Dec 19, 2011. /Lesprom Network/. SCA Transforest is expanding its container traffic between northern Sweden, Rotterdam and Stockholm, and will now be calling at St. Petersburg, Russia. The frequency will increase to one call per week on fixed days, as the company said in a press release received by Lesprom Network. The new route is the result of collaboration between SCA Transforest and the Russian shipping company Delta Shipping Lines. Each company will operate one vessel on the route Umeå – Sundsvall – Rotterdam – Stockholm – St. Petersburg. “St. Petersburg and Stockholm are dynamic regions generating large and increasing volumes of incoming container goods,” says Magnus Svensson, President of SCA Transforest. “These are destinations of increasing importance for SCA, but this joint venture also increases the competitiveness of all industry in Northern Sweden, by providing efficient container transports between Northern Sweden, the European continent and overseas destinations.” SCA Transforest started container traffic between Umeå, Sundsvall and Rotterdam as early as the end of the 1990s, and since then the size of vessels, the frequency and the number of calls has steadily increased. ”Many goods are transported between northern Sweden and Gothenburg on lorries or on overloaded railways,” says Nils-Johan Haraldsson, VP Marketing and Business Development at SCA Transforest. “We want to offer a reliable and environmental-friendly transport alternative with a cost and service level that makes it the obvious choice for industry and businesses in northern Sweden.” The first vessel to St. Petersburg leaves Rotterdam on January 5th and Stockholm on January 8th.