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№ 1/2015 (63), JANUARY/FEBRUARY

Another lap in the Baltic race

Low, but stable

Innovation for transport

2014 Baltic affairs

Baltic shipyards' performance

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Baltic Ports Organization44 Building the Bothnian bridge

– Kvarken Ports join BPo45 the proper time for evolution

– sea terMiNals – new eco initiative by Aleksandra Plis

LNG46 Building the lNG momentum –

interview with emil arolski, the ‘lNG in Baltic sea Ports ii’ Project Manager by Aleksandra Plis

47 lNG 2.0 – next level – Project partners' targets

48 Baltic lNG 2014-2015 events timeline

VILA50 the sea is a must – interview with

Witold Wróblewski, Mayor of elbląg by Przemysław Myszka

51 the guide on harbours – Vistula lagoon’s newly published catalogue by Marcin Burchacz

44Newsletters

3Regular columns

3 editorial6 BtJ Calendar of events8 Market sMs extended10 What’s new?12 BtJ Maps News14 on the roads:

standing still by Lena Lorenc64 Collector’s corner65 transport miscellany66 Who’s who

20Maritime & Economy

20 low, but stable – Baltic shipyards’ 2014 performance by Marek Błuś

25 the switch – Preparing for low sulphur operations by DNV GL’s Jörg Lampe, Sophie Simov and Torsten Mundt

26 still waitin’ for the Bsr boost – Baltic Port Barometer 2015 by Przemysław Myszka

30 Make haste slowly – interview with arkadiusz Wójcik, Unibaltic’s President of the Board by Przemysław Myszka and Przemysław Opłocki

32 Where next for container safety? – Managing larger box-shaped risks by Andrew Huxley, TT Club

16Economy

16 in pursuit of better standards – eU-Ukraine association agreement by Arthur Nitsevych and Ilona Biliuk, Interlegal

18 Where to do business in the Bsr – WeF’s Global Competitiveness report 2014-2015 by Justyna Rataj

Contents

1/2015 | Baltic Transport Journal | 5

35Report

Around 2014 highlights35 step on the gas – around 2014

highlights by Przemysław Myszka40 Baltic transport 2014 highlights

– last year's most important events for the Bsr's transport sector by Lena Lorenc and Przemysław Myszka

53Focus

The future of logistics53 From wood to wheels – the world´s

first wood-based biorefinery in commercial production by Sari Mannonen, Director of Sales & Marketing at UPM Biofuels

56 Greening mobility – south Baltic communities integrate electric mobility into existing transport networks by Clarissa Hirst and Vassilen Iotzov

58 Keep cool and do logistics – emerging markets’ growing demand for cold supply chains by Cathy Roberson, Senior Analyst at Transport Intelligence

60Overland & Logistics

60 interview with iwona ‘trucking Girl’ Blecharczyk – Female truck drivers must have thick skin by Przemysław Myszka

62 the fit evolution – aiding truckers’ lives by Grzegorz Haładus, Truckers Life Foundation’s Manager

in this issue

”Aiming at efficiency in the fuel field is not only an ethical and environmental duty of our sector, but also a matter of competitiveness and survival.”

Emanuele Grimaldi, President and CEO of Finnlines Read more in the article: 2014 highlights, pgs. 40-43


BTJ 1/2015 (Jan.-Feb. edition) Report: Highlights 2014 | Focus: Technology innovation for transport Issues distributed at:

European Shipping Week, 2-6 March 2015, BE/Brussels, www.europeanshippingweek.comWelcome to the very first edition of the European Shipping Week which is intended to be a platform where policy-makers from the main EU institutions will meet and engage with European ship-owners and other shipping sector stakeholders.

LNG Congress Russia 2015, 12-13 March 2015, RU/Moscow, www.lngrussiacongress.comThe LNG Congress Russia 2015 is the only event where technical challenges and commercial risks associated with LNG growth will be discussed on a strategic level. The Congress will attract 250+ senior decision makers across the LNG market from Russia, CIS and the Baltics, giving a unique opportunity to meet company leaders face-to-face as well as to hear from more than 50 LNG expert speakers.

