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Jun 07, 2016 (newstodate): While all three Baltic countries are vying for a role in China's e-commerce logistics to Europe, Estonia seems to be marching ahead of its competitors.
Already in September 2015, the Estonian state-owned postal company Omniva signed a LoI with SF Express to bring Chinese e-commerce goods into Tallinn Airport for onward distribution. And things have developed since then.
-We are now cooperating within a joint venture, Post11, and are already seeing a weekly freighter service from China into Tallinn, says Gunnar Aru, Post11 CEO and serving with Schenker for many years before this latest assignment.
-China's e-commerce is a huge business and many parties are eyeing a share in this, hoping to become a logistics corridor to distribution of shipments to markets in East, West and Central Europe.
-We are certainly also keen to develop Chinese e-trade logistics to markets like Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, but we would not want to have all eggs in one basket so we are equally looking into West and Central Europe. This requires a lot of serious homework - but we are definitely quite well prepared.
-Our partner is SF Express but we are not yet seeing freighters from SF Airlines that is still mainly serving domestic routes in China. Instead, SF Airlines has sub-contracted these operations to various cargo charter carriers, primarily from Russia.
-We provide the handling of the incoming shipments at our own terminal and are aiming at opening a bonded warehouse adjacent to this terminal to further develop our services also comprising onward transport solutions by road feeders or transfer flights where capacity is available from Tallinn Airport, says Mr Aru.
Already in September 2015, the Estonian state-owned postal company Omniva signed a LoI with SF Express to bring Chinese e-commerce goods into Tallinn Airport for onward distribution. And things have developed since then.
-We are now cooperating within a joint venture, Post11, and are already seeing a weekly freighter service from China into Tallinn, says Gunnar Aru, Post11 CEO and serving with Schenker for many years before this latest assignment.
-China's e-commerce is a huge business and many parties are eyeing a share in this, hoping to become a logistics corridor to distribution of shipments to markets in East, West and Central Europe.
-We are certainly also keen to develop Chinese e-trade logistics to markets like Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, but we would not want to have all eggs in one basket so we are equally looking into West and Central Europe. This requires a lot of serious homework - but we are definitely quite well prepared.
-Our partner is SF Express but we are not yet seeing freighters from SF Airlines that is still mainly serving domestic routes in China. Instead, SF Airlines has sub-contracted these operations to various cargo charter carriers, primarily from Russia.
-We provide the handling of the incoming shipments at our own terminal and are aiming at opening a bonded warehouse adjacent to this terminal to further develop our services also comprising onward transport solutions by road feeders or transfer flights where capacity is available from Tallinn Airport, says Mr Aru.