What Conteam doesn't know about con - Helsingborgs Hamn AB

Summer/Autumn

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Evaluation of CMP project under way
The Port of Helsingborg and Copenhagen Malmö Port are continuing
to examine the possibilities of becoming a new Nordic
port operator.
The intention is to establish a joint
operating company for the ports of
the three cities Malmö, Copenhagen
and Helsingborg. The management
groups of the Port of Helsingborg and
Copenhagen Malmö Port have started
their evaluation of the project.
Project in three phases
In phase one, which is the current
stage, a description is being made of
the possibilities and positive synergy
effects that closer cooperation between
the ports could result in. The
work is being performed by the management
groups and other company representatives
and it will be presented
for the respective boards and owners
at the end of November. Phase two
will involve the owners examining the
report and then deciding, on the basis
of the respective owner’s goals, requirements
and preferences, whether to
proceed. Phase three, starting when
phase two has been approved, is purely
a negotiation stage. Questions of
how to establish a company and how
the ownership picture should be con-
View of Öresund
structed will be dealt with then.
“There is an excellent atmosphere
in the management groups,” says Jo
Kristian Okstad, CEO at the Port of
Helsingborg, “and there has been
right from the first meeting. Everyone
has addressed the work with an open
mind and seen possibilities rather than
problems. If the original plan can be
adhered to, we could see a new port
player and a new company being established
in the autumn of 2013.

West Harbour project makes excellent
progress
The work on developing the West Harbour of the future is well
under way. The project contest’s winning team, together with
the Port, are now drawing up a detailed plan.
The challenge of the contest was to
design the West Harbour as a modern,
effective container terminal with
the capacity to cope with 20-30 years
of volume development. The winning
team, Ramböll Sverige AB, Hamburg
Port Consultants HPC and Liljewall
Arkitekter, has now started on its exciting
assignment.
Close cooperation with expert team
“We had an initial meeting with the
winning team on 24 August,” explains
Oskar Jonsson, PA to the CEO. “The
team was delighted about winning the
contract and were looking forward to
starting to work with us. The work
has now got under way.
The winning entry, Hamn+, was a
vision that Ramböll had worked on
themselves. From now on the team
will be working closely with the Port.
Initially the team will be going through
the first sections of their proposal in
detail and, during this phase, many of
the Port’s functions will be involved.
Ramböll will mainly be having meetings
with stevedoring and technical
functions, but other departments will
also be brought in.
“We will be working with the winning
proposal as our starting point,”
says Oskar Jonsson. “The team’s ideas
will connect up with our knowledge
of port operations and our view of
how an effective container port must
function. It will be very interesting to
start working together and we hope
Oskar Jonsson, assistant to the CEO
The winning team
for and expect really good synergies
when the work is under way.
“This work is being done because we
have a critical need for more capacity
in the Port,” emphasizes Oscar Jonsson,
“and we are reckoning on getting
going as quickly as possible on
the improvement and effectivization
work. Focus is on the time aspect and
the capacity increase in the Port. We
are of course not just sitting waiting
for the West Harbour project to be
ready. We work continuously on improving
the Port in order to maintain
and increase productivity and to become
even better at what we do. But
we’re now yet another step closer to
what we’ve been working for.”
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New record: 2,200 cruise guests saw the
sights in Helsingborg
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More and more shipping lines
and cruise guests have found
that Helsingborg is a gem well
worth visiting. A total of 2,200
passengers from Princess Cruises’
three calls at the Port joined
booked tours.
Surprise outing in Helsingborg
went to St Mary’s Church and the
Kärnan tower. The tour finished
at Fredriksdal’s open-air museum
where there was a display of real
Swedish folk dancing.
In glorious sunshine and with hardly
any wind, Grand Princess lay at anchor
on 29 August. And throughout
the town you could see contented
cruise guests strolling around. It was
especially positive that a record number
had chosen to go on guided tours
of Helsingborg. Princess Cruises’ previous
calls in June and July were just as
successful.
Cruise guests are the icing on the
cake
Thanks to the cruise ships calling at
Helsingborg, lots of tourists visit the
Kärnan
Folk dancers outside Dunkers
city. Tourists who might never otherwise
have come. A simple bit of
arithmetic shows that cruises are a
potential goldmine for Helsingborg’s
shops. Surveys indicate that a cruise
guest spends between SEK 1,000 and
1,500 on land. More than 11,000 passengers
were on the five cruise ships
that called here this summer. If we
could tempt all of them onto land, it
would result in the healthy sum of at
least SEK 11 million!
We are delighted to see that the big
shipping lines choose our destination
Andréas Eriksson, Marketing and Information
Manager, the Port of Helsingborg.
year after year. The number of vessels
calling has varied over the years, with
18 at most in one season.
We work continuously on developing
and refining our offering. With a definite
increase in booked tours, we
know that we are on the right track.
The tourist office has also noticed the
increase in tourists, with the sales record
being broken this year.
Captain chose Helsingborg
When the passengers on the British
cruise ship Saga Ruby bought their

