Copenhagen Malmö Port
| CMP Copenhagen Malmö Port | |
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| Country | Denmark and Sweden |
| Location | Copenhagen and Malmö |
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| Opened | 2001 |
| Employees | 400 |
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Website www.cmport.com | |
CMP – Danish-Swedish port
Copenhagen Malmö Port AB (CMP) operates the ports in Denmark’s capital Copenhagen and in Sweden’s third largest city, Malmö. The Öresund region is the Nordic countries' largest metropolitan area in terms of population. Öresund is the sound between Sweden and Denmark. Most ships en route between the Baltic and the North Sea/Atlantic pass through here, making the Öresund Sound one of the world’s busiest sounds.
CMP is one of Scandinavia's largest port operators, handling more than 16 million tonnes of freight in 2013. Operations include RoRo- and container traffic, cruises, combi-traffic via rail, and oil and dry bulk terminals. CMP receives ships of all sizes and handles all types of freight, including consumer goods, grain, transit oil, vehicle fuel, cars, scrap metal and building materials. In its role as port operator, CMP unloads, loads and stores goods, but also works with different logistics services via road and rail.
Every year the ports in Copenhagen and Malmö receive about 8,000 ships. CMP is the Nordic region’s largest car port, handling more than 400,000 cars during 2013. Today Copenhagen is one of Europe’s largest cruise destinations, receiving 347 cruise ships with about 810,000 passengers from 150 different countries in 2013. There has been a high level of growth within cruises. In ten years, the number of passengers has increased from 173,000 to today’s 840,000. In recent years both Copenhagen and CMP have received awards for their cruise operations, for example, ”Europe’s Leading Cruise Port” on four occasions between 2008 and 2012. During 2013 a cruise operation was also established in Malmö, receiving about 32,000 passengers during the year.
Ferry and passenger services are also operated in both Copenhagen and Malmö. The major route is Copenhagen-Oslo. 738,000 passengers travelled between the two Nordic capitals during 2013. The other ferry line runs between Malmö and the German port of Travemünde with the number of passengers here amounting to around 65,000.
Background, history
CMP is a Nordic company based in two countries – Sweden and Denmark. The company is owned by the By og Havn I/S Development Corporation (50%), Malmö City (27%) and private investors (23%). CMP was formed through a merger of Copenhagen Port and Malmö Port – two operations with a port and maritime history extending back to the Middle Ages. The merger took place in 2001 when the 16 kilometre long Öresund Bridge between Copenhagen and Malmö was completed and the task of integrating the Öresund region got underway.
Regional hub
The central location in the Öresund region means that in a number of cases CMP acts as a hub for freight that is transported onward to the Baltic States, Russia and other parts of Northern Europe. In addition, CMP is a hub for intermediate storage of crude oil in the trade between Russia and countries including Australia and USA.
The hubs in the Öresund region are Copenhagen and Malmö. All in all the region comprises about four million consumers. Moreover, CMP is located at the threshold to the Baltic region with around 100 million consumers. The Baltic Sea is one of the oldest and busiest trade routes, accounting for some 15% of the world’s maritime transportation.
Investments
Approximately SEK 2.5 billion is being invested in new logistics and infrastructure solutions in Copenhagen and Malmö between 2010 and 2014. The investments are in freight and passenger terminals, quay installations and machinery, cranes and other infrastructure.
The largest project is Norra Hamnen in Malmö, which was opened in autumn 2011. Three terminals have been built, quintupling CMP’s freight capacity. The expansion is one of the largest infrastructure projects ever completed in the city, covering an area of 250,000 square metres. In the next stage, Malmö City and CMP will be jointly establishing Malmö Northern Harbour Industrial Park – a new industrial estate where companies within areas including manufacturing, processing and logistics services can establish themselves. The area is expected to be fully developed in the mid-2020s, at which time it will extend over 900,000 square metres.
Another major project is the new cruise quay in Copenhagen which was opened in May 2014. The quay is 1,100 metres long and has three terminal buildings. This will enable CMP to receive three cruise ships at the same time and handle up to 500 arrivals per year.
In conjunction with Copenhagen City Council and Malmö City Council, investments are also being made in access roads and other infrastructure in connection to the ports. Further investments are also being planned in Malmö – which is the largest rail hub in Southern Sweden – in railway traffic in order to provide even more capacity.
Core Port within the EU
Work is underway within the EU to create more effective and uniform corridors for transport of freight and passengers. This is being implemented through the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) initiative, which will be completed by 2030. As an element in TEN-T, 83 of the Union’s 1,200 or so ports have been designated as Core Ports. These are ports which, via their geographic location and modern infrastructure, have the greatest significance in the development of the new transport corridors.
During 2011, CMP’s facilities in both Copenhagen and Malmö were designated Core Ports. This makes it easier for CMP to obtain public support for investments and development projects, e.g. for interlinking rail and road communications or other infrastructure initiatives that will need to be implemented with more freight being handled in the company’s facilities in the future.