Tschudi Shipping Company AS

ESCO is the leading Estonian container vessel operator. Tschudi & Eitzen participated in the privatisation of the company in 1997 together with international co-investors. In 2002 Tschudi & Eitzen acquired full control of the company. Today the company is 100 percent controlled by Tschudi Shipping Company.

ESCO owns a modern fleet of vessels; five 266 TEU container carriers, two 12000 dwt multipurpose vessels flying both Estonian and foreign flags. All vessels have ice class.

Tschudi Logistics Holding AS is domiciled in Oslo with offices in Kirkenes, Norway, Tallinn, Estonia. in Turku and Helsinki, Finland. in Rotterdam, Netherlands. in Antwerp, Belgium. in Boston, England, in Århus and Esbjerg, Denmark, in Klaipeda, Lithuania, Riga, Latvia and Murmansk, Moscow and St. Petersburg. The offices are offering full transport and logistics solutions covering on-land carriage, warehousing and distribution, container and oversized transports, ro/ro service and railway solutions to and from Finland, The Baltics, Russia and other CIS countries. The local offices are also representing the fully owned container line - Tschudi Lines Baltic Sea (please see below).

With our own liner network of 4 vessels we connect Estonia with Denmark and Germany weekly and Finland and Estonia with the UK, Denmark and Lithuania weekly and Holland twice weekly. Via connecting services we also service destinations in the Oslo bay area, in Ireland (as well as Northern Ireland) and Northern Italy.

Tschudi Lines Baltic Sea AS offers short-sea transport possibilities on a pier-to-pier basis as well as on a door-to-door basis including LCL services between several of the ports of call either in own or shippers own containers. The door-to-door services are between all major inland locations in Western Europe to and from Finland, Estonia and Russia. We also service inland destinations in Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgystan on B/L from Western Europe, including fixed weekly service on Northern Italy.

Tschudi Lines North Sea AS provides a container line linking the Oslo Ford with Immingham, UK, Rotterdam, Holland and Esbjerg, Denmark. There are a wide variety of containers in our fleet suitable for most cargo commodities.

Our project department Tschudi Project Transports offer complete logistic solutions. By combining traditional shipping skills with those in logistics, we are able to offer our clients a full chain of services on land and at sea.

Tschudi Road Transport offers trucking services domestically in Estonia as well as international transports to Western Europe. The company has its own modern fleet of Volvo trucks as well as trailers.

Otto Danielsen focus on the commerical management of smaller container and multipurpose vessels ranging in size from about 3.000 tdw up to about 14.000 tdw operating world-wide. They are also active as a time-charter operator and competitive shipping.

The main areas of activity are salvage, wet and dry towing operations, heavy lift transportation with submersible barges and offshore operations with AHTS vessels. ITC has more than 30 years of experience in these non conventional marine markets.

Tschudi Ship Management AS, domiciled in Tallinn, Estonia, is a fully owned subsidiary of Tschudi Shipping Company and offers quality ship management and crewing services to the TSC Group as well as for third party clients.

Tschudi Ship Management AS is the continuation of the ship management activities of ESCO which were carried out in TESMA Estonia during the years 2001-2005.

Kirkenes Transit was established in 1996 with the purpose of developing, planning and implementing transport solutions for goods to and from Russia using Kirkenes as a deepwater and ice-free transit port.

Through the cooperation with the Port of Archangels with ample port capacity, Kirkenes Transit has identified commodities like oils, metals, raw materials and containers.

Today, Sydvaranger AS, through the establishment of Sydvaranger Maritime Industrial Park (SMIP), aims to facilitate the creation of an international cluster serving the oil and gas industry and the maritime transport in the Barents Sea. Based on the close proximity to Russia, the potential oil and gas deposits in the Barents Sea and the infrastructure available close to the sea, a new industrial era is anticipated.

The deep water quay, approx. 400 metres long, is available for import and export operations. A refuelling quay is operated by Norske Shell AS.

The reopening of the mining activities in Sydvaranger is well under way and the company Sydvaranger Gruve AS is established to deal with all mining activities. External investors particpated in a tender which resulted in the establishement of the Australian company Northern Iron Ltd. The company is now listed on the Australian stock exchange (www.northerniron.com.au).

Boreal Group in Skjervøy. Maritime services to the fish farming industry and support vessels for towage, mooring, maintenance works and freight are also supplied.

The Tschudi Group has a long experience and a good track record in managing Tankers and combine oil-bulk-ore tonnage. Since establishment in 1883, the company has been a pioneer in the tanker trade and also one of the pioneers in the OBO trade in the 1960s. The Group's last OBO was sold in 2007 but the experience is still in-house.