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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 ...
Icelandic shipping company Eimskip began container service between Europe and Portland in 2013. [12] Between 2013 and 2019, container traffic in the Port of Portland nearly tripled. [13] The construction of a cold storage facility has been proposed several times, most recently in 2020, as a way to make the port more valuable for foreign trade.
In 1939 Eimskip planned to replace the 1915 [2] Gullfoss, but World War II intervened and the new ship was not launched until 8 December 1949. Some days after launching, Gullfoss suffered a dust explosion , which killed four shipyard workers and injured two.
Director of Reykjavík University from 2003 to 2005 and director of Eimskip's communications department from 2005 to 2006. She was an assistant to Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson, Minister of Health from 2007 to 2009 and a part-time teacher at the University of Bifröst 2009–2011. In the years 2010–2016, she worked at Icepharma as director of ...
' Eimskip Field ' [a] or 'Eimskip Stadium') for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Reykjavík, Iceland. It is the home stadium of Þróttur Reykjavík who play in the Úrvalsdeild. The stadium has a capacity of 5,478 fans.
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The project was supported by a Norwegian government grant of 5.5m Norwegian kroner; Icelandic government funding for the redevelopment of the Skansinn area of Vestmannaeyjarbær as a heritage area; and some private sponsorship was also involved, most importantly that the Icelandic company Eimskip shipped the church to Iceland for free. [5]
The airline was founded as Star XL German Airlines by Eimskip from Iceland and received its air Operator's Certificate on 3 May 2006. On 30 October of the same year, the Avion leisure business was bought out and re-organized by the XL Leisure Group, resulting in the airline changing its name to XL Airways Germany.