“The most climate smart port on the Baltic Sea”

An extension of the existing port in Trelleborg is underway. The construction is part of the municipality’s city development project enabling the city and port to grow and develop sustainably, side by side.

The Port of Trelleborg is the largest RoRo ship port (for rolling traffic) in Scandinavia, handling around 30 arrivals and departures daily. The port is now being extended with new ferry berths that shift ferry traffic farther away from the center of Trelleborg. This provides a number of advantages. Two of them are better air quality and greater safety in maneuvering ships in the port.

Peab plays a key role in the project where the main task is to build two new ferry berths including ramps as well as a side ramp to an existing ferry berth. This requires building up a completely new land mass where there is now only ocean. In the construction phase one of the ways Peab will work to minimize environmental impact is through our own developed products ECO-Betong and ECO-Asfalt. ECO-Asfalt, for example, reduces carbon dioxide emissions by about 50 percent compared to traditional asphalt. A large part of transportation runs on renewable fuel and steel deliveries will mainly be transported on trains and ships.

“This project suits us particularly well since we are local and thanks to the collaboration between business areas can ensure we have the right resources throughout the project and thereby clearly contribute to the sustainability goals of the Port of Trelleborg,” says Göran Wiking, Region Manager at Peab.

The new port is expected to be finished around the end of 2021.

“Our ambition is to strengthen our position as the most efficient and climate smart port on the Baltic Sea. Sustainability has therefore taken a front seat in this project.”

Jörgen Nilsson, CEO of Trelleborgs Hamn