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Samskip A/S

Public limited companyCVR 20363231Aarhus CActive

Samskip A/S is a public limited company, based in Aarhus C, active in other transportation support activities, founded in 1997. Net profit fell 19% from 2024 to 2025, ending at DKK 1.7m. Operations are spread over 3 production units. With 33 employees, the company is about 5 times larger than the industry median.

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Key figures · financial year 2025

Gross profitDKK 20.3m+3.3% vs. 2024
Net profitDKK 1.7m−19% vs. 2024
EquityDKK 7.1m−31.4% vs. 2024
Employees33latest month from CVR

What has changed

calculated from recorded figures and dates

Financials: 2025 against 2024

  • Gross profit rose 3% (2024 → 2025), to DKK 20.3m.
  • Net profit fell 19% (2024 → 2025), to DKK 1.7m.
  • Equity fell 31% (2024 → 2025), to DKK 7.1m.

Employees

  • 2 fewer employees than a year earlier: 33 (08/2026) against 35 (08/2025).

Management and owners, last 24 months

  • New in management: Ólafur Orri Ólafsson (chair of the board, 07/10/2025) and Paul van der Harten (board member, 07/10/2025).
  • Stepped down: Kari-Pekka Laaksonen (chair of the board, 07/10/2025).

Registrations, last 24 months

  • 01/01/2025: Industry changed to Other transportation support activities (522600)

Calculated from the latest two annual reports in sequence and from registrations in CVR. A figure that is missing in either year gives no line, and we derive no figures.

Financial statements

Financial years 2020–2025 · amounts in DKK thousand

Equity and net profit

DKK 0DKK 2mDKK 4mDKK 6mDKK 8mDKK 10m202020212022202320242025
EquityNet profit
Financial figures for Samskip A/S
202020212022202320242025Change
Revenuenot statednot statednot statednot statednot statednot stated–
Gross profit28,08123,65024,77319,81519,63220,275+3.3%
Operating profit (EBIT)3,2672,5501,8261,0282,6072,124−18.5%
Profit before tax3,2472,1281,4131,1912,7652,246−18.8%
Net profit2,5351,6511,0869262,1601,748−19%
Total assets34,29130,47225,85517,94920,36921,309+4.6%
Equity5,5477,1988,2849,21110,3707,119−31.4%
Liabilities28,74423,27417,5708,7389,99914,190+41.9%
Cash and cash equivalents8,82210,1534,4358,2009,003––
Average number of employees554846343132+3.2%

Source: annual reports filed with the Danish Business Authority (XBRL). Figures for the company (not the group); change is the latest year against the year before. “–” means the figure is not stated in the annual report. Revenue is not stated for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025: smaller companies may omit it, and we do not derive it from other figures.

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DKK 0DKK 5mDKK 10mDKK 15mDKK 20mDKK 25mDKK 30m202020212022202320242025
Gross profitMedian, the industry (372 companies)

Signals from the financial statements

calculated from the 2025 figures

  • Equity fell sharply

    Equity fell 31% from 2024 to 2025 (DKK 10.4m to DKK 7.1m).

    How is this calculated?

    Equity has fallen by at least 30% from the previous annual report, and it was positive the year before.

  • Profit for five years in a row

    Net result has been positive in 2021–2025.

    How is this calculated?

    Net result is positive in the five latest annual reports in a row.

The signals are rules applied to the figures in the annual reports. They are not an assessment or credit rating of the company. See Data and method.

Annual reports

6 financial years
Annual reports for Samskip A/S
Financial yearPeriodPublishedFigures forDocuments
202501/01/2025 – 31/12/202530/06/2026The companyPDF not statedXBRL
202401/01/2024 – 31/12/202403/07/2025The companyPDFXBRL
202301/01/2023 – 31/12/202313/05/2024The groupPDFXBRL
202201/01/2022 – 31/12/202209/05/2023The groupPDFXBRL
202101/01/2021 – 31/12/202121/06/2022The groupPDFXBRL
202001/01/2020 – 31/12/202027/05/2021The groupPDFXBRL

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Employees

monthly figures from CVR
0510152025303509/2310/2311/2312/2301/2402/2403/2404/2405/2406/2407/2408/2409/2410/2411/2412/2401/2502/2503/2504/2505/2506/2507/2508/2509/2510/2511/2512/2501/2602/2603/2604/2605/2606/2607/2608/26
Employees

Position in the industry

372 companies in the database

Comparison with the other companies in other transportation support activities based on the latest financial year.

