Ports of Stockholm, Hutchison Ports Stockholm and M\u00e4larhamnar, in collaboration with Wallenius Marine, have partnered to launch inland shipping between Ports of Stockholm\u2019s Stockholm Norvik Port and the M\u00e4larhamnar ports of V\u00e4ster\u00e5s and K\u00f6ping.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf shipping companies, forwarding companies and cargo owners are to be able to operate and use an inland shipping system, the ports must work together in a chain, and there must be suitable fairways for the job,\u201d said Carola Alz\u00e9n, CEO of port operator M\u00e4larhamnar. \u201cWe, the ports, must, therefore, play our part and work together to implement the measures needed to enable this traffic to become a reality in Sweden.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sustainable transport<\/strong><\/p>\n Stockholm Norvik Port opened in May in a location that offers new opportunities for efficient and sustainable transportation in the expanding Stockholm and M\u00e4lardalen region. At the same time, the M\u00e4larhamnar ports are conducting substantial expansion projects that will enable them to handle larger freight volumes.<\/p>\n Transporting goods by sea directly to Stockholm Norvik Port, and then on to the M\u00e4larhamnar ports via Lake M\u00e4laren, is expected to lessen the load on the currently heavily congested road and rail networks, and will consequently help bring about a more sustainable transport network within the greater Stockholm region.<\/p>\n Stockholm Norvik Port is located closer than any other container terminal to what is Sweden\u2019s biggest consumption area. It also offers a shorter route to the open sea than any other east coast port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sweden\u2019s environmentally friendly transport plans have been boosted with the launch of an inland shipping initiative to take high emissions trucks off the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}