Twenty years ago today, the world’s first trans-oceanic transport of wood pellets to their destinations—a shipment of goods from a mainland wood grain producer arrived at a public terminal on another continent’s energy customers and started unloading on April 6, 1998. .
The Öresundskraft Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant in the port of Helsingborg, Sweden. The A-frame at the seaside has approximately 15,000 tons of particles. More specifically, 15,000 tons of cargo from Canadian particle producer Pacific Bio Energy Company was shipped from British Columbia (BC) by the cargo vessel "Mandarin Moon". The ship was said to have arrived in Sweden on April 6, 1998. Thermal power plant of the municipal energy company Öresundskraft in the port of Helsingborg.
As they say, the rest is just as we know of the history – particles were transported by larger cargo ships, from North America to Europe and Southeast Asia. In addition, power companies began to have their own pellet production plants, and some pellet producers have grown large In the end, in order to achieve this goal, Graanul Invest became the first particle producer to purchase a ship to transport its own pellets.
The story about this groundbreaking trade is best told by the man behind the transaction - in part accompanied by an update, because longer versions tend to be more entertaining and thought provoking. However, it turns out that particles can Through ocean transport, it enters other larger industrial markets, thus driving producers to further expand and build larger factories.
In short, it marks the beginning of what we see today in the global industrial pellet industry, which develops in parallel with local markets and regional pellet producers, usually the seasonal residential heating market.
As the founder of Pacific Bio Energy, it is now a member of the FutureMetrics team. John Swaan is a person we want to ask. For example, after the upcoming particle industry meeting, it is even more ideal for global particle markets and trade flows. After the meeting, please remember that there may not be any grain trade conferences, let alone the global particle industry, just as today's milestone events did not occur 20 years ago.
John Swaan shared his experience and expertise at the particle conference in Sweden and was recognized as one of the leading experts in the wood pellet industry. In 1994, he founded Pacific Bio Energy Corporation in Prince George, British Columbia. Become one of Canada's leading exporters of wood pellets. He founded the Canadian Wood Particle Association (WPAC) in 1996 and served as an executive director from 2005 to 2009. He manufactured and loaded the transatlantic for the first time from North America to Sweden. Particle transportation.
By the way, Pacific Bio Energy still produces pellets, although people may suspect Sumitomo Corporation's stake in the company, most of the production is ultimately transported westward through the Pacific to Far East. Öresundetskraft still uses and imports pellets, although transport Often from the Baltic Sea, not the Atlantic Ocean.
People want to know what landmark events will happen in the particle industry in the next decade - Particles will be shipped from Europe to China through the Silk Road (railway).
