FLOU

The Saimaa Canal provides a direct waterway connection from the sea and inland waterway ports of Central Europe to numerous inland cities in Finland, all the way to Joensuu and Siilinjärvi. The canal is most frequently used by the forest industry of Southeastern Finland, which uses the canal for both the import of raw timber […]

The development of the transport system is known to affect e.g. labour availability and transport costs, but it also has an impact on the dissemination of know-how and the specialization of subcontracting chains through agglomeration. Agglomeration refers to the regional concentration of economic activity. Agglomeration is based on micro-level factors related to the operations of […]