Two shipping companies maintain scheduled sailing routes from Iceland to North America. In the following table you can see time of departures and sailing time to commercial harbors in North America.
On the horizontal axis you will find the departure harbor and on the vertical axis the destination harbor. The weekday shows what time of week the vessel will be at the harbor where appropriate and the numbers show outbound and inbound time in number of weekdays. Single number shows outbound time.
Example; Vessel from Reykjavík to Boston (Samskip), departs on a Friday and docks in Boston/Everett on a Monday, ten days later and returns to Reykjavík sixteen days after that.
| Destination | Reykjavík | ||
| Eimskip* | Samskip | ||
| 1-2 times a month | Every other week | ||
| Reykjavík (IS) | Fri | ||
| Argentia | (6) | Thu (6) | |
| Halifax | Sat (8) | ||
| Boston/Everett(US) | (9/14) | Mon (10/16) | |
| Richmond | (12/11) | Fri (14/13) | |
| Halifax | (16/7) | Mon (17/9) | |
| Argentia | (18/5) | Wed (19/7) | |
| Reykjavík (IS) | 23 | Thu | |
| *as time of departure varies, the time of sailing is presented here. | |||
