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THE MANAGING DIRECTOR’S REVIEW
AS THE COMPETITION GETS
TOUGHER, THE TRAFFIC THROUGH
THE PORT OF HELSINKI
INCREASES
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ear 2015 was the seventh consec-utive financially poor year in the Finnish economy. This state of the Finnish economy was also directly re-flected in the development of ports. Last year, the cargo traffic of Finnish ports de-creased by more than 7% compared to last year and was about 10% below the level of 2008.The decrease of traffic has a direct ef-fect on the business operations of ports that became public limited companies at the beginning of last year. At the same time, the port companies have been forced to look for cost savings, which have been achieved through personnel cuts. Additionally, the competition be-tween ports grows stronger as the port companies compete for the decreasing cargo flows.
Therefore, the question whether a country this small needs as wide port network is a well-founded one. At the moment, it seems that the customers are focusing their cargo traffic on the main routes. For example, the cargo traf-fic in the Port of Helsinki grew by more than 5% last year, and passenger traffic by more than 2%. It is probable that the entire field will have to take a stand on this issue during the coming years.
The sulphur directive that came into force in the beginning of 2015 has been a heavily discussed topic in the field for several years now. The shipping compa-nies have all found their own solutions and only time will tell which are the most
competitive ones. The low price of oil has mellowed the discussion down some, but unfortunately, the competitive position of Finland weakened compared to several other countries. Time will also tell how the availability and price of different fuels will develop. It is not yet a time for final conclusions.
For the Port of Helsinki, the past year was the port’s first year as a public lim-ited company. Based on this first year alone, it can be stated that this admin-istrative model suits the field well. More agility and purposefulness have been achieved for the operations while the in-formation flow with the owner, the City of Helsinki, still remained efficient. In the future, too, openness will be one of our ways to promote good practises and the good quality of port operations.
Despite the difficult economic situ-ation, the past year also brought many good things with it. Metsä Fibre de-cided to use the Vuosaari Harbour for the product transports of Ääneskoski bioproduct factory, and we started the preparatory works for the traffic starting in 2017. Vuosaari Harbour will be devel-oped extensively in order to meet the future needs. Even though these modi-fication works may cause some tempo-rary problems for some operators, in the end Vuosaari Harbour will be developed into an even more efficient location that provides all the operators with sufficient opportunities to develop their business operations. The passenger harbour
oper-ations also took a step forward, when the decision was made to build a new West Terminal 2 and the construction work was started.
Even though the coming year, after the poor recent years, will not be particu-larly rich, either, there are many positive aspects to it, nevertheless. The Port of Helsinki will be successful, if the compa-nies operating in the port and shipyards using the port are successful, which means that close and constructive co-operation with them will be continued in the future, too.
The Port of Helsinki had a good year, and for that we are thankful to our cus-tomers, partners and our own staff. Thank you for your good cooperation and your good work.
Kimmo Mäki
Managing Director
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CONTENTS
01 As the competition gets tougher, the traffic through
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the Port of Helsinki increases – The Managing Director’s Review
02 Responsible and productive port operations – through cooperation
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Extensive
development
projects 6
04 Environmentally responsible port operations
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05 Traffic to Tallinn broke records
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06 The first result as a public limited company was good
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07 The Port of Helsinki’s organization 2015
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TRAFFIC 2015
Cargo traffic, tonnes
Unitised cargo 10 400 000
Import 4 837 000
Export 5 563 000
Bulk product traffic 780 000
Foreign traffic 11 179 000
Coastal traffic 231 000
Total cargo traffic 11 410 000
Unitised cargo
Containers, TEU 430 000
Trucks, trailers and other, pcs 516 000 Passenger traffic
Passengers of line traffic 11 169 000
Cruise ship passengers 436 500
FINANCES
Million euro 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
Turnover 86,9 90,8 89,0 87,2 86,5
Investments 18,8 15,6 13,3 15,9 13,9
Grand total of
the balance sheet 575,6 592,6 593,7 600,0 612,8 Business indicators 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Change in the turnover, % -4,2 1,9 2,1 0,8 -0,2 Turnover per person,
1000 euro 574 560 525 482 458 Return on investment, % 2,8 4,2 3,6 3,2 3,2 Equity ratio, % 54,9 72,2 68,8 65,5 62,5 West Harbour Hernesaari South Harbour Katajanokka Vuosaari Harbour
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RESPONSIBLE AND PRODUCTIVE
PORT OPERATIONS
– THROUGH COOPERATION
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he Port of Helsinki is the main harbour for foreign trade and passenger trafficservices in Finland. We manage and develop the port operations persistently in collaboration with our partners operating in the port. We provide the solid frame-work for the operations and produce supporting services, which complement the other port services while also producing added value to our cooperation partners.
