Wallenius SOL for shipping forestry products
NewsWallenius and Swedish Orient Line have established Wallenius SOL as a JV shipping company that will transport forestry products and other go...
SOL acquires three more ro-ros
NewsThe three vessels, time-chartered to Stora Enso, are further acquisitions by Swedish Orient Line from the Rederi TransAtlantic fleet...
Paper market reeling
NewsThe two main Nordic paper producing countries, Sweden and Finland, have been hit by a declining trend in paper demand....
Putting a plug in vessel emissions
NewsWhat does low sulphur fuel mean for cold ironing at ports in the future?...
Stora Enso/DFDS renew contract
NewsDFDS and Stora Enso, one of the world's largest paper producers, have signed a new agreement confirming their ongoing cooperation in the tra...
Stora Enso/DFDS renew contract
NewsDFDS and Stora Enso, one of the world’s largest paper producers, have signed a new agreement confirming their ongoing cooperation in the t...
More tales from the forest
NewsForest products shipments, along with other “neo bulk” cargoes such as steel and automobiles, are down,and this has affected mass carrie...
StoraEnso in Belgian switch
NewsReports from Sweden and Belgium suggest that Antwerp [Westerlund] is set to lose about 700,000 tpa of StoraEnso traffic to Zeebrugge [Sea-Ro...
CMP advancing on two fronts
NewsWhen the ports of Copenhagen and Malmö merged in 2001 to form Copenhagen Malmö Port (CMP), it was thought that the main expansion focus wo...
Convoys converts to Combilift
NewsIreland-based Combilift has another forest products handling and logistics customer in England. After Nothern Cargo Services (ABP Hull) and ...
Kemi looks beyond life on paper
NewsStora Enso’s decision to include Kemi in its NETSS paper export traffic did not provide additional tonnage for the port, but vindicated it...
Liverpool paper tunnel
NewsIt is only a month or so before Channel tunnel through rail services face the chop, according to EWS, because of the absence of a new chargi...
Gothenburg is ready for the big league
NewsGoteborgs Hamn AB has invested SEK850M to defend and enhance its deep sea container port status....
Tractor demand shifts up a gear
NewsDemand in the terminal tractor market has been such that some manufacturers are facing problems meeting orders within acceptable delivery ti...
Ports focus on unitised cargo flows
NewsRising container throughput due mainly to Russian transit traffic flows and the thrust of StoraEnso’s Finnish SECU project are the main dr...