Samskip Agrees To Sell To CLdN Its UK and Ireland Quay-To-Quay and Door-To-Door Freight Business

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CLdN will acquire Samskip’s quay-to-quay and door-to-door freight business between the Continent and the UK & Ireland.

  • Includes container services between Rotterdam and UK ports (Belfast, Blyth, Grangemouth, Hull, Tilbury) and Irish ports (Cork, Dublin, Waterford).
  • Network currently performs more than 1,000 port calls per year.
  • Covers door-to-door multimodal operations linking the UK & Ireland with continental Europe.
  • Transfer of leases for 5,000+ multimodal cargo units, including 45ft pallet-wide containers, reefers and flat racks.
  • Supplier agreements for road, rail, barge, vessel sharing and port operations to move to CLdN.
  • Strengthens CLdN’s short-sea container offering alongside its RoRo activities.
  • Expands scale and network reach, particularly towards Central & Eastern Europe.
  • Regulatory and competition approval required before closing.
  • Financial details not disclosed.

Source: CLdN and Samskip

Samskip Upgrades Nor Lines Shortsea Service Network Connecting To Norwegian Coasts

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  • Capacity on the 3-ship Nor Lines service between Baltic ports and Norway will be expanded to 4 vessels.
  • Two vessel pairs operating separate schedules.
  • One pair will connect northern Norway with German and Dutch ports, focusing on frozen fish/project cargoes southbound and palletized/project cargoes northbound.
  • The other ship pair will serve importers and exporters in Danish and Polish ports, connecting with Western Norway in the Fredrikstad-Tromsø range, calling weekly northbound and prioritizing southbound calls for reefer/project cargo volumes.
  • The entirely separate Nor Lines’ multipurpose liner service connecting the Netherlands to Norway weekly will add a call at the Dutch port of Velsen. The addition of Velsen as the first Dutch call is also expected to attract northbound palletized and project cargoes. This service is maintained by the LNG-powered vessels KVITBJØRN and KVITNOS.