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Samskip boosts its coverage of the Baltic and North Sea
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.
The company is deploying its 803TEU newbuilding Samskip Explorer and the 550 TEU Anna G to link Hull and Rotterdam with Aalborg in Denmark, Helsingborg and Varberg in Sweden, Ventspils in Latvia and Klaipeda in Lithuania. Overland connections are offered to inland destinations including Moscow.
According to Jens Holger Nielsen, CEO, Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics:
“The need for intermodal logistics solutions is growing and more and more customers are looking to transfer their goods from road to greener, more reliable and cost effective sea transportation alternatives. By combining our intermodal capabilities, Samskip will now offer fixed day arrivals in the growing market of Moscow and its environs.”
Throughout its network, Samskip places a strong emphasis on frequent and punctual schedules. The new services now being announced will operate on a fixed-day port call basis and so safeguard the necessary fast and reliable door-to-door transit times that it says its customers expect.
In Rotterdam, Samskip´s largest hub port, intermodal and shortsea solutions are offered throughout Europe. To meet door-to-door and quay-to-quay customers’ demands for faster and more efficient receiving and handling of trucks, Samskip is introducing a call at Rotterdam’s Interforest Terminal.
Mr Nielsen continues:
“By combining our Swedish and Baltic routes into an improved sailing plan, we can offer faster and more reliable transport solutions to the market. Samskip will reduce the number of port calls and sea miles, consequently further improving our environmental efficiency.”
Danish customers will be served either via the direct call in Aalborg or, in the case of Zealand, via Helsingborg. Sweden and Norway will be served via the extensive rail hub system in Helsingborg and via the efficient and easily accessible port of Varberg.
The new schedule started on 22 February in Hull.
Samskip specialises in providing door to door intermodal logistic solutions. With its large 45ft palletwide container fleet, it offers a cost efficient, environmentally-friendly and reliable alternative to road transportation. The new schedule will enable door-to-door transit times such as Hull to Moscow in 12 days and Rotterdam to Moscow in 11 days.
In cooperation with its fully-owned daughter company Van Dieren Maritime, Samskip offers road and rail solutions from Ventspils to Moscow and from Klaipeda to Moscow via its own trucking operation.
