New Ways Number Four | 2013
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NEW WAYS NUMBER FOUR | 2013 Ortviken meets the future with new packaging products Major investments at the port of Umeå Higher efficiency with SCA-boxes scalogistics.se 2 EDITORIAL Improve Dear customer. Christmas is approaching and branded SCA Transforest or Interforest Terminals. another year is coming to an end. 2013 was another We wanted a name that was more self-explanatory, challenging year. Actually the 5th year with slow shorter and easy to communicate. growth in Europe and globally. At SCA Logistics During the year we also noticed that more or we are using the time to prepare ourselves for less all our customers worked very hard to improve the future, working on our competitiveness and their competitiveness, both in terms of efficiency service portfolio. and product development. A concrete effect of our A recent example is our new rail system in customers’ product development is that the average Sweden with a specially designed rail container to order size is gradually shrinking. This makes it maximize payload on Swedish tracks and handling important for us to adjust the layout in warehouses, efficiency at load and discharge. You can read more but also to streamline our administration, since the about it in this magazine. number of bookings per shipped ton is increasing. During the year we have worked with This year we also launched our largest marine hundreds of different activities to improve our tender ever with an annual total of 75,000 TEU on competitiveness in our terminal operations and the market, this made us an even more interesting marine traffic. It is very interesting to see that it is customer for many ocean carriers. always possible to improve processes and activities, As you can see, many activities – both small even if they have been in focus many times before. and large – have been carried out to improve our One such area is fuel efficency on our RoRo vessels. performance. By working with conventional technical solutions, I would like to end this column by thanking monitoring and eco driving, it has been possible all our valuable customers for your continued to reduce fuel consumption by 3% over the year. support and all our employees for the hard work It may not sound huge, but with a high annual you have put in to make sure that we remain the fuel consumption and the sulphur directive coming preferred supplier. into play in 2015 – every tonne of fuel counts! Season’s Greetings to One and All. We are also continuing our never ending efforts to streamline our cargo handling and administrative processes. This year our terminals took another step forward as average productivity increased by 4%. This summer we changed our company name to SCA Logistics. The aim was to have a common name for all our companies, which were earlier Magnus Svensson, President SCA Logistics NEW WAYS | NUMBER FOUR | 2013 Publisher Editorial staff Cover photo: Printing Comments New Ways is printed at an Nils-Johan Haraldsson Björn Lyngfelt SCA Tryckeribolaget, Sundsvall SCA Logistics AB, FSC certified printworks Henrik Fälldin Box 805, SE-851 23 and on FSC certified paper. Editors Erika Wiklund Translation Inlay Sundsvall, Sweden. Throughout the production Mats Wigardt Matthew Frackowiak Semantix SCA GraphoSilk 90 g. Tel. +46 60 19 35 00 process, the environmental Carl Johard Lena Zetterwall [email protected] impact is kept to an absolute Jennie Zetterqvist Mikael Högström Production Cover minimum, with a view to Frosting Cocoon gloss 200 g. promoting responsible Kommunikationsbyrå use of the world’s forests. 3 Team SCA’s new racing boat Team SCA, based on Lanzarote, continue to prepare for Volvo Ocean Race 2014–2015. Their newly developed racing boat Volvo Ocean 65 (VO65) was also recently delivered. Everybody involved in the team is excited now confirmed and they are all eager to get The sailing team must also focus on to finally be working with the boat that to know every aspect of the VO65 and push strengthening their bodies to be fully will take the all-female crew around the the boat to its limits. prepared for the challenge ahead. The crew world starting in October next year. – It is our goal as a team to bring the members have tailored fitness programmes – The delivery of the racing boat was a best possible boat to the starting line, so it and train 5–6 days a week to reach their landmark moment in our project, says Joca must be tried and tested in all conditions individual top shape within a year. Signorini, one of Team SCA’s coaches. by then, says Felix Schliebitz, the team’s Seven of the eleven crew members are mechanical engineer. Did you know… There is over 5.5 km of rope on “The delivery of the racing boat was a landmark board a VO65. And that does not include the mast! moment in our project.” Text: Jennie