A dedicated cargo harbour, the new port has come about through a division of activities: while the old city port of Helinski will continue to handle passenger vessels, the new harbour will move cargo handling out of Helsinki’s congested city centre.<\/p>\n
But all this has meant a transfer of labour, machines and traffic, which initially was fraught with – albeit temporary – difficulty.<\/p>\n
Kari Noroviita, director of Vuosaari Harbour Centre explained that ‘The 15km move to the new cargo area was complicated by high winds and snow.’ Not the easiest of environments in which to start crane and harbour operations.<\/p>\n
He went on to say that a couple of days of queues and further hiccups to the transfer of activities and equipment from the two existing smaller Helsinki ports and the Port of Kotka came about from truck drivers and workers getting used to the new equipment and new site layout, but that ‘every day it is getting better and better’.<\/p>\n
Besides new equipment, including four new ship-to-shore cranes and nine new container handling machines, older units have had to be moved to Vuosaari from the smaller port facilities. The move will free up the old harbour sites for redevelopment and giving the new handling facilities more space and more suitable road connections – avoiding the heavy road traffic in the city centre.<\/p>\n
Vuosaari aims to be one of the most modern ports in the Baltic Sea when completed in 2009: the new 225 hectare harbour complex will be able to handle over 10m tonnes of cargo per year with ro-ro cargo and containers taking a 60\/40% share respectively. By this time, traffic channels will be ready, along with most of the business park.<\/p>\n
The harbour has direct connections to the entire Finnish main road and railway network – and claims the most frequent shipping service between Finland and northern Central European ports. The port authorities say that automatic traffic and access control have been put in place for a smooth flow of goods from ships to land transport and vice versa, keeping cargo moving 24 hours a day – resulting in short stay times of just a few minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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