“Saga Ruby” in the South Harbour. “Ocean Countess” at the Grain Quay.
trip, they only knew that they would
visit eight cities in at least five countries.
The identity of the towns was kept
a secret. One of the destinations that
Captain Stephen Angove chose for
this Mystery Cruise was Helsingborg.
Helsingborg distinguishes itself as an
exciting surprise among the list of capitals
and big cities.
“Internationally, Helsingborg is quite a
small, unknown town,” says Andréas
Eriksson, head of marketing and information
at the Port of Helsingborg. “So
the ‘wow-effect’ is even greater when
the visitors discover our fantastic
town centre with its lovely buildings,
shops, restaurants and cafés. What’s
more, it’s not far at all from the centre
out to other places of interest. The
royal Sofiero Palace and Fredriksdal’s
open-air museum are only 15 minutes
away, and it is only half an hour
through beautiful countryside to the
dramatic cliffs of Kullaberg. There are
several restaurants on the way that
serve food made from local, organic
produce.
“It was quite late in the summer that
The “Grand Princess” tender on its way to the ship.
”Caribbean Princess” anchored outside
the North Harbour.
Saga Cruises sent us an enquiry. Normally,
cruise calls are booked a year
or two in advance. But, thanks to our
excellent relations with Saga, to their
knowledge of the destination and to
our experience of dealing with cruise
ships, we were able to confirm a
berth, suggest exciting tours and book
guides. Helsingborg was the only Swedish
destination on this Mystery Cruise,
which is a very good sign.”
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Rail volumes increase with new customer
The Port of Helsingborg’s focus on rail transport has produced
results. The Port has entered an agreement with VIIA and, in the
longer term, this should increase the Port’s rail volumes by more
than 15%.
The France-based Lorry Rail has
transported containers and trailers
under the VIIA trademark between
Helsingborg and Bettembourg in
Luxemburg since 5 September. This
transport takes place only by rail, with
the trains being loaded and unloaded
at the combiterminal. Thanks to this
new collaboration, the Port gets for
the first time a rail destination outside
Sweden and Germany.
One category of goods intended for
the new traffic is fruit and vegetables
from Spain. One reason for this is that
most of the main importers of fruit
and vegetables have their central warehouses
in Helsingborg. The containers
come by train from Perpignan
on the French/Spanish border, are
reloaded in Bettembourg and continue
from there with the rail shuttle
to Helsingborg. Three rail shuttles a
week are being run initially, but the
ambition is to have five shuttles in
each direction. In that case, approximately
12,000-13,000 units will be
handled annually in the Port of Helsingborg,
with the rail volumes increasing
by more than 15%.
“We have the capacity for increasing
the volumes at the combiterminal,
so the ambition is to develop the rail
segment. This addition therefore is
important for us,” says Kjell-Åke Ranft,
sales director at the Port of Helsingborg.
“Each new shuttle is of significant
assistance; we gain recognition
and get greater attention. Transport
by rail is an eco-friendly, cost-effective
solution and thus an excellent alternative
to road transport from countries
as far away as Spain.”