Zetterqvist. Photo: SCA 4 Text: Mats Wigardt. Photo: SCA / Lars Lindh Infrastructure improvements in Umeå “One less bottleneck”. This is how SCA Logistics President Magnus Svensson summarises the electrification of the railway line between the Holmsund marshalling yard and the port. More efficient logistics and lower costs will strengthen both the Port of Umeå’s and SCA Logistics’ competitiveness. Freight traffic in Sweden has been increas- Important link Great importance for the future ing steadily since the 1970s. And as the SCA Logistics has been one of several im- In collaboration with Umeå Municipality, northernmost container port, the Port of portant players at the port since 1965 and the European Union and the Swedish Umeå plays a vital role for freight traffic to with Terminal Umeå, there is an important Transport Administration, the Port of and from the continent and Finland. link for traffic to Europe. About half the Umeå has invested around 160 million SEK Strategically situated in an expanding port’s total freight volume, largely consisting in a development project of great impor- region of the country, the port handles of timber products, recycled fibre and con- tance for the future expansion of the port. about 2.3 million tonnes of freight every tainerboard, passes through our terminal. Not least as regards Umeå’s increasingly year. Its catchment area covers northern – This is why it is extremely important important role as a logistics hub in the Sweden, northern Norway and northern that the logistics both to and from the port north of Sweden is it vital to have a Finland. area and inside the port itself are rational functioning port large enough to cope and cost-effective, Magnus says. with future needs with space for more 5 The purpose of the project is to straighten the E12 highway and build a new, electrified railway line to the ferry berth at the port. terminals and container storage and for locomotives hauled the trains from there he adds. And one less bottleneck for our new companies to establish themselves. to the port. Being able to drive the train all traffic to the continent. the way with the same locomotive means And Curt Kristoffersson, CEO, New electrified railway line less switching and lower costs for traffic Port of Umeå is very happy to be able to The so-called Brohamn project was inau- at the port. offer his customers rational, time-saving gurated in mid-November, putting another – Every wagon movement and every and more environ mentally sustainable piece of the transport system called the shunt costs money, Magnus goes on. Lower freight handling. Nordic Logistic Corridor in place. costs strengthen our competitiveness and – Efficient logistics is a prerequisite Briefly put, the purpose of the project make the port more effective. for all production in the north of Sweden, is to straighten the E12 highway and he says. build a new, electrified railway line to More sustainable freight handling the ferry berth at the port. Electrification – And it’s also an enormous stride forward See also www.umeahamn.se. will contribute to faster, safer and more for more environmentally friendly logistics, environmentally friendly transportation in the port area. – Electrification is also what concerns us most, Magnus says. And in a very positive way. “Efficient logistics is a prerequisite for all Stronger competitiveness Electric locomotives were formerly used production in the north of Sweden.” as far as Holmsund station and diesel 6 Higher efficiency with SCA-boxes Half the number of departures, a better working environment and reduced environmental impact – but with the same amount of cargo transported as before. This will be the result of new, specially designed containers that SCA Logistics has begun using on the Piteå-Umeå-Skövde route. The late 1990s saw the introduction of the transportation to the west coast by vessel, Less departures Text: Mats Wigardt. Photo: Sjöquist PA so-called SCA Logistics shuttle from Piteå says Margaretha Gustafsson, Terminal More powerful locomotives, longer trains and Umeå to SCA Logistics’ terminal in Manager, SCA Logistics Umeå. and maximum tonnage, result in halving Skövde. Southbound, containerboard is of the number of departures, whilst the transported from Munksund and Obbola New load carrier became the solution environmental impact is reduced. Tonnage for delivery to customers in Norway, The final solution was to develop an entirely increases from 1,200 to 2,000 gross tonnes Denmark and southern Sweden. In the new load carrier, the SCA box, together on a 600-metre train. On the Munksund- opposite direction, recycled fibre is with container manufacturer Cronos in Umeå route the tonnage increases from transported to the mills in the north. Gothenburg. approximately 1,200 tonnes to 2,450 tonnes. – More freight per metre of train, Margaretha explains.