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Container Transport Direct Call ‐ Logistic Solution To Container Transport Via Estonia
Container transport in the world grows up to 12 % every year. Chinese container transport contributes
majority of container fl ows in international container transport. Many world seaports compete for Chinese container
fl ows and make eff orts to get investments and direct calls from China to their ports. Estonia has a possibility to decrease its
large dependence and risks due to the transit of oil and oil products and coal with the help of container fl ows from China.
In addition to a favorable geographical location Estonia has several other important arguments, like suffi cient land in the
harbours for developing a container terminal to launch extensive container transport transit from China. Port of St. Petersburg,
container transport port closest to Estonia by the Baltic Sea, is overloaded. Estonia can compete for container fl ows
directed to Moscow, Nizhniy Novgorod, Kazan and Kaluga. Construction of an international high-tech container terminal
in Port of Tallinn serves as one important precondition for directing Russian transit container fl ows through Estonia.
Such a container terminal could service also larger vessels and container fl ows from China. Container lines and container
terminals operating as alliances are jointly able to substantially increase container fl ows through countries.