Samskip and Viasea have teamed up to launch a new UK-Rotterdam-Norway Oslofjord service that calls at Rotterdam and Immingham/Tilbury to 6 ports in Norway from 1 March 2024. The service will deploy 4 ships of 500-800 teu, and will offer 3 weekly calls at Oslo, 2 calls at Moss and 1 call at Brevik, Kristiansand, Frederikstad and Larvik. At Rotterdam, the service will call at the multipurpose Martrans terminal.
Samskip will launch a new Spain-United Kingdom-Rotterdam service connecting Rotterdam, Santander, Tilbury, Rotterdam from 2 April 2024 with the 803 teu SAMSKIP EXPRESS. The service will operate on a weekly frequency and is aimed at replacing road-ferry alternatives in the European short-sea route.
Samskip has added a second vessel to the Samskip Baltic Sea service with the addition of a new call at Klaipeda and shift its UK call from Hull to Immingham from March 2024. The extended Samskip Baltic Sea service will replace the existing Samskip Finland & Latvia service that was first introduced in November 2023. The revised service will call at Immingham, Rotterdam, Helsinki, Riga, Klaipeda, Immingham on a 14 day rotation with 2 ships of 803 teu (JSP RIDER and JSP ROVER). Samskip Baltic Se
Samskip has launched a new Baltic Sea - Finland/Latvia service from 7 November 2023 to connect Helsinki, Riga, Hull, Rotterdam, Helsinki. The service turns n 2 weeks using 2 ships of 500 teu. The service was initiated at Helsinki on 7 November with the 366 teu ORION for a single trip before being replaced by the 509 teu BF CARTAGENA and 508 teu DORNBUSCH.
Boluda Lines and Samskip have jointly launched a new Spain-Ireland-UK service connecting Santander, Dublin, Liverpool, Santander using the 803 teu LUCIA B from 29 September 2023. The service turns in 1 week using a single ship from Boluda, with Samskip taking slots. In northern Spain, the service will call at Boluda Maritime Terminals Santander that was opened by Boluda in April 2023 at a total cost of €40 m with a capacity of 110,000 teu a year.
Samskips has added a weekly Gothenburg-Iceland connection with the addition of the Swedish port on its existing Iceland-Faeroe-Europe service starting from 6 April 2023. The service will call at Rotterdam, Cuxhaven, Gothenburg, Aarhus, Runavik, Reykjavik, Grundartangi, Vestmannaeyjar, Runavik, Rotterdam using the 908 teu HELGAFELL and ARNARFELL that will turn on a 14 day rotation.