Samskip puts multimodal transport on the Norwegian agenda
Samskip Multimodal signalled its continuing commitment to shortsea in specific and multimodal services by presenting a ship model to the Norwegian Minister of Transport, Mr. Ketil Solvik-Olsen last week, the company said in a press release.
Samskip joined the Port of Oslo and the Norwegian Port Association to present the model on behalf of the shipping industry, to highlight shortsea’s contribution to policy aims, given its absence from the Government’s 2015 agenda.
With new sulphur emission regulations effective from January 2015 and the Norwegian Government committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions*, the parties stressed the need for leadership to avoid cargo moving back to road.
The ship model is an exact replica of the Samskip Endeavour, one of Samskip’s 803 TEU shortsea vessels.
About Samskip
Samskip operates one of Europe's largest multimodal container logistics systems. The Samskip system is able to move containers door-to-door between over 30 countries from the United Kingdom and Ireland to Russia, Scandinavia, Poland, the Baltic States, Finland and Iceland in the north to Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Greece, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia in the south and centre of Europe. Samskip offers a wide range of routing options, utilising road, rail, sea and inland waterways as appropriate to provide the best combination of rate and transit time to suit individual customers' requirements and preferences. It now has at its disposal over 13,000 containers, ranging from 20ft to 45ft pallet-wide high cube containers including reefers, curtain-siders and flat-racks.
