Tests of digital automatic couplers are now underway under some of Europe’s most demanding railway conditions as the steel shuttle is equipped with the latest technology. Green Cargo operates the Luleå–Borlänge route with the freight train, which is a central part of SSAB’s production chain.
Green Cargo is investing in a more robust and reliable network for 2025. Starting with the timetable shift in 2025, the new network will enable shorter lead times, more frequent departures, reduced susceptibility to disruptions, and improved punctuality, creating increased value for the company’s customers.
The first of ten new Vectron locomotives has been delivered to Green Cargo in Malmö. The locomotives will primarily be used to strengthen Green Cargo's international traffic in the corridor between Malmö and Maschen in Germany starting in 2024. The six current corridor locomotives will be integrated into Green Cargo's domestic network and increase the company's capacity on the Swedish market.
More freight trains and reduced truck traffic to and from Dalarna when the Malungsfors terminal becomes part of Green Cargo's network in December. Together with Fiskarhedens Trävaru AB, Green Cargo has entered into a new agreement in collaboration with the Gothenburg-based logistics company Träfraktkontoret AB for greatly expanded freight transport by rail.
Green Cargo's Board of Directors has appointed Peter Viinapuu as interim CEO of Green Cargo AB. Peter will take up his position on April 17 and will hold the role until Henrik Dahlin takes over as permanent CEO no later than September 16.
Henrik Dahlin will be the new CEO of Green Cargo AB. Henrik comes most recently from MTR Nordic Group where he is currently CEO. Henrik will take up his position at Green Cargo no later than 16 September.
Green Cargo’s Chief Commercial Officer, Richard Kirchner, has decided to leave the company to assume a position as production director at Keolis Sweden AB.
Green Cargo's CEO, Ted Söderholm, has decided to leave the company and the transport industry to take up a position as CEO of a company in another sector. Ted Söderholm will leave Green Cargo no later than April 2023. The recruitment of a new successor has begun.
The Board of Green Cargo AB has decided to discontinue the company’s Norwegian domestic operations, comprising three rail freight lines, in the first quarter of 2023. The immediate cause of this decision is that the economic conditions for conducting commercially viable operations do not exist.
With two new direct domestic routes from Trelleborg and Gothenburg, Green Cargo seizes the increasing intermodal traffic arriving at the Southern and Western Sweden ports to continue their journey by rail to the Mälarregion. These routes provide customers within the Green Cargo network with a high departure frequency, fast lead times and punctuality.
On January 1, 2022, a new unit was created within Network Management – logging logistics. The new unit has been created to better meet the needs of logging customers as well as to increase growth and strengthen profitability within the segment. The Manager of this new unit is Madelene Askeblad.
From the turn of the year, Green Cargo changed the production method for their international block train routes Italy Direct and Austria Direct. Transports to Austria and Italy are now operated via Denmark instead of via the train ferry route between Trelleborg and Rostock.
"Through this change, we simplify our production, reduce our costs, wagon utilization and can eventually shorten transport
Green Cargo’s investment in the market’s largest and most efficient timber wagon has paid off in a new agreement with Holmen Skog. The wagon, “Golden Bullet 2.0,” is the result of a joint development with ExTe in Ljusdal. Holmen Skog will be the first customer to use the wagon for roundwood transportation in Sweden.
After a long and successful 15-year partnership between A Flygbränslehantering (AFAB) and Green Cargo AB, both parties have signed a new agreement for another five years. Since the partnership began, rail freight has replaced approximately 210,000 truck shipments, reducing AFAB’s emissions by 98 percent – a total of 76,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
SSAB and Green Cargo extend their partnership encompassing shipments of some 700,000 tonnes of finished goods each year from SSAB’s plants in Borlänge and Oxelösund to customers in Sweden and Denmark. The logistics solution, which comprises steel coil and cut lengths of sheet steel, is conducted through Green Cargo’s wagon load network. The new three-year agreement started on January 1, 2021.
Due to the increased need for sustainable and more efficient transportation with larger networks, higher capacity and quicker lead times, Containerships has chosen to start its own shuttle service between the Port of Helsingborg and Mälardalen, with Green Cargo operating the trains.
Green Cargo has invested in a range of digital services to increase the benefits of our customers. Green Cargo Connect is part of the company's digitalization journey to offer simpler and faster customer solutions. With the help of the new services, customers can easily and quickly book transports, fill in consignment notes and track their transports.
ScandFibre Logistics (SFL) and Green Cargo renew their partnership in the form of a comprehensive Scandinavian rail freight logistics solution. Green Cargo won SFL’s procurement due to its competitive offering in the form of a sustainable freight solution with flexible volumes and the possibility of adding more direct trains together with faster lead times.
The successful partnership between Green Cargo and Vallviks Bruk for shipping roundwood from Malungsfors in the municipality of Malung-Sälen to the pulp mill in Vallvik has resulted in an extension of the current agreement. The partnership began in 2018 with rail-freight services from Mora and continued in 2019 from the newly opened timber terminal in Malungsfors.
Green Cargo was founded two decades ago with the objective of strengthening Sweden’s competitiveness as an attractive rail freight operator. We currently have 1,800 employees who, in their professional roles, can contribute to this development, and we are continuing the creation of a sustainable and well-functioning freight transportation system.