Cruise Shipping Miami, 16-19 March 2015, US/Miami, www.cruiseshippingevents.com/miamiThe annual Cruise Shipping Miami has established itself as the epicentre of the global cruise industry and the only event guaranteed to bring together shipping lines, suppliers, travel agents and partners. With nearly 900 exhibitors and over 11,000 attendees from 125 countries, the confer-ence content featuring the industry’s most knowledgeable speakers as well as plenary sessions led by the heads of the largest cruise corporations.

Transport Week 2015, 17-19 March 2015, PL/Gdańsk, www.transportweek.euThe 5th edition of the Transport Week international conference will be held this time in the halls of the Amber Expo in Gdańsk. Gathering once more a rich variety of maritime, intermodal, LNG and EU transport policy representatives; the three-day event will be packed with in-depth presentations, engaging panel discussions and focus seminars.

TransBaltic, 18-20 March 2015, RU/St. Petersburg, www.transbaltic.primexpo.ru/enThe TransBaltic exhibition is a brand-new venture focused on showcasing the latest developments within transport, logistics and warehous-ing. The main aim of the new industry platform is to present services & products directly to target audiences seeking high-quality freight for-warding services and modern warehouse solutions. In addition, the Transport and Logistics Congress will take place during the exhibition.

Offshore Wind Structures, 14-15 April 2015, UK/London, www.windenergyupdate.com/offshore-wind-structuresAt the Offshore Wind Structures conference industry leaders will be uniting to uncover next-gen turbine and foundation technologies, improve component interaction, study the assessment & selection process of choosing the right foundations, dig into the impact & importance of the subsea and seabed topic as well as take a closer look at offshore financing, all of this to achieve an optimised design of offshore wind structures.

TransRussia 2015, 21-24 April 2015, RU/Moscow, www.transrussia.ru/en-GBTransRussia’s 20th anniversary will once more attract professionals from Russia, the Baltic and CIS States as well as anyone interested in trans-port & logistics across these countries. The exhibition part will demonstrate a full range of industry solutions – from transport and forward-ing services to software and equipment solutions easing cargo handlings.

BTJ 2/2015 (Mar.-Apr. edition) Report: Baltic ro-ro & ferry market | Focus: TEN-T policy | Special: Break-bulk & project cargoIssues distributed at:

Transport Logistic, 5-8 May 2015, DE/Munich, www.transportlogistic.de/enThe Transport Logistic trade fair has established itself as a 100% transport & logistics showcase, presenting in one place the entire value chain as well as major international market players. The previous 2013 edition of Transport Logistic attracted a record number of over 2,000 exhibitors from 63 countries and more than 52,000 trade visitors from 110 countries.

Breakbulk Europe 2015, 18-21 May 2015, BE/Antwerp, www.breakbulk.com/breakbulk-global-events/breakbulk-eu-rope-2015Breakbulk Europe is the largest exhibition & educational forum in the world addressing the needs of traditional breakbulk and project cargo logistics professionals. Visit the Breakbulk Europe Exhibition to network with 300+ exhibitors and sponsors, ranging from ocean carriers, freight forwarders and ports & terminals representatives, to logistics providers, export packers and equipment manufacturers.

IAPH 29th World Ports Conference, 1-5 June 2015, DE/Hamburg, www.iaph2015.orgThe five-day event will be split into numerous topical conferences, tackling such issues as global economy development with special em-phasis on the law-global trade relation, bigger vessels-bigger challenges, logistics and energy, cruise shipping, clean air in ports, and much more. Moreover, the World Ports Conference will also host the Women’s Forum.

Nor-Shipping 2015, 2-5 June 2015, NO/Oslo, www.messe.no/en/nor-shippingNor-Shipping's 50th anniversary exhibition will feature six halls, delivering altogether 22,500 m2 of space to showcase the best and latest in maritime technology, services and solutions across easy-to-navigate national pavilions and themed industry segments. Nor-Shipping’s conference will focus on the issue of next-gen. shipping as well as take a closer look at the importance of the offshore shipping industry.

