The port authority intends to invest SEK15m (€1.48m) into redeveloping the quay in Frihamnen over which container traffic went in the past before operations moved to the brand-new Norvik.
First Row Shipping and Logistics has put in place a 1,400 km-long round trip service that sees CFL Cargo Sweden-operated trains carrying up to 72 twenty-foot containers once per week between Piteå and Gothenburg.
Shenzhen Senior Technology Material will erect a production line, its first outside China, at the Svista industrial estate, with supplies going by rail via the Eskilstuna Intermodal Terminal.