The project is being carried out in collaboration with the daily goods trade and is also intended to secure payment and data connections, as well as ensuring that logistics centers function so that goods can reach the stores, writes Dagens Nyheter.
In these stores, you should always be able to buy food and in some cases also be able to buy gasoline. In densely populated areas, the distance to such a store should be no more than 50 kilometers, and in rural areas 150 kilometers, says Miika Ilomäki, preparedness specialist and head of the Supply Preparedness Center, FBC, to the newspaper.
FBC is contributing with reserve generators that will secure the electricity supply, while the store owner is responsible for any additional costs.
The first preparedness stores will be connected this year. The system is expected to be fully developed by 2028.
Finland has had state-owned grain stores for several hundred years, while Sweden began to phase out its own in the mid-1990s. The state-owned stores are located in facilities operated by private companies. Exactly where they are located and how large they are is secret.
Right now, we have stockpiles that will last for nine months' consumption, says Ilomäki.
