Samskip launches new Netherlands – Norway service
Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics will introduce a new weekly service linking the Netherlands with Norway’s West Coast, at the end of August. The new service 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 shipper-owned containers. Until recently, Norway was served via the main ports in the Oslofjord, with oncarriage to the West Coast carried out through a combination of rail and road transport, resulting in additional transit time and cost. Samskip will also introduce 45ft containers to this market, enabling customers to switch from using trailer cargo to the more environmentally friendly transport method of waterborne 45ft containers. Samskip’s new service will open up western Norway to the company’s pan-European network. Calling at both the RST and ECT terminals in Rotterdam, the port serves as the main hub for the hinterland of Benelux, France and Germany and offers links to Samskip’s other multimodal and shortsea services to the UK, Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Samskip started this service on a bi-weekly basis in June, but will offer weekly departures from end-August. Together with Frigocare (Samskip’s coldstore in Alesund) and partner Coolboxx, Samskip will offer both 40ft and 45ft reefer units, enabling the company to cater for reefer business to and from the North West Continent through Hamburg and Rotterdam as well as to create connections to the rest of its network covering Iberia, Ireland, the UK, etc. Quelle: eyefortransport |