Norwegian-owned Geminor has opened a new RDF waste import terminal, located between APM Terminals and the Gothenburg Roro Terminal at the Port of Gothenburg. RDF stands for Refuse Derived Fuel and is basically waste that has been sorted and baled.
The imported RDF waste comes from the United Kingdom. It is shipped from Immingham to the Port of Gothenburg using DFDS ro-ro vessels. The vessels berth at the Gothenburg Ro-Ro Terminal and from there the baled waste is transported to Geminor’s new terminal. On arrival at the terminal, it is transferred from cassettes onto trucks before being sent to Renova in Gothenburg or Öresundskraft in Helsingborg where it is burned and turned in to energy.
The terminal, which was opened in September, has the capacity to handle about 200,000 tonnes of waste each year.
The day-to-day handling of the RDF waste is dealt with by the Gothenburg-based company MIMAB. MIMAB is owned by two brothers, Michael and Mathias Bergman, and has been operating at the port since 2002.
The waste that is imported into Sweden would otherwise go to landfill. It is favourable for the environment that the waste is transported to Sweden, where it is combusted to generate electricity and heating for Swedish households. Carbon dioxide emissions resulting from combustion are very low compared with landfill.
Source: Port of Gothenburg