As the leading port in Finland and a forerunner in its field, the Port of Helsinki carries its responsibility of people and the environment in its everyday operations.
We participate actively in the society’s discussion concerning the field and take part in the cooperation with the decision-makers, influencers and authorities. In our part, we want to advance our business field and help the companies connected to it and the surrounding society understand the business operations of port and maritime industry and their impact on the Finnish economy and wellbeing in our country.
The Port of Helsinki contributes to the business life and prosperity of the entire Helsinki metropolitan region. The value of the goods transported through our harbours is one third of the total value of Finland’s foreign trade and 40% of the total value of Finnish sea traffic. The market share of the Port of Helsinki of the parcelled goods traffic of Finland’s ports is 26%, while our market share of passenger traffic is 79%. Our strengths include frequent liner traffic, balanced import and exports, and a specialisa-tion in large-sized unit loads.
GOOD
RESULTS
THROUGH
COOPERATION
We are successful when our cus-tomers are successful. At the beginning of 2015, the Port of Helsinki became a public limited company owned by the City of Helsinki, which created us even more flexible opportunities to promote our teamwork culture which benefits the business operations of all parties. The “Forward Together” slogan becomes true through our everyday work. We are in constant dialogue with our partners and measure regularly the customer satis-faction with our operations. In 2015, our customer satisfaction received a good score of 7.95 (on a scale from 4 to 10). This result is 0.27 lower than in the pre-vious survey in 2014.
At the end of the year, the Port of Hel-sinki established a “Port Jury” together with the residents in Jätkäsaari and West Harbour to consider the special ques-tions related to the regions. The port and the ships arriving at the city centre are a permanent part of the City of Helsinki. The Port of Helsinki wants to be a good neighbour to Helsinki citizens, who can maintain communication and works ac-tively together with the residents and city district associations nearby.
In addition to this, the Port of Helsinki has a strong network with the field’s or-ganisations, both in Finland and abroad. This helps us look out for our own
inter-ests, and also enables us to make sure that we keep up to date on topical mat-ters and the latest developments.
ACTIVE
ENVIRONMENTAL
WORK
The harbours governed by the Port of Helsinki are the South Harbour, Kataja-nokka, the West Harbour and Vuosaari Harbour as well as a part of the Kantvik Harbour.
The port operations have environ-mental impacts, but we are continuously developing our operations in order to preserve the environment better. The operations of all these harbours are steered by valid environmental permits, as required by the Environmental Pro-tection Act. These permits control, for example, the noise and emission levels as well as waste management. We also
expect our business partners to operate responsibly, especially in regard to envi-ronmental matters.
OUR VALUES
Productivity
We commit ourselves to the clear qualitative and financial objectives set for our operations. We do the right things while focusing on the essentials and measuring the success of our work. We develop and reform our operations in order to achieve better results.
Responsibility
We work responsibly as part of soci-ety while respecting the environment. We take responsibility for our port com-munity in order to promote the success of our customers. Safety is the basis of our operations.
Cooperation
We work together with our custom-ers and the companies operating at the port in order to achieve our goals. We develop our working community in order to make it supportive and interactive while respecting each others’ work. We develop cooperation with our external stakeholder groups.
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We also expect our business
partners to operate
respon-sibly, especially in regard to
environmental matters.
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EXTENSIVE DEVELOPMENT
PROJECTS
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n 2015, the Port of Helsinki’s most significant development targets were theconstruc-tion of an expansion to the West Harbour and the new passenger terminal. The cargo traffic through Vuosaari Harbour increased notably and the growth focused mostly on container transport.
WEST TERMINAL 2
IS THE DECADE’S
MOST SIGNIFICANT
PROJECT
The West Terminal 2 project is an es-sential part of the entire Jätkäsaari city district’s development. In its entirety, the
renewal work at West Harbour includes, in addition to the new terminal, dock and field arrangements required by traffic as well as reforms of the area’s street and parking arrangements.
