CONTAINERSHIPS
The familyowned container shipping business from Finland has decided to replace its old vessels and trucks in response to new energy consumption regulations
Containerships is embarking on a € 300 million journey in order to replace its land and sea vehicles over the next two years , meaning the business will achieve pleasing energy-saving results at the same time as increasing container capacity by 70 percent .
Headquartered in Helsinki , Finland , since 1966 , the company has gone from strength to strength in recent years and now has a presence in 21 countries , with 20 of its own offices which house its 550 employees .
It caters to service customers needing to ensure safe and rapid door-to-door container shipping between Russia and the Baltic , Europe , the UK , Ireland and the North Sea , as well as between North Africa and the Mediterranean . With approximately 13 vessels in operation , its own truck fleet in Finland , Russia and the UK as well as 15,000 containers , Containerships offers customers a wide range of choice for all standard and special container sorts and complete coverage using sea , road , rail and river container transportation .
Antti Laukkanen , Group Land Operations Director , said : “ We ’ re logistics specialists in Europe and parts of North Africa , we calculate how goods can best be routed in the most environmentally friendly manner . With this in mind and in the face of new regulations in the Baltic , we are in the process of a multi-million euro project to replace the entire fleet of our sea vessels . We purchased these from China , the first of which
82 November 2015