b'APRIL 2024SPONSORED CONTENT 19For 110 years Eimskips unique services have linked the North Atlantics ports large and small TheIcelandicsteamshiplineEimskipcelebrateditsU.S. based subsidiary, Eimskip USA, handles the shippingthe near future. Additionally, a cold storage facility is being 110th year anniversary on January 17th, 2024. It is one ofand logistics related services that include the Transatlanticbuilt near the IMT which will also enhance the perishable the worlds most unique ocean carriers. How unique? OneGreen Line service. This service offers weekly departureshandling capabilities of the Port of Portland.look at the ports-of-call for Eimskips liner services is expla- from and arrivals to the Port of Portland, Maine - to and fromOf course, Eimskip already has significant warehous-nation enough. While many of the ports are well known such Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Northern Europe, the Uniteding capability in the US. In Norfolk, Virginia and Portland, as Portland, Maine; Halifax, Nova Scotia or Reykjavik, Ice- Kingdom, Scandinavia, the Baltics, and the Mediterranean.Maine, Eimskip operates over 200,000 sq. ft. of warehouse land, many of the other ports like Argentia in Newfoundland,In2021Eimskipincreaseditstrans-Atlanticservicespace within minutes of the port terminals. The steamship Nuuk in Greenland, Thorshavn in the Faroe Islands, or Bats- for exporters of fresh commodities from the Faroe Islandsline also offers a wide range of services, including storage, fjord and Kirkenes in the far northern reaches of Norway areand Iceland to the United States and Canada. The adjusteddistribution, trans-loads, labeling and pick n pack fulfill-calls unique to Eimskips liner schedule. As such, Eimskipsailingsystemwiththeshorttransittimesprovidescus- ment services along with NVOCC and freight forwarding boasts being the worlds only pan-Arctic carrier, a tributetomers with more environmentally friendly transportationservices. Eimskip USA also can arrange for shippers domes-to the tough and reliable service that Eimskips Polar Class[the carbon footprint of an aircraft is 20-to-30 times moretic over-the-road truck brokerage services (dry van/reefer/ships provide to these far flung northern ports.than ships] and enables them to deliver fresher products tospecialized) as well as drayage service to and from all US In many cases in these northern niche ports, Eimskipmarket. Eimskip also can accept both FCL and LCL of dryports and cross-docking services.is not only the primary carrier calling the port but also han- and refrigerated cargoes and can provide end-to-end solu- e imskiP AnD Thee nvironmenTdling the port and cargo related servicesa soup to nutstions through intermodal of trans-load service to and from efficiency that few ocean carriers can match. most US and Canadian locations. In2023EimskipintroducedanewESG(Environ-Overall, Eimskip has 56 offices worldwide located inThe Port of Portland, now operating under the Mainement,SocialandGovernance)strategyandaccelerated 20 countries, operates 16 ships, has 8,164 TEUs of reef- Port Authority, handles the Eimskip call at their Interna- their target regarding reducing greenhouse gas emissions ers (refrigerated ocean containers) and 22,121 TEUs of drytionalMarineTerminal(IMT)locatedon460Commer- and achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in containers, along with 148 trucks, 30 warehouses, 13 coldcialStreetinPortland. TheIMTterminalcoversaround2040. The goal is centralized around Eimskips sustainable storage facilities and 1,734 employees. Most of the ships20 acres and is equipped with two mobile Liebherr cranes,risk with regards to ESG.are between 700-2,500 TEUs and equipped with 150-400which can handle 124 tons. Provided with a channel with aBack in 2015, Eimskip signed a Declaration on Climate reefer plugs. Eimskip has this large number of reefer plugs35 foot depth, the facility is capable of serving vessels ofChange, which involves reducing greenhouse gas emissions, because the Arctic business calls for equipment capable ofaround 1,000 TEU (twenty foot equivalent units) to 2,000minimizing negative environmental effects through targeted handling temperature-controlled cargo such as frozen andTEU. Eimskips MV Bakkafoss, with a 1,025 TEU capac- actions, and measuring the results and regularly publishing fresh fish.ity, deployed on the Transatlantic Green Line weekly servicethe status.Eimskip set itself the goal of reducing its carbon e imskiP AnD TheP orT ofP orTlAnD schedule, is the largest cargo vessel to call at the terminal.footprint by 40% per unit transferred by 2030. Because much of the inbound cargo is perishable, IMTRecently,Eimskipuppedtheenvironmentalanteby Of course, there is a great deal more to Eimskips ser- is equipped with around 150 reefer plugs to handle the reefersetting the goal of reaching net zero by 2040less than vices than the pan-Arctic connections. Eimskip offers ancontainers. But that number is changing soon. The Port ofsixteen years from now. Its an ambitious target for Eim-exceptional range of trans-Atlantic connections between thePortland received a $14 million Federal grant in 2023 whichskip as 96% of the groups Scope 1 (direct GHG) emissions United States and Canada to Iceland and Europe with mini- will be used to expand the number of available reefer plugsare from the vessels themselves. Nonetheless, Eimskip has mal port congestion and fast transit timesPortland, Maineat the IMT to 420. The new plugs will be arranged in a state- already taken a step by installing NOx (nitrous oxide) emis-to Rotterdam, the Netherlands in 17 days. of-the-art reefer rack that will be capable of mounting reef- sion reduction equipment in the reefer vessels fleet operating ThePortofPortland,MaineisEimskipshomeporters in a stack of five high.out of Norway, significantly reducing NOx pollution from in the USA and anchors the connection to Iceland and theTheadditionalreeferslotswillenableEimskiptothe ships. And in 2023 Eimskip reported that GHG emis-steamship lines menu of trans-Atlantic services. Eimskipshandle even greater volumes of perishables at the IMT insions were down 8%, a positive step towards [email protected], MaineCold Chain Logistics Hub Weekly ServiceCold Storage - 20.000 tons Dry Warehouse - 200.000 sq.ft.Portland, ME to and from Drayage and Trucking ServicesN-EuropeCustom Clearanceeimskip.com | [email protected] | +1 207-331-3300'