New solutions for logistics and transport planning in the bio-circular economy will be developed in KristinaEco. The new SmartBioLog project aims to make more efficient and sustainable use of the region’s side streams, such as fish farming, potato cultivation, and forest biomass fractions.
Logistics often represents the largest cost factor in bio-circular business operations. When routes, transport frequency and collection can be planned more effectively, this also creates opportunities for new processing and circular solutions, as well as low-carbon business models.
Business Kristinestad coordinates the KristinaEco Living Lab activities in collaboration with universities of applied sciences, research institutes, and companies. The aim is to bring together regional actors, map mass flows and their locations, and develop digital and AI-based tools for optimising routes and transport.
The project increases cooperation between primary production, the logistics sector, and research organisations and supports the creation of new, low-carbon business models. The results will be published openly on the KristinaEco.fi website and can be used more widely in the development of the bioeconomy and green transition.
The project supports the Ostrobothnia regional plan for a just transition and the objectives of the Renewing and Competent Finland 2021–2027 program by strengthening the sustainable economic structure and new job opportunities in transition areas.
Project goals
✓ Develop model solutions for logistics and transport planning within the bio-circular economy that improve the profitability of side stream utilisation.
✓ Gather and produce regional knowledge about bio-circular logistics and identify key bottlenecks and possible solutions.
✓ Map mass flows and the geographical location of side streams from primary production and analyse possible alternatives for pre-treatment, storage and utilisation.
✓ Investigate how GIS-based, digital and AI-based methods can be used to support the optimisation of routes and transport.
✓ Strengthen cooperation between primary production, the logistics sector and research organisations, and promote the development of low-carbon business models.
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