“Three rail shuttles a week are being
run initially, but the ambition is to
have five shuttles in each direction.”
Sales Director Kjell-Åke Ranft
Combiterminal in Helsingborg
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Security in the Port has
been further improved
We work continuously on improving
security in the Port.
The latest investments are the
alarmed electric fencing that
now surrounds all our terminals,
and our new pass system.
We work continuously on improving
security in the Port. The latest investments
are the alarmed electric fencing
that now surrounds all our terminals,
and our new pass system.
We have a high level of responsibility
for security. Naturally we want to
protect the Port’s own machinery and
equipment, but our main responsibility
is our customers’ property. Being
able to offer all our customers a safe,
secure port is a matter of honour. Our
conscientious work has resulted in
security being improved and damage
and theft being reduced. After having
had a focus on security for a number
of years, we can now declare that there
are not many terminals that have as
high a level of security as the Port of
Helsingborg.
Alarms and surveillance
All our terminals are surrounded by
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Acting Traffic Manager Ulf Rosén
“The fence is always on, 24 hours a day, all year
round. It is alarmed and under surveillance.”
electric fencing. This extends from Kemira
at the south and round the north
side at the West Harbour.
“The work on installing the fencing has
been ongoing and it has been operating
fully since the spring,” says Ulf Rosén,
who works with security matters
at the Port. “The fence is always on,
24 hours a day, all year round. Alarms
are connected to it and it is under surveillance.”
Only right people through the gate
Anyone entering the port area must
have authorization.
“Passage between our terminals and
the out-of-port areas almost always
requires authorization,” says Ulf Rosén.
“This is also the case for many
of our buildings such as the Port Office,
the stevedoring office and some
buildings by the Skåne Terminal. We
decided to exchange the old system
of passes that had to be swiped in favour
of a modern, more secure system.
The new system combines an
electronic card with a personal code.”
Surveillance
The Port has had an extensive system
of camera surveillance since 2004.
“We are also improving this successively
to provide better protection for
our customers’ property in our terminals,”
explains Ulf Rosén, who concludes
by emphasizing the excellent cooperation
that the Port has with the
law enforcement authorities such as
the police, customs and coastguard.

Electric fencing around the whole Port
Electrician Linus Furutorp
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Loaded & Unloaded
The Maersk-blue vessel “Maersk Arkansas”
collected 173 empty reefers.
Maersk Brooker cleared the vessel.
Unifeeder’s vessel ”Hanse Spirit” at quay 904.
Unifeeder calls at the West Harbour three
times a week and clears the vessels itself.

SOL Continent Line’s vessels “Vasaland” or
“Antares” call at the Skåne Terminal six days
a week to unload and load mainly trailers.
Lindholm Shipping clears the vessels.
MSC’s JOY at 904 in the West Harbour to unload
and load containers.
MSC’s ships call at Helsingborg once a week
and TSA Tanker Shipping AB clears the vessels.
Loaded & Unloaded
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What Conteam doesn’t know about containers
isn’t worth knowing
Six new instruction books from the Institute of International
Container Lessors (IICL) are lying on the table. Repairing containers
is not something to be careless about. Conteam knows
that.
Allan Hansen welding… and fixing damaged containers.
A bent corner post is dangerous and
means that the container cannot
be stacked safely. An indented side
means that the container cannot be
loaded with as much cargo. The doors
have to be windproof and waterproof
and easy to open and shut.
“The damage occurs during handling,
when trucks drive into or move containers,”
says Conteam Repair’s CEO
Karl-Gustav Jönsson. “Nothing happens
when they’re stationary.”
Anything metal
Karl-Gustav Jönsson can be called
a true “metal man”. He knows his
stuff. He is a metalworker, welder
and blacksmith. Karl-Gustav Jönsson
started working at the age of 14 and
before concentrating full-time on containers
it was car bodywork and constructional
metalwork.
It all started in the 1980s when Swedish
Orient Line started to call at the
Port of Helsingborg. The company
Facts
Conteam Repair AB
Conteam Repair AB carries
out all kinds of repairs of
load-bearing equipment but
specializes in inspecting and
repairing containers. The
company’s customers are
mainly shipping lines in the
Port of Helsingborg that continually
leave their containers
for inspection and repairs
at the Conteam depot. The
company, which is a family
business, has two depot coordinators,
two truck drivers
and four repairers in its team.
The head office and container
depot are located at the main
entrance to the Port of Helsingborg.
As of January 2011,
the company is a subcontractor
for Lundby Container
Service LCS AB, dealing with
all of their container handling
in Helsingborg.
emptied the vessels at the Port and
left the empty containers. As many
as 300 containers could be set aside,
waiting to be filled and transported
out again. It was soon apparent that
there was a need both for service
and for repairs. A repairs business,
Scandrep, had started at the Port
of Gothenburg, and they sent down
two men to Helsingborg. Before long
it was decided that the operations
should be made permanent. Karl-
Gustav Jönsson applied and got the

