- Volume 5 (2007), Issue 4
- Vol. 5 (2007), No. 4
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The Vuosaari Harbour Case: Implementation of the Habitats and Birds Directives in the Vuosaari Harbour Project
[...] II. The Vuosaari Harbour Project The City of Helsinki is building a new harbour at Vuosaari in the north-east of the city. The harbour will be, in Finnish circumstances, extensive. It will comprise 153 hectares, 92 hectares of which consists of sea to be filled. The harbour is planned to have a capacity to handle 12 million tonnes of cargo per year. It would replace two existing harbours in the central parts of the city, which in 2002 handled togethe