A brand new 144,000 square meter port terminal was inaugurated at the Port of Gothenburg on Thursday, and the investment is amounting to approximately 60 million EUR, as the port announces.
Named “Arendal 2”, the terminal which has been under construction for the past six years is also part of the port’s strategy to concentrate its terminal operations in the outer port area, further from the city centre, and with direct connections to the port’s road and rail infrastructure as well as the local growing industrial cluster.
Parts of the new spaces will be used by Stena Line when the shipping company begins relocating its local operations from its current locations in the central parts of the city to the outer port area.
The project has included preparations regarding filling, channeling, and water purification for a future ferry terminal. Göran Eriksson, CEO of the Port of Gothenburg, says in this respect that “It’s still a long way off, but the construction of this terminal has certainly taken Stena Line’s relocation into account. Stena Line will use parts of the new terminal area, while other adjacent terminal areas can also be made available in the relocation process.”
In the construction of Arendal 2, some 180,000 cubic meters of contaminated materials from dredging in the Göta River have been encapsulated, and these materials have been contained, stabilized, and solidified to form the foundation of the terminal area, which has then been asphalted.
Already, large parts of Arendal 2 have begun to be used by the terminal operator Gothenburg Roro Terminal, which previously had its operations divided between two different adjacent areas.
With Arendal 2, the terminal operator gets a larger contiguous terminal area with more accessible hinterland to the important berths 712 and 713, as the port mentions.
Göran Eriksson, CEO of the Port of Gothenburg, says that “This terminal began planning as early as the 1990s and then we talked about future-proofing. Now that future is here, and this terminal is needed to meet the transportation needs of Swedish industry today, which are also expected to continue growing over time,” who adds that, “Overall, Arendal 2 is a solution where the involved actors get even better conditions to conduct their respective operations while the Port of Gothenburg as a whole is further optimized and becomes more competitive.”
