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The Ports of Stockholm are located in the largest city in and capital of Sweden. Located on an arm of the Baltic Sea where the Salt Bay meets Lake Malar about 160 kilometers south-southeast of the Port of Gavle and 350 kilometers northeast of the Port of Kalmar. Built on many islands and the mainland, the Ports of Stockholm are located in one of the world’s most beautiful cities. In 2005, over 771 thousand people lived in the city, and almost two million called the urban area of the Ports of Stockholm home. The service industry accounts for some 85% of the jobs in the city, and the Ports of Stockholm have little heavy industry, making it one of the world’s cleanest cities as well. High-tech companies have been moving into the Ports of Stockholm over the last ten years, including companies like IBM (Swedish), Electrolux, and Ericsson. Stockholm is also the country’s most important financial center, with Sweden’s major banks and insurance companies headquartered there. Tourism is also an increasingly more important center for tourism, with as many as 7.7 million people staying there at least overnight in the early 21st Century.
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Stockholms Hamn AB and the City of Stockholm are the port authority for the Ports of Stockholm. The Ports of Stockholm Group includes Stockholms AB and several other groups. Stockholms Hamn AB is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Stockholms Stadshus AB. The Ports of Stockholm are managed under customer-oriented principles that place priority on maintaining open communications with all stakeholders, making their customers’ well-being an important goal, continuously improving port operations, and assuring that all Ports of Stockholm employees adhere to these priorities.
The Ports of Stockholm includes ports in Stockholm, Kappelskar, and Nynahsamn. The Port of Stockholm handles freight and passengers moving between Sweden, Finland, Russia, and the Baltic States. Having shorter entrance channels, the ports at Kappellskar (90 kilometers to the north) and Nynashamn (60 kilometers to the south) are outports that supplement the Port of Stockholm. The Port of Kappellskar serves rapid freight to and from Estonia and Finland, and the Port of Nynashamn serves Gotland and operates ferry services to central and southern Baltic ports. The Ports of Stockholm are a link within the national and international transport systems, providers of services to the shipping industry, and landlords for lands and premises within the ports.
Ports of Stockholm Container Terminal:Located at the Free-port, Stockholm, the Ports of Stockholm Container Terminal offers competitive loading and unloading services for cargo. The Ports of Stockholm is always working to improve efficiency at the container terminal and requests comments and questions from its users. The current average handling time for a container from gate to delivery is eight minutes, and the terminal handles an average of 24.3 units per hour. The Container Quay at Frihamnen is 220 meters long with maximum draft of 9.5 meters.
Ports of Stockholm Bulk Cargo:The Ports of Stockholm have several purpose-built quays specializing in handling bulk cargoes. The Ports of Stockholm is the region’s only deep-water port for exports of grain. The Lantmannen Farmers’ Association operates a silo at Frihamnen where they store grain for export from the Malardalen region in east central Sweden.
Four different Ports of Stockholm sites handle energy raw materials bulk cargoes: Loudden, Vartan, Sodra Hammarby, and Hasselby Power Station. Seven companies handle oil and chemicals at the Loudden site. At the Vartan site are a lubricating oil factory and several sites handling liquid fuels and coal. The Sodra Hammarby site handles imports of liquid fuels for the company’s heating plant.

Building materials are handled in the Ports of Stockholm at several different locations. Cement is handled at the Cementa site at Lovholmen. The Jehander site at South Hammarby handles sand and grit. The Hornsberg site contains the concrete station at North Vartanhamnen.