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Ports of Stockholm’s container volumes for January to October 2019 rose by 7% compared to the same period last year. Marketing


manager cargo


Nicklas Ebersson said the increase boded well for the opening of the new Norvik Port next year. Norvik will be run by


Hutchison Ports and will replace the container terminal at


Stockholm’s Frihamnen


Issue 8 2019 - Freight Business Journal


Box surge for Stockholm ahead of new terminal opening


Port. It offers a natural depth of 16.5 metres and will be able to handle the largest vessels operating in the Baltic Sea, along with short sea approaches and good connections to major roads and railway routes. The ro ro section of the


Stockholm Norvik Port will also open during 2020 and will be run as part of Ports of Stockholm’s own business operations.


ALS moves into Scandi


Abnormal Load Services (ALS)’s renewables team has recently expanded into Scandinavia, following a very successful year supplying onshore port services and


operations in various


countries including Denmark, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland and Sweden. ALS has organised charters;


managed port operations, storage facilities and transfers of wind turbine components. Recently, ALS’ multilingual


and highly experienced team in Sweden successfully completed the project management of 74,053 tonnes of wind farm equipment from


the port of Harnosand to site in nine months. The project involved 26 vessels with 1,515 components unloaded, stored and then reloaded to transport -


149 complete turbines


unloaded and moved to five windfarms. Coordination and detailed planning was key to this project with six transport companies working together to achieve 1,500 deliveries to the sites. A smaller project involved


a full charter of around 4,500- 5,000 freight tonnes, to ship 36 pieces of wind equipment from Bremerhaven


Labradorhafen


to Esberg, Denmark for an offshore wind project.


Norway leads the f ord in ship automation


Norwegian grocery wholesaler and distributor ASKO is planning to build at least two fully electric autonomous ro ro vessels to ferry up to 16 trailers at a time from one side of Oslo Fjord to the other, in conjunction with vessel automation specialist, Massterly.


Massterly - a joint venture


between maritime automation specialist Kongsberg Maritime and Norwegian ro ro shipping line, Wilhelmsen - says it is the world’s fi rst company set up to operate autonomous vessels. Massterly’s vice president,


sales and marketing, Pia Meling, explained that the 66 metre long ships would operate at 6-8 knots for optimal energy effi ciency, and would save around 1 million truck kilometres a year.” Massterly is currently negotiating with shipyards on ASKO’s behalf on a fi rm order for vessels. Massterly is meanwhile also


managing a project to build what it says is the world’s fi rst


fully autonomous vessel, the 120teu


electric-powered Yara


Birkeland in Romania, set to be launched next year. She will go into service on a regular route between Herøya, Brevik and Larvik, initially operating with a crew for comprehensive testing before the bridge is removed and full autonomy engaged. Vessel crews would be


replaced by a central land- based team, capable of overseeing multiple ships. As well as the saving in labour costs, there would be no need for accommodation and a traditional bridge. Slow speed electric operations would deliver zero emission performance and fuel savings. Meling says that while the


capital cost of the fi rst automated vessels will be high, there would be operational cost savings and the technology costs would drop with volume production of such vessels.


Ports of Stockholm and Viking Line have jointly invested in a new cargo building and parking area. It will allow more effi cient cargo management, facilitate the forwarding of ro ro freight and ease the burden on drivers, the partners say. The building has robust


walls and ceilings for sound- insulation from the noise of the port traffi c and to create a good working environment for the personnel. Large glass expanses give the personnel a good overview of operations at the port. The old Viking Line cargo


building will be demolished to make way more storage and parking space for goods and vehicles. Viking Line terminal


manager, Anne Staf, said: “Our collaborations with Ports of Stockholm work very well and we are very pleased to be able to provide our customers with a signifi cantly improved service. The personnel have also gained a very nice and pleasant workplace.” Some 7.2m of the 9.6 million


tonnes a year of freight moved through Stockholm use ro ro servic services.


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