Finnish unions to suspend strike
NewsPort activities halted entirely on 11th March, encompassing ship loading and unloading as well as container pickup and delivery operations.
Helsinki reports that downward trend is easing off
The amount of unitsed cargo traffic totalled 764,000t in November, which indicates a 5% decrease in comparison to November 2008
The traffic from January to November added up to 7.9 Mt, 22% down year on year.
Finnlines will open three new ro-ro lines in January 2010 for the routes from Helsinki to Gothenburg, from Kotka to Gothenburg and from Gothenburg to Bilbao. These new routes increase the ro-ro network connections operated by Finnlines by one fifth. Two large, modern ro-ro vessels, Finnmill and Finnpulp, will operate on the new routes.
A mobile harbour crane owned by the port, a Liebherr LHM 400 dating from 1999, has been sold. A sales contract for the crane has been signed with Åkerbergs Maskiner A/S in Denmark.
The crane has been in operation for approximately 7000 hours. The 10-year inspection was conducted in October 2009 and the crane is in excellent condition.
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