Metsä Group has signed an agreement on a comprehensive logistics solution and an export harbour for the bioproduct mill
Metsä Group Press Release 19 February 2016
Vuosaari Harbour will serve as the export harbour for the bioproduct mill in Äänekoski. Metsä Group, the Port of Helsinki and the City of Helsinki have reached an agreement on the use of the harbour and the lease of an area for a terminal building of around 30,000 square metres. The terminal will serve as an export warehouse for the bioproduct mill and will be completed before the mill is inaugurated in the third quarter of 2017.
Export logistics will be based on a comprehensive new solution. VR Transpoint will be responsible for the rail transport of goods and for harbour operations in cooperation with Oy M. Rauanheimo Ab. The bioproduct mill will export around 800,000 tonnes of pulp per year, mainly to Europe and Asia.
“These solutions will ensure efficient, smoothly running export logistics for us in Finland,” says Jari Voutilainen, SVP, Group Logistics at Metsä Group.
Metsä Group is building the world’s first next-generation bioproduct mill in Äänekoski. The mill will produce around 1.3 million tonnes of pulp per year, as well as other bioproducts and bioenergy.
METSÄ GROUP
Group Communications
Further information:
Jari Voutilainen, SVP, Group Logistics, Metsä Group, tel. +358 40 707 9644
www.metsagroup.com
Metsä Group is a responsible forest industry group whose products’ main raw material is renewable wood from sustainably managed northern forests. Metsä Group is a forerunner in the bioeconomy. We focus on tissue and cooking papers, fresh forest fibre paper-boards, pulp, wood products, and wood supply and forest services. Our high-quality products combine renewable raw materials, customer-orientation, sustainable development and innovation. Metsä Group’s sales totalled EUR 5 billion in 2015, and the company employs approximately 9,600 people. The Group operates in some 30 countries. Metsäliitto Cooperative is the parent company of Metsä Group and is owned by approximately 116,000 Finnish forest owners.