The company deals with the transportation of fishmeal, steel products, construction materials, cement, timber, pumice, coal, gravel, ferrosilicon, and salt as well as other FOSFA cargo.

[2][4] In 1977, Nesskip began to develop a close working relationship with the company Wilson ASA, who specialise in the management of shipping services.

In 2006, Norwegian shipping company Wilson EuroCarriers acquired a majority share (51.6%) in Nesskip resulting in a change of ownership.

[2] The company began its operations by transporting chilled and salted fish around the Scandinavian North Atlantic Sea region.

The purchasing of the second ship enabled Nesskip to extend their operations to transport goods to countries in Europe, specifically around the Mediterranean Sea.

The entrance of the Alloy production in Iceland, specifically in the Grundartangi, enabled Nesskip to increase their operational activities1.

[2] In 2006, the company Wilson ASA acquired a majority shares of Nesskip (51.6%), resulting in a change of ownership.

Annually, Nesskip has approximately 450 arrivals in Icelandic ports totalling about 700, 000 tones in transported goods.

[13] The Suðurland, preceding its conversion in 1975, had a carrying capacity of 1790 t deadweight tonnage (DWT), with an overall length of 73.21 meters and width of 10.47 meters5.

[2] The ship was originally built in the Fiskesstrand Shipyard, Norway, in 1973 for Holma hf and was named ‘Frendo Hvalsnes'.

[16] In 1977, Nesskip purchased the company's third ship, a specialised bulk carrier named Isnes.

Due to stormy weather conditions and a rough swell, a rescue attempt made 8 crewmen from the Danish Coastguard cruiser ship HDMS Triton resulted in one fatality after their after their rigid inflatable boat overturned in rough seas.

[15] The Suðurland had eleven crew members on board and a bulk cargo of 19,000 barrels of herring, en route from Iceland to Murmansk, a far North-western port city in Russia located on the Kola peninsula, that at the time was part of Soviet Russia.

[27] The ship encountered rough sea conditions, battered by four days of gale-force winds and high waves.

[15][27][28] The SOS call was received by the Danish patrol ship HDMS Vædderen approximately 160 km away as well as the Icelandic Authorities.

This resulted in the dispatch of a Danish Naval vessel from the Tórshavn station in the Faroe Islands, as well as the Icelandic Coast Guard ship, Tiga, and a long-range British Royal Air Force (RAF) Nimrod plane.

[15] Following the reception of the SOS call, the eight crewmen were dropped a second life raft equipped with rations, water radios and flares from the RAF Nimrod reconnaissance plane at the daybreak of 25 December.

The five crew-members were treated for shock and hypothermia on board the HDMS Vædderen and were taken to Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands.

The five surviving crew-members were deemed to be "very lucky people" by the Lt. David Burnett of the Royal Air Force.

The company is located in Bergen, Norway, and was established in 1989 and is part of the deep sea freight transport industry.