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common environmental goals,” says Svanbom. Another challenge is the EU Sulphur Directive which comes into force in 2015. Sulphur emissions from marine fuels should then, in principle, be reduced to zero. The result is more expensive transportation by sea, which means that customers might choose to run more freight by rail and road. But one option could also be that the companies choose larger vessels to compensate for higher bunker costs which would benefit Gävle thanks to the new deep fairway.


“There is an extra cost and


even though it is essentially positive to reduce emissions, the directive is not competitively neutral. But we choose to look at it with positive eyes. Our port will benefit on behalf of smaller ports,” says Bergström.


New markets Russia, the Baltic countries and Eastern Europe are growing markets for the paper industries in the region. There are shortcomings in the current way of solving the transport challenges and the Port of Gävle is striving to get a liner


Clockwise from top left: How the Port of Gävle could look after development; specialist paper handling at the port; “When the EU Sulphur Directive comes into force in 2015 it will also make sense for the paper mills to allocate volumes to a big port,” says Håkan Bergström; Sea shipping for paper products is better than road and rail


service to these markets. “There are more than enough


volumes already today to get acceptable frequency, and this alternative is competitive but the challenge is to get all stakeholders to simultaneously switch logistic system. When EU Sulphur Directive comes into force in 2015 it will also make sense for the paper mills to


allocate their European volumes to a big port like Gävle and then use larger ro-ro vessels for their continental traffic,” says Bergström. More information from Gävle Hamn AB, Fredriksskans, SE 806 47 Gävle, Sweden. Contact: Håkan Bergström. Tel: 46 2617 8844. Email: hakan.bergstrom@ gavlehamn.se


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