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The harbour, located in the suburb of Vuosaari in East Helsinki, handles goods traffic for the Greater Helsinki region, while passenger services remain in Helsinki city centre. Vuosaari Harbour has assumed the operations of two container harbours, West Harbour in the city centre and Sörnäinen Harbour , and will eventually also replace the oil ...
The West Harbour (Finnish: Länsisatama, Swedish: Västra hamnen) is a passenger and cargo harbour in the Jätkäsaari district of Helsinki. The harbour features two terminals: the older Terminal 1, and the newer Terminal 2 (completed in 2017). St Peter Line’s cruise service to St Petersburg with MS Princess Anastasia operated from Terminal 1.
Aerial view of Eteläsatama, Helsinki Eteläsatama seen from the south with Helsinki Cathedral visible in the background. South Harbour (Finnish: Eteläsatama, Swedish: Södra hamnen) is a bay and harbour area immediately next to the centre of the city of Helsinki, Finland. 4.7 million passengers in liner traffic and some 37 000 international cruise passengers travel through it every year.
The West Harbour (Finnish: Länsisatama, Swedish: Västra hamnen) is a passenger and cargo harbour in the Jätkäsaari district of Helsinki, Finland, in the southwestern part of the Helsinginniemi peninsula. The Länsisatama harbour area also includes the Munkkisaaren laituri pier on the west side of Munkkisaari, used by
Vuosaari shipyard was a shipyard located in the district of Vuosaari in Helsinki, Finland. Built by the Finnish state-owned company Valmet Oy in the early 1970s, the shipyard delivered 33 newbuildings and participated in building around 100 other vessels before it was closed in 1987 following the bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine .
The terminal building was originally a customs warehouse, the harbour building K8. It was built in 1937 designed by the city architect Gunnar Taucher. The building was changed to a passenger terminal in 1977, when the Finnjet started traffic between Helsinki and Travemünde, Germany. The work for the change was designed by the harbour architect ...
Work began in the 1770s at the present Inner Harbor and gradually expanded to the west and north. In the 1870s, Kockums expanded its operations with shipbuilding and moved to the area. During the first half of the 20th century, the oil port was located in the area, but moved to the eastern parts of the harbor around 1945 to make room for the ...
Port Alternative name Region Passengers millions [a] Cargo million tons [b] Hamina-Kotka: Gulf of Finland: 15.1 Hanko: Gulf of Finland: 4.8 Helsinki: Gulf of Finland: 12.6: 14.6 Ingå: Gulf of Finland: 1.9 Jakobstad: Gulf of Bothnia: 1.1 Kaskinen: Gulf of Bothnia: 1.1 Kemi: Ajos: Gulf of Bothnia: 1.9 Kilpilahti: Sköldvik: Gulf of Finland: 21.4 ...