From Dock to Warehouse in 10 Minutes the Port of Gothenburg Is Scandinavia’S Largest Port and It Offers Welcome to a Unique Range of Services
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From dock to warehouse in 10 minutes The Port of Gothenburg is Scandinavia’s largest port and it offers Welcome to a unique range of services. Every week more than 100 vessels arrive with goods from all over the world. A 1 million square metre logistics park is now being established PORT of GOTHENBURG in this attractive site. Five landowners are standing by ready to construct modern, energy-efficient buildings to suit your needs. LOGISTICS PARK Within a range of 500 kilometres you have three capital cities and 70 per cent of Scandinavia’s population and industry. Efficient road and rail connections guarantee swift connections and deliveries. – an all-new logistics park situated right Discover the benefits of establishing a warehouse in the heart of an international logistics hub. Just 10 minutes from the quayside beside the Port of Gothenburg. There’s 1 million in the Port of Gothenburg. square metres waiting here to be transformed Welcome to Sweden’s most accessible logistics park – in the very into logistics premises and import warehouses heart of Scandinavia. with the best possible location. The Gothenburg Port Authority in collaboration with Bockasjö, NCC, Prologis and Castellum. 3 Reykjavik ICELAND Sweden’s best POPULATION 300,000 logistics location The Port of Gothenburg Logistics Park is the perfect logistics location – not least if your customers are to be found throughout Scandinavia. Because from here you can reach 70 per cent of the region’s industry RUSSIA (European part) and population within five hours. This includes the three capital cities SWEDEN POPULATION 100,000,000 POPULATION 9,700,000 of Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm. FINLAND POPULATION 5,500,000 GOTHENBURG HAS BEEN NAMED STRONG REGION SWEDEN’S BEST LOGISTICS LOCATION The Gothenburg region’s business life is FOR 15 CONSECUTIVE YEARS characterised by global, knowhow-intensive NORWAY Kotka manufacturers such as Volvo, SKF and Astra- The foremost reasons are: POPULATION 5,100,000 Zeneca. Shipping and international trade have Helsinki St Petersburg • Scandinavia’s largest import/export port Hanko shaped the city for almost 400 years. This is the Several large new logistics facilities • largest port and logistics hub in Scandinavia. Oslo Large new sites for logistics, including Stockholm • More than 300 companies and 20,000 people Tallinn ESTONIA close to the Port of Gothenburg and are linked to the Port of Gothenburg. POPULATION 1,300,000 Landvetter Airport Short distances from import port to • Since the new millennium more than 100,000 NORTH AMERICA Gothenburg warehousing facilities means low new jobs have been created in the Gothenburg /EUROPE Riga logistics costs region, and now the pace of development is • An advanced, fast-growing transport infra- accelerating even faster. It is estimated that structure with the focus on the environment 1000 billion SEK will be invested in this region by end 2035. MIDDLE EAST Klaipeda LATVIA • National centre for research and development /INDIA POPULATION 2,000,000 ASIA into sustainable logistics solutions and Copenhagen transportation services TRADE-INTENSIVE Kaliningrad Gdynia Goods exports from the Gothenburg region Gdansk LITHUANIA Sweden’s top 5 regions by location: increased by no less than 15 per cent in 2015, Kiel POPULATION 2,900,000 1. Gothenburg region while growth for Sweden as a whole was just over 5 per cent. Goods imports also showed far 2. Örebro region DENMARK greater growth in the Gothenburg region than 3. Östgöta region POPULATION 5,700,000 in other parts of Sweden. The even balance POLAND POPULATION 38,500,000 4. Stockholm North between imports and exports in the Port of 5. Jönköping region Gothenburg generates unique advantages for Source: Intelligent Logistik warehousing and logistics operations. Business magazine Forbes ranks Gothenburg in twelfth place among the world’s 250 most innovative cities. The large number of international companies, as well as technical colleges, universities and science parks, all help put Gothenburg high on the list. Source: Forbes 4 5 Gateway to the world 30% The Port of Gothenburg is Scandinavia’s largest port and the gateway of Sweden’s total overseas to the world for large sectors of Swedish industry. Our foremost strength trade passes through the Port of Gothenburg. is our wide range of services. This includes 130 direct routes to and from destinations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and North America. In addition to direct routes, we have frequent departures to and from the major transshipment hubs on the Continent as well as daily intra-European shipping routes. The Port of Gothenburg has goods terminals for containers, ro-ro traffic, cars, passengers and oil as well as other energy products. Three capital cities direct links within 500 kilometres to the world. The Port of Gothenburg has a 130 favourable location on Sweden’s From the Port of Gothenburg there west coast. 