Freight volumes passing through the Port of Gothenburg during the year to date are as follows. Container traffic is up 20% compared with the preceding year, and energy product flows remain consistently strong. New car figures rose by 4% but now appear to be levelling off, albeit at a high level.
Growth in container volumes
During the first nine months of the year, container traffic increased by 20% and rail traffic by 7%.
More energy products
Energy products totalled 17.7 million tonnes, up 2% on the corresponding period last year.
Cars and ro-ro* level out
Intra-European ro-ro traffic remained unchanged, whilst new car movements revealed a YTD rise of 4% despite a slight fall in September.
Port of Gothenburg freight volumes, YTD 2018
| Jan-Sept 2018 | Jan-Sept 2017 | Jan-Sept % change | |
| Containers, (TEU**) | 560,000 | 466,000 | 20% |
| Rail, (TEU) | 283,000 | 264,000 | 7% |
| Ro-ro units | 439,000 | 438,000 | 0% |
| New cars | 209,000 | 201,000 | 4% |
| Energy products, million tonnes | 17.7 | 17.2 | 2% |
| Passengers | 1,356,000 | 1,416,000 | -4% |
| Cruise ship calls | 34 | 36 | -6% |
* Ro-ro stands for roll-on/roll-off and refers to trailers and other wheeled cargo carried on vessels operating within and outside Europe.
** Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (20-foot container)
