Growing Trade, But Slowing Unitized Short Sea Shipping: Analysing Finland and Germany

Abstract

In this research is being analyzed trade relationship and unitized maritime cargo between Germany and Finland. Focus in longitudinal analysis (2001-2017) is on maritime transport, and particularly within the development of different Finnish sea ports in unitized German cargo handling. Trade has been significantly growing over the decades and is on record highs in the most recent year (2017). Germany has also become largest trade partner of Finland. However, after 2003 trade bas been on growing deficit path, and is currently more than one billion deficits for Finland. Rather surprisingly, unitized cargo flows are not growing as much as trade suggests. Still best years are from time before Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Some sea ports in Southwest of Finland have been on clear declining path, while largest sea ports could be considered as somehow sustaining in volumes. Growth is on some smaller and mid-sized sea ports, which have direct regional need for German trade. Hinterland transports through Baltic States must have taken share of direct maritime transports from Finnish sea ports.

Instruments Used in Short Sea Shipping Research between 2002 and 2019

“…The fourth research area involves energy efficiency, emission and environmental issue and protection ( [123], [61], [116], [40], [70], [125], [116], [52], [47], [121], [58], [55], [106], [49], [48], [67], [53], [23], and [133].This is followed by ports and transport system efficiency, cargo operations, inventory management, competitive SSS technology and ICT. ( [137], [57], [33], [22], [41], [135], [108], [76], [28], [104], [83], [45], [100], [1], [114], [129], [26], [98], [31], [95], [107], as well as [56].…”

“…Through this instrument, [46] investigated the growing trade of unitized SSS for Germany and Finland and this study discovered that development of centralized maritime freight flow has faced complications after Global Financial Crisis between Finland and Germany.…”

Cost Effectiveness Analysis in Short Sea Shipping: Evidence from Northeast Asian Routes

“…Whereas a voluminous body of research in the relevant field has dealt with the European SSS market [3][4][5][6][7][8], this study focuses on the Northeast Asian region. The significance of the cost-effective analysis on the Asian SSS market is twofold.…”