A SHORTAGE of shipping containers has been plaguing the Finnish export industry where demand for containers for export goods surpasses supply coming from imports.
Factors limiting the availability include the balance of transit traffic and the Finnish-Russian road haulage agreement, reports state-owned YLE Finish Broadcasting Company.
"A major reason for the shortage in containers is that the Russian economy has not recovered at the same pace as that of Finland, which means that the containers moving from Finland to Russia outnumber those going in the other direction," it said.
According to Kimmo Naski, director of the Port of Kotka, there's another reason for the shortage: "A year and a half ago Finland implemented an excess weight fee on the road haulage of goods, which caused a significant amount of container traffic to move to other routes. This is an impediment to Finnish exports at this moment," he said in an interview on Finnish Morning TV.
Jari Groehn of the Logistics and Russia unit of the Ministry of Transport and Communications, believes the situation has been caused as a result of the road haulage agreement between Finland and Russia. Under the treaty, loads of more than 38 tonnes in transit traffic require special permission, and the payment of a fee.
The extra fee on overweight transport has prompted cargo to be routed through other countries, leading to fewer containers coming to Finland.
Source : HKSG, 06.09.10.
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