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The Stockholm Norvik Port will open in 2020. The project reach its halfway and there is a big amount of activity at the construction site, where buildings, bridges and quays are emerging, while the route for the railway track is simultaneously being prepared. Gigantic supporting casement walls that have been cast on-site are being moved into place on the sea bed using floating structures. Both manpower and machinery pieces from the northern Pajala mine are on hand to take care of the rock material and prepare the way for the railway track. Ports of Stockholm Managing Director, Johan Castwall, noted: The Stockholm Norvik Port is long-awaited. Volumes of both RoRo and container traffic are increasing and vessels are becoming ever larger. Stockholm is growing and the possibilities to create sustainable goods provision is high on the agenda for both ourselves and our customers. There are now around 350 people on-site and more than 500 000 hours have been worked at the Stockholm Norvik Port. Progress is being  made to to welcome the first vessel in 2020.

The Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment and tanker operator Concordia Maritime have initiated a preliminary study to determine the feasibility of gathering information on the volume of micoplastics in the oceans. By installing a collection device on a tanker, water samples can be collected, while the ship is underway, for subsequent analysis.

A new collaboration between six organisations, called 'Electromobility for Shipping', intends to promote shipping electrification, with the aim of a more sustainable future in the maritime sector. The organisations will jointly contribute to climate-smart shipping, international competitiveness and increased export opportunities for green technologies.

The Swedish Government assigned the Swedish Energy Agency to investigate ways to remove the grid-connection costs for offshore wind power. The Agency will examine two different models. The first model will move the grid connection point to the offshore wind farm. The second model will use subsidies to wind power producers for a portion of the connection costs.

The IMO NCSR Sub-Committee approved the Danish Maritime Authority’s proposal for new ships’ routeing measures, and opened the way for new routes in the Skagerrak and the Kattegat and aims to enhance safety of navigation.

Chinese investors will not proceed with their plans of a large deep-water port in Sweden, as local concerns were raised about the project’s environmental and security impacts. More that 3,000 people had concerns about the project's environmental implications and signed a  petition for this reason.

This will be the first inland waterway based solution and aims to change the transport and logistic market. The business model is based upon frequency, precision and cargo capacity, with two sailings per week. At first it is planned that the service would ship from eastern Värmland, western Örebro and south Dalarna.

LNG terminal operator Klaipėdos Nafta, announced that the Arbitration Institute of Stockholm has resolved a dispute between the company and the Latvian company AS BMGS, in a case regarding the construction of the KN LNG terminal.

The technology group Wärtsilä announced that it will supply two Wärtsilä HY 2 hybrid power modules for a new escort tug that is being built for the Swedish port of Luleå located on the Gulf of Bothnia in the northern end of the Baltic Sea.