SCANDINAVIA\\\


By the time this appears in print a new 1,000-tonne metal press will be helping to build Volvo cars


in Olofström, Sweden, thanks to major effort GAC’s Project Logistics experts.


Three big components


were trucked from Kaiserslautern, to the river port of Ludwigshafen for a three-day river trip to reach Rotterdam in Holland. There, the parts were reunited with other segments of the press that had travelled overland to the port. In Rotterdam, the barge


tied up alongside the coastal feeder vessel ‘Theseus’ and the pieces were liſted up and into the hold, joining


A well-connected carrier


Euroconnector, IAG Cargo’s fast, guaranteed intra European service for consignments up to 300 kilos, is particularly relevant to the Scandinavian market, says regional commercial manager for Europe, Chris Nielen. Denmark, Sweden, Norway and, especially, Finland, are a long way from central Europe, so the time saving over road transport can oſten be measured in days. Moreover,


for long-haul traffic,


London in particular is a natural way-point, with minimal extra air miles between the region and the wider world. IAG offers Euroconnector


to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Oslo and Helsinki. From


London, service is


available anywhere in the world on IAG Cargo’s extensive worldwide network, while narrow-body Iberia flights are available direct from Stockholm to Iberia for South American connections. IAG also has some serious


capacity available between Scandinavia and London


Heathrow. As well as regular A320 flights


from Stockholm,


there is a daily wide body 767 service, for example. Scandinavia has a diverse


economy and, as far as air cargo


is concerned, main


traffics include automotive, electronics,


semiconductors


and pharmaceuticals. “It’s oſten high-value intermediate goods, which customers prefer to move by air rather than road,” Nielen explains. Stockholm will, in early 2015, become the 101st station on IAG’s Constant Climate network; Copenhagen opened about three months ago. With the Nordic region having economies,


such diverse the


national markets are oſten moving in different directions, he adds. Denmark and Finland have been fairly flat in the first nine months of 2014, Sweden has declined by 25-30%, largely because of shippers moving to sea freight to save money, but Norway has grown strongly, largely because Asia is now buying a lot of salmon from there.


the parts that had come by truck. While all this was happening, a separate convoy was trucking 20 containers of other parts up through Germany to the port of Hamburg for loading on to another feeder vessel. It took three weeks to get all the


pieces from Kaiserslautern firstly to the Swedish port of Karlshamn and then by another truck to Olofström.


Issue 8 2014 - Freight Business Journal


Pressing business for GAC Rotterdam terminal to be Scandi hub


Norwegian Sea-Cargo has signed a deal


with Broekman


Distriport to expand the latter’s Rotterdam terminal by 50,000 sq m to distribute goods to and from Western Scandinavia. The new Continental hub will allow incoming goods from Asia to be collected in Rotterdam and transported in one batch to Norway, while Rotterdam will act as a strategic location for distributing Scandinavian goods


to western and southern Europe and Asia. Freight can be collected and distributed centrally using Rotterdam’s extensive network of water, road and rail connections. In signing an agreement on 17 November with


Rik Pek of


Broekman Group, Ole Saevild of Norwegian Sea-Cargo said it would connect his company’s west coast Norway services with the European mainland.


33 Developments at the


Theemsweg terminal in Botlek Rotterdam will include building a roll-on, roll-off ramp to tranship non- ferrous metal, oil and gas, off-shore and forest products. Work on the new terminal will


start at the beginning of 2015 and the hub is due to be operational in April of the same year. Initially, Sea- Cargo will use the terminal in both directions twice a week.


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