The Baltic Republic of Estonia has a small territory, but it has good transit transport capacity and unique geographical advantages, and is the shortest route to major Russian cities Moscow and St. Petersburg and Helsinki, Finland. Compared with Russia, the natural conditions of Estonian ports are more ideal, and they are ice-free ports.
The biggest advantage of Tallinn Port is not congestion.
The biggest advantage of Tallinn Port, a national foreign trade port, is that it is not congested. * * * manages five ports, one of which is Muga Port in Muga Bay, which is the main transit port of Estonia. Radiated from Tallinn Port through the network of roads, railways and waterways, the population that can cover the market area within 24 hours, 48 hours and 72 hours is 50 million, 654.38 billion and 450 million respectively. The port is smoothly connected with the developed expressway and railway network around it, and the expressway and railway network in Estonia can extend in three directions: east, west and south. There is a fixed container train set between Muga Port and Moscow. Estonian railways and Russian railways have the same gauge, which is 1520mm.
Transportation plays an important role in Estonia's economy, and its contribution rate to GDP is 10%. Developed public transport is undoubtedly an important part of it. In the face of fierce market competition, Estonian logistics and transportation enterprises strive to improve their service quality, which has reached the service standards of western European countries, and their transportation capacity still has great development potential. Many European and international logistics companies do business in Estonia. The national infrastructure is perfect, and large state-owned transportation enterprises include Tallinn Port, Tallinn Airport and Estonian Railway Company.
Estonia has opened three free trade zones, which are located in Muga Port, Silame Port and varga City near the Estonian-Latvian border. There is no need to go through customs formalities in the free trade zone, and the goods transfer procedures are simple.
From 2006 to 20 10, a large amount of investment in Tallinn Port will be used for infrastructure construction in Mujia Port. The main investments include the expansion of the eastern part of Mujia Port and the development and construction of Mujia Industrial Park. Many European intermodal ports have no land to develop and utilize, but Tallinn Port still has land to build a large-scale logistics hub.
Hong Kong enterprises can transit Northern Europe.
Foreign trade enterprises in Hong Kong can export textiles, sportswear, electronic products and other consumer goods to northern Europe and Russia through Estonia as a transit channel, and import rubber, machinery, paper and pulp, metal and plastic products from these areas. The European Commission will lift the quota restrictions on China's textile imports at the end of 2007, which is undoubtedly good news for China and the European Union.
The long-term goal of Tallinn Port is to open a direct container liner route with China Port. The opening of this route will change the supply chain structure and bring new business opportunities to China, Northern Europe and Russian businesses. At the same time, the freight transportation time between China, Northern Europe and Russia will be shortened from the current 45 days to 28 days, and the transportation cost will be reduced accordingly. This new route has great development potential. According to the analysis of the Swedish Maritime Society, the port tax charged by Tallinn Port for container ships has a great competitive advantage among ports in the Baltic region. Estonian railways charge only half the tariffs of competitors such as Russian railways.