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Expanding Port of Ystad reaches its fossil-free fuel targets


for European Union finance to fund its expansion and to continue development of more environmentally-friendly operations. The target is to safeguard the future of the port with increased capacity and reduced impact on its surroundings. Port of Ystad is one of Sweden’s


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largest ports, and will soon be larger. Last autumn it was also


March/April 2019


ast autumn, Port of Ystad on the south coast of Sweden received approval


One of Sweden’s largest shipping ports has started construction work that will increase capacity and reduce its impact on the environment. PPL reports


granted about SKr 250 million (US$27m) to upgrade the route from Ystad to Swinoujscie in Poland.


Björn Boström, managing


director of Port of Ystad, says: “It really feels very good that EU believes in us, so now we will build the port of the future to meet the challenges that are ahead.” The purpose of the port’s rebuild


– which was due to start in March 2019 for completion in November 2020 – is to safeguard the future of its activities by reducing its environmental impact and to increase its ability to accept much larger vessels than today. “Everything indicates that the


new and more modern ships will be larger, maybe even twice as large as today’s. So the port must also become larger,” Boström says.


To allow for the larger ships, Port


of Ystad will build two new ferry sites and increase the land area, partly by using the material that will be excavated from the bottom to increase the depth of the outer part of the port and the entrance has been widened. “The new vessels will be able


to hold something like four kilometres of trucks, compared with today’s approximately two


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