Excellent transport links and logistics
Unique location
- Some 90 million people live within a 1,000-kilometre radius of Turku
- The logistics sector offers employment to some 16,000 staff across 2,600 businesses
- Excellent road links: It is connected by the E18 motorway to Helsinki and St Petersburg, Highway 9 to Tampere and Highway 8 to the north
- Finland’s leading LCL hub: The ports of Turku and Naantali
- The airport is just 10 minutes from the city centre.
- TNT, DHL and UPS are based at Turku airport and offer international express air freight services.
- Other logistics companies based in the area include Posten Logistik, Schenker, Kaukokiito, TNT, DHL, UPS, Viking Line, TallinkSilja, DSV Cargo, VR Transpoint, Mann Lines and Meriaura.
The Turku region benefits from an excellent strategic position in relation to markets in Scandinavia, northern Europe, Russia and China. Turku forms part of some of northern Europe’s most important transport routes, including the Nordic triangle transport axis, connecting the Nordic capitals and St Petersburg.
The region offers the best freight links between Finland and Scandinavia. A number of services depart from the area daily for Stockholm and Sweden’s most densely populated areas are a maximum of 24hrs away from Turku.
The Turku region is the north’s multimodal transport hub.
LogiCity, close to Turku Airport, brings together different transport modalities to form an integrated service offer-ing. Air, road and rail links are additionally complemented by the ports at Turku and Naantali. Just 15 minutes away, both offer a fast route by sea to Sweden. The area’s strengths as an air freight hub are the fast service offered by the efficiently organised airport as well as flexible opportunities for expansion.
In addition to its excellent location, the region offers a further logistical advantage that larger cities simply cannot compete with: there are no traffic jams. This is what makes the Turku region such an excellent bridgehead be-tween the expanding markets in the east and west.
Finland’s leading LCL provider
The ports at Turku and Naantali are Finland’s leading Less-Than-Container Load service provider. The Port of Turku specialises in large unit traffic. The port offers regular connections to nearly 20 destinations in Europe. The most frequent service is to Stockholm, with close to ten ferry services each day. The Port of Naantali has seen rapid growth and estab-lished itself as a significant industrial port. It has a long-standing reputation as a liquid and dry bulk port but has recently positioned itself as a key large unit tra¤ c port.