As of May 1, Royal Arctic Line will no longer have its own freight forwarding department in Greenland.
As part of the operational optimization and streamlining of Royal Arctic Line, the management has decided to divest the company’s freight forwarding and port agency activities in Greenland to Eimskip Greenland. The freight forwarding department usually deals with freight forwarding services within sea and air freight, pre- and post-transportation and not least as Greenland’s largest port agency. Since 1995, the department has offered these services to customers in Greenland and beyond.
Royal Arctic Line’s core mission is to transport goods to, from and within Greenland in the most efficient way. After focusing on optimizing the route network and reinvesting in a new fleet, it’s time to look at which activities primarily contribute to fulfilling this core task, a task given by the concession with the Government of Greenland.
“I helped start Royal Arctic Spedition in 1995 together with DFDS. As the situation is today, it has been important to me that the freight forwarding tasks can be solved in a continuously developing environment and be supported by an international network, which we find that the new owner has the opportunity to offer customers and not least our employees. It will still be the same employees that customers meet, even in the same location”, says Royal Arctic Line’s Commercial Director Niels Clemensen.
The activities associated with the freight forwarding department have been sold to the Icelandic company Eimskip, which together with the acquisition of the activities has also taken over the employees, which is why there are no employment consequences for the employees.
For further information please contact:
Commercial Director, Niels Clemensen
Mail: nic@ral.gl
Tel: +299 349111