West Terminal 2 received its building permit in September. YIT Rakennus Oy was selected to carry out the terminal’s project management work and the con-tract was signed in October. The new terminal had a great start, when the
cer-emony for laying the cornerstone was held in November.
The new terminal will bring more capacity for the fast, scheduled service between Helsinki and Tallinn, in par-ticular, which is growing rapidly. The Helsinki-Tallinn ship route is one of the busiest sea routes in Europe and the entire world. Tallinn and Helsinki form a common area for entrepreneurship and jobs; they are practically a twin city,
whose economic significance is growing on both sides of the Gulf of Finland. In total, over 1,500,000 residents live in these city areas.
The new terminal of the West Harbour invests in architecture, eco-friendliness and also passenger comfort. Passengers can embark and disembark smoothly and quickly. Good public transport con-nections will be built for the terminals, which, in part, will decrease car traffic and unnecessary congestion in the area when the ships arrive. The new passen-ger terminal will be completed by the end of March 2017.
Smoother traffic between
ports through the Twin-Port
cooperation
As the traffic between Helsinki and Tal-linn is growing constantly, the cooper-ation between the port and making the traffic more efficient are extremely im-portant so that the twin city area can de-velop. EU has also given funding for the shared traffic projects.
The most significant EU-funded projects were the TWIN-PORT I, part of the EU TEN-T project entity and TWIN-PORT II, which was part of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). The first TWIN-PORT project, which was completed at the end of 2015, helped develop the West Harbour of the Port of
Helsinki as well as the Old City Harbour of Tallinn. The Port of Helsinki’s share of the entire project was 42.7 million euro and the final amount of financial support will be 20% of the realised total costs.
The TWIN-PORT II project also in-cludes Tallink Group as well as the ports of Helsinki and Tallinn. In addition to the new West Terminal 2 for fast traffic, the project includes the construction of ramp structures, gate arrangements and street connection. The total investment by the Port of Helsinki will be around €64 million, of which 30% is financial support.
First automatic mooring
systems in Finland
to West Harbour
In November, six automatic MoorMaster units arrived to the West Harbour. They will make mooring and detachment of ships to and from the dock faster. At the same time, the ships’ fuel consumption and emissions decrease. These devices utilise vacuum based mooring panels,
which attach to the vessel’s side. During the first stage, the MoorMasters will first be used by Tallink’s Start and Superstar vessels as well as the new Megastar, which will start operating in 2017.
THE TRAFFIC
AT VUOSAARI
HARBOUR IS
GROWING RAPIDLY
The cargo traffic through Vuosaari Har-bour increased notably and the growth focused mostly on container transport. At the beginning of 2015, the traffic amount of cargo ship Sea Wind achieved its goal level and the line established its position as a part of the developing traffic between Helsinki and Tallinn. On weekdays, there are two departures from Vuosaari and one return trip is car-ried out on weekends.
Preparations for pulp transport
were started
The Port of Helsinki and Metsä Fibre signed a latter of intent on autumn 2014, according to which the pulp export transports to the new bioproduct plant planned to Äänekoski will be carried out
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The West Harbour is
Finland’s busiest passenger
port – passenger numbers
rivalling those of Hong
Kong-Macau.
Quick and agile travelling is prioritized in the WestTerminal 2. Illustration: PES-Architects.
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he Port of Helsinki operates in a unique way in the in-terface of marine and urban environment. Taking en-vironment into account in all operations is one of the company’s principles. The Port of Helsinki has a certified oper-ating system, which fulfils the demands set in the environmen-tal standard ISO 14001.CENTRAL
ENVIRONMENTAL
IMPACTS
Air emissions
2015 was a gap year for the harbours with regard to the shared monitoring of the air quality in the Helsinki Metropoli-tan Area. However, the measures aiming to improve the air quality were continued. In Katajanokka, the Viking Line ships MS Mariella and MS Gabriella utilise shore power if they are moored for a longer period of time. In 2015, these ships used 2527.6 MWh of electricity. Thanks to the shore power connections, the ships do not need to utilise auxiliary devices when moored, thereby decreasing air emissions and noise in Katajanokka area. The amendment of the sulphur directive, which entered into force at the start of 2015, has also reduced the sulphur emissions of ships. Additionally, the Port of Helsinki participated in the MeriSOx project of Aeromon Oy, TRAFI, Finnish Meteorological Institute of TEKES and VTT, which measured the sulphur emis-sions of ships arriving to and departing from the Vuosaari Harbour during the summer 2015.
