A growing range of shipping services, congestion at Europe’s ports, and an efficient rail connection between the port and the rest of Sweden.
These are key reasons why 2025 became a new record year for the Port of Gothenburg, with 934,000 handled TEUs. This represents growth of 4% compared with the previous year and is also the highest full-year volume ever recorded in the port’s history.
Claes Sundmark, Vice President Sales & Marketing at the Port of Gothenburg, stated that record volumes are proof that the port has become even more attractive as a logistics hub, while other major ports in Europe have struggled with capacity challenges during the year.
Container volumes at the Port of Gothenburg are also growing considerably faster than in Sweden’s other ports combined.
The Port of Gothenburg’s ambition is for as large a share as possible of cargo to and from the port to be transported by rail.
In 2025, container cargo transported by rail increased by 5 percent to 529,000 TEU also a new all-time high. The share of containers transported by rail is now just over 60 percent.
The Port of Gothenburg’s intra-European RoRo traffic consists of rolling cargo units loaded onto vessels with frequent departures to strategically important freight hubs in Northern and Central Europe, as well as the United Kingdom.
In 2025, 525,000 units were handled, a marginal increase compared with the previous year.
The Port of Gothenburg is also the largest vehicle port in the Nordic region and handled 251,000 vehicles during the year.
After three quarters, volumes were down 9 percent compared with the same period the year before, but following a strong recovery in the fourth quarter, the decline for the full year amounted to 2%.
