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NORTHERN EUROPE PROFILE: RHK & VR-TRACK LTD
Finland’s longest
railway tunnel
is under
construction
A new harbour is presently being built in Finland's capital and will be ready by the
end of 2008. The harbour is located in Vuosaari, approximately 15km from the
centre of Helsinki (see Figure 1 on page 30). The Vuosaari Harbour project includes
the construction of a cargo harbour as well as traffic channels – a new fairway,
harbour road and harbour railway line. The harbour railway line will be 19km long
and have two tunnels. With a length of 13.5km, the Savio tunnel will be the
longest railway tunnel in Finland and the second longest in the Nordic countries.
Erkki Mäkelä, Chief Inspector of
The Vuosaari Harbour with a large part of the business park.
Investment Department, Finnish
The Vuosaari Harbour is being built on The harbour will reach its full extent
Railway Administration (RHK)
and Timo Cronvall, Head of
the site of an old shipyard. The harbour by the end of 2009.
Geotechnics and Rock will cover 150 hectares, including 90 The Vuosaari Harbour has been
Engineering, VR-Track Ltd /
hectares that required filling. A business planned so that it will have a maximum
Railway Consulting
park covering 75 hectares is also being throughput of 12,000,000 tonnes a year.
built next to the harbour. The harbour Of this total, approximately 2,400,000
will have 3.6km of quays and 20 berths. tonnes (20%) will be transported by rail.
It will only handle unitised cargo According to projections, this will be
packed in containers, trucks and trailers. broken down into 1,800,000 tonnes
The harbour will provide jobs for arriving at the harbour and 600,000
approximately 4,000 people and will have tonnes leaving the harbour by rail.
good public transport links.
The harbour project, in which Organisation and costs
environmental matters have been carefully The harbour project has been divided
taken into consideration in planning and according to implementing organisations
implementation, got under way at the end and financing arrangements as follows:
of 2002. By the end of 2008, the harbour
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The Port of Helsinki's VUOSA project
will be completed to the extent that cargo is responsible for developing and
traffic can be moved to Vuosaari from building the harbour and the logistics
Helsinki's existing harbours. Traffic area next to it. The Port of Helsinki
channels will be ready at this time, along will pay for building the harbour
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