A new transport landscape is emerging
estimated could take to the waterways
instead. Highly increased e-commerce with
foreign countries and the new consumer
behaviour that is emerging are the basis for
a transport collapse. Transport volumes will
increase sharply in the next few years. Unless
goods can be reloaded to waterways with
increased short sea shipping traffic, Mälar-
dalen’s growth and prosperity are at risk.
Short sea shipping from northern European
ports in the Baltic Sea has the biggest
potential for offloading land transport. We
now have several good examples showing
that it works in practice. Both the RoRo
traffic and the conventional LoLo traffic
that runs at the Port of Oxelösund show
the benefits and possibilities. Trailers,
marine cassettes and 45 foot pallet wide
containers are excellent load carriers for
quick changes from land to sea trans-
port. The conventional feeder traffic with
international containers to and from the
major hubs in Europe do the same thing.
One example is the freight traffic to and
from Finland, which is mostly carried by
lorry, and most of them travel to or from
Mälardalen and the south. This creates
a heavy traffic burden in the Stockholm
area, not least on the Essingeleden
motorway. In the report on the next page,
you can read about how waterways are
being used alongside roads to relieve the
land infrastructure, resulting in a “bypass
Stockholm” already today.
We meet the future.
We welcome you to the Port of Oxelösund,
using existing or new transport systems.
Erik Zetterlund
CEO
A NEWSLETTER FROM THE PORT OF OXELÖSUND
Mälardalen’s unique regional
demographic and dynamic will mean
bigger and bigger transport volumes.
Consumption and production power are
both increasing in Stockholm –
Mälardalen. This is in line with what is
often called the emergence of a mega
city, albeit in a smaller format.
The same pattern can be found on the
eastern side of the Baltic Sea. This gives
the Baltic Sea region a unique and
powerful dynamic with a fantastic
potential that is only threatened by
unstable geopolitics, housing shortages
or weak supply chains.
As foreign lorries are not included in
Swedish statistics, the road network is more
charged than the estimations show. This
means more transport than was previously
OCTOBER 2017