Pulp Paper & Logistics
INDUSTRY NEWS 11 LOGISTICS Fighting for sea shipping
Investments at the Port of Gävle in Sweden are aimed at attracting business from road and rail to shipping. PPL reports
250 km, the Port of Gävle is a key logistics hub with seven terminals that are attended by 1,500 vehicles each day. The port at Fredriksskans handles commodities such as pulp, clay, pulpwood and chemicals which are handled and stored for paper industry needs. Finished goods are then received from the mills by rail or lorry to be containerised in either of the port’s two major Container Freight Stations for export all over the world. The container port in Gävle is by far the largest on the east coast of Sweden.
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Investments In recent years the port has invested more than €100 million in new quays, warehouses and dredging of the fairway. A dredging project will be completed this summer, which will lead to further investments primarily in a new container port and new bulk quay walls. “Container growth in the port
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Sweden’s east coast Port of Gävle: accepting the biggest ships for better economics
has been exceptional the last ten years. The new fairway allows container vessels with capacity of up to 5,000 TEUs, which means we need to build a new container port,” says Håkan Bergström, the port’s sales & marketing manager. Latest plan is to build a new
container port located at Granudden adjacent to the BillerudKorsnäs paper mill. The quay will be 800 metres long and the terminal will be equipped with handling equipment with
an annual capacity for up to 500 000 TEUs per year. Linked to the terminal there will be Container Freight Stations with rail connections to manage additional paper products from the region. To handle increasingly large
break bulk vessels, a new quay with 12.2m draft will be built this year with capacity to berth vessels up to 80,000 DWT.
LNG terminal Norwegian company Skangass is planning to build a natural gas terminal in the port. The port is investing €4 million to prepare the quay and the area where a 45m-high cistern will be located. Skangass will invest in a facility similar to the one it operates at Lysekil, on Sweden’s west coast. LNG is natural gas transported in liquid form for conversion into gas. There are three main markets for natural gas in Gävle region: industrial, automotive and for ship
propulsion. “We are still in the permitting
process, but we expect the terminal to be operational during the first half of 2016,” says the port’s managing director Fredrik Svanbom.
Challenges The Port of Gävle is lobbying with other Baltic ports to promote shipping as a cheap and more environmentally friendly form of transport. Today’s transport policies encourage freight transport on rail and road with subsidies, while shipping is penalized with fees. “Roads and railways are already
congested and maintenance needs are neglected. Transport of cargo 600 kilometers by rail from one port to another port is a poor utilisation of the transportation system. This is a question that should interest all taxpayers. In addition, it is also about our
4 July/August 2014
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