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Samskip will buy the Euro Line Container
the Norwegian company carries out connections between the Norwegian ports and the ports of Amburgo, Bremerhaven and Rotterdam
August 29, 2016
The Samskip Dutch has signed an agreement in order to acquire for 2,5 million euros the Euro Container Linens (ECL), company of navigation of the Norwegian group Wilson. Samskip has emphasized that the acquisition will increase own presence in the Norwegian market having increased the volume of annual containerized trade with Norway from current 55 thousand to 90 thousand teu, so elevating the cargo volume in container enlivened annually from the Dutch group from 850 thousand to 885 thousand teu.
ECL carries out services between the ports of western and central Norway and the ports of Amburgo, Bremerhaven and Rotterdam employing three ships, of which two of property and rental one. Samskip will rent the two ships of property of the ECL for a period three-year-old and will take rental the currently rented ship from the Norwegian company.
The managing director of Samskip, Jens Holger Nielsen, has remembered that the strategy of expansion of the activity of the company in Norway has carried also to the recent acquisition of a participation of 50% in Silver Green KNOWS, company that work a fleet of 14 ships reefer. "The agreement for ECL - Holger Nielsen has explained - is the final step in this market and completes the strategy of regional acquisition that we have got ahead during the last few years. Task that is right to say that it will offer a greater value to our customers in Norway, putting to us in a position to supplying complete services for which the Samskip is famous in other devoted nations to the peach as Iceland and the Faroe Islands. From the point of view of Samskip, the acquisition strengthens that which is ours already hard operating important position in the field of the logistics to controlled temperature".
According to the forecasts, the transaction will be capacity to term within the end of the next month.
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The Samskip Dutch has signed an agreement in order to acquire for 2,5 million euros the Euro Container Linens (ECL), company of navigation of the Norwegian group Wilson. Samskip has emphasized that the acquisition will increase own presence in the Norwegian market having increased the volume of annual containerized trade with Norway from current 55 thousand to 90 thousand teu, so elevating the cargo volume in container enlivened annually from the Dutch group from 850 thousand to 885 thousand teu.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
