Icelandic shipping to logistics company Samskip is set to acquire control of the Dutch intermodal operator Geest North Sea in a deal that will create Europe's largest intra-European intermodal/shortsea container shipping network. The joint company will offer a network of shortsea services encompassing the North Sea, the Baltic, Ireland and Iberia while, via Rotterdam, its links will extend to most of mainland Europe as far south as Italy and eastwards to Austria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.