Port of Geteborg to carry 50% of containers by railway by 2012
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By 2012, the Port of Geteborg plans to raise railway transportation of cargo to 50%, which is over 500,000 TEU per year, PortNews IAA learnt from Cecilia Carlsson, media relations officer of the Port of Geteborg. “Rail freight at the Geteborg port today has a 38% market share for containers,” the port representative says. “We have built up a system of rail shuttles to link Geteborg with other ports of Sweden including inland terminals.” The port now has 70 train departures a day, of which 46 are operated for the oil, petroleum, chemical, paper and steel industries, and the remaining 24 are container shuttles. The plan is to establish two new freight shuttles per year, to existing and new locations.
Geteborg is the largest port in the North Europe. Its annual throughput makes some 40 million tonnes of cargo with the majority of it falling on oil products, containers and ro-ro cargo.