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NORDICUM 1/2010

Nordicum Transportation & Logistics Special Report 2010
NORDICUM 1/2010 brings you an in-depth interview with Mikael Aro, the new CEO of VR Group , who discusses the recent troubles on the rails. We also sat down with Director Pentti Hakkarainen from the Bank of Finland for an autopsy of the current recession. Our TRANSPORTATION SPECIAL REPORT surveys the changing landscape of logistics – offering, among other things, an intriguing look at the green redemption of the Finnish automotive industry. read now

Nordicum - Scandinavian Business Magazine is a bimonthly periodical magazine on business, economies and politics in Northern Europe. NORDICUM has been published since 1993 providing its readers with analyses of the driving forces behind the Baltic Sea market area. Each edition of NORDICUM includes an in-depth look at a particular industry or area.

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Pipedreams and Nightmares

Gerhard Schröder and Vladimir Putin must be pleased. The construction of the Nord Stream, a gas pipeline the two leaders concocted in the 1990s, is about to commence. Hundreds of kilometres of gas pipes are waiting to be laid on the bottom of the North Sea. The governments of Russia, ... Read more

More columns from Risto E. J. Penttilä

EU catastrophy in Copenhagen?

It is, by now, clear that no binding international agreement will emerge from the Copenhagen Climate Summit. From the beginning, expectations about so-called ambitious results were unrealistic. The United States was not going to change its approach 180 degrees from Kyoto, and the developin... Read more

More columns from Paavo Lipponen

Soft Power against Gas Power

“Gazprom has got a lot further than the Red Army ever did,” whispers one of the international wiseacres. “The USSR,” opines another senior member of the commentariat, “was a lot easier to deal with than Russia is today”. It’s true that Russia was... Read more

More columns from Lasse Lehtinen

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NORDICUM RUSSIA 4-5/2009

Финляндия – каким домом она является для международных предприятий? Директор-распорядитель компании «Invest in Finland» Туомо Айраксинен рассказывает, почему именно российским предприятиям стоило бы побывать в Финляндии для ознакомления с возможностями в соседней стране. На уровне городов Санкт-Петербург и Хельсинки уже нашли друг друга отрадно хорошо и вместе намечают далеко идущие стратегии – ускорителем роста выступает скоростная железнодорожная связь, которая стартует в будущем году. Международное сотрудничество налаживается и в Сочи, куда на олимпийское строительство отправляется целая компания высококлассных финских специалистов. И еще мы познакомимся с золотой лихорадкой, взволновавшей Лапландию. Читать сейчас

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The Electric Horseman

Maintaining profitability in the midst of a global recession is difficult for any industry, but in the field of logistics the challenge seems almost insurmountable. The flow of goods has been severely damaged and recovery will take time. This is apparent also in Finland who stands removed ... Read more

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