“Considering the fact that the east-west transit is over due to the activities of the eastern neighbor and there will be no north-south transit before the completion of Rail Baltica, as of today we are living in the most negative scenario out of the four that we prepared 10 years ago, i.e. in a logistical dead end,” stated Janek Saareoks, Business Manager for Northern and Eastern Europe of DB Schenker.
10 years ago, the Estonian Logistics and Forwarding Association (ELEA) together with Erik Terk, the then head of the logistics cluster and Tallinn University’s Institute for Future Studies, organized a discussion in the Tallinn TV tower, during which four possible future scenarios of the Estonian logistics sector by 2030 emerged and which was titled as follows: “Light blue HUB”, “The Northern Silk Road”, “The Scenario of a Cautious Man” and “Life in a Logistic Impasse.”
The first of them is the most optimistic and the last is the most pessimistic. Janek Saareoks, Business Manager for Northern and Eastern Europe of DB Schenker, who took part in the discussion at the time, admitted in the “Logistics News on Air” program that today we are forced to accept the most negative scenario, but if Rail Baltica is ready, we could also achieve the “Cautionary Man’s Scenario” by acting wisely, in which there is no east-west transit, but north-south transit works, and Muuga port would be a kind of HUB for Finnish goods.
“Of course, we cannot expect Finns to come to our railway at any price. As a country, we have to work hard and act wisely so that this corridor becomes attractive to our northern neighbors with multimodal transport solutions and attractive destinations,” said Saareoks, primarily referring to the railway corridor to the Adriatic and Mediterranean ports, and of course also to Ukraine and the Black Sea ports.
“Already today we see huge interest in investing in Ukraine, and once the war ends, Rail Baltica will undoubtedly become one of the most important trade corridors connecting this region with Scandinavia,” said Saareoks.
Of course, the presenter Tõnu Tramm did not fail to ask what Janek Saareoks, who started working in DB Schenker’s Polish office at the beginning of the year, does more precisely, and what he thinks about the fact that Schenker was recently sold to Denmark’s DSV.
The show “Logistikaudides eteris” is supported by Digimeerik.ee.
Business manager of a logistics company: we are largely in a logistical dead end in Estonia
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