14 LOGISTICS


Vuosaari to be route for exported bio-products


The new Äänekoski bio-product mill will have its pulp shipped from Finland through new faciliti es. PPL reports


Vuosaari as the export harbour for pulp produced at the planned new bio-product mill in Finland at Äänekoski.


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ulp manufacturer Metsä Fibre Oy and the Port of Helsinki have agreed to develop


The necessary space and other


resources have been reserved to enable the export traffi c to start. “Extra traffi c is most welcome,” said representati ves of Port of Helsinki. “The harbour in Vuosaari is a modern logisti c centre that off ers effi cient possibiliti es to take


care of this traffi c which increases the whole export traffi c from Finland. The eff ect of this lett er of intent will reach the Finnish community in diverse ways, souping up the economic life.” It is esti mated that the additi onal traffi c could create up


to 100 jobs in various parts of the logisti c chain. “Metsä Fibre Oy menti oned


800,000 tonnes, which if fulfi lled, would mean an increase of approximately 10 percent in the traffi c of Vuosaari harbour in Helsinki,” said Kimmo Mäki,


Environmental impact of Äänekoski bio-products project assessed


A key process in Metsä Group’s project to construct the new bio-product mill at Äänekoski in Finland has been the completi on of an Environmental Impact Assessment report by the Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY Centre) for Central Finland. According to the ELY Centre,


which is acti ng as the contact authority, the Environmental Impact Assessment is suffi ciently thorough, and the report fulfi ls the requirements laid down in the Act on Environmental Impact Assessment Procedure (468/1994). The contact authority received


12 statements and one opinion on the EIA. The assessment procedure


for the bio-product mill project was launched in the spring and, aft er receipt of the contact authority’s statement, is now complete. The results of the Environmental Impact Assessment will be taken into account in the design and decision-making


November/December 2014


concerning the project. The Environmental Impact Assessment report examined the environmental impacts of the various implementati on alternati ves for the bio-product mill as an aid to further planning and decision-making. The alternati ves considered were as follows: • Opti on 1: Construct a new bio-


product mill with a capacity of 1.3 million tonnes of pulp a year. In additi on to the pulp mill, the bio- product mill complex will include some of the following faciliti es: bio-oil plant, bioethanol plant,


digesti on plant, product gas plant, and bio-carbon plant. • Opti on 2: Construct a pulp mill with a capacity of 1.3 million tonnes of pulp a year. • Opti on 0: The existi ng pulp mill will remain operati onal unti l the end of its natural life. The key environmental impacts of each opti on were modelled. The mill’s impacts on the following areas, among others, were then assessed on the basis of these models: air quality and climate, landscape and cultural landscape, soil and bedrock, bodies of water and traffi c, as


well as human health, living conditi ons and amenity. The report also includes a separate evaluati on of the environmental impacts during constructi on. Although the contact authority held the assessment to be suffi cient, the points presented in its statement must be considered during further planning of the project. The points concern, among other things, the potenti al emissions of hazardous substances during dredging, noise abatement planning, and the recommendati on to open a new passage for migrati ng trout through Myllykoski to Lake Keitele. “The Environmental Impact Assessment process has progressed well from the outset. A large number of people have parti cipated in the process at public events, at EIA monitoring group meeti ngs, from the authoriti es, and within our own organisati on. I would like to extend a warm thank you to everyone who has taken part in this process,” says Project Director Timo Merikallio.


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