Page 8 - Port of Kokkola Handbook & Directory

PORT OVERVIEWAlways open to new opNportunitiesThe port of Kokkola – one of the Baltic Sea’s largest ports and Finland’s biggest bulk, iron-ore handling and transit ports – is spending €37.2 million on major capital projects between 2018-2020. The money is in addition to nearly €100 million already invested between 2006-2017 and designed to attract and encourage new business opportunities and more traffic to the port.6 PORT OF KOKKOLA HANDBOOK & DIRECTORYew investments will allow the • Refurbishing some of the 14 covered port to increase the amount warehouses operating on the port of freight tonnage passing estatethrough its three harbours from 11.5 • Extending one of Kokkola’s threemillion tons in 2017 to 13 million tons by 2020. Kokkola receives nearly 600 annual shipping movements and this number is expected to grow in the next five years.main harbours by a further 50Key Kokkola port projects taking shape over the next three years will include:• Purchasing up to four new cranes tothe 12 km already in use• Dredging the fairway access channeladd to the 16 already operating inleading to the port by an additional metre taking the depth down to 14 m and allowing the port to handle larger vessels with greater ease.the port• Building a second wagon tipplerWith a population of 5.5 million, Finland covers an area of 390,908 km2. In 2017, it celebrated 100 years of independence. The port of Kokkola has become one of Finland’s most important transport hubs thanks to its strategic geographical location in Western Finland’s power house province of Central Ostrobothnia. It is one of around 50 ports scatteredhectares• Adding additional railway tracks toterminal for more efficientunloading of bulk materials• Installing a half kilometre-longportable conveyor system to transport goods quicker between vessels and warehouses and to/from vessels and railway wagons