Laurila-Tornio, railway reconstruction and electrification

the border crossing corridor lack electrification from Haparanda/Tornio to Laurila. This causes a bottleneck both for passenger and freight transport. Several studies have been conducted during the past 20 years and test with some technical equipment such as automatic gauge change have been made. In 2015 there was a strategic choice of measure study made in cooperation between the Swedish Transport Administration and the Finish Transport Agency that proposed some measures to partially solve the problem. However, the issues regarding responsibility of the proposed measures and the lack of agreement of the desired function and role of the cross border corridor have left the suggested measures without financial funding from either country