70 per cent of are almost 80 ro-ro departures Scandinavia’s industry and and more than 20 container vessel years population are found within 400 departures every week. 500 km from here. The catch- The Port of Gothenburg has ment area includes the three All told, almost 30 per cent of Sweden’s overseas played a vital role in Sweden’s capital cities of Copenhagen, trade passes via the Port of Gothenburg as well overseas trade for 400 years. Oslo and Stockholm. as almost 60 per cent of the container traffic. PORT OF GOTHENBURG 0 1 2 3 4 5 IN FIGURES (2015): Port of Gothenburg km 70 • Containers 820,000 TEU * freight trains • Ro-ro units 532,000 Central Gothenburg to and from the port • Cars 214,000 every day. • Passengers 1.7 million Imports to Sweden consist primarily of consumables such as clothes, furniture, food, • Oil 21.1 million tonnes electronics and so on. There is a very even balance between imports and exports Goods 38.2 million tonnes through the Port of Gothenburg – 50/50. Exports consist primarily of steel, vehicles • and forestry products such as paper, pulp and wood-based products. * Calculated as twenty-foot containers, TEU. 6 7 Unique location for warehousing operations The Port of Gothenburg Logistics Park offers opportunities that never previously existed. It is located just 10 minutes from the quayside in the Port of Gothenburg and in the heart of Sweden’s biggest automotive cluster. Now add in proximity to central Gothenburg and you have a unique location for establishing warehousing operations. Five landowners have joined forces to offer logistics and warehousing opportunities in the logistics park: the Gothenburg Port Authority, Bockasjö, NCC, Prologis and Castellum. Together we offer premises totalling 500,000 square metres. All of them modern, energy-efficient and high-quality buildings meeting the latest environmental standards. You will be part of a large port cluster, making where trailers and containers switch conveniently your business operations both secure and from one transport mode to another. long-term. Close by the park is an already well- established logistics area in Arendal, with THE HUB FOR EUROPEAN MOTORWAYS export and import warehouses, transshipment Road links to the Port of Gothenburg Logistics terminals and more. Since the Port of Gothenburg Park are excellent. Choose the E6 motorway to is close to Volvo, it is ideal for logistics operations or from Oslo or Copenhagen – just 3 to 4 hours servicing the automotive industry. away by road. National highway 40 and the E4 or E20 motorway hook up with the Stockholm region BEST FOR TRAINS in just 5 or 6 hours. For transport to the country’s Train links to the Port of Gothenburg are so good northernmost areas, choose the E45 via Karlstad. that a company operating in the logistics park can easily distribute goods from here to anywhere The northern part of the park is easily reached via in Scandinavia. The railway lines at the port carry Hisingsleden, which links up with the major European 70 freight trains a day. 25 of them are container motorways. The part of the park that is closest to shuttles destined for cities all over Sweden and the port is conveniently accessed via highway 155. Norway. There are several railway terminals in the port area, including the Arken combiterminal WHEN CAN YOU MOVE IN? Some parts of the park already have tenants, such as DB Schenker Logistics which has a large warehouse right beside the entrance to the port. Other parts of the park will be constructed to meet demand. The entire facility is expected to Every year, more than 200,000 cars are shipped via be completed by 2025. the Port of Gothenburg. Nearness to the port and the large automotive cluster make the logistics park a perfect location for suppliers to the automotive industry. Container trains fully loaded with goods on their way to the Port of Gothenburg. 8 1. Right beside the entrance to the port there is 2. In the middle section there is a plot measuring 3. In the north of the logistics park there is an area measuring a 240,000 square metre area owned by NCC just over 400,000 square metres owned by about 550,000 square metres, where Prologis, Bockasjö and the Gothenburg Port Authority. the Gothenburg Port Authority. and Castellum offer logistics facilities. 1 2 3 The Gothenburg Port Authority has plots in two sections of the logistics park. Hans Simonson – Senior Manager Real Estate, Gothenburg Port Authority All told the area consists of 440,000 square metres very close to the sea. The central part of the Port of Gothenburg Logistics Park lies a stone’s throw from the entrance to the port area. Here an entirely new 420,000 square metre logistics area will be built starting in 2016. There will be space for eight to ten warehouses and distribution facilities.