Green Cargo has started transporting fuel between Gothenburg and Malmö in Sweden. Previously, those shipments were carried out by sea, but the rail freight operator has now taken over.
The transport includes gasoline and diesel for Finnish energy company St1, writes Swedish publication Järnvägar.nu. Green Cargo will take the freight from the St1 refinery in Gothenburg to a depot in Malmö, where it is unloaded via a newly built port track and transshipment facility.
The shipments will take place twice a week in autumn, but from December onwards, the operator will carry out the service four times a week. In total, the transports from Gothenburg to Malmö will amount to 182,000 tonnes of gasoline and diesel oil per year.
St1 is the only fuel company in Sweden that transports its product via rail, a representative of Green Cargo told Järnvägar.nu. That includes shipments from the Gothenburg refinery: Green Cargo already moves fuel from there to the cities Jönköping and Karlstad.
