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WALLENIUS SOL TEXT: A REWRITE FROM THE ENABLER BY
JOEL ÅHLÉN-NYSTRÖM PHOTO KIMMO PERANEN, KARIN RÖSE STRONGER A Newly formed shipping company WALLENIUS SOL provides an infrastructural boost for the region around the Gulf of Bothnia and for the Swedish and Finnish forestry industries as a whole, as well as being beneficial for both of its founding partners, Wallenius Lines and Swedish Orient Line. lthough it was only launched in 2019, WALLENIUS SOL has already reached agreements with several major players in the forestry industry and is a key element in creating a new infrastructure in the Gulf of Bothnia. It all started ten years ago, when Ragnar Johansson, then newly appointed CEO of SOL (Svenska Orient Linien) North Europe Service, noticed the current state of transport services within the forestry industry. “When visiting Finnish Kotka, I saw two small RoRo vessels lying side by side. They both had products from the forestry industry in the hold and the same final 8 OUR WAY PARTNERSHIPS