Samskip appoints new agents in Poland

Europe's leading multimodal container operator Samskip has appointed a new local agent in Poland. With a fast developing market and increasing volumes on the existing Samskip services to and from this area, Samskip felt it appropriate to review the set up in Poland. With immediate effect, Burger Poland will be the new official agent in Poland, representing the services of the entire Samskip Group.

Jens Holger Nielsen, CEO of Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics, explains the broadening of the agency network towards Poland:

"Due to the strong development of our transport services to and from Poland, there was a growing need for a strong local partner in this country. For several years Burger Poland has proven itself as a reliable agent for our Reefer Logistics division. Thanks to the growing Polish volumes in Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics, the time was right to extend our cooperation and appoint Burger as the official agent for all Samskip services to and from Poland."

"Burger Poland is experienced in sea as well as land based transport In Poland. During the years we have been successfully working with this agent, we have experienced the benefits of their strong customer focus and detailed knowledge of the Polish market. As these aspects are important for Samskip, we strongly believe that Burger Poland will deliver a great service to our customers."

Samskip Services to and from Poland

With its door-door container services Samskip is able to cover the whole of Poland. It offers a wide variety of equipment possibilities such as the 45ft pallet wide high cube container and flat rack equipment. Samskip operates frequent rail connections from the main intermodal terminals in Poland. The terminals are located in Poznan, Wroclow, Slawków, Lódz, Warsaw and Gdansk. Via its main hub in Rotterdam, the rail services connect with the Samskip network for on carriage via the Samskip shortsea and intermodal routes into Western, Northern and Southern Europe. The north of Poland is covered via the Samskip weekly short sea services calling in Gdansk and Gdynia.

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About Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics

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 Russia, Scandinavia and Iceland in the north to Spain, Italy, Austria, Greece, Hungary, the 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.

About Burger Poland

Burger Poland is part of the Royal Burger Group, a privately owned company offering a wide variety of maritime and logistics services. With more than 450 employees it is a successful mid-sized company, with its headquarters in the Netherlands. The group consists of 22 offices established in ten countries including The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and China.

Contact details Samskip

Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics BV
Waalhaven Oostzijde 81
3087 BM Rotterdam
Phone +3188 4001000
Fax + 31884001900
Email: Rotterdam@samskip.com
Website: www.samskip.com

Contact details Burger Poland

Burger Poland
Ul. I Armii WP 13
81- 383 Gdynia
Poland
Phone +48 58 661 7011
Fax +48 58 621 6211
Email: gdynia@burgergroup.pl
Website: www.royalburgergroup.com