SSAB and Green Cargo extend their partnership encompassing shipments of some 700,000 tonnes of finished goods each year from SSAB’s plants in Borlänge and Oxelösund to customers in Sweden and Denmark. The logistics solution, which comprises steel coil and cut lengths of sheet steel, is conducted through Green Cargo’s wagon load network. The new three-year agreement started on January 1, 2021.
A technological shift is afoot for wagons and load carriers for specialized freight transport for the SSAB stretches between Luleå and Borlänge and Borlänge and Oxelösund. A total of 40 new wagons have been leased from the wagon provider Wascosa. The wagons are equipped with disc brakes that allow for quieter trains, greater flexibility of wagon usage and increased safety.
For many years now, Green Cargo and Vossloh Nordic Switch Systems have worked on the transportation of material for switches and complete railway switches. “We aim to increase our internal transportation by rail to 20 percent in 2017 and then gradually increase year by year,” says Janne Nilsson, Transport Manager at Vossloh Nordic Switch Systems.
Green Cargo provides the business sector with safe, high-capacity, and sustainable transport services to around 200 locations in Scandinavia. Through our partners, we reach nearly 1,000 destinations across the rest of Europe. In 2024, our transport volume amounted to 9.7 billion net tonne-kilometres. Nearly 98 percent of our total transport work is carried out using electric locomotives powered exclusively by fossil-free electricity. Every weekday, we operate 31 million net tonne-kilometres, replacing approximately 9,000 truck journeys on the road network. We have 1,750 employees and an annual turnover of SEK 4.2 billion (2024).
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