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NEW WAYS EDITION THREE | 2012 Bright lights, big vessel Baltic Shipping Days, in the shadow of the sulphur directive Efficient logistics the linchpin of recycling scatransforest.com 2 EDITORIAL Nordic midwinter Dark clouds are gathering in the market and bright spots are few and far between. Exporting industries are facing several challenges and this is having a serious impact on transportation and logistics. Today’s market can perhaps be compared to a midwinter dawn in Norrland, with the sun just above the horizon. This will require new innovations, consolidation and collaborations. From a transportation perspective, perhaps the to increase cost-effectiveness. In the prevailing export industry’s greatest worry is the sulphur weak economic situation, the present systems directive due to come into force in 2015 – unless and solutions will be subjected to stress tests. something drastic takes place. The directive will Both shippers and logistics companies will at the seriously reduce the competitiveness of shippers in same time take advantage of any attractive prices the SECA area, first and foremost in Sweden and and solutions that arise along the way, but it is Finland. No real, reliable solution exists at the important that all parties in the logistics chain present time and there may not be enough time understand, buy into, and work to realise the to develop a good cleaning technology by 2015. long-term strategy of continued consolidation Other dark clouds on the horizon are expensive fuels, both of their own volumes and together with the weak euro and weak consumption in Europe, logistics companies and other colleagues in the which also affect transportation assignments to the export industry (also including those with the same increasingly important overseas destinations. products) and exploit the European and global Fuel will be significantly more expensive when intermodal possibilities. For example, the container the directive comes into effect as shippers will be is and will continue to be a load bearer that opens forced to use more expensive low-sulphur diesel, at up possibilities for the exporting forest industry to the same time as freight charges already today need cooperate with other base industries and with other to be reduced for the export industry in the Baltic consumer products that share a common objective – region to be able to compete in a global market lower costs and higher competitiveness. in both the long and the short term. The solution Today’s difficulties and challenges are forcing that is closest to hand is largely the same today as us all to leave our comfort zones. Things that could it was for SCA in 1967, i.e. consolidate volumes not be done before are now possible; no one can in system solutions of various sizes while still afford to miss an opportunity and motivation is maintaining service. The difference today is that the growing to try new solutions. This will open the market is global and has intermodal systems and way to finding new, common, sustainable solutions possibilities, for example 40’ containers worldwide even faster. and 45’ containers for the European market. SCA Season’s Greetings to One and All. Transforest’s base has for a number of years been RoRo vessels and container feeders that work to fixed, reliable timetables. But there is still more to do. There is great potential in further consolidation Nils-Johan Haraldsson and greater volumes in the transport systems Vice President Marketing and Business Development NEW WAYS | NUMBER THREE | 2012 Publisher Editorial staff Translation Inlay Comments New Ways is printed at an Nils-Johan Haraldsson Björn Lyngfelt Semantix SCA GraphoCote 90 g. SCA Transforest AB, FSC certified printworks Henrik Fälldin Box 805, SE-851 23 and on FSC certified paper. Editors Katarina Nordensson Production Cover Sundsvall, Sweden. Throughout the production Mats Wigardt Lena Zetterwall Frosting Cocoon gloss 200 g. Tel. +46 60 19 35 00 process, the environmental Håkan Norberg Mikael Högström Kommunikationsbyrå [email protected] impact is kept to an absolute Carl Johard minimum, with a view to Olof Wigren Cover photo: Printing promoting responsible PA Sjöquist Tryckeribolaget, Sundsvall use of the world’s forests. 