Samskip improves service and appoints new agent in
Portugal
Europe's leading multimodal container operator
Samskip has appointed a new local agent in Portugal. In addition Samskip will
improve its services to and from Portugal. With the increasing volumes on the
existing Samskip services to and from this area, Samskip felt it appropriate to
review the set up in Portugal. As from 2 December, Marmedsa, one of Iberia's
major transport and logistics specialists, will be representing Samskip in
Portugal. As from this date Samskip will also work with an improved service
schedule. The new schedule offers a higher frequency as well as shorter transit
times on the services to and from Portugal.
Mr Jens Holger Nielsen, CEO of Samskip Multimodal
Container Logistics, explains the changes:
"The new service schedule brings our
customers multiple advantages. The frequency of the services to and from
Portugal will be increased from one to two sailings per week. The northbound
transit time to Tilbury, Hull and Grangemouth will become shorter, creating the
possibility to deliver the week after departure. The new service offers an
additional call at Southampton as well as improved southbound transit times
based on the Saturday sailing from Rotterdam. Overall, we can only regard the
changes as very positive."
About the appointment of the new local agent,
Mr Nielsen expressed his confidence that Samskip has found a well established
and experienced partner for the Portuguese market in Marmedsa:
"Marmedsa is one of the leading logistics service providers in Iberia.
It has an excellent reputation in the market. Marmedsa has a strong local
presence, market knowledge and is experienced in handling door-to-door
transports".
"In other parts of the Samskip group we have
already been working with Marmedsa for several years. In this cooperation we
have found that Marmedsa lives up to our and our customers' service standards
and expectations. Furthermore Marmedsa will have full access to the Samskip
transport operating IT-system. By using the same operation and communication
platform, Marmedsa will be able to deliver the same high customer service as
our own offices."
The President of Marmedsa, Antonio Campoy is confident
the cooperation with Samskip will be beneficial to both the companies:
"We have the local knowledge and experience
within the Iberian market to operate successfully in Portugal. Samskip provides
access to its extensive Pan European multimodal container network and its
experience in delivering door-door container transport within Europe is unique.
We are convinced that combined, these strengths will create opportunities to
further develop multimodal transport solutions between Portugal and the rest of
Europe."
Note to editors
Two photographs to accompany this press
release can be downloaded from
http://www.dunelmpr.co.uk/Samskip-Photogallery-NEW.html.
The captions for the photographs read:
"Samskip's Russell Baker (left) and
Marmedsa's Ander Rodriguez (right) congratulate each other on the new agency
agreement signed between their two companies. "
"The 800TEU Samskip Courier, specially
designed to carry 45ft palletwide containers as well as standard 20ft and 40ft
containers, gets ready to sail from Rotterdam."
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, Turkey, Hungary, the Czech Republic
and Slovakia in the south and centre of Europe as well as of course Benelux,
UK, Ireland and Germany.
Samskip offers a wide range of routing options,
utilising road, rail, sea and inland waterways as appropriate to provide the
best combination of cost and transit time to suit individual customers'
requirements and preferences. Samskip now has at its disposal over 13,000
containers ranging from 20ft to 45ft pallet-wide high cube containers including
reefers, curtainsiders and flat-racks.
The Samskip Portugal short sea service is completely
integrated into Samskip's multimodal container service network. By seamlessly
connecting Portugal with the West and North of Europe as well as the Baltic
Sea, Samskip is able to provide its customers with a reliable and cost
efficient container door-door transport service between Portugal and the rest
of Europe.
About Marmedsa Portugal
The Marmedsa group started its activities in 1963 as a
ship agency. In 1999 Marmedsa became a part of Dragados SPL, the shipping and
logistics division of the Spanish conglomerate ACS. It is considered to be the
leading maritime & logistics group in Iberia.
The Marmedsa group offers a wide diversity of
transport services and has an own network of offices covering all main ports
and cities on the Iberian Peninsula. The services are diversified around the
international transportation sector with the aim of offering a comprehensive
and multimodal coverage tailored to meet all of its clients' needs. Marmedsa is
an organisation where quality of service and proximity to customers are of
paramount importance.
In 1996 the Marmedsa group entered the Portuguese
market by acquiring Keller Maritime LDA. Currently Marmedsa Portugal employs
more than 80 skilled professionals in five different offices. These are located
in the main commercial ports: Oporto, Aveiro, Lisboa, Setubal and Sines.
Press contact
Marlies van der Hoeven,
Marketing Communication,
Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics
0031-884001174
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
Marmedsa Portugal Marmedsa
Agência Marítima (Portugal), Lda.
Av. D. Joâo II, Lote
1.18.01
Edificio Art's - Bloco B - Sala 2 C - Parque das
Naçôes
1990-084 Lisboa
Phone +351 21 898 22 50
Fax +351
21 898 22 59
Telex 4200 KMOPS
E-mail:
samskiplis@mamp.marmedsa.com for Lisbon,
samskiplei@mamp.marmedsa.com for Leixoes and
rcostas@mgalicia.com
for Vigo (Spain)
Website: www.marmedsa.com |
