by Irina Wahlström, Magnus Hellström, Anastasia Tsvetkova, and Yiran Chen, Åbo Akademi University

The Baltic Sea liner market's ferry and ro-ro sectors are highly developed, offering abundant and frequent connections and services, handling the lion's share of the regional intra-short sea shipping trade.

Within the Baltic, the island-like Finland heavily depends on such services. Due to the country's geography, scattered population, long distances and thin logistical streams, road haulage predominates as the overland transport mode.

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