Soome-Eesti keelesild XXI sajandil

Is Estonian transit sector in trouble after the EU accession and sanctions against Russia? A qualitative study of transit flows

“…Furthermore, some politicians have argued that due to a missing national transit policy, a significant part of potential delivery capacities were transferred to Finland and Latvia (see Korb, 2016). This statement stems from a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers from 2014, stressing that based on the World Bank's logistics performance index, Estonia does not have significant qualitative advantages vis-à-vis Latvia and Finland, as far as the main logistics components such as customs, infrastructure, international shipments, logistics competence, tracking and tracing, and timeliness are concerned (Tender & Kalmer, 2014). Another study of PricewaterhouseCoopers (2017) states that Estonia has lost trade volume while at the same time, its neighbouring countries have benefited from an increase in global trade volumes and that the competitiveness of Estonia as a transit corridor is relatively weak due to high prices (see Logistika et al, 2017).…”

“…A qualitative survey was conducted among Estonian companies operating in the economic transit sector and among the local policy experts. The dynamics of economic transit flows in Estonia has been investigated in several other studies, like Pukk (2011), Pukk et al (2014), Tender and Kalmer (2014) or Lend et al (2008); however, the current study differs from these studies in its systematic approach to all potential factors that could have affected Estonia's economic transit in various periods. Next to that, other studies do not include any qualitative surveys about the views of local entrepreneurs and policy analysts on that matter.…”