Latvia as Transit Facility

Rīga, 20th September 2012

Martin Dale

Why Latvia ?

Latvia | A Quick Overview

Three major Ports

Four Container Terminals

Ventspils

Liepāja

Rīga

Four Ferry / Ro Ro Terminals

One major artery from Central Europe

Latvia | Geographic Advantage

Ideal for distributing to:

Kiev

Helsinki

Minsk

MoscowMoscow

St PetersburgHelsinki

StockholmTallinn Uzbekistan and

Kazakhstan

St Petersburg

Stockholm

Tallinn

Vilnius

Warsaw

Central Asia

Minsk

Kiev

Vilnius

Warsaw

Lviv

Latvia | Geographic advantage

Equally ideal costwise for

distribution to

Denmark

North Germany

Czech Republic

Slovakia

Switzerland

Austria

Italy

Hungary

Balkans etc etc

Latvia | The place for a DC or two....

Kuldiga

Jelgava Aizkraukle

Latvia – Crossing the border

There are several border cossing points

The two most used are

- GrebĦeva

- Terehova

GrebĦeva

Terehova

Latvia | Crossing the Border

Ubilinskiy

Ubilinskiy

Ventspils

Rīga

Liepāja

Ubilinskiy

Terehova

GrebĦeva

Sebež

Latvia | Crossing the Border

Crossing time varies from a few hours to two days

Complications mostly arise when documents are not prepared

correctly

Truckers are aware of the needs and rarely get to the border Truckers are aware of the needs and rarely get to the border

with incorrect documents – they check the docs before they

leave from the port or the distribution facility

Monitoring the queues is easy....

Please go to www.vid.gov.lv ...

Crossing the Border | Information 1. Click on EN

2. Click on

Customs

Crossing the Border | Information3. Click on

Truck Queues

on the border

4. View info

Rail & Central Asia | Baltica Transit

In addition to road, rail is also

used for on-carriage into Russia,

Belarus, Ukraine and Central Asia

The largest rail operator in Latvian

is LDz Cargo

Containers in Almaty

One of Latvia’s success

stories is the rail link to

Afghanistan for NATO

In the last three years

20,000 TEU have been

railed from Rīga on this

service

Rail to Central Asia | Baltica Transit

Another success story is the

Baltika Transit service from

Latvia to Central Asia

In 2012 this service will have carried

15,000teu15,000teu

The service is operated by FESCO

Latvia | Well connected

All deep sea carriers have either their own office or have local representation

in Latvia. The three major Japanese lines are represented by:

KL Shipping – Mr Einars Līdaks +371 29231211

TransOcean – Mr Ingmars Gusts + 371 26556596

Samskip – Mr Valters Preimanis + 371 29111191

Latvia | Service providers

Most of the Large International logistics service providers are present in Latvia

To name but a few:

Latvia | The place to be

Thank you !