Baltic Loop

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The Baltic Sea region is one of the focal points of the world. An area of fast growth, it is a key market of some 100 million consumers. The Baltic Sea region has great potential for structural change and economic growth. The Baltic Loop project focuses on developing solutions to transportation bottlenecks along the East-West corridors to smoothen the transportation flows. Project covers three separate corridors; northern from Örebro – Turku – St. Petersburg, middle from Örebro – Tallin – St.Petersburg and southern from Örebro – Riga – St. Petersburg. The main goal is to minimize travelling and cargo time in corridors. These corridors have to develop to make them more attractive to new business and innovations by reducing traveling and cargo time. In the project new knowledge is deliverable to public and private sector actors. The project tackles the bottlenecks and hindrances in timesaving along the corridors through four themes: 1) the technical and 2) non-technical time saving solutions 3) new business models for smart and sustainable hubs 4) dialog between transportation actors along the corridors. The main result is shortened transportation and traveling time and decreased emissions in these three corridors. The sub-results of the project are as follows: 1) improved competitiveness due to the more efficient transport flow, 2) the efficiency is achieved by improved delivery and terminal operations, which results in a shortened time of good delivery to the retailer or client. 3) reduced traveling time 4) improved passenger accessibility to corridors from hinterland with linking to technical solutions.

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