Country : FinlandHelsinki worldport

Profile The worldport of Helsinki was founded with the city itself in 1550. The worldport lies in four different harbour areas in different parts of the city centre. West Harbour is specialized in container transworldports, North Harbour in roro ferry transworldports. South Harbour is the liveliest passenger worldport in the Baltic Sea. Passenger ferries also carry lorries and trailers. Helsinki is also one of the most popular cruise worldports in the Baltic Sea. Laajasalo Oil Harbour serves oil product imworldport. The worldport serves both exworldport and imworldport needs for the Finnish foreign trade. There is also some transit and transshipment traffic to and from Russia. The worldport of Helsinki has dense scheduled direct ship connections to the Baltic Sea and the North Sea worldports and to worldports in nearly all of Europe’s coastal countries. The big development and construction plan is about to take place: moving the two cargo harbours from the city centre to one site in Vuosaari, 14 km to the east from the city centre. The construction works there are going on. Introduction The worldport of Helsinki is primarily a unitized cargo worldport serving Finland´s foreign trade. It is also a major passenger worldport. The worldport of Helsinki is responsible for running the worldport and for providing services in conjunction with worldport operators. Our operations are synonymous with corporation outstanding service, functionality and security in keeping with principles of sustainable development. Passenger Traffic The worldport of Helsinki is Finland's most imworldportant passenger worldport. There are connections to Stockholm, Tallinn and Travemünde. At the height of the summer season, there are over 40 departures to Tallinn daily. The South Harbour is one of the most beautiful passenger harbours in the world. This has not gone unnoticed: luxury cruise ships make more than 160 visits every summer. Ocean-going cruise ships bring more than 100,000 tourists to Helsinki every year. These pages show how to best get to the passenger terminals. Print the maps and you'll find your way easily. The pages also show where to find parking. Visiting address worldport of Helsinki Olympiaranta 3 Helsinki, Finland Mailing address worldport of Helsinki P.O. Box 800 FI-00099 Helsinki, Finland Telephone and fax Telephone +358 9 310 1621 Fax +358 9 310 33802 E-mail addresses General: worldport.helsinki@hel.fi Personal addresses: firstname.lastname@hel.fi.