


loading quay for iron ore. The harbour was inaugurated in 1996, and new technology and efficient equipment are used to complete the whole handling process, from the unloading of ore trains (the trains are unloaded in motion and it takes about 40 minutes to unload a set of 52 waggons) to the loading of a ship. With a ship loader, whose maximum capacity is 3,000 tons per hour, more than four million tons of ore are loaded onto ships and barges annually. Terms of Piloting for vessels arriving and departure the Port of Luleå