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On June 2, the Swedish Minister for Infrastructure Thomas Eneroth announced the government's decision to proceed with the deepening of the fairways at the Port of Gothenburg. This will allow larger vessels to call at the Port of Gothenburg fully loaded. The new project will increase the maximum depth of the fairways from 13.5 metres to about 16 metres.

The Danish Maritime Authority increased the international work on digitalization and e-navigation as it entered into a cooperation agreement with South Korea, Sweden, Australia and China. The agreement aims to strengthen the focus on digitalization in the maritime sector.

IMO approved the ship routes in Kattegat and Skagerrak after a proposal from Denmark and Sweden. This step is important because of the much larger size of ships navigating the straits today in comparison to the ships that the route systems were originally designed for. About 70,000 ships a year pass through Kattegat and Skagerrak.

Danish shipping company DFDS and its partners from Geminor and Green Cargo tested a new environmentally-friendly transport of the refuse-derived fuel bales, from Geminor’s waste processing and packaging plant in the UK, to Mälerenergi’s power plant in Västerås near Stockholm.

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.