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Baltic Shipping Days:
- Fewer but bigger container terminals
and more efficient transport systems
“There are fifty container terminals along the Baltic coast and they are operating at
less than 60 per cent of capacity, as an average. We need a strategy for fewer but
bigger container terminals with complete infrastructure and the capacity to handle
larger vessels than today.”
That was the message from Wando Bouvé, Commercial Director of Hutchison Port Holdings,
the world’s largest container terminal operator with business all over the world, at Baltic
Shipping Days, an international logistics conference in Sundsvall on 17 and 18 November.
Wando Bouvé stated that a lot remained to be done regarding more efficient flow of goods
and the cost for transportation.
“The annual cost for goods transport in Europe amounts to 450 billion Euro! Of this only 44
per cent is the cost for actually transporting goods. The rest is spent on moving empty
containers, railcars and trucks. The great challenge is to link together the great global flow of
goods between continents on large vessels with short-sea transport, rail and trucks.”
“We need to be more efficient. Today a goods container spends six days on average in our
port in Rotterdam. Then it spends another twelve days on an inland terminal in for example
Frankfurt. This costs money, ties up resources and requires parties in all links of the chain to
build higher stocks than necessary.
SCA TRANSFOREST is a logistics company which provides an extensive sea and land transport
service within Europe and other overseas destinations. The business is supported by a network of
terminals at strategic locations in Europe.
SCA Transforest is part of SCA’s Forest Products business area, which produces publication papers
for newspapers, magazines and catalogues, pulp, solid-wood products and forest-based biofuels. SCA
Forest Products also manages SCA's extensive forest holdings and supplies SCA's Swedish industries
with wood raw materials.
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Hutchison Port Holdings have high expectations on a new large container terminal In
Nynäshamn, presently tried for environmental permits, for goods transport to the Mälaren
region and the rest of Mid Sweden. This terminal would relieve the Stockholm Free Harbour,
where Hutchison presently operates. SCA Transforest is cooperating with Hutchison and is
transporting increasing volumes to the Stockholm region.
At the conference, Karolina Boholm, responsible for transport at the Swedish Forest Industry
Federation, presented the industry’s concern for the restrictions for sulphur emissions from
sea vessels that will be implanted from 2015 for the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the
English Channel.
“The effect will be an increased cost of 27 billion kronor – per annum”, said Karolina Boholm
and emphasised that this will cause higher environmental impact, rather than lower.
“It will be cheaper to transport paper and pulp from North or South America to Europe than
from Northern Sweden. And the vessels from the Americas may use fuel containing 3,5 per
cent of sulphur, compared to the new restrictions of 0,1 per cent for our short-sea transport.
The effect will be that goods are moved from environmental friendly sea transport to trucks,
as railways can not accommodate higher volumes.
160 representatives from transport companies, customers, public agencies and other
stakeholders took part in Baltic Shipping Days.
Sundsvall, 18 November 2010
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For further information please contact
Magnus Svensson, President SCA Transforest, tel. +46 70-550 61 15