Hutchison Ports has signed the contract for the management of the container terminal of the new port of Norvik (Stockholm)



The terminalista society Hutchison Ports di Hong Kong has signed a contract of concession with Stockholms Hamn, the Harbour Authority of Stockholm, for the management of the new container terminal under construction in the harbour area of Norvik, that it is situated to Nynäshamn, about 60 kilometers to south of Stockholm, and that entirely will be dedicated to the traffic of the goods.

Hutchison Ports, emphasizing that the new port better will have approached a marine one, deeper waters and a greater ability regarding the harbour structures of the port of Stockholm, has specified that in the new container terminal the activities will be transferred that the terminalista society currently work in the port of the vital Swede. From the beginning of 2009, in fact, Hutchison Ports manages the Container Terminal Frihamnen (CTF) of the port of Stockholm, terminal that enlivened all the containerized trade of the port of call and that in 2016 has established the own new record anniversary of traffic having enlivened 53,945 teu regarding 50.936 teu in the 2015 (precedence records was established in 2014 with 51.226 teu).

The new container terminal in the port of Norvik, that it will become operating in 2020, will have a dock of 450 linear meters with depth of the -16,5 backdrop meters. The project previews a widening of the ability to traffic of the landing place in order to elevate it to 450 thousand per year teu.

"The new structure - it has evidenced the managing director of Hutchison Ports Europe, Clemence Cheng - will be the container terminal more near the area of Great Stockholm that generates Gross Domestic Product 45% of the Swede. Which only terminal for containers in deep waters on the coast oriental of Sweden, the port of Norvik will offer benefits is economic that environmental reducing the activity of transport via earth and carrying the ships and the goods more near the greatest market of the Country".

"Our cooperation with Hutchison Ports, that he is the main operator of container terminal of the world - has found the managing director of the Stockholms Hamn, Johan Castwall - is a step a lot important in order to make so that the Norvik port of Stockholm can be one of the more important you carry container of the Baltic Sea. Together we are creating the best sustainable conditions for the transport of the goods from and for the region.

With the start of the activity of the new terminal of Norvik, the Container Frihamnen Terminal will return under the management of the Stockholms Hamn that will restructure the area to residential and recreational use.