Eimskip

Eimskipafélag Íslands hf.
Company type	Publicly traded company
Traded as	Nasdaq Iceland: EIM
Industry	Freight transport
Founded	1914; 110 years ago
Headquarters	Reykjavík, Iceland
Key people	Vilhelm Már Þorsteinsson ; (CEO)
Products	Shipping and logistics
Revenue	€ 668 million (2020)
Net income	€ 4.45 million (2020)
Number of employees	1619
Website	www.eimskip.com

Eimskipafélag Íslands hf. is an international shipping company with 56 offices in 20 countries and four continents; Europe, North America, South America and Asia. Eimskip specializes in worldwide freight forwarding services with focus on frozen and chilled commodities.^[1] The company also operates the passenger transport ferries Baldur and Særún.

Eimskip was founded on January 17, 1914, with the issue of shares where many Icelanders became founding members and the company was called "the favourite child of the nation", in Icelandic "óskabarn þjóðarinnar".^[3]

Eimskip operates 7 vessels and received its newest and most environmentally friendly vessels in 2020, Dettifoss and Brúarfoss,^[1] which sail in collaboration with the Greenlandic shipping company Royal Arctic Line between Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Scandinavia.^[4]

Eimskips also operates 42 warehouses and cold storages in North-America, Europe and Asia. And was once the biggest owner of cold storages in the world with over 180 cold storages on five continents.^[5]

History

Eimskipafélag Íslands was founded in 1914 with the issuance of public shares to around 14,000 people, about 15% of the Icelandic population at the time. The first chairman of the board was Sveinn Björnsson, who later became the first president of Iceland.^[3]

Executives

Vilhelm Már Þorsteinsson, Eimskip CEO
Rósa Guðmundsdóttir, Eimskip CFO / Finance
Hilmar Pétur Valgarðsson, Eimskip COO / Operations
Hilmar Karlsson, Eimskip CIO / IT
Edda Rut Björnsdóttir, Eimskip Executive Vice President / Human Resources and Communication
Bragi Þór Marinósson, Eimskip Executive Vice President / International Operations
Björn Einarsson, Eimskip Vice President / Sales and Business Management
Jónína Guðný Magnúsdóttir, Eimskip Executive Vice President / Iceland Domestic Operations and Services
Davíð Ingi Jónsson, Eimskip General Counsel and Compliance Officer^[6]

Board of directors

Óskar Magnússon, Chairman of the board
Margrét Guðmundsdóttir, Vice-Chairman of the Board
Guðrún Ó. Blöndal, Board Member
Lárus Blöndal, Board Member
Ólöf Hildur Pálsdóttir, Board member^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Consolidated financial statement 2020" (PDF).
^ Financial results eimskip.com ^{[dead link‍]}
^ ^a ^b Magnússon, Guðmundur. Eimskipafélag Íslands í 100 ár.
^ "Eimskip and Royal Arctic Line co-operation commences in June". May 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-09-28.
^ "Eimskip stærst sinnar tegundar í heiminum" (PDF). Markaðurinn. 30 May 2007. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-10-28.
^ ^a ^b "Board of Directors". eimskip.com. Archived from the original on 2019-05-17.

External links

Eimskipafélag Íslands, official website

[finast-1] "Consolidated financial statement 2020" (PDF).

[2] Financial results eimskip.com ^{[dead link‍]}

[:0-3] Magnússon, Guðmundur. Eimskipafélag Íslands í 100 ár.

[4] "Eimskip and Royal Arctic Line co-operation commences in June". May 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-09-28.

[5] "Eimskip stærst sinnar tegundar í heiminum" (PDF). Markaðurinn. 30 May 2007. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-10-28.

[:1-6] "Board of Directors". eimskip.com. Archived from the original on 2019-05-17.

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