{"id":8226,"date":"2011-06-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2011\/06\/13\/an-inland-hurdle-to-inspections\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:40:27","slug":"an-inland-hurdle-to-inspections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/equipment\/an-inland-hurdle-to-inspections\/","title":{"rendered":"An inland hurdle to inspections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A network of nearly two dozen inland terminals is central to the Port of Gothenburg\u2019s plans for growth \u2013 for efficiency, speed and environmental reasons, says Stig-G\u00f6ran Thor\u00e9n, the port\u2019s senior manager, business development. Gothenburg has achieved a 50\/50 road\/rail split through this strategy, and the rail system is saving about 51,000 tonnes of CO<sub>2<\/sub> a year, he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vision of what we are going for is that a railport terminal should be able to handle all the things we can do in the port,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>So far, customs checks have been \u2018moved\u2019 to two rail terminals; a container can be moved by rail from the port and stored at the railport for customs clearance and paperwork later. \u201cOur goal is to create the possibilities for the railport to handle and do everything we can do in the port \u2013 because it is more expensive to keep boxes in the port, and also to avoid congestion,\u201d says Mr Thor\u00e9n. \u201cHowever, I am not sure we could move all the inspection functions \u2013 for example, food inspection, because this must be done on the quay before the cargo is moved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>May 2011 saw the official opening of the Skaraborg Logistic Center at Falk\u00f6ping, a flagship project for the Swedish partners of the EU Dryport project.<\/p>\n<p>Leif Bigsten, manager for strategic development for the Municipality of Falk\u00f6ping, says a container rail shuttle is due to start operating from Gothenburg by early autumn \u2013 \u201cand when this starts, I am certain that we will have customs in Falk\u00f6ping. We have everything in place. The more you develop an inland terminal, the more you need to have all the facilities you have in a seaport \u2013 including security and IT connections.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of dryports to ease pressure on seaports raises new challenges regarding inspections \u2013 can the IT, security and personnel be put in place to transfer all such inspection procedures from seaport to dryport?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-equipment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226","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=8226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8228,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions\/8228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8226"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=8226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}