Lumbering Logistics Grows
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Most pulp and paper producers have built up significant in-house logistics operations alongside their core business, reflecting the specialized nature of forest products transportation.
SCA Transforest, for example, operates a pan-European network of terminals offering stevedoring, warehousing, forwarding, customs clearance, agency and other related services for its parent SCA and competitors. Its Interforest Terminal Rotterdam unit generates around 40 percent of its traffic from third parties.
SCA Transforest also runs a large shipping business with a specially designed fleet of roll-on, roll-off ships and chartered-in tonnage.
Shipowners and forest products producers tend to stick together through good and bad times. Thus, Danish shipping line DFDS and
Cargo terminals also have close relations with paper producers. Euroports acquired two Finnish stevedores from UMP-Kymmene, the world’s largest magazine paper producer, for approximately $128 million and also secured a long-term contract guaranteeing a minimum cargo throughput that amounts to more than 50 percent of their total combined traffic. Euroports’ acquisition of 50 percent of ICS Logistics, a
Clever logistics also explains why SCA can make money exporting timber from
The solid spruce wood is then shipped via seven SCA distribution centers in the east and central
Direct sailings cut both transport costs and handling, which reduces the risk of damage and protects the quality of the wood.
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Issued by: BreakBulk
Author: Bruce Barnard
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Issue date: October 13, 2009
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