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29 March 2007

Samskip announces new senior commercial management

Jacques Kleinkramer joins Samskip

Samskip is pleased to announce that Jacques Kleinkramer has joined its Multimodal Container Logistics division as Chief Commercial Officer Area Sales with effect from 1 March, 2007.

Mr Kleinkramer has extensive experience in intra-European transport, short sea and multimodal logistics activities both from general management and sales management perspectives. He has joined Samskip after five years with the Netherlands-based road transport company Vos Logistics where he held the positions of Managing Director sector bulk Europe and latterly Managing Director Marketing & Sales for the group.

Mr Kleinkramer will be jointly responsible for the Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics sales activities with Dirk van den Bosch, who is Chief Commercial Officer Key Client Management. Mr Van den Bosch, who joined Samskip in 2006, brings with him more than 20 years experience in sales management, general management and global key client management.

Notes for editors:

Samskip: running Europe's largest multimodal container logistics network

With the acquisition of Van Dieren Maritime, Seawheel and Geest North Sea Line, Samskip has become the operator of Europe's largest multimodal container logistics system. The Samskip system is able to move containers door-to-door between over 30 countries from Russia, Scandinavia and Iceland in the north to Spain, Italy, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia in the south and centre of Europe.

Samskip offers a wide range of routeing 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 has at its disposal a large number of containers, ranging from 20ft to 45ft pallet-wide high cube containers including reefers, curtain-siders and flat-racks.

This project is being undertaken by a competitive consortium that comprises:

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For downloadable photographs of Mr Kleinkramer and Mr Van den Bosch, please see http://www.dunelmpr.co.uk/Samskip-Photogallery-New.html.

For further information:
Dunelm: David Cheslin or Sharon Cunningham
Tel: +44 20 7480 0600
Email: info@dunelmpr.co.uk

Samskip: Menno Mooij, Marketing Manager
Tel:+31 88 400 1175
Email: Menno.Mooij@Samskip.com

Issued by:
Dunelm Public Relations
Gun Court
70 Wapping Lane
London E1W 2RD
Tel: + 44 (0) 20 7480 0600
Email: info@dunelmpr.co.uk
www.dunelmpr.co.uk

On behalf of:
Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics
Waalhaven OZ 81
PO Box 54143
3008 JC Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Tel:+31 88 400 1000
Fax: +31 88 400 1900
Email: rotterdam@samskip.com
www.samskip.com

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