Nordicum - Real Estate Annual Finland 2011 | Page 48

Feeling the Flow
Tampere wants to change the face of logistics
Tampere Region serves as a testbed for an exciting new logistics concept.
Logiera – a brand new iniative of Tredea (Tampere Region Economic Devolopment Agency) –
seeks to do nothing more than revolutionise the flow of goods as we know it.

D

irector Jari Saarenpää from
Logiera says that the time
for innovative logistics thinking
is now – or Finland will lose its
momentum in the matter.
“In fact, Finland has been
fallen behind from the general
European development for the
past ten years,” he argues. Part
of the problem has been failure to think multimodal: logistics have been observed (and developed) mainly from the viewpoint of truck traffic. Rail operations do not get a rave review from Saarenpää either: he
points out that only five European countries are still hanging onto their railway monopolies and
Finland is one of t