Freight Transport - the Infrastructure in Sweden

Sweden has an excellent transportation infrastructure for freight forwarding, because the government has always recognized its vital importance to economic prosperity and a priority of its modernization and development.

The railways in Sweden have 13,000 km of track, about a third are privately owned. The rail network includes a rapid rail link between Arlanda airport and the center of Stockholm, which makes transporting goods quickly and efficiently.

There are a number of major ports and harbors, including the state of the art terminals and provide facilities for handling containers. These include Gaevle, Göteborg, Malmö, Sundsvall, Helsingborg, Halmstad, Kalmar and Stockholm. The Swedish merchant fleet, with 165 modern vessels, is also seen as an economic priority of the government and the industry of international freight transport Sweden as a whole enjoys the support of the Government of the shipping companies and infrastructure .

The domestic air market in Sweden was deregulated in 1991 and since then a number of Swedish airlines were competing to serve the international freight market in the transport of goods. These companies include Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS), Transwede and Malmö Aviation.

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