Copenhagen Malmö Port AB (CMP) is the largest port operator in the Öresund region, one of the most dynamic and expansive markets in the Nordic region with about four million consumers. The company offers an efficient transport service with up to 8,000 ship calls a year. Thanks to its strategic location in the Öresund region, the company’s facilities also serve as hubs for the Baltic Sea region and its roughly 100 million consumers.
At its port terminals in Copenhagen and Malmö CMP handles large volumes of goods, including consumer goods, transit oil, vehicle fuels, building materials and new cars, as well as extensive cruise and passenger operations. In only a few years Copenhagen has evolved into the largest and most popular cruise destination in northern Europe, receiving 677,000 passengers in 2009. CMP has also established a large-scale car distribution operation in Malmö, which has become a centre for car transports to Scandinavia and the Baltic states.
Close partnership
CMP’s port and transport services are divided into the following areas: cruise and passenger traffic, containers, RoRo, logistics, dry and liquid bulk, and car distribution. Thanks to its specialisation in these business segments, CMP is able to deliver even more professional services, combining the right technology, infrastructure and employees to provide high-quality execution. The company’s partnerships with customers are based on long-term agreements and solutions where responsibility and risks are shared and the profitability of both parties is a key requirement. In concrete terms this means that CMP and its customers may co-fund technology and infrastructure projects or develop new service models and, more generally, build stable, long-term, constructive partnerships.
Developments in transports and infrastructure in northern Europe favour CMP. Future investments in a bridge between Germany and Denmark, a new rail tunnel between Helsingborg in Sweden and Helsingør in Denmark and high-speed trains are examples of this. Thanks to its strategic location, CMP is well placed to benefit from the commercial opportunities this will create. CMP is also at the forefront of developments in new logistics solutions. Commercial and regulatory imperatives are creating an increasing demand for intermodality, i.e. the ability to handle goods arriving by ship, rail and lorry in the same location. The key success factor is the ability to meet shifting requirements and work systematically to create customised solutions that meet customers’ requirements.
In 2011 the Northern Harbour in Malmö, which is centred on intermodal solutions, will become operational. In the Northern Harbour CMP and the City of Malmö will establish a new transport and logistics hub with support from the EU. A major advantage of the new hub is that ship, rail and lorry traffic will be brought together in a way that speeds up and streamlines goods handling. CMP is building three new freight and ferry terminals, a new container port and a new combi terminal in the Northern Harbour, which will enable the company to handle five times more goods than today.