TOC 2015, 9-11 June 2015, NL/Rotterdam, www.tocevents-europe.com/csc-conferenceThe TOC Container Supply Chain transport and trade forum will provide shippers and their transportation providers with access to the latest insights and analyses driving international trade, transport and logistics. The 40th edition of TOC will focus on ports as critical links within the container supply chain.

SIL2015, 9-11 June 2015, ES/Barcelona, www.silbcn.com/enFor the 17th time the international logistics and material handling exhibition will gather in one place top representatives of the transport & logistics, infrastructure, real estate, telematics, e-business, telecommunications, IT systems, warehousing, equipment and material handling industries to present and discuss the latest from their business fields. SIL2015 will also host the 13th Mediterranean Logistics and Transport Forum and the 4th Latin American Logistics and Transport Summit.

BTJ 3/2015 (May-June edition) Report: Baltic port market | Focus: European shipyards | Special: The human factorIssues distributed at:

BPO Annual Conference 2015, 3-4 September 2015, LV/Riga, www.bpoports.comThe Baltic Ports Organization invites all executives interested in improving the competitiveness of maritime transport in the Baltic region, in-creasing the efficiency of ports & terminals, developing infrastructure and value-added services, as well as extending ashore and hinterland connections to its annual conference, this year held in the capital of Latvia.

BALTEXPO 2015, 7-9 September 2015, PL/Gdańsk, www.baltexpo.ztw.pl/enDuring the 18th international conference and exhibition BALTEXPO 2015 companies from the shipbuilding, offshore, port, transport & logis-tics, shipping, safety & security as well as environment protection industries will showcase their service and product portfolios.

Seatrade Europe Cruise & River Convention, 9-11 September 2015, DE/Hamburg, www.seatrade-europe.comThe cruise industry in Europe has taken its place in the mainstream of the leisure sector. During 2015 Seatrade’s two and a half days of high-level conference, peers and experts will debate the latest opportunities and challenges, covering a broad spectrum of topics.

BTJ Calendar of events


BTJ 4/2015 (July-Aug. edition) Report: Baltic container market | Focus: Container handling equipment | Special: Transport & environmentIssues distributed at:

TRAKO, 22-25 September 2015, PL/ Gdańsk, www.trakotargi.amberexpo.plThe 11th edition of the international railway trade fair TRAKO will be the industry’s largest meeting in Poland and one of the biggest in Central and Eastern Europe. At TRAKO 2015 the leading rail businesses will present their latest developments – from brand-new rolling stocks and equipment, via software and rail traffic management systems, to new transport & logistics solutions.

InnoRail, 14-16 October 2015, HU/Budapest, www.innorail.hu/en/innorail-2015-enThe 2nd edition of the international conference on railway infrastructure and innovation will focus on five thematic areas – infrastructure construction and management; telecommunication, signalling and traffic management; energy supply, catenaries and lighting technology; rolling stock development, production, operation and maintenance; as well as rail bridges and structures.

9th GreenPort Congress & GreenPort Cruise, 14-17 October 2015, ES/Barcelona, www.greenport.comThe 2015 edition of the GreenPort Congress will provide key port community decision makers with a meeting place to learn about and discuss the latest in sustainable development and environmental practice. The Congress will also highlight the newest innovations and best practices which will allow port users to further advance their eco-friendliness.

BTJ 5/2015 (Sep.-Oct. edition) Report: Baltic bulk market | Focus: European rail & road freight | Special: Future alternatives for logisticsIssues distributed at:

Europort, 3-6 November 2015, NL/Rotterdam, www.europort.nlThe event will be providing 30,000 professional visitors and 1,100 exhibiting companies with a meeting place to see and to showcase the newest maritime & shipbuilding technologies, with a strong focus on special purpose ships, incl. offshore, dredging, construction, naval, inland, fishery as well as workboats and super yachts.

