Sörnäinen Harbour ( Finnish : Sörnäisten satama , Swedish : Sörnäs hamn ) was for nearly one and a half centuries a major harbour and freight terminal in the Port of Helsinki , located in the Sörnäinen district on the eastern shore of the Helsinki city centre area.
5-451: It was opened in 1863 to serve mainly the country's timber export trade, in 1889 an oil import terminal was added, and more recently containerised cargo and some passenger traffic. The harbour was finally closed down after 145 years of operation in November 2008, when the new Vuosaari Harbour was opened in the eastern suburb, and the facilities moved there. The only remaining functions relate to
10-619: Is also currently the 25th tallest building in Finland . 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
15-649: The Kalasatama development. The harbour was also commonly referred to as ' Sompasaari Harbour', after a small island which originally was located immediately to its south, but which the harbour development had subsumed under reclaimed land. Vuosaari Harbour Vuosaari Harbour ( Vuosaaren satama in Finnish ; Nordsjö hamn in Swedish ) is a seaport facility in Helsinki , Finland , opened in November 2008. Its gatehouse
20-438: The adjacent Hanasaari Power Plant , which is itself being gradually decommissioned. The port facilities were connected to the rail network at Pasila station via a branch line called Sörnäinen harbour rail , which originally ran through Vallila , but which in 1965 was re-routed around the inner city area via Kumpula . Since its closure, the harbour area has been redeveloped for residential, retail and leisure use, as part of
25-521: The oil harbour in Laajasalo . In addition, the railway depot in Pasila currently used by goods transport will be moved northwards. These processes release land for commercial and residential redevelopment. The harbour has a total land area of 150 hectares , including 90 hectares of land reclaimed by filling the sea. There is also a 75-hectare business park next to the harbour. The harbour project also included
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