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To the Logent Swede the Car Terminal of the port of Goteborg
Last year the traffic of car in the port of call is piled to 233.000 units (+48%)
February 16, 2011
Today the Port of Gothenburg, the society that manages the port of Goteborg, and the logistic group Swedish Logent has undersigned the contract of concession of the duration ten-year-old thanks to which this last one will manage the terminal for car of the port of call (Gothenburg Car Terminal). Logent work in the harbour field with the division Ports & Terminals that is constituted when last May the society has acquired the harbour company Stockolms Stuveri & Bemanning (Stuv AB) of Stockholm.
"The geographic positioning of Goteborg - president of Logent, Lars-Göran Ahlberger has declared - is unsurpassable when draft to use entire Scandinavia and the Baltic nations. We are trying to strengthen ulteriorly the Car in close collaboration Terminal of the port of Goteborg with the automotive industry".
The allocation of the terminal for car to the Logent group joins in the process of privatization of the port of Goteborg based on which the management of the port is attributed to a municipal harbour authority and the operating activities are entrusted to three terminaliste societies, while the harbour infrastructures remain of communal property. Last October the management of the terminal ro-ro of Goteborg (Älvsborg Ro/ro) is adjudicated to joint venture constituted by DFDS and C.Ports ( on 21 October 2010). Next 4 April is the date of beginning of the contract with which Logent the Car will operate Terminal, based on which to the company will be transferred all contracts with the customers of the assigned terminal and the 35 of the harbour system. The last phase of the procedure previews the next allocation of the management of the container terminal (Skandia Container Terminal).
Goteborg is the main port of call of export of motor vehicles of Sweden. Last year the traffic of car in the Swedish port is piled to 233.000 vehicles, with an increment of 48% regarding 2009.
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