Stena Line Freight: Highlights and lowlights in 2012

Stena Line Freight felt the effects of slowing production of the Swedish paper and automotive industries in 2012

In the year 2012 Stena Line registered satisfying results on the Kiel-Gothenburg-route. Passenger traffic increased by around 13 per cent; vehicles were up 22 per cent. In addition about 80,000 freight units were transported on this route.

In the Stena Line Freight division, German market grew 4 per cent, while export from Sweden decreased by about 10 per cent. The reason therefore is – apart from the Euro-crisis – the slowing production is the Swedish paper and automotive industries. At the same time transportations were shifted from vessels to land links between Denmark and Sweden.

However positive development could be registered with the block train operated by Stena Line Freight and Frankfurter Kombiverkehr between Kiel and Verona. The Italy-service has been successfully operated since October 2012 – demand and utilisation of the train were rising continually – thus it is currently being investigated to increase the frequency of departures from currently two to three on each course. Also the Hamburg-Billwerder – Kiel train shuttle operated unabated last year. The service was operated six times a week and carried about 12,000 containers to the Schwedenkai.

“With the aim of linking Kiel’s Schwedenkai to all major European economic centres, Stena Line Freight will continue to expand railway services to the hinterland in 2013“, says Ulrich Kock, Manager West Central Europe, Stena Line Freight. “Tight cooperation with the seaport of Kiel became more intense during 2012 and proved to be very fruitful in many areas.“

Since their establishment in 1962 the Swedish shipping company Stena Line has become one of the world’s biggest ferry enterprises. In 2011 their 38 vessels carried more than 15.1 million passengers, 3.2 million cars and 1.6 million freight units on their 22 own routes between the Netherlands and Great Britain, on the Irish Sea as well as on the Baltic Sea between Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Poland and Germany.

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