Trans Poland, 4-6 November 2015, PL/Warsaw, www.trans-poland.pl/mainThe 3rd edition of the Trans Poland trade fair will be devoted to showcasing the latest achievements in transport and infrastructure technolo-gies, helping companies from the sea, road, air, intermodal, freight forwarding and storing sectors to boost their performance. The inter-national exhibition & conference will also present up-to-date transport & logistics equipment as well as ICT, monitoring and navigational solutions.

6th Gas Fuelled Ships Conference, 10-12 November 2015, DE/Hamburg, www.motorship.com/gfsconferenceThe conference will provide a platform for all LNG stakeholders wanting to explore the implications, challenges and benefits of LNG as a maritime fuel. 2015’s edition will also take a closer look at other ‘fuels of the future’, such as methanol and ethanol. In addition to the ex-change of thoughts and networking opportunities, the conference will offer the possibility to see real life operations of current gas-fuelled vessels as well as to visit supply plants.


On the roads

people in the UK, despite the city being the country’s richest region? Numerous data on rich nations, such as Great Britain, the US, Canada or Japan, that were experiencing their boom not so long ago – during last decades of the 20th century – reveal that this economic growth was not accompanied by a boom in citizens’ wellbe-ing. On the contrary, according to Guardian’s fascinating piece on The secrets of the world's happiest cities, although the British got richer by more than 40% between 1993 and 2012, at the same time, due to various stress factors, such as among others the faster pace of life, pollution, income inequality, and the citizens being more

and more disconnected from family and com-munities, the number of depression, neuroses, heart attacks, strokes and cancer cases have absurdly increased. Not to mention drinking, drug (legal and illegal) overuse, fundamental-ism, fascist and other extremist sentiments, or football aggression epidemic, happening on he global scale as means to cope with this situation. Civilizations are only as strong as their weakest members and the participants of our societies are clearly not made of economic structures.

So, with experiencing (sometimes literally in our bodies) unsustainable race to prosperity as clearly not working, how about, instead of hoping for the yet to be reached Eldorado with streets of gold, how about standing still for a while? Per-haps we can we find happiness and balance by slowing down and using less. Finding ourselves in a situation where, as reported by Oxfam in a Janu-ary 2014 report, approx. half of humanity – over three billion people – living in deep poverty, and the other weight on the opposite side of the scale – 85 richest individuals in the world – possessing as much wealth as them, shouldn’t we at least ask ourselves a sincere question of how we, as a civilization, have allowed it? And perhaps involve in strategizing about how to make resources dis-tribution a more fair game.

Another fact I found attention-grabbing is that 90 companies (as reported in January, 2014, by journal Climatic Change) caused two-thirds

Perhaps we can we find happiness and balance by slowing down

and using less.

Standing stillby Lena Lorenc

On the roads

of man-made global warming emissions since dawn of industrial age, in vast majority originat-ing from the business of producing oil, gas or coal. In this context, regulations and attempts devoted to focus more and more efforts on pro-moting green energy technologies barely seem out-of-touch. A great deal of panic and anxiety has been applied to the SECA shift in the BSR, and although I emphasize with Baltic businesses being mandated to seek sustainable measures in a frantic manner, this move really does seem like a good thing. Green technologies research, development and implementation is on its way to finally flourish in the region. That’s one side of the story, additionally, there’s an increase in various forms of collaborations – most busi-nesses understand that their sustained success depends upon the economic, social and eco-logical contexts in which they operate. In fact, companies globally are increasingly finding that engaging competitors, suppliers, governments and non-profit organisations is beneficial to ad-dress the challenges such as corruption, uncer-tainties, climate change, and discrimination.

And yet, we are still fragile. A recently pub-lished study funded in part by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center warns of the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades without radical changes to address “the stretching of resources due to the strain placed on the ecological carrying capac-ity” and “the economic stratification of society into Elites [rich] and Masses (or ‘Commoners’) [poor]”. These factors are stated to have played a central role in the character, or in the pro-cess of the collapse, in all cases of civilisational downfall over the last five thousand years. It seems only fitting, that being at a peak of our intellectual civilization, in addition to applying various sorts of technology and scientific dis-coveries to both our everyday life and the eco-nomic sphere – as we do so very efficiently in the field of e.g. transport or urban development – we should also, to a much larger scale, apply other tools we developed, such as psychology, social sciences and arts, to be able to continue culturing and understanding the world, and – equaly important – start focusing on similarities rather than discrepansies.

