Port business community marks 35th “Sprottenback” Kiel - The 2017 annual Port of Kiel Prize has been awarded to Jörn Grage, Managing Director of SCA Logistics GmbH. The award was presented on Thursday evening, September 14th, by Dr Dirk Claus, Managing Director of the PORT OF KIEL (SEEHAFEN KIEL GmbH & Co. KG) as part of celebrations to mark the “Sprottenback” – the traditional annual social get-together of companies in the port business community. In a speech honouring the Port Prize recipient, Dirk Claus said: “Jörn Grage has, because of his own personal commitment, made a major contribution to the establishment in Kiel of the new SCA Logistics Terminal. The port can now boast two leading global forest product partners - SCA and Iggesund Paperboard.” So far this year, more than 500,000 tons of high-value paper products have already been processed and stored in the new Logistics Terminal, which was opened in November 2016 in the Ostuferhafen.”Paper products”, said Dirk Claus, “have added a further mainstay to Kiel port business and given us growth which is sustainable. Along with the visible investment made in terminal facilities, the expansion of logistic competence on site is also significant.”  The new SCA Terminal was erected on a site of well over 16 hectares in the northern sector of the Ostuferhafen and has a hall storage area of more than 50,000 m². A total of 25 million Euros were invested and 80 new jobs created. “I am very pleased indeed to be awarded the Port Prize”, said Jörn Grage. “The new terminal is tailor-made to our requirements and from a geographical point of view is an ideally-located distribution point for our customers. In addition, good co-operation with the PORT OF KIEL guarantees trouble-free handling of ship arrivals.”  SCA cargo ships call at the Ostuferhafen twice a week from Sundsvall in northern Sweden and offload up to 160 pallets of paper products each trip. Products range from cellulose through newsprint to kraftliners and cartonage products for high-quality packaging - all destined for the German and European markets. In addition overseas containers are packed for shipment out of Hamburg to the Far East. On the return journeys to the Swedish east coast, the SCA ships carry a range of cargo such as vehicles, breakbulk, steel or materials for recycling.