The joint project of the ports of Aarhus, Bremerhaven, Gothenburg, and Stockholm will receive €18.8 million from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for the set-up of cold ironing infrastructure for container ships.

The Swedish port authority, with the help of Bravida and Halmstads Energi och Miljö, has set up a high-voltage transformer station to create sufficient charging capacity to electrify the machinery fleet of the Port of Halmstad's container terminal.

The project - launched by the Ports of Stockholm, the Baltic Ports Organization, and Interlegal - will receive €17.3 thousand in grant within the Ukraine Cooperation Programme to help Ukrainian ports move closer to EU standards and the block's transport network.

Citing the lack of governmental support, the Swedish-American firm has abandoned its plans to establish a battery factory within the Port of Malmö, instead looking at setting up the plant in the US.

The Norwegian-Swedish shipping line has decided to make four (out of 12 ordered) car carriers bigger, adding six metres in length and two in width, thus making it possible to have 14 instead of 12 decks.

The Dutch shipbuilders from Ferus Smit have launched Lidan and Spiken, the first in a series of six 4th generation of dry cargo freighters designed for trading through the Trollhätte Canal and in the Lake Vänern.

Operated by Hydri, the 1,500 kg of capacity/35 trucks per day station sits next to the Port of Gothenburg's Gate 6, the entrance to the Gothenburg RoRo Terminal and with 400 thousand vehicles/year, one of Sweden's most heavily trafficked roads.

The two have signed a long-term agreement, effective from 1 January 2025, to offer warehousing services in the Finnish Port of Kemi.

The Swedish multinational power company and the Finnish seaport put their pens to a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at Windenergy Hamburg 2024 to investigate the latter's suitability in the development of offshore wind energy (OWE) projects of the former off Finland's coast.

COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers has kicked off a one-per-month route that will see vehicles transported between Gothenburg, Singapore, Xinsha, Tianjin and Shanghai, with room for project cargo as well.