Noise caused by the operations
The Port of Helsinki orders regular noise assessments, which inspect the noise emissions of the port operations in var-ious situations and compare these noise values to the values determined in the harbours’ environmental permits. In 2015, these assessment were made in particular to make the operations of the
West Harbour more efficient. The Port of Helsinki participates actively also in the noise assessments of residential areas planned nearby the port.
Waste management for vessels
In 2015, vessels left 3,460 tonnes of waste and 363,700 m3 of wastewater
in the Port of Helsinki. The waste types with largest shares were oily waters (2,070 tonnes) and combustible mixed waste (850 tonnes). The vessels are en-couraged to leave their waste on shore by charging them for waste regardless of whether they leave their waste in the port or not.
Nearly all regularly operating ves-sels carry out their waste management directly through waste management companies. In 2015, the Port of Helsinki mainly provided waste management ser-vices to international cruise ships and some cargo vessels. During the cruise season, a waste advisor from a waste management company offered their ser-vices for the international cruise ships visiting the port. The aim of this was to attempt to improve factors such as the sorting of recyclable waste types and to reduce the amount of waste ending up as mixed waste. The provision of informa-tion about waste management and re-porting of waste amounts to cruise ship companies was also further improved.
ENVIRONMENTALLY
RESPONSIBLE PORT OPERATIONS
The operations of all the Helsinki harbours are steered by validenvironmental permits, as required by the Environmental Pro-tection Act. The permits regulate noise and emission levels as well as waste management, and they define the obligations to report on and monitor the environmental impacts of the opera-tions.
through the Vuosaari Harbour. These transports will increase the traffic in Vuosaari significantly, starting in 2017.
The construction work necessary for these new export transports were started towards the end of 2015. A plot of approximately six hectares is being prepared for the export terminal. Metsä Fibre’s new future terminal and its plot are so large, that extensive rearrange-ments of operations and traffic lines must be carried out in the harbour area.
The new bulk goods terminal
was commissioned
SA-TU Logistics built a new terminal in the Vuosaari Harbour, designed specially to serve the export containerisation of metal industry and mechanic forest in-dustry. The new 4,000 m2 bulk goods
terminal was taken into use in summer 2015.
The bulk goods terminal concentrates primarily on the short-term storage, con-tainerisation and unloading of containers of timber, plywood, glulam, various types of steel as well as projects and other similar industrial goods. The bulk goods terminal utilises the first “load plate” de-vice in the Vuosaari Harbour, which aims to execute containerisation semi-auto-matically.
Reduced carbon dioxide
emissions through solar energy
The Vuosaari Harbour aims to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The operating systems and operational
methods are being developed actively and, towards the end of the year, 72 solar panels were installed in the eastern ends of the noise barrier. They will be commis-sioned in early 2016.
The panels produce 15,500 kWh i.e. 15.5 MWh of electricity annually. The calculated reduction of carbon dioxide emissions is around 4,000 kg annually.
The deepening project
of sea route proceeded
In June, the Uusimaa Centre for Eco-nomic Development, Transport and the Environment decided that environmental impact assessment will not be applied to deepening of the sea route leading to Vuosaari and the waterway traffic area of Vuosaari Harbour. The water permit application for the project was filed in October and it will be processed in the Regional State Administrative Agency of Southern Finland. According to the application, the route will be deepened from the channel depth of 11 metres to the channel depth of 13 metres in nine different dredging areas. The alignment of the route will remain the same. In the harbour, two water areas will be deep-ened. It is estimated that the work will be completed in 2018 or 2019.
More field space
under construction
The Vuosaari Harbour began to fill in the old dockyard basin built in 1947. Nearly 300,000 m3 of landmass is needed to
fill in the basin. After the basin has been
filled and paved, the area will offer more field space for, e.g. container depot op-erations. The coating and sewerage of the field area on the western side of the dockyard basin was completed in au-tumn 2015.
No to the new power plant
Towards the end of 2015, it was decided that Helen energy company will not build a new multi-fuel power plant into Vuosaari. The Port of Helsinki will con-tinue to wait for clarification concerning a new project.
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Vuosaari Harbour 2015
Containers 430 000
Trailers and trucks 194 000
Ship visits 2 159
Passengers 160 000
City centre’s passenger harbours 2015 Passengers of liner traffic 11 009 000 Passengers of international cruise traffic 436 500 Vehicles 1 668 000 Ship visits 6 220
Thanks to the shore power connections, the ships do not need to utilise auxiliary devices when moored.
