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Issue 8 2013 Freight Business Journal Pallet-men have Scandinavian scheme


The Pall-Ex palletised freight network has got its eye on Scandinavia, says project director, Anand Assi. At there moment, there is no definite timescale and talks are still going on with potential national partners, who would in turn recruit local hauliers. At the moment, Pall-Ex’s


thoughts are for one lead partner and central hub to cover Denmark, Sweden and Norway, “but we’re not fixated on that – we’re keeping


an open mind,” Assi explains. Having a single central hub tends to be more efficient as it reduces the number of transhipments, but he recognises that Scandinavia is a complex area with the main cities and populated regions separated by stretches of water. Scandinavia is also very large,


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though it’s worth remembering that most of the population and industry can be found in an area roughly 300 miles square,


which is rather more compact than, say West Germany and certainly more so than France. Assi though says that Pall-Ex will follow its usual pattern of offering a whole-country service, despite the difficulties of reaching, say, Jokkmokk or Bodo in the far north: “We’re not going to do this in a half- hearted way. All our networks cover the complete territory.” Clearly, it will not be possible to offer an overnight service for


some of the further flung places and exclusive partners may well not be possible in some of the most thinly populated areas – a similar situation to the Scottish Highlands and Islands on the UK network. At the moment, Pall-Ex has


in mind a network covering just the three main Scandinavian countries,


though it would


consider including Finland if its appointed partner was capable of doing so.


///SCANDINAVIA Stena looks to


logistics to boost freight carryings


Gothenburg-headquartered Stena Line may be best known as a ro ro operator but it


is becoming


increasingly creative when it comes to filling space on its vessels. Trailers, trucks and their drivers remain important, of course, but there is a growing realisation that remaining empty space on Stena vessels in the Baltic and North Sea can be filled with intermodal traffic in containers or on the ‘Hupac’ (trailer on rail flatcar) system and other self propelled cargo such as trade cars or combine harvesters. Stena Line recruited Peter


Kleberg from North Sea Ro Ro. (He was previously at DFDS). He in turn has recruited a “matrix” of


country and commodity


managers including Rob Pearse in the UK, who is in commodity manager charge of retail and steel, Wim Nijman in the Netherlands in charge of fresh produce and chemicals, Frederick Johannsen in Sweden paper and automotive and Aivars Taurins in Riga, Latvia, who handles special projects. The move was part of a decision


by Stena Line to reorientate itself more towards the freight market for its 22 routes in Europe, which include the Irish Sea, North Sea (Harwich-Hook of Holland, Harwich-Rotterdam, Killingholm-Hook of Holland) and numerous routes in Scandinavia and between Scandinavia and Germany and Poland and Germany to the Baltics. “Our job is to fill the vessels,


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even if it’s not with the normal lorry


traffic,” Peter


explains. “So we have been developing our contacts in industry to develop various trade flows. We’ve been developing direct dialogues with the various industries and increasing awareness of our services out in the market.” This is epitomised in Stena’s latest brochure, ‘Broadening the Business.’ The other stand to the


strategy is developing rail links to and from the Stena shipping services, and these have grown “quite rapidly”, Kleberg considers. For instance, there is the route from


Kleberg


Poland to Rotterdam that feeds Stena’s shipping service from the Dutch port to Harwich and, similarly, routes from Verona in Italy to Kiel and from Duisburg to Kiel which in turn links up with the Kiel-Gothenburg service. “Also, quite recently, we have started a rail service from the Swedish East Coast to Karlskrona which feeds our route from there to Gdynia in Poland.” The train starts at Sundesvall and serves main points south on its 900km journey to the port. Another interesting piece of


business was the delivery of new 40-foot


pallet-wide containers,


owned by Trans Russia railway company, and are loaded via Nynashamn and Venspills and then fed into the Russian railway network. Further possibilities are being


explored with the Germany car industry for delivery of inbound components. The intermodal traffic can easily


be handled on Stena’s existing ro ro fleet, Peter Kleberg says. But if the business continues to grow, ‘ro-lo’ ships carrying containers on deck and ro ro on the lower decks might be considered. Stena is aſter all part of a major shipowner and new types of tonnage are being introduced all the time. “And we’re also going out to the


industry and asking them what they want,” he adds. “What we call an ‘outside in’ approach. This in turn could spawn new routes in the future and there are already some interesting developments in the North Sea and Baltic areas.


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