BOFIT Viikkokatsaus / BOFIT Weekly Review 2015/13
In contrast, transit freight moving from Russia via Finland to third countries rose last year for the second year in a row to a record level. This transit freight constituted 7 % of Finland’s international sea transport volume. It largely consisted of ore concentrates and chemical products.
The most recent estimate of Finland’s Ministry of Transport and Communications from 2012 put the Finnish economy’s annual value-added from transit freight at around €90 million and job generation at about 1,200 jobs.