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Port of Gothenburg

Index Port of Gothenburg

The municipally-owned Port of Gothenburg (Göteborgs hamn) is the largest port in the Nordic countries, with over 11,000 ship visits per year from over 140 destinations worldwide. [1]

25 relations: APM Terminals, Bergslagernas Järnvägar, Container ship, Containerization, Dagens Nyheter, Eriksberg, Gothenburg, Estuary, Göta älv, Gothenburg, Gothenburg Municipality, Hisingen, Lilla Bommen, List of busiest ports in Europe, Maersk Triple E-class container ship, Mediterranean Shipping Company, Nordic Council, Nordic countries, Petroleum, Preemraff Göteborg, Roll-on/roll-off, Roll-on/roll-off discharge facility, Twenty-foot equivalent unit, Viking (barque), Vinga (Gothenburg), Volvo.

APM Terminals

APM Terminals is an international container terminal operating company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands.

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Bergslagernas Järnvägar

Bergslagernas Järnvägar was the largest private railroad company of Sweden with a main line from Gothenburg to Falun, in all 478 km.

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Container ship

Container ships (sometimes spelled containerships) are cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization.

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Containerization

Containerization is a system of intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers (also called shipping containers and ISO containers).

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Dagens Nyheter

Dagens Nyheter (lit. "the day's news"), abbreviated DN, is a daily newspaper in Sweden.

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Eriksberg, Gothenburg

Eriksberg is an area on Hisingen in Gothenburg where Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstads AB had their shipyard until bankruptcy in 1979.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Göta älv

The Göta älv (River of the Geats) is a river that drains lake Vänern into the Kattegat, at the city of Gothenburg, on the western coast of Sweden.

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Gothenburg

Gothenburg (abbreviated Gbg; Göteborg) is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries.

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Gothenburg Municipality

Gothenburg Municipality (Göteborgs kommun or Göteborgs stad) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden.

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Hisingen

Hisingen is the fifth-largest island of Sweden (after Gotland, Öland, Södertörn and Orust), with an area of.

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Lilla Bommen

Lilla Bommen is a part of Gothenburg harbor used for visiting boats and also the name given to the land surrounding the harbor.

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List of busiest ports in Europe

Numbers in thousand TEU's, Ranks for 2016 There are a number of other major ports on the Mediterranean and the Baltic with levels of container traffic which would place them in the Top 20 table above, but they are omitted since they are located in countries which do not contribute to the Eurostat statistics from which the table has been produced.

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Maersk Triple E-class container ship

The Maersk Triple E-class container ships comprise a family of very large container ships of more than 18,000 TEU.

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Mediterranean Shipping Company

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. (MSC) is the world's second-largest shipping line in terms of container vessel capacity.

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Nordic Council

The Nordic Council is the official body for formal inter-parliamentary co-operation among the Nordic countries.

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Nordic countries

The Nordic countries or the Nordics are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic, where they are most commonly known as Norden (literally "the North").

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Petroleum

Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface.

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Preemraff Göteborg

Preemraff Göteborg is an oil refinery in the Swedish city of Gothenburg.

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Roll-on/roll-off

Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro) ships are vessels designed to carry wheeled cargo, such as cars, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, trailers, and railroad cars, that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels or using a platform vehicle, such as a self-propelled modular transporter.

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Roll-on/roll-off discharge facility

A roll-on/roll-off discharge facility (RRDF) is a floating platform that provides a roadway between a ship's ramp and lighterage.

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Twenty-foot equivalent unit

The twenty-foot equivalent unit (often TEU or teu) is an inexact unit of cargo capacity often used to describe the capacity of container ships and container terminals.

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Viking (barque)

Viking (also known by the ship type as a prefix, Barken Viking) is a four-masted steel barque, built in 1906 by Burmeister & Wain in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Vinga (Gothenburg)

Vinga is a small island outside Gothenburg's harbour entrance in Sweden.

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Volvo

The Volvo Group (Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo) (stylized as VOLVO) is a Swedish multinational manufacturing company headquartered in Gothenburg.

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Gothenburg Port, Gothenburg harbour, Göteborgs Hamn, Göteborgs hamn, Port at Gothenburg, Port in Gothenburg.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Gothenburg

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