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Samskip’s New Direct Service Connects Portugal and UK

Samskip has launched a new, direct weekly service connecting Portugal and the UK, introducing its own vessel to sustain links between Tilbury, Lisbon and Leixões and its multimodal hub port of Rotterdam, says an article published in Fresh Produce Journal.

The new direct line

Container shipping company Samskip has launched a new direct, weekly service connecting Portugal and the UK. 

The Dutch group is introducing a 1,000-TEU container ship on charter between Tilbury, Lisbon, Leixões and its...

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Samskip to connect Portugal and the UK direct

Samskip has launched a new, direct weekly service connecting Portugal and the UK, introducing its own vessel to sustain links between Tilbury, Lisbon and Leixões and its multimodal hub port of Rotterdam.
The Netherlands-based group introduced a 1,000TEU container ship on charter from November 1. It will sustain a UK-Portugal transit times of five days, while continuing to offer four-times weekly services from Rotterdam to Leixões and weekly to Lisbon via …

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Samskip introduces intra-European connection

A new regular container line appeared at the Szczecinskie Quay at the Port of Gdansk. The Samskip shipping company is introducing a weekly connection between Gdansk and the ports of Denmark and Norway. The Port Gdanski Eksploatacja company will take care of handling the cargo.

Thanks to the cooperation of Port Gdanski Eksploatacja and the Samskip company, the Szczecinskie Quay at the Port of Gdansk will handle the container connection between Scandinavia and Poland. Samskip’s containers will...

https://container-news.com/samskip-intra-european-connection/

Samskip Appoints Kari-Pekka Laaksonen As CEO

  • Samskip has appointed Kari-Pekka Laaksonen has its CEO to execute growth plans based on a customer-focused approach.
  • This move is to align logistics services more closely with the business objectives of its client base.
  • Kari-Pekka was the former CEO of Samskip competitor Containerships, where he led the Finnish group’s aggressive growth from 2012.
  • All companies, including Norlines and Samskip Logistics, will merge into one group.

Pan-European transport service provider Samskip appoints...

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Samskip appoints new CEO

Samskip, Europe’s largest multimodal service provider group, has secured the services of Kari-Pekka Laaksonen as Group Chief Executive Officer, in an appointment reflecting its strategy to align logistics services more closely with the business objectives of its client base.

Laaksonen, who takes up his post at Samskip’s Rotterdam headquarters on August 1st, 2019, is the former CEO of Samskip competitor Containerships, where he led the Finnish group’s aggressive growth from 2012. He also brings...

https://container-news.com/samskip-appoints-new-ceo/

Kari-Pekka Laaksonen appointed new group CEO at Samskip

Pan-European transport service provider Samskip has appointed former Containerships chief executive Kari-Pekka Laaksonen as its new group chief executive.
The current CEO, Ásbjörn Gislasonm will become group deputy chief executive.
Samskip said the appointment of Mr Laaksonen reflected “its strategy to align logistics services more closely with the business objectives of its client base”.
He will take up his new post, based at Samskip’s Rotterdam headquarters, on 1 August following some seven...

https://theloadstar.com/kari-pekka-laaksonen-appointed-new-group-ceo-at-samskip/

Samskip launches new service

Samskip launches a new service connecting Norway to Baltic countries. This service will start on August 16th, 2019 and will add various ports to the Samskip Europe’s largest network transport service.

The new connections are counting Iceland and Faroe Islands via Cuxhaven and Aarhus, North Norway. On the operational side Samskip introduces two geared container vessels, 220 TEU vessels, 85 reefer plugs, and a deep sea feeder via Hamburg.

Key features:

•   Seamlessly connecting Norway with the...

https://container-news.com/samskip-launches-new-service/

Samskip gets accredited once again

Samskip announces that Lloyd’s Register once again certified them with the ISO 14001:2015 certification. ISO 14001 is the international standard with requirements for an environmental sustainability management system. The system is used to develop an environmental policy appropriate to the organization and to guarantee its implementation.

ISO 14001 sets the following requirements for the results of the management system: continuous improvement of performance and protection of the environment...

https://container-news.com/samskip-gets-accredited-once-again/

Samskip tunes network for the upcoming brexit

Pan-European multimodal service provider Samskip says experience gained up to March 31, 2019 find it fully prepared for a North Sea container traffic surge, as attitudes harden in the run up to October’s revised Brexit deadline

Europe’s largest multimodal transport group by freight volume expects UK exporters and importers to start switching away from trailers and towards containerisation very soon, repeating a trend established in the run-up to the original deadline for Brexit.

“We saw a...

https://container-news.com/samskip-tunes-network-upcoming-brexit/

Samskip increases Europe-UK capacity as ferry customers switch to boxes ahead of Brexit

Dutch-based short-sea and multimodal container logistics operator Samskip is pressing on with its contingency plans to assist customers to secure their supply chains in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
Talking to The Loadstar at Transport Logistic in Munich, interim CEO and COO Diederick Blom said that Samskip had secured new business from blue chip shippers that need to ensure there is no break in their supply chains if the UK …

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