Loaded & Unloaded - Helsingborgs Hamn AB

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4 110,000 tonnes fruit and veg – 2011 was a record year! The Port of Helsingborg is the Nordic region’s largest port for the direct import of fruit and vegetables. This was indisputable in 2011: a total of 6,000 containers of fresh fruit and vegetables passed through the Port. Mats Jakobsson, Purchasing Manager Fruit, ICA Göran Kollberg, Purchaser, Everfresh. Johan Åkesson, Purchasing Manager, Ewerman. Most of the major Swedish import companies have chosen Helsingborg as their logistics hub. There are many reasons for this, such as the Port’s unique location, a generous choice of shipping lines and an effective Combiterminal. In addition, it is much quicker to use the train than to ship the goods round the coast to Stockholm! New type of cooperation ”Until a couple of years ago, pallets of fruit were stripped from the containers and placed in the Port’s refrigerated warehouse,” explains Kjell-Åke Ranft, the Port’s sales manager. ”The Port acted as transit storage. Now the importers have their own refrigerated facilities outside the city. We unload containers to the quay and customers collect them. The extra service we provide is to connect power to the refrigerated containers while they await collection. Bananas are a special case; they also require weighing.” More fruit when times are good We munched our way through large quantitities of clementines, bananas and apples last year. But considering the global financial situation at the end of the year, consumption ought to have stagnated. The fact is that the economic situation reflects the volumes, with a certain delayed effect. “The Port of Helsingborg dominates the fruit side completely” The ICA giant is far and away the biggest importer, volume-wise. Practically no vegetables come to the Port of Helsingborg, but considerable amounts of fruit. Apples and pears from Chile and Argentina represent the biggest volumes. Kiwi and grapes are imported from South America. The USA is a major pear country too. Almost all citrus fruits come from South America, apart from the large amounts of clementines coming from Morocco in the winter. The fruit is transported from the Port up to ICA’s huge warehouses outside Helsingborg. In addition, ICA has three distribution warehouses: in Kungälv, Stockholm and Borlänge. The fruit is taken by road from the warehouses up to the most northern areas of the country. Handling is quick; the driver is swapped and the lorries run constantly. ”In the long term, we will see steady growth and our volumes will develop in a positive direction in the coming years,” says Mats Jakobsson, Purchasing Manager Fruit, ICA. ”We are continually looking at new solutions, including the possibility of using the Port more. The Port of Helsingborg has been expanding for a number of years now.” “Absolutely, we can envisage more collaboration” ”All fruit and vegetables that we bring
into Sweden in containers arrives at the Port of Helsingborg,” says Johan Åkesson, Purchasing Manager at Ewerman, and tells us that Ewerman is part of STC GreenFood, which is the largest independent player in the field of fruit and vegetables in the Nordic region. Ewerman takes in more fruit than vegetables to the Port of Helsingborg. Of vegetables, it is onions from New Zealand that are the major product. The company imports apples, pears, grapes and stone fruits from South American countries such as Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. Fruit is also imported from South Africa, New Zealand, China and Morocco. The products from Europe are transported mainly by lorry. ”Yes, we could definitely see ourselves having more collaboration with the Port of Helsingborg and taking in more fruit via the Port,” says Johan Åkesson. ”We have, for example, considered taking in bananas via Helsingborg with a call of our own. Our bananas come at present via Gothenburg or by lorry from the continent. Now that Helsingborg is an authorised weigher of bananas, we can take in bananas directly via the Port. What’s more, CMA CGM has a major project for operating ships with citrus fruits from Spain. We think that sounds interesting too.” Pink Lady, Granny Smith and 48 more sorts ”We sell between 1,000 and 2,000 tonnes of fruit and veg a day and have a total of 800 different articles,” says Göran Kollberg, purchaser at Everfresh. ”For instance, we have about 50 different kinds of apples and about 60 of tomatoes. The countries of growth for the different articles vary according to the season. Apples can come all the way from New Zealand, from Italy or even from the local orchard in Ramlösa. More or less all the fruit to Sweden from the southern hemisphere passes through the Port of Helsingborg. Volumes for the spring are booked with the shipping lines in December but usually have to be adjusted due to harvest outcomes in different countries. ”The Port of Helsingborg is the biggest hub by far in Sweden,” says Göran Kollberg. From here we distribute directly to the whole of Sweden.” 5
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