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Project “Baltic Loop” Dialogues Between Different Transportation Project “Baltic Loop” Dialogues Between Different Transportation Actors Deliverable: 5.4.1. Final report - Collected operators’ opinions along corridors Deliverable: 5.8.1. Practical solutions – Tools for better delivery and passenger transport. WP5 / Activity 5.4.& Activity 5.8./ Deliverable: 5.4.1. Final report - Collected operators’ April/2021 opinions along corridors & Deliverable: 5.8.1. Practical solutions – Tools for better delivery and passenger transport. Authors: Region Örebro County Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) Åbo Academy University (AAU) Riga Planning Region Vidzeme Planning Region Ventspils High Technology Park Union of Harju County Municipalities SIA Ardenis April 2021 Legal notice The sole responsibility for the content of this publication lies with the authors. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union. Neither the Interreg Central Baltic programme nor the European Commission is responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be translated, reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, re-cording or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher. 2 WP5/Guidelines for future cooperation www.balticloop.eu WP5 / Activity 5.4.& Activity 5.8./ Deliverable: 5.4.1. Final report - Collected operators’ April/2021 opinions along corridors & Deliverable: 5.8.1. Practical solutions – Tools for better delivery and passenger transport. Table of Contents Table of Contents ....................................................................................................... 3 Table of Figures .......................................................................................................... 6 Terms and abbreviations ............................................................................................ 7 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 8 Overview of Activities ............................................................................................... 10 Baltic Loop stakeholders........................................................................................... 17 The context for the Baltic Loop partner countries ..................................................... 21 Main findings: Cooperation issues ............................................................................ 25 Latvia ..................................................................................................................... 26 Sweden ................................................................................................................. 36 Chamber of Commerce Mälardalen .................................................................. 37 Region Örebro County....................................................................................... 38 Business Region Örebro (BRO) ........................................................................ 39 Port of Stockholm and Mälarhamnar ................................................................. 40 Oslo-Stockholm 2.55 AB ................................................................................... 41 Finland .................................................................................................................. 42 Estonia .................................................................................................................. 44 Stakeholder discussion recommendations ............................................................... 47 Latvia ..................................................................................................................... 48 Cooperation for development of long-term integrated concepts and implementation of sustainable urban mobility planning (SUMP) approach ........ 48 Development of cooperation with science, research and education .................. 49 Building collaborative platforms ......................................................................... 49 3 WP5/Guidelines for future cooperation www.balticloop.eu WP5 / Activity 5.4.& Activity 5.8./ Deliverable: 5.4.1. Final report - Collected operators’ April/2021 opinions along corridors & Deliverable: 5.8.1. Practical solutions – Tools for better delivery and passenger transport. Stakeholder cooperation in the Riga City and metropolitan area ....................... 51 Improving the quality of communication and cooperation .................................. 52 Cooperation to protect their national, regional or local interests ........................ 53 Issues at national level ...................................................................................... 53 Understanding of the transport corridor and systematic services provision in the corridor .............................................................................................................. 54 Cooperation in individual major projects or initiatives at national level .............. 54 Use of strengths ................................................................................................ 55 Sweden ................................................................................................................. 56 Mälardalen Chamber of Commerce .................................................................. 56 Stockholm-Oslo 2.55 ......................................................................................... 56 Finland .................................................................................................................. 57 Estonia .................................................................................................................. 58 General long-term collaboration issues ............................................................. 58 Digitalization and other incentives for logistics sector........................................ 59 Estonian Northern railway corridor improvements ............................................. 59 Further food for thought ..................................................................................... 60 Theoretical aspects of stakeholder dialogue............................................................. 61 Good examples of partner cooperation in transport sector ....................................... 68 Latvia ..................................................................................................................... 68 Riga Metropolitan Area Mobility Spatial Vision .................................................. 68 Via Hanseatica tourism and transport corridor development vision 2030 .......... 70 Ventspils High Technology Park cooperation with ports and terminals ............. 72 Finland .................................................................................................................. 74 4 WP5/Guidelines for future cooperation www.balticloop.eu WP5 / Activity 5.4.& Activity 5.8./ Deliverable: 5.4.1. Final report - Collected operators’ April/2021 opinions along corridors & Deliverable: 5.8.1. Practical solutions – Tools for better delivery and passenger transport. New consortiums to proceed large infrastructure projects that are outside Ministry based budget ..................................................................................................... 74 The Northern Growth Zone ................................................................................ 76 Joint terminal project in the Port of Turku .......................................................... 78 Sweden ................................................................................................................. 80 Mälarpendeln – cooperation between Port of Stockholm, Hutchison Ports Stockholm, Mälarhamnar and Wallenius Marine ............................................... 80 Estonia .................................................................................................................. 82 Tallinn – Harju mobility council .......................................................................... 82 A People First approach to increase equity in public transit stops in Harju County .......................................................................................................................... 85 Joint conclusions and recommendations .................................................................. 87 Literature references ................................................................................................ 92 5 WP5/Guidelines for future cooperation www.balticloop.eu WP5 / Activity 5.4.& Activity 5.8./ Deliverable: 5.4.1. Final report - Collected operators’ April/2021 opinions along corridors & Deliverable: 5.8.1. Practical solutions – Tools for better delivery and passenger transport. Table of Figures Figure 1 Stakeholder meeting in Riga on September 22, 2020 ................................ 14 Figure 2. Example of the international section of the cooperation platform .............. 16 Figure 3. Stakeholder representation by legal form and country .............................. 18 Figure 4. Stakeholders by the corridor of operations ................................................ 19 Figure 5. Stakeholders’ work area by country ........................................................... 20 Figure 6. Logistics performance index in the Baltic Loop partner countries (2018) .. 23 Figure 7. Stakeholder consultation model. ..............................................................
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