Vuossari finally takes shape
NewsAfter almost 20 years of discussions, planning and environmental settlements, Helsinki’s new Vuossari port is finally starting to take sha...
Containerships is set on expansion drive
NewsAfter 40 years of private ownership, Containerships has decided that further expansion will require the financial muscle of a larger organis...
Ports focus on unitised cargo flows
NewsRising container throughput due mainly to Russian transit traffic flows and the thrust of StoraEnso’s Finnish SECU project are the main dr...
Running in order to stand still
NewsContainer traffic has been growing strongly in the eastern Baltic, mainly on the strength of rising consumer demand in northwest Russia, the...
Transfennica moves into a new class
NewsWith the first of its eight con-ro ship series, TIMCA, scheduled to be delivered in the first quarter of 2006, Transfennica is set for a maj...
Helsinki: light at the end of the tunnel
NewsAfter almost two decades, the Port of Helsinki’s Vuosaari project finally looks set to become a reality. In a sense the delay has been for...
MLT gets finance
NewsGerman-based specialist transport bank DVB Bank AG has closed a 10-year E45 mill project financing deal for Multi-Link Terminals (MLT) E71 m...
Finnsteve looks to automation
NewsThe Port of Helsinki’s longmooted move to Vuossari is subject to yet another delay following the discovery of toxins in the seabed from (t...
Helsinki faces the final hurdle
NewsAfter years of uncertainty, the Port of Helsinki now needs only one more decision to be made to clear the way for the construction of its pr...
Liebherr repeat
NewsLiebherr Container Cranes Ltd has confirmed an order for a 40 tonne, widespan ship-to-shore gantry crane for Containerships in the Port of H...
Helsinki’s future home unclear
NewsThe planned move of Helsinki port to Vuossari is now more than 10 years old and looks less and less credible. Helsinki City Council, which c...