The Southern North Sea Pool

The Southern North Sea Pool (SNS Pool) is an integrated fourth party logistics concept (4-PL) where nine Operators outsourced their combined marine requirements and their helicopter requirements to one logistics facilitator. The development of this unique and innovative concept was initiated in 1993 and started with various smaller scale arrangements which evolved in 2002 in the establishment of the SNS Pool for marine extended with helicopter logistics since 2006. The SNS Pool has centralised its combined marine, air and supply base operations in Den Helder, the geographically best situated location for the Southern North Sea.

The main objectives of the SNS Pool are: to maximise efficiency by combining volumes, distance and capacity to maximise safety by setting minimum quality standards and standardisation of safety rules and regulations to minimise exposure to the environment by reducing sailing and flying distances read more