3 Reliable transport solution to Finland A jointly owned shipping company set up by Umeå Municipality and the City of Vaasa will provide a secure ferry connection across the Kvarken Strait and create opportunities to develop transportation in the future. – We view this change in a very positive light, the one used today. The new vessel is able to The new shipping company is called NLC says Margaretha Gustafsson, Terminal carry 1,500 passengers, to be be compared Ferry AB/Oy and for Umeå Muni-cipality its Manager at Interforest Terminal Umeå. to the present Ro-Pax ferry’s 300. The car part-ownership is part of the muncipality’s The route was previously operated deck can accommodate 450 cars or 1,150 view that both freight and passenger traffic by RG Line, but the company filed for metres of trucks and trailers. This is double over the Kvarken Strait are very important bankruptcy in November 2011 and since the loading capacity of the present ferry. for continued exchange and collaboration then operations have been the responsibility – Over and above the new company’s across regional and national borders. of an administrator. The situation has long-term approach, reliability of operation not been an easy one since RG Line’s will be considerably better with the new vessel. More efficient logistics solutions problems and uncertainty about the future It has four diesel engines, guaranteeing more SCA Transforest transports approximately Text:Olof Wigren. Photo:IStockphoto have meant that the ferry on the crossing reliable operation. Should an engine break 60,000 tons of products from the paper between Umeå and Vaasa has not been down, traffic can continue uninterrupted mills in Obbola and Munksund over the adequately maintained. On repeated and repairs can be made while under way. Kvarken Strait every year. occasions transport assignments have also This is not the case with the present ferry with – We also have full responsibility for been delayed or not been carried out as a its single engine, Margareta Gustafsson says. loading and unloading in the Port of Umeå, consequence of mechanical problems. Completely new shipping company – The fact that delivery precision has not been “Reliability of operation will be considerably the best has naturally had negative conse que n- better with the new vessel.” ces for us, Margaretha Gustafsson goes on. – At times we have been forced to ship freight by road through Haparanda, which has meant both delays, negative impact on Service across the Kvarken Strait which also includes the freight transported by the environment and higher costs. The ferry that will enter service across SCA Transforest’s system ships to and from But this will now change for the better the Kvarken Strait has operated the route Europe. We hope to be able to offer even more with a completely new shipping company previously under the name of Wasa Express efficient logistics solutions in a few years’ time taking over the route. but in recent years has been used in charter since the new shipping company is talking traffic in the Canary Islands as m/s Betan- about using a more modern ferry that can also Greater capacity curia. She will now be re-christened Wasa transport railway wagons. A properly funct- From January 2013, a new ferry will be put Express and will sail under the Finnish flag. ioning infrastructure creates good conditions into operation with greater capacity than The ferry was built in 1981. for business, says Margaretha Gustafsson. 4 Bright lights, Text: Mats Wigardt. Photo: Maersk Line big vessel Triple-E, the world’s biggest vessel, is about to be built. The 18,000 containers in a Triple-E vessel would fill Times Square in New York City. Containers would tower over billboards, lights and many buildings. Stacked on top of one another, they would reach 136 meters high, almost nine times the size of King Kong. 5 Bright lights, big vessel 6 Source: Maersk Line. Photo: Maersk Line The world’s largest vessel MAERSK LINE at A GLANCE Maersk Line is making waves building the world’s biggest and most effecient container vessel. Energy efficiency, economy of scale • Maersk Line is a division of the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group. and the environment has inspired the design and Triple-E vessels • More than 600 container vessels. will reduce CO2 emissions by more than 50% per container moved. • 3.8 million TEU containers (or 2.3 million containers). A clear trend in cargo patterns reveals the for Economy of scale, Energy efficiency, • 325 offices. rapid growth of East and North China and Environmentally improved – are to be • Around 25.000 employees (or about markets, which will shift cargo further built by Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding and 16,900 and 7,600 Seafarers). north. This will lead to a change in vessel Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. in accord- • 125 countries. requirements and shipping patterns. This ance with standards of the classification shift presents Maersk with the opportunity society ABS. Deliveries are scheduled for to build more energy efficient vessels and 2013–2015, and Maersk Line has an option lead the industry in a new and more envi- to order an additional twenty vessels. The TRIPLE-E ronmentally friendly direction. vessels will be built for Asia-Europe trade. Join us as we embark on a voyage into the TRIPLE-E = Economy of scale, Energy Economy, energy and environment construction of the world’s largest and efficiency, Environmentally improved. The ten Triple-E class vessels – standing most efficient container vessel. 7 Container giants FACTS CLIENT: Maersk Lines.