Dry Ports in Sweden - One of a kind?

Paper in proceeding, 2022

Swedish dry ports have been often used as cases in the transport research, however there is no comprehensive study that identifies and categorizes Swedish freight transport terminal facilities meeting the dry port definition “inland intermodal terminal with direct rail connection to a seaport where customers can deliver/collect their containers as if directly at the seaport”. This study aims to describe those facilities and to analyze them focusing on several distinctive characteristic identified from the literature on dry port. The study used primary and secondary sources of data. The findings show description and analysis of identified dry ports in Sweden: not only the number of them grew from two in the year 2009 to 12 in the year 2022, there are similarities but also differences when it comes to their distance and location, functionality and services, direction of development, maturity level, dedication, geography of operations. One characteristic they all have in common is Inside-out directional development.