Avesta Sheffield's long-awaited direct mill-port system is due to start up in November between Göteborg and the steel rolling mill at Avesta in central Sweden...
Currently cassettes are used only for the sea leg between Göteborg and Immingham and coils and slabs are transloaded between cassettes and railcars in the ports.
Avesta Sheffield, in conjunction with DFDS Tor Line, Swedish Rail Cargo (SJ Gods) and Göteborgs Hamn AB, have completed development of an integrated system to eliminate the double handling of the product in Sweden. Steel products can be loaded at the Avesta mill on special flats and carried by rail to Göteborg, where the flats will be transferred to cassettes for carriage on the ship......
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Approx 450 words from WorldCargo News, July 2000,
page 12.
