EU invests in the Port of Gothenburg

The EU Commission has awarded grants within the framework of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). The purpose is to support transport solutions that promote growth in industry in Europe, generate environmental benefits and facilitate the flow of freight.

In brief, the model has been designed in a way that the Port of Århus and the Port of Gothenburg will be reinforced as transhipment ports for the whole region. Both ports would become hubs for transport to and from Asia. A great deal of the transhipment that currently takes place at the large continental ports can take place here instead. Collaboration with other ports in the Baltic region will be intensified.

The model offers significant benefits. By viewing the whole of Scandinavia and the Baltic region as one single market, it will be of greater interest to shipping companies to have direct routes from here. Pressure on the large ports on the continent, such as Hamburg and Rotterdam, would be relieved and more freight transport can be switched from land to sea with resulting environmental benefits.