Emilia Johansson, Karl-Gustav Jönsson and Julia Karlsdotter
job of foreman. He took over the entire
operation in 1985 and established
Conteam Repair AB.
Complete control
Most of Conteam’s customers require
a depot that has inspection and technology
knowhow, and just about all of
the shipping lines in the Port of Helsingborg
are customers. The company
has excellent cooperation with the
Port, which is also a regular Conteam
customer. The shipping lines place
high demands and their inspectors often
visit Conteam’s depot to examine
the repairs. They are very particular;
the side of a container, for instance,
must not be dented more than 50
mm in order to pass.
“But we have an excellent reputation,”
explains a pleased Karl-Gustav
Jönsson. “The fact is, we are so careful
that things rarely go wrong. Quality
is our livelihood. There is a great demand
for our services and we would
expand our depot if we could. Its capacity
at the moment is for about 700
containers. We could double our turnover
if we just had more space.”
Company staying in the family
It will soon be time for the next generation
to take over the family business.
Daughters Emilia and Julia have grown
up among trucks and containers and
have worked in their father’s company
for about ten years. On this particular
day, Emilia is in the office sending out
offers while Julia is out in the depot
lifting containers. Karl-Gustav does
not come in to the company every day
now; he doesn’t need to because his
daughters make sure everything runs
smoothly. He can now spend time on
his hobby. And what’s that? Welding,
of course!
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More effective handling with more space
Bengt Niklasson, Technical Manager.
This is what the SITA site looked like in January
when the soil mass was being decontaminated.
In September, work was started on setting the
different layers with cement. The second layer
is being set here, with cement being mixed with
fly ash in order to harden more slowly.
The site has now been stabilized with three layers
of gravel mixed with cement. At the foot of
the picture, the ground is being dug to expose
the old water pipes.
The Port of Helsingborg has started to free up space for port
operations. As the new storage areas come into use, it will be
possible to improve goods handling.
Lack of space is a daily problem in the
Port, but the SITA site is now being
freed up as well as the sites at Shell-
Beijer and din-X, and this will ease
matters considerably. These sites
have been made available for the Port
by the non-renewal of rental contracts.
“The SITA site is 14,000 m2,” explains
Bengt Niklasson, technical director
at the Port of Helsingborg. Together
with the existing storage area west of
the Port Office, there will be space
for 2,000 loaded units or 2,500 empty
containers. The area is expected to
be ready for use at the beginning of
December 2012. The sites at Shell-
Beijer and din-X are going to be cleaned
up and transferred to the Port
next year.
The site at the former din-X is ready
and the one at Shell-Beijer will be
cleaned up and transferred to the
Port next year. The area between
din-X and Shell-Beijer will be in order
before the end of this year. That area
is also about 14 000 m2.
“We are very dependent indeed on
the new storage space,” says sales
director Kjell-Åke Ranft. “The space
problem is not just one but two. The
Port needs storage space for containers
but the lack of space also means
that the Port has to lift units unnecessarily
several times. The new storage
areas will result in better, faster service
for our customers.”

One step nearer gas hub in Helsingborg
The purpose of the HELGA project is to examine the prerequisites
for and interest in establishing a hub for liquefied natural
gas (LNG) in Helsingborg. The market analysis should be ready
in the autumn.
How great is the interest of shipping
lines, hauliers and others in an LNG
hub in Helsingborg? Last year, the
Helga project applied for an EU grant
to start a preliminary study and conduct
a market analysis.
“We got the green light from the EU
this spring and the money is now on
its way from Brussels,” explains PO
Jansson, former CEO at the Port of
Helsingborg, who started up the project.
The procurement process for
contracting consultants to carry out
the market survey is complete and we
have selected two very competent
consulting companies: Ramböll Damark
and ÅF. They are investigating
whether the necessary prerequisites
for a profitable LNG hub exist. When
the survey has been completed in a
few weeks, we can decide how to
proceed.
A modern hub
The IMO’s decision that, as of 2015,
PO Jansson
bunker oil may only contain 0.1% sulphur,
will cause problems if the shipping
lines do not have the time nor the
possibility to convert their vessels.
“We are all interested in finding an alternative
fuel and I think that a lot of
people are just waiting for something
to happen,” says PO Jansson.
Someone must take the first step
The new sulphur directive is also resulting
in misgivings about an increase
in heavy road transport. In that case
too, an LNG hub would be an excellent
solution as a filling station for land
traffic.
Where is LNG cheapest and best?
LNG is produced in all sorts of places
throughout the world such as
the USA, North Africa, Norway and
Qatar. The liquefied gas arrives to the
user by sea.
“We are now investigating where it is
cheapest and if there are prerequisi-
FACTS
HELGA
To protect the environment, the
International Maritime Organisation
(IMO) decided that ships
operating in the Baltic and North
Sea must decrease their sulphur
emissions to 0.1% as of 2015.
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is an
alternative to bunker oil, which is
the commonest fuel used. HELGA
(Helsingborg Liquefied Gas Association)
was started in order to
support shipping during the process
of transferring to an alternative
fuel.
The project examines what the
possibilities are for building a filling
station and storage site for liquefied
natural gas. HELGA is run by
the Port of Helsingborg, the Ports
of Sweden, Energigas Sverige,
NSR, Öresundskraft and Kemira.
tes for transporting it to Helsingborg,”
explains PO Jansson. “But at the end
of the day, it’s what the customer is
willing to pay that is decisive.”
Three solid legs
It’s difficult to find a better place for
an LNG hub. It is of course not only
the vessels calling at the Port that can
be offered the service. Helsingborg
has a strategic position, with about
50,000 vessels passing annually, as
well as three million vehicles. Apart
from being able to offer gas for sea
and land transport, pipes for industrial
gas can also be built. The national gas
network passes just beside the Port.
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Traffic Department now Environment & Safety
Ulf Rosén, on the left, thanks Mats Rosander.
Traffic manager Mats Rosander left
the company on 1 September. Ulf
Rosén is acting traffic manager. The
Traffic Department is now being re-
New Production Controller
A Production Controller has been taken
on in stevedoring, Carolin Bengtsson.
Carolin’s work is to develop
customer assignments and processes
to ensure we work as correctly as
possible. Carolin’s background is as a
controller at Levis Sweden and IKEA.
She is 34 and lives in Nyhamnsläge,
just north of Helsingborg.
organized. The harbour masters are
being transferred to the stevedoring
department. The new department
will thus concentrate solely on envi-
ronment and safety, and will be renamed
accordingly. Recruitment of a
head of department is under way.

