New Swedish Port Terminal Prepares to Take Off

Thales undertook a comprehensive programme of measurements in difficult conditions, helping to gain a greater understanding of the hydrodynamic regime offshore Essex. The oceanographic data collected will be used to assist in MV Arie Dirk the design of windfarm structures and to determine the movement of sediment across Gunfleet Sand.

Current deployment in Malmö – part of the port complex of Copenhagen-Malmö (CMP) at both ends of the Oresund bridge/tunnel link across the Baltic – is 5,000 vehicles. That will double in October when the facility starts to serve Finland and Norway as well as Denmark and Sweden. Total annual capacity is put at more than 100,000 cars.

The new terminal handles cars from Japan, Britain, France and Turkey, and, from 2005 on, from a new factory in the Czech Republic When fully developed,