LATVIA TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS SECTOR KASPARS OZOLIŅŠ State Secretary Ministry of Transport Republic of Latvia
LATVIA IN MULTIMODAL CORRIDORS
LATVIAN TRANSPORT SYSTEM Three ports: Riga, Ventspils, Liepaja Modern, ice free, Multipurpose ports Railways: 1520mm Developed specialized container trains to Central Asia Aviation: Riga airport- regional leader in aviation in Baltics Most developed air connections Road transport: Developed road infrastructure High professionality in road transport
LATVIAN TRANSPORT SYSTEM PORTS 64 mln tonns in 2016 RAILWAYS 47 mln tonns in 2016 GDP 9-10% transport and storage JOBS 75 thousand jobs
CARGO TURNOVER AT THE BALTIC PORTS IN 2016 LATVIA 63.1 mln.t ESTONIA LITHUANIA 49.4 mln.t Ventspils Liepaja Rīga LATVIA ESTONIA 26.4 mln.t LITHUANIA
FREEPORT AND SEZ STATUS Freeport and Special Economic Zone status provides for substantial tax reductions up to 55% of investments made: DIRECT TAXES Income tax 80% Real estate duty 80-100% INDIRECT TAXES Value added tax 100% Excise tax 100% Customs duty 100%
LATVIA EXISTING OPPORTUNITIES for container handling Noord Natie Ventspils Terminal Riga Universal Terminal Ventspils Terrabalt Riga Baltic Container Terminal Liepaja Riga Container Terminal
FREEPORT OF RIGA MAIN INFRASTRUCTURE FIGURES Total port area: 6 348 ha Land area: 1 962 ha Water area: 4 386 ha Available land: 445 ha Total berths length: 21 km Max. depth: 16.0 m Max. vessel draft: 15 m Total terminal cargo handling capacity: 63 mln.t/year
FREEPORT OF VENTSPILS MAIN INFRASTRUCTURE FIGURES Total port area: 2 623.9 ha Land area: 2 357.1 ha Water area: 265.9 ha Available land: 1 000 ha Total berths length: 11 km Max. depth: 17.0 m Max. vessel draft: 15.0 m Total terminal cargo handling capacity: 43 mln.t/year
LIEPAJA SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE (SEZ) MAIN INFRASTRUCTURE FIGURES Total port area: 1 182 ha Land area: 372 ha Water area: 810 ha Available land: 170 ha Total berths length: 8.17 km Max. depth: 12.0 m Max. vessel draft: 10.8 m Total terminal cargo handling capacity: 12.4 mln.t/year
SEA CONNECTIONS PORT OF RIGA PORT OF VENTSPILS PORT OF LIEPAJA Containerships Riga Teesport Thamesport - Rotterdam Zeebrugge - Lubeck - Helsinki St. Petersburg Klaipeda Aarhus UniFeeder Container Service Rotterdam Hamburg/Bremerhaven Riga Klaipeda-Gdynia/Gdansk X-PRESS container lines Riga - Ust-Luga Kotka Helsinki Tallinn - Hamburg Hapag-Lloyd AG Gdynia Klaipeda Riga Tallina Rauma Hamburg Bremerhaven Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) Antwerpen Bremerhaven Riga Tallinn Maersk Line / Seago Line Gdansk Bremerhaven- Hamburg Gdansk - Kaliningrad Riga Gdansk Tallink Riga Stockholm Other lines - OOCL, CSCL, Evergreen, etc. using services of common feeders Stena Line Nynäshamn-Ventspils-Nynäshamn Stena Line Travemünde Liepaja Travemünde
DISTRIBUTION IN BALTICS 48 hours distribution of goods to stores and retail chains in Northern Europe 26.4 million consumers Services: Transshipment Consolidation Repackaging of goods Customs clearance Storage of customs goods and EU goods Monitoring the status of cargo
RIGA A REGIONAL LEADER IN AVIATION Aviation a strategic industry for Latvia Pax growth (2004-2017): 1M 6M Geographic advantage / Hub-and-spoke strategy / Gateway to Single European Sky Infrastructure development Passengers Market share in the Baltics airbaltic Latvian national airline 7th largest Regional airline in Europe (according to «Airline Business») World`s most punctual airline in 2014 and 2015 (accorging to OAG aviation data monitors) Around 60 destinations New fleet - Bombardier CS 300 89 destinations 17 passenger lines
CARGO OPERATIONS AT RIGA AIRPORT 7 cargo airlines 4 warehouse operators 20+ thousand tonnes annually Cargo Market share in the Baltics cooperation with the "Latvian Post" in the field of e- commerce the first test flights from China freight transportation to Istanbul, Liege, Cologne, Leipzig, Warsaw, Vilnius, Kaunas and Stockholm the project of a cargo logistics center with an area of 10 000 m2
NORTHERN DISTRIBUTION NETWORK Launched in 2009 NDN has developed in to multimodal transport corridor using all transport modes: rail, road, air, and sea Most of cargo were shipped for the US to Afganistan Since 2010 road transport has been involved on regular bases Since 2012 air transport has been involved on regular bases RIGA Riga including port and airport as the main hub of the NDN Fully recognized by the US and NATO partners Total cargo volumes trasshipped by NDN reached 100 000 containers in June 2013
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