by Przemysław Myszka

We had reached out to the Port of Turku with the idea of conducting this interview when coronavirus appeared to be some distant, Wuhan-on-lockdown thing.

Fast forward a couple of weeks, and the actual talk took place just before the capital of Finland was quarantined.

We hope that the pandemic will eventually be contained and quell, so that freight but most of all passenger operations will get back to normal.

We're talking with Erik Söderholm, the new man at the Turku port helm, about COVID-19, naturally, but in the first place putting the planned new ferry terminal centre-stage, why customer feedback is important, how is digitalisation approached in such a tech-maritime rich place like Turku, as well as what it means to stick close to the fundamentals when everything around us seems to be changing.

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