Undoubtely having them, can we none-theless agree, that working together is better that drifting away into ultimate separation? And that a widespread tendency of blaming individuals for the underlying causes of sys-temic malfunctions is not the way to go? If we succeed in addressing unsustainable resource exploitation, we at least keep the planet to live on. If we succeed in connecting and liking each other, we will find ourselves living on it in much better shape than nowadays. Or, in the words of the Kerouac’s novel – “The road must eventually lead to the whole world.” �

Economic growth for the sake of citi-zens’ wellbeing and a nation’s comfort is a noble goal, if however not done in a sustainable manner, turns to be coun-

terproductive. Following last year’s global reports as well as examinations of the situation in our region and Europe, one can, no doubt, come to some depressive conclusions. Let us however not forget that for every cloud there is a silver lining.

As we and many other have been covering a lot, humanity’s consumerist mindset has been gradually bringing destruction to the biosphere, which at the moment has reached and even surpassed various critical thresholds, whether in terms of carbon emissions, biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, freshwater depletion, or chemical pollution, leading among others to extreme weather phenomena pummeling the globe. We have many other problems confront-ing us on the sustainability front in the global and local perspectives nowadays, not only regarding environmental and social issues, but in the eco-nomic, cultural and governance fields as well. People living in today’s (over)consumerist socie-ties, individualistic and atomized, disengaged from mainstream social institutions, which often outdated or compromised have failed to fulfill the

promise of reaching their objectives, detached from local communities, are finding themselves in the middle of an ongoing tremendous cul-tural crisis, with their identities’ distortion being only one, though a vital, aspect of it. In this light one can hardly argue with the Jack Kerouac’s narrator placed in the ‘On the Road: The Original Scroll’ novel, telling a personal story of his quest for meaning and belonging, which he executed through a series of cross-country trips by hitch-hiking, bus or by drive-away car: “Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.” Indeed. Massive amounts of enduring silliness not only still exist but intensify, terrifying amounts to be honest (for random examples one has to look no further than mass media strategy), and yet (or perhaps due to) the world seemingly becoming more and more feverish, and at the same time technologically connected, we seem to gain more consciousness and have a wider perception of the direction in which its developments go.

Isn’t it strange that, as according to surveys, Londoners are actually among the least happy

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Around 2014 highlights

report

Step on the gasby Przemysław Myszka

By its rich nature, the Baltic Sea region’s transport and logistics landscape needs to be sliced into separate paintings in order not to

overwhelm readers with dozens of pages containing events typed down with the meticulousness of a medieval monk. That’s why we devoted the 6/14 edition to eve-rything the Sulphur Directive has already brought, focusing this time on other affairs, at the same time leaving out the most vivid ro-ro & ferry as well as container happen-ings for the upcoming issues.

Keeping the fires burningSurely, throughout the traffic of last

year’s events, a pedal in the streetcar named lNG was put to the metal, on- and offshore, making the Baltic Sea region the centre of attention and attracting even top drawer US gas market players to come here and see the pace of developments, as was

Besides last year’s main highlights as well as the SECA-infused affairs, in 2014 Liquefied Natural Gas sprouted all over the BSR, both in terms of infrastructure and ship investments. A lot happened in ship-yards, on railways and in cabinets, too.

the case during December’s lNG confer-ence in Stockholm on-board the Baltic’s first lNG-driven vessel Viking Grace.

In terms of chronology, the Baltic lNG-piñata was hit in January, 2014, by Terntank, which ordered two 15,000 dwt gas-powered tankers (later followed by two more). “With lNG having a 10-15% better energy value compared to MGO and with an optimized underwater hull design, the vessels will have a fuel con-sumption of between 13.5 and 14 tn per day compared to today’s 22 tn for existing vessels of similar size,” Jens P. Buchhave, Managing Director of Terntank Rederi, explained the rationale behind the order. later on, the oil majors Preem, Neot and Esso chartered the vessels.