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Ships are increasingly delivering both sewage water and other ship-generated wastewater to harbours, from where they are delivered to wastewater treat-ment plants for processing. No separate fees are charged for the reception of ship-generated wastewater. All vessels operating to Helsinki regularly leave the wastewater generated aboard to the har-bours.
Water impacts
The impacts of the different harbours to the marine environment and the fish population are monitored as a part of the joint monitoring of the entire Hel-sinki Metropolitan Area’s marine regions. The port operations have been observed to have no direct, significant impacts to the waterways or fish populations. Near the harbours, the water is often cloudier than in the surrounding marine areas and the water’s oxygen content is some-times lower.
EFFICIENT
SOLUTIONS HELP
MINIMISE THE
ENVIRONMENTAL
IMPACTS
The Port of Helsinki is continuously striving towards more energy-efficient operations. The company’s total energy consumption in 2015 was 20,200 MWh, of which 16,000 MWh was used in South Harbour and 4,200 MWh in Vuosaari Harbour. Most of the consumed energy went to field lighting and heating of the buildings. The total energy consumption decreased a little under 8% compared to the previous year. During last year, the lighting of cellar premises, stairwells and passenger corridors in several pas-senger harbour buildings have been mod-ified to use LED technology and equipped with motion sensors. In addition to this, the field lights have partly been replaced with LED burners. Besides more efficient energy consumption, also the fact that certain premises were transferred under the management of the City of Helsinki explains the decrease in energy
con-sumption.
During its entire existence, the Vuo-saari Harbour has actively aimed to make its energy consumption more efficient. Compared to 2009, in 2015 the harbour’s consumption of electric energy had dropped by more than half. Significant improvements were achieved through changes to the controls and use of the area’s lighting. In addition to this, the lighting solutions of several premises in passenger terminals have, in recent years, utilised motor sensor-equipped LED lights.
The energy review of a major com-pany, as defined in the Energy Efficiency Act, was executed towards the end of the year. This review investigated the energy consumption sites of the Port of Helsinki and identified and planned the future en-ergy saving possibilities.
Forward through renewables
The possibility to produce renewable en-ergy locally in the Vuosaari Harbour was assessed in 2015. The first solar panels were installed to the Vuosaari Harbour’s noise barrier towards the end of the year. The solar panels will be taken into use in
early 2016. The energy production of the solar panels and their impact on carbon dioxide emissions will be monitored in real time.
Wastewater incentive –
for a cleaner Baltic Sea
The Port of Helsinki stopped charging for wastewater in 2008. Since then, ships have been able to pump out their
wastewater to the receiving devices in all mooring spots without a separate charge. In order to facilitate wastewater recep-tion especially from cruise ships, the Port of Helsinki made a decision about the introduction of financial incentives of regional wastewater pricing, which will come into force from 2016 onward. The objective of the Port of Helsinki is that all vessels leave their wastewater into the port in the future.
Supporting cleaner fuels – LNG
The Port of Helsinki promotes the use of cleaner fuels in vessels. When using liquefied natural gas, i.e. LNG, ship emis-sions are considerably lower than when using traditional fuels. We participate in an EU project that reviews the bunkering options of LNG.
Active environmental
cooperation
We participate in local, national and in-ternational cooperation in several envi-ronmental matters. We participate in the environmental group of the Baltic Sea ports, the Baltic Sea Challenge of Hel-sinki and Turku, the environmental work group of the Finnish Port Association as well as several environmental forums of the City of Helsinki and the Helsinki Met-ropolitan Area. The Port of Helsinki also works actively together with its custom-ers and city district societies.
Picture:
Solar panels were installed to the Vuosaari Harbour’s noise barrier towards the end of the year.
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
VUOSAARI HARBOUR,
PORT’S OWN ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION, MWH
7823
5575
4792
4632
4323
3788
3637
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
200 100 50 0 250 300 350 400 150 450VESSEL WASTEWATERS RECEIVED
BY THE PORT OF HELSINKI, 2009–2015
Passenger and cargo ships Cruise ships
2009
2010
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n 2015, the total amount of cargo traffic at the Port of Helsinki added up to 11.4 million tons. Unlike previous years, the most significant cargo flows by volume were the ones between Helsinki and Tallinn. Last year, the cargo traffic of Finnish ports decreased by more than 7% compared to last year. Despite this, the export from the harbours of Helsinki developed exceptionally well.The number of passengers travelling through the Port of Helsinki achieved a new record of 11.17 million passengers. There was an increase of 2.5%, compared to the previous year. Tallinn remained the most attractive destination also in passenger traf-fic.
