The region is connected by the Øresund Bridge, which spans the strait at its southern end, and the HH Ferry route between Helsingør, Denmark and Helsingborg, Sweden.

Most ships en route between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea/Atlantic pass through the ports, making the Øresund one of the world's busiest sounds.

The central location in the Øresund Region means that in a number of cases CMP acts as a hub for freight that is transported onward to the Baltic States, Russia and other parts of Northern Europe.

[3] In addition, CMP is a hub for intermediate storage of crude oil in the trade between Russia and countries including Australia and United States.

CMP receives ships of all sizes and handles all types of freight, including consumer goods, grain, liquid bulk, cars, scrap metal and building materials.

[4] In its role as port operator, CMP unloads, loads and stores goods, but also works with different logistics services via road and rail.

[9] CMP has six car terminals covering a total of 800,000 square metres (8,600,000 sq ft) and four PDI centres to service them.

Further investments are also being planned in Malmö – which is the largest rail hub in Southern Sweden – in railway traffic in order to provide even more capacity.