LKAB has been a part of Narvik for over 120 years. The ice-free port and the important operations here mean that we can ship our products to customers all over the world all year round. Every year, around 20 million tonnes of iron ore products pass through the port of Narvik.
LKAB accounts for 80 percent of all iron ore mined in the EU, and the vast majority is delivered via the Iron Ore Railway and the port of Narvik.
Narvik is a central part of our logistics. As the trains roll in and the ships dock, the mine is connected to the global market. Every day, ten train sets arrive from Kiruna and Svappavaara, pulled by IORE locomotives with a capacity to pull 68 wagons – a total of 8,000 tons per set. The wagons are emptied into one of our twelve underground silos, with a storage capacity of 1.5 million tons. A quality check is always carried out before loading, and depending on the ship, the loading itself takes between 12 and 48 hours.
Thanks to the Gulf Stream, the port of Narvik is ice-free all year round. Every year, over 300 ships dock here – around 200 of these are loaded with LKAB’s products, while the rest deliver additives that are transported by train to our production in Kiruna.
