The Swedish port is investing in what will most probably be the world's first automated high bay storage for paper rolls, to be erected just next to the existing container terminal.
The vessel, branded as the world's most eco-friendly bulker, has been delivered by the Chinese Jinling Shipyard and will arrive in the Baltic in mid-September, carrying a shipment from Japan.
Wärtsilä will invest approx. €200m in setting up a completely new centre of research, product development and production in Vaskiluoto in the Finnish Vaasa, due to come online in 2020.
The Port of Turku and the City of Turku have signed a letter of intent with the two shipping lines to modernise the Kanavaniemi area with a new ferry terminal.
The port authority and the Jyväskylä-based company have signed a contract under which the two will jointly work towards building a smart digital port with the use of 3D inspection technology.
