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During the first six months of this year, container volumes at the Port of Gothenburg rose by 19 per cent, from 318,000 to 378,000 TEUs. The number of cars and intra-European ro-ro* units shipped increased...

The Gothenburg Port Authority has started replanting 1.7 hectares of eelgrass beds to compensate for the eelgrass that will disappear when the port is building a new terminal. It is the largest replantion...

In 2015, the Port of Gothenburg introduced an environmental discount on the port tariff in an effort to increase the number of calls by ships running on liquefied natural gas (LNG). Several major LNG investments...

During the evening of Monday June 25, the first-ever bunkering of liquefied biogas (LBG) took place at the Port of Gothenburg. Fure Vinga, owned by the Donsö-based shipping company Furetank, took on 40 cubic metres of LBG directly from a road tanker parked at the quayside.

On Wednesday June 20, Minister for Enterprise and Innovation Mikael Damberg, together with Ann-Sofie Hermansson and leaders from the Gothenburg Port Authority, met a number of representatives from the global shipping companies that operate in and out of the Port of Gothenburg.

On June 2, the Swedish Minister for Infrastructure Thomas Eneroth presented key elements of the government’s strategic infrastructure plan and budget related to the deepening of the fairways at the Port...

Demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a marine fuel is on the increase at the Port of Gothenburg, and it has now been announced that the availability of LNG and the range of bunkering options will

Container volumes rose by three per cent during the first quarter of the year, up from 184,000 to 188,000 TEU. The number of cars shipped rose by 20 per cent, whilst intra-European ro-ro units and energy...

The Gothenburg Port Authority Sustainability Report for 2017 – Sustainable Port – has now been published. Despite the labour disputes that have led to a fall in container volumes and affected the number...

Over a hundred years ago, the first Swedish American line vessel set sail from Gothenburg. It was from here that the large ocean-going steamers departed for New York between 1915 and the mid-1970s. The historic Stigbergskajen is now being brought back to life, with ultramodern facilities and a name reminiscent of a bygone era – the America Cruise Terminal.

Ro-ro operations at the Port of Gothenburg are looking bright, with sustained growth three years in succession. There has been an increase of 10 per cent over the past year alone, with the number of units...

Sweden is a role model for the global shipping community, and other countries have a great deal to learn from the work being done by the Swedish shipping industry to reduce emissions. This is one of the findings in a new report – Decarbonising Maritime Transport: The Case of Sweden – where efforts aimed at bringing about a greener shipping sector in Sweden are described as a “success story”.