In January as well, Wärtsilä signed a turnkey contract with the joint venture Manga lNG to supply a EUR 100 mln valued lNG-receiving terminal in Tornio

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which will have a reception, unloading and bunkering facilities, together with an lNG-vaporising facility and one 50,000 m3 storage tank. For gas deliveries, a pipeline will be built to the Röyttä industrial site (the Outokumpu Tornio steel mill will be the main user). lNG will be delivered from the terminal using trucks or by rail to customers in the north of Finland and Sweden, too.

The Baltic LNG-piñata was hit in January, 2014, by Terntank, which ordered two 15,000 dwt gas-powered tankers.

Also in January, Gasum (Finland’s gas grid operator and seller), chose the Fjusö area in Joddböle (Inkoo) as the location for a large scale lNG import terminal. The Finngulf lNG project is listed on the ‘Pro-jects of common Interest’ list adopted by the European commission, meaning that


last year’s most important events for the Bsr’s transport sector

2014 highlightsby Lena Lorenc and Przemysław Myszka

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Finnlines’ and DFDS Seaways’ EUR ~100 mln scrubber investmentsIn 2014, it became more than evident that the 0.1% Sulphur Directive is inevita-ble and shipping companies cannot escape the challenge it imposes. In contrast to others who will tank the higher priced low-sulphur fuel, DFDS Seaways and Finnlines, the two ro-ro & ferry majors having extensive networks in the Euro-pean Sulphur Emission control Areas, decided to launch unprecedented full-scale scrubber abatement programmes, each of them investing approx. EUR 100 mln to capitalize on the price spread between different sulphur content fuels. As a re-sult of upgrading their vessels (DFDS: 21, Finnlines: 14), both companies plan to be consistent with their freight rates, hence gaining a competitive advantage over those compelled to cover higher fuel bills by exporting them to clients’ pockets.

From among the tremendous amount of Baltic last year’s diverse events and ventures, depicted on the pages of this and previous BTJ issues, our editorial board have decided to highlight the below. Some of them we find most promising, brave, some most appaling. They are nonetheless highly significant, and influential – not only on the countries they occurred in, but to the entire region as well.

For any ship operator today, bunker fuel is the largest single cost item. Aiming at efficiency in the fuel field is not only an ethical and environmental duty of our sector, but also a matter of

competitiveness and survival. Having this target clearly in mind, Finnlines built its strategy and multiplied its means to reach this goal – the most important efficiency investment is without doubt the launch of five worldclass ro-pax and six large ro-ro eco-friendly ships in 2007-14, and the purchase of three ice-classed well fit ro-ro units in the Fall of 2014. The total investment amounted to nearly EUR 1 billion.At the same time, treasuring on its unique position of the full owner of a young, large-sized, modern fleet, with a good balance sheet and liquid resources, Finnlines scaled up its green investments. In 2014 Finnlines ordered new propeller blades in six of its vessels and fitted their rudders with innovative bulbs. Simultaneously, Finnlines placed orders for retrofitting 14 of its vessels with scrubbers. Indeed, after 1st January 2015 scrubber technology looks like the only safe, viable and sustainable technology available, allowing for fully complying with environmental rules and avoiding paying the MARPOL compliant fuel price premium. Propellers, rudders and scrubber retrofits will reduce fuel consumption and costs and leave the operative efficiency of the vessels untouched. Similar investments are under study for the remaining part of the ro-ro and ro-pax fleet. Investment would near EUR 100 mln.Green retrofit works will involve the dry-docking of a number of vessels, amounting to two-thirds of the Finnlines fleet, within a short time span, mainly in late 2014 and early 2015. Vessel substitutions within the Group, and timely use of the charter market, will help us manage these temporary withdrawals from service. Finnlines’ management has worked hard to keep service disturbances to a minimum, though realistically we have to admit that some problems are possible. We will do our utmost to reduce such impact on our clients.

