Regional Logistics Centres in Finland

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Regional Logistics Centres in Finland

• NeLoC Final Conference
• Mauno Koivisto Centre, BioCity, Turku
• Hannu Tikkala
• Oy Bothnia Logistic Centre Ltd
• Port of Kemi, Finland
• 15th January 2004

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• Location of
• Logistics Centres
• and LC projects
• in Finland.
• Note
• - the South / North
• - transport corridors
• - Russian transit

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• LC type, legal status and ownership

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• Finnish virtual
• and networking
• based LCs
• the definition of
• (physical) LC
• adopted in NeLoC

• Similarities with physical LC
• unites logistics activities
• various operators/companies
• combining transport modes
• national and international focus
• Differences
• dispersed located
• not always open for outsiders
• mostly public management
• not on a commercial basis

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• EUs northernmost
• Logistics Hub in
• Bothnian Arc,
• Kemi-Tornio region
• and in the
• City of Kemi

Bothnian Arc
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Kemi-Tornio Region

• Industrial concentration in Lapland
• Avesta/Outokumpu Stainless Plc in Tornio
• Stora-Enso Plc, Botnia Plc in Kemi
• 63.000 inhabitants
• High value added 24.135 EUR per capita
• Close co-operation with Haparanda, Sweden
• Starting point of transport route to Russia

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• Port of Kemi
• in the heart of Scandinavia
• serves NW Russia and North Calotte
• connected to major ports
• in Europe
• 3 Mio tons, 36.000 TEU
• Deepsea Port Ajos 2006
• year round service

www.portofkemi.fi
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BLCs mission

• Focus on SMEs public sector
• Co-marketing and international operations
• All transport modes
• Shift from road to sea
• Direct shipping for cargo heading to North
  Calotte or NW Russia/Murmansk area
• Filling up empty import containers
• Consulting and outsourced logistics

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BLCs resources

• The most comprehensive network, services and
  equipment of 20 logistics companies
• Truck fleet of 225 units, container facilities,
  terminal handling, groupage cargo, rail freight,
  value added logistics
• Daily trucking to/from South-Finland and to
  Norway and Sweden
• Warehouses in Sweden, Finland and Russia
• Linkage to logistics university science

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Barents area logistics

• By truck via Salla or by railway via Vartius
  (www.northlink.fi)
• 2 million inhabitants
• Oil gas, aluminium, iron, apatite, nickel etc.
  investments
• LogSa project to promote Barents corridor via
  Salla
• Increased interest since 2002

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NeLoCs support to BLC

• International networking opportunities
• Exchange of information
• Comparing concepts with other Centres
• Building new Supply Chains Routes
• Visits to ports and companies in the BSR
• Contact persons at the other end of shipping
  lines

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Service-based logistics

• Core factors in Service-based industry
• Technology
• Knowledge
• Relationship networks (Chapman, Soosay
  Kandampully 2003)

• NeLoC response in improving logistics services
• ICT solutions for SMEs (WP3)
• Information exchange, business concepts,
  transport
• corridors (WP1)
• Networking, LC Forum, best practices (WP2)

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Innovative logistics
www.blckemi.com

• Thank
• you for
• your
• Attention
• Turku 15.1.2004
• Hannu Tikkala