Country Denmark and Sweden Opened 2001 Founded 2001 | Location Copenhagen and Malmö Chief Executive Officer Johan Röstin | |
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Parent organization Udviklingsselskabet By & Havn I/S Similar Luossavaara, Kiirunavaara, Øresund Bridge, Langelinie, Saint Göran Hospital | ||
Johan r stin ceo of copenhagen malm port ab
Copenhagen Malmö Port AB (CMP) operates the ports in Denmark's capital Copenhagen and in Sweden's third largest city, Malmö. The ports are located either side of Øresund, a strait between the two countries. The combined Øresund Region is the Nordic countries' largest metropolitan area in terms of population. The region is connected by the Øresund Bridge, which spans the strait at its southern end, and the HH Ferry route between Helsingør, Denmark and Helsingborg, Sweden.
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- Johan r stin ceo of copenhagen malm port ab
- Regional hub
- Background history
- Current operations
- Investments
- References
Most ships en route between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea/Atlantic pass through the ports, making the Øresund one of the world’s busiest sounds.
Regional hub
The central location in the Øresund Region means that in a number of cases CMP acts as a hub for freight that is transported onward to the Baltic States, Russia and other parts of Northern Europe. In addition, CMP is a hub for intermediate storage of crude oil in the trade between Russia and countries including Australia and United States.
CMP is located in the heart of the Øresund Region with almost four million consumers. The region is experiencing increasing integration between the Danish and Swedish areas. At the same time, the Region is the gateway to the entire Baltic Region with more than 100 million consumers. The Baltic Sea is one of the oldest and busiest trade routes, accounting for some 15% of the world's maritime transportation.
Background, history
Copenhagen Malmö Port is a Nordic company based in two countries – Sweden and Denmark. The company is owned by the By & Havn I/S Development Corporation (50%), Malmö City (27%) and private investors (23%). CMP is a Swedish-registered limited liability company (Aktiebolag).
CMP was formed through a merger of Copenhagen Port and Malmö Port – two operations with a port and maritime history extending back to the Middle Ages. The merger took place in 2001, when the 16 kilometre long Öresund Bridge between Copenhagen and Malmö was completed and the task of integrating the Öresund Region got underway.
Current operations
CMP is one of Scandinavia's largest port operators, handling more than 14.9 million tonnes of freight in 2015. This is down slightly from 15.0 million tonnes in 2010, and a larger decline from 16.1 million tonnes in 1999.
CMP provides access to an infrastructure that ensures goods are processed quickly and safely. Operations include roll-on/roll-off – and container traffic, cruises, combi-traffic via rail, and oil and dry bulk terminals. CMP receives ships of all sizes and handles all types of freight, including consumer goods, grain, motor oil, vehicle fuel, cars, scrap metal and building materials. In its role as port operator, CMP unloads, loads and stores goods, but also works with different logistics services via road and rail.
Every year the ports in Copenhagen and Malmö receive about 8,000 ships. CMP is the Nordic region’s largest car port, handling almost 340,000 cars during 2015. CMP has six car terminals covering a total of 800,000 square metres (8,600,000 sq ft) and four PDI centres to service them.
Copenhagen is one of Europe's largest cruise destinations, projected to receive around 740,000 passengers from 150 different countries in 2016. In recent years, both Copenhagen and CMP have received awards for their cruise operations: for example, winning "Europe's Leading Cruise Port" in four consecutive years between 2009 and 2012, and also "Best Turnaround Port Operations" 2015.
Ferry and passenger services are also operated in both Copenhagen and Malmö. The major route is Copenhagen-Oslo. 766,000 passengers travelled between the two Nordic capitals during 2015. The other ferry line runs between Malmö and the German port of Travemünde with the number of passengers here amounting to around 84,000.
Investments
Approximately SEK 2.5 billion has been invested in new logistics and infrastructure solutions in Copenhagen and Malmö between 2010 and 2014. The investments are in freight and passenger terminals, quay installations and machinery, cranes and other infrastructure.
The largest project is Norra Hamnen (Northern Harbour) in Malmö, which was opened in autumn 2011. Three terminals have been built, quintupling CMP’s freight capacity. The expansion is one of the largest infrastructure projects ever completed in the city, covering an area of 250,000 square metres. In the next stage, Malmö City and CMP will be jointly establishing Malmö Industrial Park – a new industrial estate where companies within areas including manufacturing, processing and logistics services can establish themselves. The area is expected to be fully developed in the mid-2020s, at which time it will extend over 900,000 square metres.
In conjunction with Copenhagen Municipality and Malmö Municipality, investments are also being made in access roads and other infrastructure in connection to the ports. Further investments are also being planned in Malmö – which is the largest rail hub in Southern Sweden – in railway traffic in order to provide even more capacity.