Unifeeder enters into a unique transport agreement with Greencarrier, Green Cargo, and Ranheim Paper & Board.
The agreement includes transport of paper from Trondheim, via the port of Drammen and Rotterdam, to Vienna in Austria by shortsea instead of a truck. Assistant Port Director at Drammen Port; Ivar Vannebo, informs that the new agreement reduces the use of the truck, between the paper mill at Ranheim and the Vienna printing plant, from 2400 kilometres to just 24 kilometres.
Sustainable transport solutions
Unifeeder is honoured to have an opportunity to collaborate with like-minded companies
“Until now, we have used exclusively trucking services, and 14,000 trucks have been transported to and from our factory annually. We have a strong desire to become more environmentally friendly and therefore we have now entered into an agreement to use shortsea transport from Trondheim to Vienna,” says Supply Chain Manager Trond Ole Winther in Ranheim Paper & Board.
Unifeeder is honoured to have an opportunity to collaborate with like-minded companies which are eager to rethink the boundaries of logistics and find more sustainable transport solutions. They hope that such a move from a well-established player like Ranheim Paper & Board will motivate more companies to step away from traditional trucking and explore environmental-friendly as well as cost-efficient options.
"It's approximately 15,000 tonnes, or about 600 containers per year, which will now be transported by rail and boat instead of a truck. We thus save our own environment a lot of pollution and traffic, as well as save the European region a total of 1816 tones of CO2 emission,” says Winther.