Box traffic at Port of Gothenburg in Jan-Sept rose 20% to 560000 TEUs

Freight volumes passing through the Port of Gothenburg during the year to date are as follows. Container traffic is up 20% compared with the preceding year, and energy product flows remain consistently strong. New car figures rose by 4% but now appear to be levelling off, albeit at a high level.

Growth in container volumes
During the first nine months of the year, container traffic increased by 20% and rail traffic by 7%.

More energy products
Energy products totalled 17.7 million tonnes, up 2% on the corresponding period last year.

Cars and Ro-Ro level out
Intra-European ro-ro traffic remained unchanged, whilst new car movements revealed a YTD rise of 4% despite a slight fall in September.

Port of Gothenburg freight volumes, YTD 2018