Goods are transported through the Port of Helsinki mainly by large-sized unit loads: trucks, trailers and containers. Part of the goods are also transported as bulk goods. A railway goes to Vuosaari Harbour, and the amount of goods transported by train was around 8% of all the land transports of Vuosaari Harbour. In addition to this, small amounts of transit goods intended for the Russian market are delivered to the Helsinki harbours.
UNITISED CARGO
TRAFFIC INCREASED
The volume of unitised cargo traffic was 10.4 million tonnes, an increase of 5% compared to the previous year. This amount was distributed evenly among exports and imports. 46.5% of all goods transport was import and 53.5% export.
Import traffic consisted of consumab-les, durabconsumab-les, food supplies, production materials and investment goods.
The most important product groups in exports were products for the chemical and mechanical forest industry, metal products, machinery and equipment, and electronics. Helsinki was also the centre of exports for the textile, clothing, furni-ture, glass product, and food industries.
Rubber-wheeled Traffic
The land transport of the port’s cargo traffic was primarily carried out as rubber-wheeled transport. A total of 516,000 trucks, trailers and similar ve-hicles passed through the harbour. The
amount of goods transported in them was 6.6 million tons, which amounted to 63% of the unitised cargo traffic in the harbour. The number of transport vehi-cles increased by 3%, and the amount of cargo transported in them increased by 2% compared to the previous year. The most significant cargo flows by volume were the ones to and from Tallinn, Trave-münde and Stockholm.
Our market share of the ruber-whee-led traffic of Finnish harbours was 54%, while our market share of goods trans-ported in rubber-wheeled vehicles was 48%.
Container Traffic
In 2015, containers amounting to a total of 430,000 TEU were transported through the Port of Helsinki. These in-cluded 332,000 TEU of loaded contai-ners, which transported a total of 3.4 million tons of goods, accounting for 33% of the unitised cargo traffic in the port.
The total TEU of containers increased by 7.5% and the amount of goods tran-sported in a container by 6% from the previous year.
Container traffic was well balanced between imports and exports. Our mar-ket share of Finland’s total combined container traffic was 31%. As feeder traffic, container traffic was directed at the large ports in Europe, where approxi-mately 60% were reloaded to ships and transported outside Europe.
BULK PRODUCT
TRAFFIC REMAINED
AT THE SAME LEVEL
Our bulk product traffic totalled 0.8 million tonnes, consisting primarily of coal imported for the needs of the energy company Helsingin Energia. In addition to this, the port also received some 0.2 million tonnes of domestic coastal traffic.
TRAFFIC TO TALLINN
BROKE RECORDS
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The cargo traffic to Tallinn
increased by 14%
LINER TRAFFIC NETWORK 2015
140 departures per week
St Petersburg Ust-Luga Moscow Tallinn Stockholm Rostock Lübeck Hamburg Amsterdam Rotterdam Antwerp Ghent Zeebrugge SheernessTilbury Felixtowe Hull Immingham Teesport Grangemouth Bremerhaven Aarhus Kiel Riga Klaipeda Gdynia Bilbao Ferrol Santander Travemünde
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TALLINN THE MOST
SIGNIFICANT TARGET
CITY OF CARGO
TRAFFIC
The liner traffic network of the Port of Helsinki is the widest and most versatile in Finland. We have frequent and regular connections to ports on the Baltic Sea, North Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean, There are several daily connections to the ports of Tallinn and Stockholm. On average, the port had 140 weekly departures of liner traffic carrying cargo.
The cargo traffic is directed to the
ports of the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, after which the cargo is reshipped to other ships in European container centres in Hamburg, Bremerhaven, Rot-terdam, or Antwerp.
Unlike previous years, the most sig-nificant cargo flows by volume were the ones between Helsinki and Tallinn. The Tallinn traffic alone transported 3.5
million tonnes of itemised cargo, which comprised around 34% of the port’s entire itemised cargo traffic. The cargo amount increased by 14% The leader of previous years, Germany, came in sec-ond with 3.4 million tonnes: The share of traffic between Helsinki and Germany of the total itemised cargo transport was 33%.
