Premiere trailer trains service for Port of Gothenburg

Over the past ten years the Port of Gothenburg has invested heavily in increasing the volume of goods moved by train to and from the port. This initiative has proved successful – 45 per cent of all containers are now transported by rail. This represents around 200,000 containers annually, which means 550 fewer large trucks on the roads each day.

The Port of Gothenburg also has the largest ro/ro terminal in Sweden, handling half a million trailers each year. Only a few per cent of these arrive at the port by train, the remainder going by road.

“But things are about to change. Our aim in the short term is for 10 per cent of all trailers to be transported to or from the port by trailer train. This would mean around 60,000 trailers each year, equivalent to 164 trucks every day. Looking ahead further the aim is 25 per cent,” says Magnus Kårestedt, CEO at the Port of Gothenburg.