--- source_url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eimskip?utm_source=openai" title: Eimskip - Wikipedia mirrored_at: 2026-08-16T01:07:42.494Z host: en.wikipedia.org cited_in_42a: true mirror_canonical: "https://index.42a.ai/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eimskip__q__utm_source_openai" --- > **Original source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eimskip?utm_source=openai From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eimskipafélag Íslands hf. Type [Publicly traded company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_company "Public company") [Traded as](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticker_symbol "Ticker symbol") [Nasdaq Iceland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasdaq_Iceland "Nasdaq Iceland"): [EIM](https://www.nasdaq.com/european-market-activity/shares/EIM?id=ICE90274) Industry [Freight transport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freight_transport "Freight transport") Founded 1914 (112 years ago) Headquarters [Reykjavík](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk "Reykjavík"), Iceland Key people Vilhelm Már Þorsteinsson ([CEO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_executive_officer "Chief executive officer")) Products [Shipping](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping "Shipping") and [logistics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistics "Logistics") Revenue € 668 million (2020)[\[1\]](#cite_note-finast-1) [Net income](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_income "Net income") € 4.45 million (2020)[\[1\]](#cite_note-finast-1) Number of employees 1619[\[2\]](#cite_note-2) Website [www.eimskip.com](http://www.eimskip.com/) **Eimskipafélag Íslands hf.**[\[a\]](#cite_note-3) (Icelandic pronunciation: [\[ˈeimˌscɪpaˌfjɛːˌlaːɣ ˈistlan(t)s\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Icelandic "Help:IPA/Icelandic"), lit. 'Iceland Steamship Company'), trading as **Eimskip** ([\[ˈeimˌscɪp\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Icelandic "Help:IPA/Icelandic"), lit. 'Steamship'), 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.[\[1\]](#cite_note-finast-1) 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".[\[3\]](#cite_note-:0-4) Eimskip operates seven vessels and received its newest and most environmentally friendly vessels in 2020, Dettifoss and Brúarfoss,[\[1\]](#cite_note-finast-1) which sail in collaboration with the Greenlandic shipping company [Royal Arctic Line](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Arctic_Line "Royal Arctic Line") between Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Scandinavia.[\[4\]](#cite_note-5) 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.[\[5\]](#cite_note-6) Warehouse in Reykjavík Brúarfoss in building 2019 Harbor area. Eimskipafélag Íslands was founded in 1914 with the issuance of [public shares](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_shares "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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveinn_Bj%C3%B6rnsson "Sveinn Björnsson"), who later became the first [president of Iceland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Iceland "President of Iceland").[\[3\]](#cite_note-:0-4) - 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[\[6\]](#cite_note-:1-7) - Óskar Magnússon, [Chairman of the board](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairman_of_the_board "Chairman of the board") - Margrét Guðmundsdóttir, [Vice-Chairman of the Board](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice-Chairman_of_the_Board?action=edit&redlink=1 "Vice-Chairman of the Board (page does not exist)") - Guðrún Ó. Blöndal, Board Member - Lárus Blöndal, Board Member - Ólöf Hildur Pálsdóttir, Board member[\[6\]](#cite_note-:1-7) 1. [↑](#cite_ref-3) _hf._ stands for _hlutafélag_ (lit. 'shares partnership', cf. [limited liability company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_liability_company "Limited liability company")). 1. [1](#cite_ref-finast_1-0) [2](#cite_ref-finast_1-1) [3](#cite_ref-finast_1-2) [4](#cite_ref-finast_1-3) ["Consolidated financial statement 2020"](https://web.archive.org/web/20210915115856/https://questor-reports.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/EIM-Y-2020.pdf) (PDF). Archived from [the original](https://questor-reports.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/EIM-Y-2020.pdf) (PDF) on 2021-09-15. Retrieved 2021-09-15. 2. [↑](#cite_ref-2) [Financial results](https://www.eimskip.com/media/2876/eimskip-q2-2021-financial-results-investor-presentation.pdf)eimskip.com [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20220219124112/https://www.eimskip.com/media/2876/eimskip-q2-2021-financial-results-investor-presentation.pdf) 2022-02-19 at the [Wayback Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine "Wayback Machine") 3. [1](#cite_ref-:0_4-0) [2](#cite_ref-:0_4-1) Magnússon, Guðmundur. _Eimskipafélag Íslands í 100 ár_. 4. [↑](#cite_ref-5) ["Eimskip and Royal Arctic Line co-operation commences in June"](https://www.eimskip.com/about-eimskip/news/general-news/eimskip-and-royal-arctic-line-co-operation-commences-in-june/). May 2020. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20200928215728/https://www.eimskip.com/about-eimskip/news/general-news/eimskip-and-royal-arctic-line-co-operation-commences-in-june/) from the original on 2020-09-28. 5. [↑](#cite_ref-6) ["Eimskip stærst sinnar tegundar í heiminum"](https://www.visir.is/paper/mark/M070530.pdf) (PDF). _Markaðurinn_. 30 May 2007. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20171028115013/http://www.visir.is/paper/mark/M070530.pdf) (PDF) from the original on 2017-10-28. 6. [1](#cite_ref-:1_7-0) [2](#cite_ref-:1_7-1) ["Board of Directors"](https://www.eimskip.com/investors/corporate-governance/#board-of-directors). _eimskip.com_. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20190517112740/https://www.eimskip.com/investors/corporate-governance/) from the original on 2019-05-17. - [Company history](https://www.eimskip.com/about-eimskip/our-history/) – Eimskip.com - [Eimskipafélag Íslands](http://www.eimskip.com/), official website Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Eimskip](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Eimskip "commons:Category:Eimskip") .