The most significant changes to the cargo traffic are due to the launch of the new Vuosaari–Tallin route as well as the partial transfer of Rostock traffic to Hanko.
Many factors have simultaneously in-fluenced the growth of the Baltic traffic, such as the change in the competitive position between sea cargo and road transports caused by the introduction of the sulphur directive as well as the shortage of empty containers in Finland caused by the change of the Russian economy, which has, in part, also im-pacted the competitiveness of sea cargo.
CARGO TRAFFIC 2011 - 2015
CARGO TRAFFIC
Tonnes 2015 2014 Change %
15/14 2013
Unitised cargo 10 400 000 10 035 000 4% 9 644 000
Import 4 837 000 4 790 000 1% 4 751 000
Export 5 563 000 5245 000 6% 4 893 000
Bulk product traffic 780 000 659 000 18% 796 000
Foreign traffic 11 179 000 10 694 000 5% 10 440 000
Coastal traffic 231 000 134 000 72% 108 000
Total cargo traffic 11 410 000 10 828 000 5% 10 548 000 Million tonnes 15 10 5 0 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Individualised export Individualised import Bulk traffic Market Share % 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
PORT OF HELSINKI MARKET SHARES IN 2011 - 2015
Individualised
import, tonnes export, tonnesIndividualised Containers, TEU Trucks and trailers Passengers
60 40 20 0 80 100
UNITISED
CARGO TRAFFIC 2015
million tonnes Estonia 3,55 Germany 3,43 The Netherlands 1,10 Sweden 0,67 Belgium 0,50 Denmark 0,39 Poland 0,31The United Kingdom 0,31 Russia
0,03 Spain 0,04 France 0,04 Others 0,04 Total 10,41
RECORD-BREAKING
PASSENGER TRAFFIC
Ship cruises continued their popularity. The number of passengers reached a new record: 11.17 million passengers. There was an increase of 2.5%, com-pared to the previous year.
Tallinn continued to be the most at-tractive travel destination, thanks to the frequent and fast ship connections and moderate travelling expenses. A total of 8.4 million passengers travelled be-tween Helsinki and Tallinn over the year, which is 75% of all liner traffic passen-gers. The growth of passenger traffic to Tallinn was greater than that of all pas-senger traffic, 2.8%.
The majority of the passengers trav-elling on the Tallinn route are Finns and leisure travellers. However, the cities of Helsinki and Tallinn also form an increas-ingly closely-knit twin city and shared employment area. Already, a third of the traffic between the cities over the Gulf
of Finland is work-related. Tourists from East Asia have also discovered the route.
Travelling between Helsinki and Stockholm has maintained its popular-ity, year after year. The number of pas-sengers on the route was 2.3 million. The number has remained roughly the same since the beginning of the 1990s.
Passenger traffic between Helsinki
PASSENGER TRAFFIC
Million passengers 12 8 4 0 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015Sweden Estonia Others
75% of passengers travel
the Helsinki–Tallinn route
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n 2015, the actual port operations of the Port of Helsinki de-veloped positively. The development of goods transported through the harbours of Helsinki was very positive, despite the fact that traffic in the Finnish harbours was quiet in general. Year 2015 was the Port of Helsinki’s first financial year as a public limited company. The financial year’s turnover was 86.9 million euro.PROFIT
The profit from 2015 before closing en-tries was 3.5 million euro. After taxes, the financial year’s profit was 2.8 million euro.
The company’s good result was achieved thanks to the positive devel-opment of goods and passenger traffic as well as restructuring of operations. In addition to this, the results includes extraordinary items. The Supreme Ad-ministrative Court came to a positive decision for the Port of Helsinki in the matter of the size of the Custom’s con-trol premises in Vuosaari. The not yet invoiced rents from 2011–2014 were en-tered as other business revenues. The profit of the adjusted balance sheet be-fore closing entries was 1.7 million euro.
