Press release -
Port of Gothenburg freight volumes – Q3 report October 2018
Freight volumes passing through the Port of Gothenburg during the year to date are as follows. Container traffic is up 20% compared with the preceding year, and energy product flows remain consistently strong. New car figures rose by 4% but now appear to be levelling off, albeit at a high level.
Growth in container volumes
During the first nine months of the year, container traffic increased by 20% and rail traffic by 7%.
More energy products
Energy products totalled 17.7 million tonnes, up 2% on the corresponding period last year.
Cars and ro-ro* level out
Intra-European ro-ro traffic remained unchanged, whilst new car movements revealed a YTD rise of 4% despite a slight fall in September.
Port of Gothenburg freight volumes, YTD 2018
| Jan-Sept 2018 | Jan-Sept 2017 | Jan-Sept % change | |
| Containers, (TEU**) | 560,000 | 466,000 | 20% |
| Rail, (TEU) | 283,000 | 264,000 | 7% |
| Ro-ro units | 439,000 | 438,000 | 0% |
| New cars | 209,000 | 201,000 | 4% |
| Energy products, million tonnes | 17.7 | 17.2 | 2% |
| Passengers | 1,356,000 | 1,416,000 | -4% |
| Cruise ship calls | 34 | 36 | -6% |
* Ro-ro stands for roll-on/roll-off and refers to trailers and other wheeled cargo carried on vessels operating within and outside Europe.
** Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (20-foot container)
For further information, please contact Stefan Strömberg, Press Officer, Gothenburg Port Authority, on +46 (0)70-436 01 51, or at stefan.stromberg@portgot.se.
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Fact file: Port of Gothenburg
The Port of Gothenburg is the largest port in the Nordic region. 30 per cent of Swedish foreign trade passes through the Port of Gothenburg as well as 60 per cent of all container traffic.
The Port of Gothenburg is the only port in Sweden with the capacity to receive the world's largest container vessels and has the broadest range of shipping routes within and outside Europe. The 25 rail shuttles that depart each day mean that companies throughout Sweden and Norway have a direct, environmentally smart link to the largest port in the Nordic region. The Port of Gothenburg has terminals for oil, cars, ro-ro, containers and passengers.
