{"id":5444,"date":"2017-10-16T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2017\/10\/16\/tariffs-held-at-gothenburg\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:47:21","slug":"tariffs-held-at-gothenburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2017\/10\/16\/tariffs-held-at-gothenburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Tariffs held at Gothenburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the third consecutive year, the port has chosen not to increase the charges laid out in the Port Tariff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy doing so, we are seeking to boost growth in industry, shipping and port operations,\u201d said Magnus K\u00e5restedt, chief executive of the Gothenburg Port Authority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time, we want to be part of the effort to curb rising logistics costs for our stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The charges, which are made on all vessels calling at the port, are based on vessel type and gross tonnage, and are used to fund activities such as traffic information, port safety and fairway maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Mr K\u00e5restedt said that the organisation has managed to dodge the need for tariff increases through good cost control.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the port operates a port charge discount system for vessels with good environmental performance, with ships opting to change to run on liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving a further discount at 20% per call.<\/p>\n<p>The port has also announced that it is extending its discount period for cruise ship calls, with this time frame now running to the end of December.<\/p>\n<p>To access the Port Tariff, visit http:\/\/www.portofgothenburg.com\/porttariff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden\u2019s Port of Gothenburg will not increase tariffs in 2018, keeping the figures at the same level as in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444","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=5444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5446,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions\/5446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5444"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}