4 30 News Trailers to Smyril Blue Water
Due to the close co-operation with the freight company Smyril Blue Water, the new management paid a visit to Blue Water Esbjerg. Left to right: Bent Rasmussen/Smyril Blue Water, Kurt Skov and Andras Roin (in front) and Runi Poulsen/Smyril, Allan Junge/Blue Water Esbjerg and Hendrik Egholm/Smyril (at the back).
New Management at Smyril Line Andras Roin, the former chairman of the Faroese shipping line, Smyril Line, is appointed Managing Director of this line. Furthermore the following appointments have been announced: Runi Poulsen as Finance Director and Hendrik Egholm as Marketing
Director (Hendrik has since been headhunted to a job as Managing Director of Shell Færøerne). Smyril Line’s modern ro/pax ferry, Norröna”, which can carry 1500 passengers and 120 trailers, is running between Denmark, Norway, the Faroe Islands and Iceland.
Smyril Blue Water is tremendously busy with traffic between the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Denmark. To accommodate our clients’ growing demands for flexible equipment when loading and unloading, Smyril Blue Water has invested in a further 30 trailers. All our new trailers are curtainsiders with sliding cover, making it possible to load the trailers from the back, from the side and by crane
from above. Many of our customers have a need for transport of large, long and heavy loads which are difficult to load into containers or trailers with solid sides. With this investment, we ensure that our customers will have the absolute best conditions both when loading at the manufacturer’s and when unloading at the recipient’s, explains Anders Stenumgaard from the Smyril Blue Water office in Hanstholm.
Heavy Machinery Transport by Sea to Iceland With the super-modern ro/pax ferry ”Norröna”, Smyril Blue Water has a unique way of transporting rolling machinery from the Continent to the Faroe Islands and Iceland. The machines may be rolled onto the ship unassisted so that any lift by crane is avoided and the actual transport by sea happens below deck. This in turn significantly reduces damage to the large and heavy machines. ”Among other things, Smyril Blue Water has transported a large number of machines to one of the world’s largest aluminium factories, Alcoa Fjardaal in Reydarfjordur in East Iceland”, explains Branch Manager Sigfinnur Mikaelsson from his office in Seydis-
fjordur. Further to this, a large number of diggers were shipped for the completion of the large dam at Karahnjukar. The machinery comes from all over Europe and is shipped from Amsterdam/NL, Hanstholm/ DK or Bergen/N.
The m/s ”Hoburgen”.
Smyril Line expands Capacity over the Summer To cope with the demand for freight capacity over the three busy summer months, when the passenger traffic to the North Atlantic Isles is booming, Smyril Blue Water has chartered the ro/ro vessel m/s ”Hoburgen. The vessel - which can take 82 trailers and 50 trucks - is put in on a weekly basis between Hanst-
holm and Torshavn as a supplement to Smyril Line’s own ferry, m/f ”Norrøna”. Due to the increasing volumes, both northbound and southbound, we expect that for the time being there will be a basis for keeping both vessels on the service all year round, says Director of Smyril Blue Water, Bent Rasmussen.
For further information, please contact:
Anders Stenumgaard tel: +45 96550356 e-mail aks@sbwcargo.dk Sigfinnur Mikaelsson tel: +354 4702801 e-mail siffi@sbwcargo.is John Frandsen tel: +298 309618 e-mail johnf@sbwcargo.fo