[en] A saturation model of high energy scattering is analysed, taking into account the impact parameter dependence. The unitarization is assumed to occur independently at each transverse location. In the single scattering regime the amplitude has features characteristic for the hard Pomeron, and at very high energies the soft Pomeron trajectory is obtained. It is shown, how the string tension may be embodied into the saturation model, linking the Regge phenomenology, the hadron structure and the saturation model. (author)