Pulp Paper & Logistics
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New forest terminal at the Port of Gothenburg
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ordic region forestry product mills are increasingly shipping their timber through
the Port of Gothenburg, using a new transloading terminal at the port that is managed by Gävle- based family-owned Sören Thyr AB. Paper, pulp and timber products
account for a large proportion of exports that pass through the Port of Gothenburg but until now, the port has lacked a dedicated terminal for transloading sawn timber products. “We welcome Sören Thyr AB to Gothenburg. The company is well known in the industry. Thanks to this investment, more sawmills and paper mills throughout the world can make use of the port’s worldwide service network,” said
Magnus Kårestedt, chief executive of the Port of Gothenburg. The terminal enables sawmills to send their timber by rail or road. On arrival in Gothenburg, the timber is loaded into the correct unit – a container or trailer for example – for onward shipment worldwide. “We are extremely pleased that
we have managed to establish operations at the largest port in the Nordic region. We know that many sawmills are interested in exporting via Gothenburg and thanks to the new terminal more mills now have the opportunity to do so,” said Jörgen Thyr, chief executive and son of the founder Sören Thyr. Other investment at the port include new rail solutions, plans
for more weather-protected transloading terminals and a new collaborative venture between the and shipping companies such as Stena Line, DFDS Seaways,
CLdN, MSC, SCI Freightman, ACL, Unifeeder and K Line to market the range of shipping and peripheral services to the forest industry.
BillerudKorsnäs – a Swedish export success
An increasingly vital link in a supply chain that sees cartonboard shipped by BillerudKorsnäs to the UK for use by The Body Shop beauty products retail chain is the Port of Gothenburg. Says Jan Forsberg, cartonboard sales chief at BillerudKorsnäs, ”We can see a constant increase in demand for packaging paper, both in Europe, where the trend is moving towards packing an increasing number of consumer goods, and throughout the rest the world, where growth has largely been driven by new consumer patterns and increased welfare.” BillerudKorsnäs says it has
picked up a growing green awareness within industry and consumers that is reflected as a substantial increase in production and sales. In the packaging industry, several new solutions have been developed that can compete with shapeable plastics containers. Jan Forsberg explains:
”Paper packagings have major advantages over plastic. The raw material is renewable and the end-product can be recycled.” One of BillerudKorsnäs’s
customers is The Body Shop, which uses Artisan branded cartonboard, an extra strong, shapeable cartonboard, produced specifically for
luxury goods such as perfume, cosmetics and confectionery. The cartonboard is produced
in Sweden and shipped to the UK where it is printed and folded at another plant. From there it is transported to The Body Shop stores that number around 2,500 in 61 countries. The volume of Body Shop
packaging passing through the Port of Gothenburg peaks in the run up to Christmas. “We are seeing an increase in demand for our products from September to October. This indicates anticipation of increased sales for Christmas. Our sales to The Body Shop follows the same pattern,
with a surge in consumption of approximately 30 percent during this period,” says Jan Forsberg. Cecilia Carlsson,
communications chief at the Port of Gothenburg, said: ”Our aim is to highlight skilled Swedish export companies and their importance for the country. Through Swedish Export Successes we will also increase knowledge of the logistics chain, which ensures that Swedish goods are distributed to consumers throughout the world and where the Port of Gothenburg as a freight hub has a very important role to play.”
January/February 2015
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