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Services

PORT OF PITEÅ is a landlord port. Our responibility is to maintain infrastructure such as warehouses, quay and the rest of the port area in good condition. Our responsibility also includes marking of waterways. Together with our business partners our aim is to provide cost efficient and effective solutions to our customers´ various needs of sea transport and connecting services and storage facilities.

The port of Piteå/Haraholmen handles mainly forestry products and the most important customers are well known producers of paper products and sawn timber who sell their products on an international market. Important export goods are Kraft Liner, Wood Pulp and sawn timber which are shipped to destinations in Germany, Holland, England, South America and North Africa. The import supply of pulp wood and chips from the Baltic region and South America is also an important part of the port logistic chain.
 
We present some of the services which are offered at the port of Piteå;

Storage of goods


 
Port of Piteå offers storage of different kinds of goods within the port area (see map of port area under headline Infrastructure). Present customers are mainly producers of paper, paper pulp and sawn timber.

Stevedoring


 
Bottenvikens Stuveri AB handles all dry goods in the port area. Their head office is in Piteå but they also handle goods in the ports of Kalix, Luleå and Skellefteå. The Piteå district add up to almost half the mother company´s turnover, but the volume of goods handled in Piteå only amount to one forth of the total volume. The numbers of employees are 140, of which 85 work year-around at the district of Piteå.
For more information go to www.bottenvikens-stuveri.se
 

Pilotage


Pilotage
 
Vessels with a length of 90 metres or more or with a width of 16 metres or more, are subject to being piloted when entering the port. Pilot is ordered via VTS (Vessel Traffic Services) in Luleå. The startingpoint of piloting vessels bound to Piteå is Skelleftehamn and boarding take place at Gåsören outside of Skellefteå.
Ordering of pilotage

 

Tugboats


Tugboat
 
The Port has no tugboats of their own, tugboats from Luleå Bogserbåts AB is rented when needed. If tugboats are needed at arrival as well as departure these can be ordered from Luleå at the expenses on the vessel or the shipping company.

Icebreaking


Icebreaking
 
During harsh winter conditions the ice-breaking tugboat T/B VALKYRIA is chartered. From January until mid-April T/B VALKYRIA breaks ice from Port of Piteå to lighthouse Lerskär where the Swedish Maritime icebreaking fleet takes over the responsibility to maintain safe winter seaways.

Clearance and shipping services

Bay of Bothnia Grundberg Shipping AB
Box 716
941 32 Piteå
Phone: 0911-23 22 30
Fax: 0911-23 22 35
e-mail: info@grundshippitea.se
Visiting adress : Sjöfartshuset, Haraholmen 
 
Cetonia Shipping AB
Box 255
941 32 Piteå
Phone: 0911-180 20
Fax: 0911-184 83
e-mail: info@cetonia.se
Visiting adress: Västergatan 11