SWECO hired to help built eastern Sweden’s largest port

Plans to expand the port of Stockholm-Nynäshamn at Norvikudden have now entered a new phase. SWECO has been chosen for preconstruction planning of the port on behalf of Ports of Stockholm.

The new port will cover an area of 60 hectares. Its nine berths with a total length of 1,800 meters, capacity for 500,000 TEUs of container goods and ro-ro capacity for 300,000 vehicles per year, make this Sweden’s largest port investment in many decades.

“This is an unusually exciting and challenging project. The breadth SWECO can offer, ranging from specialised civil engineering and structural design consultants to landscape architects, enables us to take on large-scale multidisciplinary undertakings like that in Norvik,” says Eva Nygren, Managing Director of SWECO Sweden.

The new port will be built in stages and is planned for completion in 2020, although it is hoped that the port can be opened for traffic already in 2011.

”The harbour expansion is vital for the supply of goods and ongoing growth in the Stockholm-Mälardalen region. It feels very secure to be working with SWECO at this early and formative stage,” says Christel Wiman, President of Ports of Stockholm.

SWECO’s services will include civil engineering design, structural design, landscape architecture and building design. The contract is worth more than SEK 4 million.

SWECO has previously carried out a technical feasibility study, prepared a preliminary layout for the port and was responsible for preparing the environmental impact assessment (EIA) as a basis for the environmental court’s decision on the project. SWECO has longstanding experiencing of working in other Swedish port projects.