Samskip Italy offers customised logistics solutions combining short sea, rail, and road transport. From door-to-door to quay-to-quay, we connect Italy to the rest of Europe in a smart, sustainable, and reliable way.

Why choose Samskip Italy?

1. Reliable partner for your business

Our Milan-based team offers hands-on customer service and proactive support. With our Track & Trace portal, you can monitor shipments in real time, ensuring full visibility and confidence. We also secure the right capacity to match your needs and adapt quickly when things change.

2. Flexible transport solutions

We don’t focus on only one means of transport; we blend road, rail, and sea to suit your cargo. As a result, we tailor transport plans that meet your timing, cost, and sustainability goals.

3. Extensive European network

Thanks to our dense European network, Samskip Italy ensures your goods move smoothly to key markets across Northern and Western Europe.

4. Scalability

Our logistics network scales with your business. We handle sudden changes, last-minute volume shifts, and evolving routes, all while maintaining supply chain stability.

Why go multimodal?

Multimodal transport is becoming the smart choice for businesses and logistics providers across Europe. It creates a seamless flow of goods that is cost-efficient, sustainable, and reliable.

1. Cost efficiency: Lower overall transportation costs by combining different modes, especially on long-distance routes.
2. Faster deliveries: Optimised routes and reduced transit times mean your cargo arrives quicker.
3. Environmental benefits: Utilising rail and sea transport significantly reduces CO2 emissions and supports cleaner supply chains.
4. Flexibility and reliability: Our services offer greater flexibility in route planning and demand changes.
5. Simplified coordination: We simplify communication and coordination, reducing the risk of delays and errors.

Overall, multimodal transport provides a balanced approach to logistics, combining the strengths of various transportation modes to achieve cost savings, efficiency, and sustainability.

Our freight forwarding services are designed to provide flexibility, reliability, and full visibility from start to finish. We offer full truck road transport solutions to cover areas where our intermodal service cannot reach, as well as faster road transport options along existing intermodal routes for time-sensitive shipments. Whether you require Full Truck Load (FTL), Less Than Truckload (LTL), or groupage, we tailor each shipment to meet your specific needs.

Our team provides:

• End-to-end management of all shipments
• Real-time shipment tracking for complete transparency
• Tailor-made solutions with a dedicated contact for your freight
• Full truck services with tautliner, box, or temperature-controlled
• Last-minute transport options to meet urgent deadlines

Our Milan team oversees and coordinates all freight flows to and from Italy, including:

• Spot business
• Cross-docking (via pre/post carriage)
• Road transport solutions
• Alternative equipment options

No matter how complex your logistics needs are, Samskip ensures your freight keeps moving, reliably, efficiently, and across all of Europe.

More about our operations in Italy

Key features:

• Comprehensive services: we cover door-to-door delivery, cross-docking, transhipment, warehousing, freight forwarding and domestic distribution.
• Custom solutions: rail terminal services in Melzo, Busto Arsizio, and Novara.

Our standards:

Samskip Italy operates under strict quality and safety standards. We hold ISO 22000:2005 certification for transporting food, beverages, and alcohol across Europe. Moreover, we offer ADR-certified solutions for hazardous goods, ensuring compliance for chemicals, electronics, metals, and more.

Our equipment:

We operate with a wide range of Samskip-owned containers and specialised equipment designed to meet diverse shipping needs:

• 45ft High Cube Pallet Wide containers (HCPW) for high-volume cargo.
• 20ft and 40ft flat racks, including specialised flat racks for transporting marble and delicate stone materials.
• 45ft curtain siders that allow fast loading and unloading, perfect for flexible logistics solutions.

Our equipment ensures efficiency, flexibility, and reliability while maintaining full control over the supply chain

Export and import destinations:

• Export destinations: Our export destinations cover Ireland, the UK, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Finland, and the Baltic countries.
• Import destinations: These include all export countries plus the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

Sustainability today and tomorrow

Samskip is building the future of logistics with real investment in green innovation. From hydrogen-powered ships to biofuels and smart digital planning, we’re committed to helping our customers grow responsibly.

Track your emissions savings with our CO₂ Calculator

Digital control with MySamskip

Plan, track, and optimise your supply chain in real time with MySamskip, our easy-to-use customer portal. Because with us, you stay in control wherever your cargo goes.

Ready to join the multimodal movement?

Samskip is more than a logistics provider; we’re your strategic partner, committed, connected, and always ready to help you move forward.

Let’s build the smarter, more sustainable supply chain your business deserves.