Gross profitDKK 20.3mNo. 90 of 371
Better than 76% of the companies in the industry
EquityDKK 7.1mNo. 135 of 372
Better than 64% of the companies in the industry
Number of employees33No. 72 of 372
Better than 81% of the companies in the industry

Industry median: gross profit DKK 6.2m, net profit DKK 653k, equity DKK 3.3m, 7 employees.

DKK 100kDKK 1mDKK 10.8mDKK 112.4mDKK 535.4mHere
Distribution of gross profit for 356 companies in the industry (latest financial year, logarithmic scale). Amber bar: where this company sits.

Compared with similar companies

size, age and company form
Rank among similar companies
GroupGross profitEquity
Companies with 20–49 employees9,922 companies in the comparison
No. 2,773of 9,892
Better than 72%
No. 3,876of 9,922
Better than 61%
Same industry and 20–49 employees58 companies in the comparison
No. 28of 58
Better than 53%
No. 38of 58
Better than 35%
Companies that are between 15 and 29 years old24,910 companies in the comparison
No. 3,334of 24,791
Better than 87%
No. 8,086of 24,909
Better than 68%
All companies of type A/S18,025 companies in the comparison
No. 5,861of 17,786
Better than 67%
No. 10,111of 18,024
Better than 44%

The rank is calculated among companies in the database with a figure for the latest financial year, and is shown only for groups of at least ten companies.

Compare with the industry

Other transportation support activities
Gross profit
  1. Samskip A/SDKK 20.3m
  2. DSV Road A/SDKK 1.2bn
  3. Scan Global Logistics A/SDKK 829.9m
Net profit
  1. Samskip A/SDKK 1.7m
  2. DSV Road A/S−DKK 894k
  3. Scan Global Logistics A/SDKK 112m
Equity
  1. Samskip A/SDKK 7.1m
  2. DSV Road A/SDKK 403.4m
  3. Scan Global Logistics A/SDKK 2.4bn
Employees
  1. Samskip A/S33
  2. DSV Road A/S1,644
  3. Scan Global Logistics A/S551

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Owners and group

from the Public Ownership Register
Owners
  • Samskip Logistics International B.V.100%
Samskip A/S

Management

5 active registrations

Executive management

Executive management at Samskip A/S
NameRoleAppointed
Steen OsorioCEO25/10/2002

Board of directors

Board of directors at Samskip A/S
NameRoleAppointed
Steen OsorioBoard member20/01/2006
Anders Christian AndersenBoard member25/03/2015
Ólafur Orri ÓlafssonChair of the board07/10/2025
Paul van der HartenBoard member07/10/2025
Founders
Samskib HF
Former management (14)
Former management at Samskip A/S
NameRoleAppointedResigned
Kristinn Por GeirssonDeputy board member21/05/199718/07/2000
Leif NiemeyerDirector21/05/199725/10/2002
Òlafur ÒlafssonChair of the board21/05/199720/01/2006
Baldur Orn GudnasonBoard member21/05/199721/05/2002
Sæmundur GudlaugssonBoard member21/05/199718/07/2000
Oli Palmar MagnussonDeputy board member18/07/200002/03/2020
Gudmundur HjaltasonBoard member18/07/200020/01/2006
Asbjörn GislasonBoard member21/05/200220/01/2006
Jan Al-ErhayemDeputy chair20/01/200609/01/2007
Michael Frederic HassingChair of the board20/01/200622/05/2008
Peder WintherBoard member09/01/200722/05/2008
Gunhild SandalBoard member22/05/200825/03/2015
Asbjörn GislasonChair of the board22/05/200825/08/2022
Kari-Pekka LaaksonenChair of the board25/08/202207/10/2025

Signing rule: Selskabet tegnes af den samlede bestyrelse.