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By lake Saimaa in lappeenranta, Finland, stands a new site look-ing like a small oil refinery. How-ever, it’s of commercial scale and

one of a kind biorefinery. Its construction took off in summer 2012, and the founda-tion stone was laid in November that same year. Approx. 200 workers were employed for more than two years (reaching 500 at the height of the construction works), i.e. placing 50 km of pipelines on the spot. Al-together 200 different supply agreements have been signed to have the lappeenran-ta production plant up and running from January, 2015.


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More or less 140 years ago, the Finnish forestry company and renewable energy producer UPM started to manu-facture wooden spools at its Kaukas mills. The leftover material was used to make pulp, from which in turn paper was produced. Today, the residues of pulp production are used to produce the world’s first commercially available next-gen wood-based renewable diesel, suitable for all engines – cars, busses, trucks – without modification.

the world´s first wood-based biorefinery in commercial production

From wood to wheelsby Sari Mannonen,

Director of Sales & Marketing at UPM Biofuels

Today, tall oil and renewable diesel circulates in pipes around the clock, 24/7, in the EUR 175 mln biorefinery which was set up without any public investment grants. UPM’s lappeenranta biorefinery has a production capacity of 120 mln l of wood-based diesel, soon available at Finnish St1 and ABc petrol stations.

Ingredients: resin & innovationcrude tall oil, originating from the

resin of wood, is refined into renewable diesel. The novel biofuel, called ‘UPM BioVerno’, reduces carbon dioxide (cO2) emissions significantly, as the process

of its extraction and production is more sustainable than digging wells, setting up rigs or sweeping tar sands.

‘UPM BioVerno’ is a Finnish inno-vation – the product and its production

UPM and WWF Finland recently published joint measures to be carried out to promote the sustainability of wood-based liquid biofuels.

process have been developed at the UPM lappeenranta Research centre. To make pulp, resin (a natural extract of wood) is converted into crude tall oil, which in turn

Editorial


We are opening this year’s BTJ release cycle with – as always – summaries of last year’s sectorial events and our reports, coupled with highlights on the most important Baltic Sea region’s transport sector affairs of 2014 (see the Report section). At the moment, we are looking forward to awarding the

actors responsible for the most creative and constructive changes to the regional economy, or those facilitating the socio-political objectives’ achievement, with the Baltic Trendsetters Club certificates during the annual Transport Week event in Gdańsk. As far as our further (2015) plans are concerned, in addition to the usual, in Autumn this year we’re issuing a brand new publication in the series of our yearbooks – devoted to the port sector. We're already excited to cooperate with the regional seaports even more than usual.

Coming back to the issue, there’s unfortunately still no good news on the Baltic shipyards' sector. Read the details in Marek Błuś’s piece entitled "Low but stable" on the pgs. 20-24. This edition’s Focus segment in devoted to sustainability and innovation for transport. In the article "From wood to wheels" UPM Biofuels’ Sari Mannonen, Ph.D., writes about next-gen wood-based liquid biofuels – an important step in making the transport sector a more sustainable one. Clarissa Hirst and Vassilen Iotzov, on the other hand, tell us about South Baltic Cross-border Co-operation Programme’s latest developments in the field of promoting electric mobility (read Greening mobility, pgs. 56-57). Assimilating electric transport into existing local and regional transport networks adds to a future in which we would all be free to move in the greatest variety of ways, and within the project’s scope this mode has already been proven successful in Rostock, Växjö, Malbork, Szczecin, and Karlskrona.

Be sure not to miss an interview Przemysław Myszka conducted with Iwona Blecharczyk ("Female truck drivers must have thick skin," pgs. 60-61), a truck professional and advocate for the Truckers Life Foundation, who tells us about trucker’s career light and dark sides, her personal experience, at the same time promoting a healthy drivers’ lifestyle.

We sincerely wish you to enjoy your read. Hope to stay in touch,Lena Lorenc

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