LOGOKA

Project Aims and Targeted Outputs

The LOGOKA-project aimed to:

• increase the logistics and trade options knowledge among manufacturing, wholesale, export logistics companies  and other stakeholders
• facilitate and boost cross-border cooperation between Oulu-Kainuu region and Karelia.

The main outputs are:

1. Collected and disseminated knowledge about current transportation and potential cargo among companies
2. New options to cross-border package delivery
3. Disseminated knowledge of possibilities in cross-border logistics and its regulations among manufacturing companies, wholesalers and logistics companies

The project was targeted at logistics service providers, ports and stevedore companies dealing with transportation of cargo; business intermediaries, wholesalers, large export companies and SMEs interested in cross-border business and need logistics services in North Ostrobothnia, Kainuu and Karelia region.

LOGOKA Activities

• To analyse the current trade and logistics regulations and practices in cross-border trade
• To study new logistics options to deliver small orders direct from Oulu-Kainuu region to Karelia and tests practical solutions
• To organize joint workshops, training sessions and company visits on both side of the border
• To disseminate information about trade and logistics regulations and practices.

Iina Laakso, a student at the University of Oulu School of Economics, has worked on the LOGOKA project as a research assistant. Her Master’s thesis for the project deals with cross-border e-commerce deliveries between northern Finland to Russia. The aim of the thesis was to identify ways to develop e-commerce parcel deliveries from Northern Ostrobothnia and Kainuu to Russia to the Republic of Karelia. You’ll find Iina Laakso’ s Master’s thesis “Cross-border e-Commerce package deliveries between Northern Finland and Russia” ion the University of Oulu website at http://jultika.oulu.fi.