“Grand Princess” anchored outside the North Harbour.
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In the summer and autumn of 2012
the following people and companies
visited the Port of Helsingborg
Hanns Conzen, Eva Jönsson and Björn Nilsson of TT-Line. Rene Brosböl and Kristian Forsell, Penta Shipping.
Laurent Odubroff, Emanuel Köninger, Alix Martinot-Lagarde and Sebastien Faure from VIIA.
The Moderate Party’s Parliamentary Traffic Committee.

Company: Telephone:
+46
Alianca Sweden 31 755 44 20
ACL Sweden AB 31 645 500
All in Shipping (Sweden) AB 42 13 13 15
Aseco AB 31 743 77 00
ZIM Agency in Sweden AB 31 719 44 00
Citadel Shipping AB 42 13 90 75
CMA CGM Scandinavia A/S 42 22 08 50
Eimskip Island ehf, Filial Island 42 17 55 00
Georg Hansen Shipping AB 31 704 14 00
Globaltrans Logistics AB 42 24 25 30
Hamburg Süd Norden AB 31 755 44 00
Hansa Shipping AB 31 354 40 45
Hapag-Lloyd (Sweden) AB 31 337 82 00
Hecksher Linieagenturen AB 31 720 28 80
Hyundai Merchant Marine
(Scandinavia AB) 31 704 81 00
”K” Line (Sweden) AB 42 33 65 50
Lindholm Shipping AB 42 12 60 90
Maersk Sverige AB 31 751 10 00
Maritime Transport & Agencies AB 31 720 39 00
Melship AB 42 13 73 20
MOL (Europe) Nordic 31 335 05 40
MSC Sweden AB 42 38 74 20
NYK Line (Europe) Ltd. 31 31 704 54 00
OOCL (Sweden) AB 31 335 59 00
Overseas Liner Agency AB 31 743 01 80
Panalpina AB 31 74 64 700
Penta Shipping AB 31 704 24 60
Scandlines AB 42 18 60 00
SCA Transforest AB 60 19 35 00
Scanway-Shipping AB 42 20 88 70
Sundship 42 38 52 20
Svenska Orient Linjen AB 31 354 40 30
Transatlantic Southern Africa
Services AB 31 354 40 00
Transweco AB 31 703 78 00
Team Lines AB 08 555 72 692
TT-Line 410 56 000
Unifeeder A/S 31 64 46 80
United Arab Agencies AB 42 20 88 70
United Arab Agencies 31 778 22 50
Agents for Port of Helsingborg
Telephone Telefax
Belgium: Sundman, Brussel, Belgium + 32 (2) 345 76 90 + 32 (2) 345 76 90
E-mail sundman@swing.be
Latvia: SIA LJS Hanza Ltd, Riga, Latvia. + 371 (7) 830 059 + 371 (7) 322 464
Russia: Inflot JSC, St. Petersburg, Russia + 7 (812) 251 27 48 + 7 (812) 251 85 09
USA: Transmar Ltd, Tiburon, California, USA. + 1 (415) 435 5833 + 1 (415) 435 5835
Shipping Companies, Shipbrokers and Liner Agents
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