Green Cargo (ENG)

Tests of digital automatic couplers (DAC) are now underway under some of Europe’s most demanding railway conditions as the steel shuttle is equipped with the latest technology. Green Cargo operates the Luleå–Borlänge route with the freight train, which is a central part of SSAB’s production chain. The test is part of the FP5 TRANS4M-R innovation project within the framework of Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking (EU-Rail).

Green Cargo is investing in a more robust and reliable network for 2025. Starting with the timetable shift in 2025, the new network will enable shorter lead times, more frequent departures, reduced susceptibility to disruptions, and improved punctuality, creating increased value for the company’s customers. In the new network, traffic will be strengthened in the corridors where the major freight flows are transported.

Green Cargo's new intermodal train solution will enhance the transportation of goods between Gothenburg Kombi and Norrköping Port. Starting in May, the new solution offers daily departures Monday through Friday for trailers, swap bodies, and containers, providing a fast, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly mode of transport.

Green Cargo has awarded Euromaint a renewed five-year maintenance contract to manage, in partnership, the Rc/Rd locos, which are the majority of the locos in the largest fleet of locomotives in Sweden owned by Green Cargo, as well as the strategic components. The network of Green Cargo covers the entire country from north to south in Sweden. This is an operative approach can be further optimised by the corresponding service centres network of Euromaint, in cities as Luleå, Vännäs, Sundsvall, Borlänge, Hallsberg, Örebro, Gothenburg and Malmö.

Starting in 2024, Green Cargo will purchase guarantees of origin for fossil-free electricity production (wind, hydro- and nuclear power) instead of guarantees of origin for renewable electricity production (wind and hydropower) from the Swedish Transport Administration. This is a result of the dramatic price increase for guarantees of origin for renewable electricity noted during the end of 2022.

Max has experience from several different industries, with the longest experience in the aviation industry. For several years, Max has held various roles within the SAS Group, most recently as CEO of SAS Cargo Group. Max will assume his position at Green Cargo in March 2024. “It feels very exciting and good that we have managed to recruit Max to Green Cargo. He has great experience in driving successful change processes and is a relationship-oriented and well-liked manager and leader”, says Henrik Dahlin, CEO of Green Cargo. Around the clock, our freight trains transport both raw materials and refined products to industries in various parts of Scandinavia and to the continent. In many cases, the end products also take the train to consumers in a sustainable logistics system that lays the foundation for Sweden's prosperity and consumption. “I look forward very much to becoming a part of Green Cargo and getting to know both colleagues and customers and partners. It will be incredibly exc

The first of ten new Vectron locomotives has been delivered to Green Cargo in Malmö. The locomotives will primarily be used to strengthen Green Cargo's international traffic in the corridor between Malmö and Maschen in Germany starting in 2024. The six current corridor locomotives will be integrated into Green Cargo's domestic network and increase the company's capacity on the Swedish market.

Green Cargo AB and Fiskarhedens Trävaru AB have entered a new agreement in partnership with the logistics company Träfraktkontoret i Göteborg AB. This means that from December, the Malungsfors terminal will be included in Green Cargo’s network comprising nearly 300 tariff points in Scandinavia as well as partners in Europe. Initially, the transports shipments will include several container trains per week to the Port of Gothenburg, but timetables are in place for five departures, which enables quick expansion of the freight traffic with, for example, intermodal trailer freight and wagon loads.

Green Cargo's Board of Directors has appointed Peter Viinapuu as interim CEO of Green Cargo AB. Peter will take up his position on April 17 and will hold the role until Henrik Dahlin takes over as permanent CEO no later than September 16.

Henrik Dahlin will be the new CEO of Green Cargo AB. Henrik comes most recently from MTR Nordic Group where he is currently CEO. Henrik will take up his position at Green Cargo no later than 16 September.

Green Cargo’s Chief Commercial Officer, Richard Kirchner, has decided to leave the company to assume a position as production director at Keolis Sweden AB.

We hope to meet the market's and customers' needs of a user-friendly website, where important parameters such as high quality of content, functions and connections are in focus. Another important aspect is that our customers can log into our customer portal – Green Cargo Connect – via the web.

During the Christmas period, two new Transmontana locomotives will be put into service, with the designations Mb 4017 and Mb 4018. The locomotives were ordered a year ago and were delivered to Sweden earlier in the autumn. The two new locomotives will initially go into existing customer arrangements within the Swedish basic industry.

Green Cargo receives continued trust from St1 in a new five-year agreement plus two option years. The agreement currently covers exchange contracts and transports between Gothenburg Pölsebo and Karlstad and Jönköping respectively.

Ingo Paas, CIO at Green Cargo, took home the heaviest IT award of the year when media house IDG's publication CIO Sweden had a gala dinner at Berns in Stockholm on Monday evening. In tough competition from IT managers at companies such as Northvolt, Ericsson, Axfood and Kronofogden, he won the award, which was handed out for the 18th year in a row. The winner was chosen by an independent jury.

Green Cargo's CEO, Ted Söderholm, has decided to leave the company and the transport industry to take up a position as CEO of a company in another sector.

The Board of Green Cargo AB has decided to discontinue the company’s Norwegian domestic operations, comprising three rail freight lines, in the first quarter of 2023. The immediate cause of this decision is that the economic conditions for conducting commercially viable operations do not exist. The decision to discontinue operations will affect some 30 customers and about 120 employees in our Norwegian subsidiaries. Green Cargo is now entering negotiations with trade unions concerning the execution.

With two new direct domestic routes from Trelleborg and Gothenburg, Green Cargo seizes the increasing intermodal traffic arriving at the Southern and Western Sweden ports to continue their journey by rail to the Mälarregion. These routes provide customers within the Green Cargo network with a high departure frequency, fast lead times and punctuality.

On January 1, 2022, a new unit was created within Network Management – logging logistics. The new unit has been created to better meet the needs of logging customers as well as to increase growth and strengthen profitability within the segment. The Manager of this new unit is Madelene Askeblad.

From the turn of the year, Green Cargo changed the production method for their international block train routes Italy Direct and Austria Direct. Transports to Austria and Italy are now operated via Denmark instead of via the train ferry route between Trelleborg and Rostock.