The new shuttle will generate logistical benefits, consolidating the port as the principal hub for the export of Swedish timber products, according to the Port of Gothenburg's release.

A new rail shuttle is about to begin transporting timber products from Malungsfors in Dalarna to Asia via the Port of Gothenburg.

The driving force behind the newly established rail shuttle is the Fiskarheden sawmill, working in close collaboration with the forwarding company Trafraktkontoret. The first train to depart will carry 32 FEU from the Japanese shipping company ONE from Gothenburg.

Previously, timber products were transported by road via the Port of Gavle. The new arrangement via Gothenburg offers both logistical benefits and carbon savings.

Fiskarheden - which produces more than 370,000 cubic metres of sawn timber per year, of which more than 90 per cent is purchased outside Sweden - has invested heavily in the transformation of the rail terminal in Malungsfors to facilitate container handling.