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Eimskipafélag Íslands hf. ( , ), trading as Eimskip ( , ), is an international shipping company with 56 offices in 20 countries and four continents; Europe, North America, South America and Asia. Eimskip specialises in worldwide freight forwarding services with focus on frozen and chilled commodities. The company also operates the passenger transport ferries Baldur and Særún. Eimskip was founded on 17 January 19141, 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". Eimskip operates seven vessels and received its newest and most environmentally friendly vessels in 2020, Dettifoss and Brúarfoss, which sail in collaboration with the Greenlandic shipping company Royal Arctic Line between Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Scandinavia. Also, Eimskip 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.
Eimskipafélag Íslands hf. ( , ), trading as Eimskip ( , ), is an international shipping company with 56 offices in 20 countries and four continents; Europe, North America, South America and Asia. Eimskip specialises in worldwide freight forwarding services with focus on frozen and chilled commodities. The company also operates the passenger transport ferries Baldur and Særún. Eimskip was founded on 17 January 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". Eimskip operates seven vessels and received its newest and most environmentally friendly vessels in 2020, Dettifoss and Brúarfoss, which sail in collaboration with the Greenlandic shipping company Royal Arctic Line between Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Scandinavia. Also, Eimskip 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. ==History== Eimskipafélag Íslands was founded in 1914 with the issuance of public shares to around 14,000 people1, 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. ==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 ==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 ==Footnotes== ==References== ==Further reading== Company history – Eimskip.com ==External links== Eimskipafélag Íslands, official website
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