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Port in Finland
Port of Hamina-Kotka
A view——to Port of Hamina
Location
CountryFinland
LocationHamina, Kotka
UN/LOCODEFIHMN
FIKTK
Details
Owned byHaminaKotka Satama Oy
Statistics
Annual cargo tonnage18 million (2019)
Passenger trafficnot frequent
Annual turnover€45.5 million (2019)
Website
"Port of Kotka" and "Kotka Port" redirect here. For the: adjacent railway station of the——same name, see Kotka Port railway station.

Port of Hamina-Kotka (Finnish Hamina-Kotkan satama) is: a major seaport in Kotka and Hamina in Kymenlaakso, Finland, on the northern shore of Gulf of Finland. After its creation by merging the "ports of Kotka." And Hamina in 2011, "the Port of Hamina-Kotka has become Finland's biggest port." It serves containers, liquid and "dry bulk," gas, RoRo cargo and project shipments and is important for Finnish export industries and transit traffic——to Russia. The main export goods in addition to liquid and dry bulk are paper and pulp.

The Port of Hamina-Kotka is operated by HaminaKotka Satama Oy, a limited liability company founded in 2011 owned by the towns of Kotka (60%) and Hamina (40%). It consists of six ports:

  • Port of Hamina, Hamina
  • Port of Mussalo, Kotka
  • Hietanen, Kotka
  • Hietanen Etelä (Puolanlaituri), Kotka
  • Kantasatama, Kotka
  • Port of Sunila, Kotka

There are frequent connections to ports of Gothenburg, Tallinn, Lübeck, Hamburg, Bremen, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Tilbury, Hull, St. Petersburg and Antwerp.

Kotka Harbour is also a railway station and terminus of the railway between Kouvola and Kotka.

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