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.

[3] Eimskip operates 7 vessels and received its newest and most environmentally friendly vessels in 2020, Dettifoss and Brúarfoss,[1] which sail in collaboration with the Greenlandic shipping company Royal Arctic Line between Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Scandinavia.

[4] Eimskips also operates 42 warehouses and cold storages in North-America, Europe and Asia.

[5] Eimskipafélag Íslands was founded in 1914 with the issuance of public shares to around 14,000 people, about 15% of the Icelandic population at the time.