Our History

Nor-Cargo can trace it's roots in the UK to January 1948 when Norwegian Shipowner NFDS commenced a weekly sailing between Trondheim and Grimsby. The first vessel call was made by the 'Ottar Jarl' which discharged a cargo of wet and frozen fish. This was to become the start of a weekly scheduled service which subsequently handled - in addition to fish - dry cargoes both to and from Norway. From such beginnings Nor-Cargo has developed into a world class Freight Forwarder and Liner Agent.

The Nor-Cargo name was established in 1979 following the merger of NFDS with it's competitor Bergen Line to form Norcargo a/s with Nor-Cargo Ltd established as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Norwegian organisation.

Since 1979 we have developed to become a leading international freight forwarder offering our customers wordwide freight connections handled by well trained staff and backed by up to the minute IT systems.

Nor-Cargo Today

We own and operate a modern cargo handling facility including 60,000 sq ft of warehouse space at our Stallingborough head office.

We operate as stevedores, Liner and Port agents from Matthews Quay in Aberdeen.

We maintain cargo sales and consolidation centres at London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bradford, Newcastle and Glasgow.

We operate a fleet of modern 13.60m trailers offering groupage and full load services to and from all of the Nordic countries.

We offer worldwide freight forwarding services with special emphasis on out-of-gauge and heavy lift cargoes.

We provide logistics management services to a growing number of customers taking care of all aspects of their supply chain systems from collection of cargoes to final industrial or high street delivery.

Nor-Cargo Ltd is proud to be accredited by Det Norske Veritas under the BS-EN-ISO 9001:2000 Quality Assurance marque.