THE FIRST RESULT
AS A PUBLIC LIMITED
COMPANY WAS GOOD
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INVESTMENTS (M€)
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
18,8
15,6
13,3
15,9
13,9
TURNOVER (M€)
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
86,9
90,8
89,0
87,2
86,5
PASSENGER TRAFFIC
Liner traffic 2015 2014 Change %
15/14 2013 Stockholm 2 356 000 2 313 000 2% 2 356 000 Sweden, others 15 000 17 000 -12% – Tallinn 8 403 000 8 171 000 3% 7 860 000 St. Petersburg 259 000 267 000 -3% 356 000 Travemünde 133 000 129 000 3% 137 000 Rostock – 2 000 -100% 7 000 Others 3 000 – – Passenger, total 11 169 000 10 899 000 2% 10 716 000
INVESTMENTS
In total, 18.8 million euro was used for investments, which was 3.2 million euro more than last year. The most significant investments were related to the construction of the West Harbour’s expansion, ocean dock LJ8 and the new passenger terminal of West Harbour. Extensive rearrangements of operations and traffic routes were started in the Vuosaari Harbour in order to prepare for the pulp export of Metsä
Fibre’s new factory plan-ned for Äänekoski. and St. Petersburg declined due to
Rus-sia’s financial problems, the weakening of the rouble and the changes in the politi-cal atmosphere. The route was used by a total of 259,000 passengers in 2015.
Many car travellers crossed the Baltic Sea with Ro-Pax ships. The Vuosaari– Travemünde route had 133,000 passen-gers.
The Port of Helsinki’s market share of the passenger traffic of the passenger traffic of continental Finland’s marine ports was 79%.
INTERNATIONAL
CRUISE TRAFFIC
IS ON THE RISE
International cruise traffic is on the rise on the Baltic Sea. Usually, St. Petersburg is the cruise’s main destinations. The cruise ships visited Helsinki 254 times, carrying 436,500 passengers; a record-breaking number and 4% more than previous year. This record-breaking passenger number can be explained with larger size cruise ships, as there were 7 cruise visits less than last year.
500 000 400 000 300 000 200 000 100 000 0 200 300
Ship visits Passengers 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
CRUISE TRAFFIC 2011-2015
THE KANTVIK
HARBOUR
The Kantvik Harbour consists of two har-bour areas, one of which, an area of about 5 hectares, the Port of Helsinki manages. The harbour area has been leased to Oy Kantvik Shipping Ltd, which serves as the area’s harbour operator. The traffic at the Kantvik Harbout mostly consisted of imported bulk goods, which amounted to around 300,000 tonnes. POR T OF HEL SINKI Annual r epor t 201 5 POR T OF HEL SINKI Annual r epor t 201 5
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INCOME STATEMENT (M€)
Turnover
87
Production for own use
1
Other operating income
1
Materials, equipment,
rents of actual operations
-13
Service purchases
-11
Personnel expenses
-10
Depreciation
-37
Other expenses
-4
Profit
15
Financing earnings
1
Financing expenses
-12
Profit before closing entries
4
BALANCE SHEET (M€)
ASSETS
FIXED ASSETS
Intangible assets
164
Tangible assetst
303
Investments
0
CURRENT ASSETS
Long-term receivables
0
Short-term receivables
67
Liquid asset securities
40
Cash and bank receivables
0
TOTAL
576
LIABILITIES
SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Share capital
100
Invested unrestricted equity
204
Profit/loss of the financial year
3
Depreciation difference
0
LIABILITIES
Long-term
133
Capital loan
98
Short-term
37
TOTAL
576
FINANCIAL STATEMENT 1 JANUARY – 31 DECEMBER 2015
THE PORT OF HELSINKI’S
ORGANIZATION 2015
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Chair Pia Pakarinen Vice Chair Seppo Kanerva Dan Koivulaakso Matti Kyytsönen Jyrki Lohi Jan D. Oker-Blom Julia Ormio Antti Pankakoski Tuula Saxholm07
From left:Timo Laitinen, Kari Norovita, Kimmo Mäki, Pekka Meronen and Jukka Kallio.
ORGANIZATION
MANAGING DIRECTOR Kimmo Mäki PORT OF HELSINKI VUOSAARI HARBOUR DIRECTOR Jukka Kallio PASSENGER HARBOURS DIRECTOR Kari NoroviitaADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE
Financial Director Pekka Meronen
TECHNICAL SERVICES
Director Timo Laitinen
MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS
Kimmo Mäki The Board of Director’s presenting
official is the Managing Director Kimmo Mäki and the secretary Financial Director Pekka Meronen.
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Photos: Mikael Kaplar, Maria Marttinen, Tuula Palaste, Andreas Slotte, Veikko Somerpuro, STT-Lehtikuva and Port of Helsinki
