LATVIATRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS

SECTOR

KASPARS OZOLIŅŠState Secretary

Ministry of TransportRepublic of Latvia

LATVIA IN MULTIMODAL CORRIDORS

LATVIAN TRANSPORT SYSTEMThree ports :� Riga, Ventspils, Liepaja� Modern, ice free, Multipurpose

ports

Railways:� 1520mm� Developed specialized

container trains to Central Asia

Road transport:� Developed road infrastructure� High professionality in road

transportAviation:� Riga airport- regional leader in aviation in Baltics � Most developed air connections

LATVIAN TRANSPORT SYSTEM

PORTS64 mln tonns in 2016

RAILWAYS47 mln tonns in 2016

GDP9-10% transport and storage

JOBS75 thousand jobs

LATVIA 63.1 mln.t

LITHUANIA 49.4 mln.t

ESTONIA 26.4 mln.t

Rīga

Ventspils

Liepaja

CARGO TURNOVERAT THE BALTIC PORTS IN 2016

LITHUANIA

ESTONIA

LATVIA

FREEPORT AND SEZ STATUS

Freeport and SpecialEconomic Zone status providesfor substantial tax reductionsup to 55% of investmentsmade:

• Income tax 80%• Real estate duty 80-100%

• Value added tax 100%• Excise tax 100%• Customs duty 100%

DIRECT TAXES INDIRECT TAXES

LATVIA – EXISTING OPPORTUNITIES for container handling

Riga

Ventspils

Liepaja

Noord Natie Ventspils Terminal

Terrabalt

Riga Container Terminal

Baltic Container Terminal

Riga Universal Terminal

FREEPORT OF RIGA

Total port area: 6 348 haLand area: 1 962 haWater area: 4 386 haAvailable land: 445 haTotal berths length: 21 km

MAIN INFRASTRUCTURE FIGURES

Max. depth: 16.0 mMax. vessel draft: 15 mTotal terminal cargo handling capacity: 63 mln.t/year

FREEPORT OF VENTSPILS

Total port area: 2 623.9 haLand area: 2 357.1 haWater area: 265.9 haAvailable land: 1 000 haTotal berths length: 11 kmMax. depth: 17.0 mMax. vessel draft: 15.0 mTotal terminal cargo handling capacity: 43 mln.t/year

MAIN INFRASTRUCTURE

FIGURES

LIEPAJA SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE (SEZ)

Total port area: 1 182 haLand area: 372 haWater area: 810 haAvailable land: 170 haTotal berths length: 8.17 kmMax. depth: 12.0 mMax. vessel draft: 10.8 mTotal terminal cargo handling capacity: 12.4 mln.t/year

MAIN INFRASTRUCTURE FIGURES

SEA CONNECTIONS

ContainershipsRiga –Teesport – Thamesport - Rotterdam –Zeebrugge - Lubeck - Helsinki – St. Petersburg –Klaipeda – AarhusUniFeeder Container ServiceRotterdam – Hamburg/Bremerhaven – Riga –Klaipeda-Gdynia/GdanskX-PRESS container linesRiga - Ust-Luga – Kotka – Helsinki – Tallinn -HamburgHapag-Lloyd AGGdynia – Klaipeda – Riga – Tallina – Rauma –Hamburg – BremerhavenMediterranean Shipping Company (MSC)Antwerpen – Bremerhaven – Riga – TallinnMaersk Line / Seago LineGdansk– Bremerhaven- Hamburg – Gdansk -Kaliningrad – Riga – GdanskTallinkRiga – StockholmOther lines - OOCL, CSCL , Evergreen , etc. using services of common feeders

Stena LineNynäshamn-Ventspils-Nynäshamn

Stena LineTravemünde – Liepaja – Travemünde

PORT OF RIGA PORT OF VENTSPILS PORT OF LIEPAJA

DISTRIBUTION IN BALTICS48 hours

distribution of goods to stores and retail chains in

Northern Europe26.4 million consumers

Services:• Transshipment• Consolidation• Repackaging

of goods• Customs

clearance• Storage of

customs goods and EU goods

• Monitoring the status of cargo

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

Passengers Market share in the Baltics

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

89 destinations17 passenger lines

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

CARGO OPERATIONS AT RIGA AIRPORT

Cargo Market share in the Baltics

7 cargo airlines4 warehouse operators20+ thousand tonnes annually

• 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 including port and airport as the mainhub of the NDN

• Fully recognized by the US and NATO partners

• Total cargo volumes trasshipped by NDN reached 100 000 containers in June 2013

RIGA

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