Nordicum - Real Estate Annual Finland 2010 | Page 55

ers are also settling in at LogiCity, reports Ari Niemelä, Managing Director of Pilot Turku.
LogiCity is rooted on multimodality – Turku is a significant European traffic hub, with
great connections via land (both
road and rail), air and sea. With
all the relevant logistics tools in
its disposal, LogiCity is on its
way to great things:
”A competitive operative
environment will be created at
LogiCity, from the point of view
of the logistics services offering
and also those companies who
deploy logistics in a key role in
their activities,” Niemelä says,
adding that there will be room in
the area also for various players

of assembly industries who are
seeking additional value from a
multimodal environment.
Niemelä adds that the core
operations of the logistics hub
also receive plenty of support
from all sides. There are, for
instance, new operative models
in the labour sector, targeted at
making sure that the new logistical entity has all the hands and
brains it needs.
”Making allowances for
RFID technology already in
the infrastructure construction
phase – and the actual remote
identification service production – is bringing additional
value into the area, and boosting national profile, even.” The

role of RFID will be fine-tuned
in the beginning of 2010.

Air Supremacy
Talking about the air cargo, the
focus is very much on the longdistance connections between
Europe and Asia, as well as between the Old Continent and
North America. According to
Niemelä, the idea is to link air
cargo handling and distribution
with the management of traffic
flow going through the ports
of Turku and Naantali (mostly bound for Scandinavia and
Russia).
“With regards to air cargo,
both TNT and DHL have made

investments in Turku so we have
a good platform for future development.” )