The new harbour, offering 300 m of quay wall, is scheduled for commissioning in June 2024.

The works will start with strengthening the future harbour's area with a 1.5-2 m-high layer of stones coming from the nearby tunnel construction.

"It is an improvement for the town, the industry, and the port business. Now the port and the town can develop side by side. We get a unique opportunity to build a harbour from scratch and create optimal solutions for cargo handling for our clients and us," Reine Antonér, Chairman of the Board, the Port of Halland (governing the ports in Halmstad and Varberg), underlined.

He furthered, "We see many possibilities with the new harbour, not only concerning sustainability. We are future-proofing the operations and moving into higher gear for electrification, automation, and digitalisation for what will become Europe's most modern forest products harbour."

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