Address and production units

3 active production units

Vandvejen 7
8000 Aarhus C

Aarhus Municipality · Postcode 8000

Other companies at the address (2)

Production units
Production unitAddressEmployeesP number
SAMSKIP A/SVandvejen 7, 8000 Aarhus C471001248147
SAMSKIP A/SGreve Main 9, 2670 Greve31010855574
Samskip A/SContainervej 5, 8000 Aarhus C31021768150

Purpose

Selskabets formål er at drive shipping og transportvirksomhed og dermed beslægtet virksomhed.

The purpose is quoted from the register in Danish.

Changes year by year

52 registered events
20261 changeaccounts 1
  • Annual report for 2025 published
20255 changesmanagement 3 · accounts 1 · industry 1
  • Paul van der Harten appointed board member
  • Ólafur Orri Ólafsson appointed chair of the board
  • Kari-Pekka Laaksonen stepped down as chair of the board
  • Annual report for 2024 published
  • Industry changed to Other transportation support activities (522600)
20242 changesmerger 1 · accounts 1
  • Merger registered in CVR
  • Annual report for 2023 published
20231 changeaccounts 1
  • Annual report for 2022 published
20223 changesmanagement 2 · accounts 1
  • Kari-Pekka Laaksonen appointed chair of the board
  • Asbjörn Gislason stepped down as chair of the board
  • Annual report for 2021 published
20213 changesaccounts 1 · ownership 2
  • Annual report for 2020 published
  • Samskip Logistics International B.V. registered as owner (100%)
  • Samskip Logistics Services B.V. is no longer registered as owner
20201 changemanagement 1
  • Oli Palmar Magnusson stepped down as deputy board member
20161 changeaddress 1
  • Moved to Vandvejen 7, 8000 Aarhus C
20152 changesmanagement 2
  • Anders Christian Andersen appointed board member
  • Gunhild Sandal stepped down as board member
20111 changeaddress 1
  • Moved to Oceanvej 13, 1, 8000 Aarhus C
20101 changeaddress 1
  • Moved to Oceanvej 13, 2, 8000 Aarhus C
20085 changesmanagement 4 · industry 1
  • Asbjörn Gislason appointed chair of the board
  • Gunhild Sandal appointed board member
  • Peder Winther stepped down as board member
  • Michael Frederic Hassing stepped down as chair of the board
  • Industry changed to Speditører (522920)
20073 changesmanagement 2 · address 1
  • Peder Winther appointed board member
  • Jan Al-Erhayem stepped down as deputy chair
  • Moved to Nordhavnsgade 14, 8000 Aarhus C
20066 changesmanagement 6
  • Michael Frederic Hassing appointed chair of the board
  • Jan Al-Erhayem appointed deputy chair
  • Steen Osorio appointed board member
  • Asbjörn Gislason stepped down as board member
  • Gudmundur Hjaltason stepped down as board member
  • Òlafur Òlafsson stepped down as chair of the board
20026 changesmanagement 4 · capital 1 · merger 1
  • Steen Osorio appointed ceo
  • Leif Niemeyer stepped down as director
  • Share capital changed from 500,000 DKK to 644,329 DKK
  • Merger registered in CVR
  • Asbjörn Gislason appointed board member
  • Baldur Orn Gudnason stepped down as board member
20004 changesmanagement 4
  • Oli Palmar Magnusson appointed deputy board member
  • Gudmundur Hjaltason appointed board member
  • Sæmundur Gudlaugsson stepped down as board member
  • Kristinn Por Geirsson stepped down as deputy board member
19977 changesfounded 1 · management 5 · ownership 1
  • Registered as SAMSKIP A/S
  • Sæmundur Gudlaugsson appointed board member
  • Baldur Orn Gudnason appointed board member
  • Leif Niemeyer appointed director
  • Òlafur Òlafsson appointed chair of the board
  • Kristinn Por Geirsson appointed deputy board member
  • Samskip Logistics Services B.V. registered as owner (100%)

Related companies

Same people in management

Source and updates

The information comes from the Danish Central Business Register (Danish Business Authority) and from annual reports filed with the Danish Business Authority. Last synchronised 24/10/2026.

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