STOCKHOLM: Swedish port of Gothenburg rise in car exports and fell in oil volumes in 2014. Car and passenger volumes rose during 2014 while container traffic and energy products fell. It was noted that in total, 166,000 cars were imported or exported via the port.
2014 was a strong year for car sales in Sweden and it was also a good year for Volvo Cars. Both these factors contributed to an upturn in car volumes passing through the port.
Around one-fifth of all cars that enter or leave Sweden do so via the Port of Gothenburg. Apart from Volvo cars, Nissan, Renault and Ford cars are also handled.
Almost 60 per cent of all containers that enter or leave Sweden are shipped via the Port of Gothenburg although container traffic in 2014 was down three per cent on 2013. A total of 837,000 containers were handled.
The Port of Gothenburg has several direct services to the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark and Belgium. This traffic category improved during the spring before falling back slightly during the autumn. Volumes remained on more or less the same level as 2014 at approximately 549,000 units.
Half of Sweden’s crude oil is imported via the Port of Gothenburg. It is then processed into petrol, diesel and a range of other energy products at the three refineries.
