door-to-door basis, whilst offering a quay-to-quay service for shippers' owned containers.

Green Reefers ASA and Silver Sea AS are pleased to announce the establishment of the joint venture company SilverGreen AS with effect from today. SilverGreen will operate a core fleet of 14 smaller sized reefer vessels (below 200.000 cubic feet) primarily serving the Northern European market.

Recently, there have been some changes regarding the Iberia route for both Spain and Portugal. We now offer an additional sailing from Rotterdam to Bilbao. In addition, we have a new weekly call at Antwerp on our sailing to/from Spain and Portugal.

The Samskip Breakbulk and Project Division in Bremen/Germany participated in the 5th Breakbulk Europe Transportation Conference & Exhibition in Antwerp 18 - 20th May 2010.

Silver Sea AS, a Norwegian reefer transport company 50% owned by Samskip, and Green Reefers AS have entered into a letter of intent for the establishment of a joint venture company, operating a fleet of 14 smaller-sized reefer vessels, primarily serving Northern European customers.

For the third consecutive year, Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics participated at the Multimodal show at the Birmingham NEC from the 26th till the 28th of April 2010. The hype for this third annual show was that it was going to be the best show so far--and it was for Samskip.

Samskip is now participating for the fifteenth time in the European Seafood Exposition in Brussels, the largest seafood fair in the world.  The exhibition opened this morning and many customers have stopped by the stand already, along with other guests.

As from week 15, Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics will start a new weekly service between Zeebrugge in Belgium and Teesport in the United Kingdom. The Samskip vessels will leave Zeebrugge on Friday evenings and will leave Teesport on Sunday afternoons for arrival back in Zeebrugge on Mondays. Samskip will offer the service on a door to door basis with its own fleet of equipment as well as on a quay to quay basis for shippers' owned equipment.

Samskip has renewed its sponsor agreement with Iceland Handball Federation for 2 years throughout 2011.  The company has been one of  IHF´s main sponsors in recent years.

Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics BV and Pro-Log BV are proud to have completed their 1000^th barge trip between Rotterdam and Duisburg. In 2009 the barge MS Theodela has successfully executed a frequent schedule between the Rotterdam harbour and Port of Duisburg. Both Samskip, Prolog and the MS Theodela are looking forward to the next 1000 sailings and by doing so taking around 80.000 truck loads of the busy European roads.