The Swedish forest industry group S\u00f6dra has taken steps to optimise and stabilise the export process for Sweden\u2019s \u2018green gold\u2019 by introducing a new logistics arrangement via the Port of Gothenburg.<\/p>\n
\u201cHere at Mima Terminal, we have all the necessary infrastructure in place to efficiently containerise the pulp bales in our facility, strategically located next to APM Terminals\u2019 quay,\u201d said Michael Bergman, CEO of Mima Terminal.<\/p>\n
\u201dWe are very proud to offer the industry an alternative to truck transport in the port and in this case, S\u00f6dra is a pioneer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Greener logistics<\/strong><\/p>\n For centuries, the Swedish forest has been a cornerstone of the Swedish export industry and it remains in high demand. In 2022, Sweden exported forest products worth almost \u20ac20 billion, more than ever before.<\/p>\n Historically, pulp from S\u00f6dra was transported by rail and truck from S\u00f6dra\u2019s production facility in M\u00f6nster\u00e5s on the Swedish east coast, for transshipment at Mima Terminals\u2019 facilities in the Port of Gothenburg. There, the bales were loaded into containers for further global delivery by road.<\/p>\n But now, in part to be able to handle rapid volume growth, as well as to optimise the transports from an emissions perspective, the new solution establishes an alternative corridor where pulp volumes are transported by sea between M\u00f6nster\u00e5s and the Port of Gothenburg.<\/p>\n When a bulk carrier departs from M\u00f6nster\u00e5s, it is loaded with up to 5,600 tonnes of pulp (equivalent to 140 trucks). Thirty-six hours later, the ship arrives at the container terminal in the Port of Gothenburg operated by APM Terminals.<\/p>\n Mima Terminal unloads S\u00f6dra\u2019s time-chartered vessels, containerises and temporarily stores the pulp before shipping it via container vessels to markets on other continents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thanks to a collaboration between parties in the logistics hub at the Port of Gothenburg, a new transshipment solution is enabling significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,8],"tags":[18,130,1269,1271,875,141,814,1270],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-greenport","category-projects-initiatives-greenport","tag-apm-terminals","tag-emissions","tag-export","tag-mima-terminal","tag-port-of-gothenberg","tag-short-sea","tag-sweden","tag-tree-pulp"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3788,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions\/3788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}