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11.12.2007
Traffic 1.-30.11.2007 Handled by Rauma Stevedoring
   
Export                   366.174 tons
Import                      87.854 tons
 
Total traffic (November) 454.028 tons
 
From the 1st January 2007, 5.146.029 tons
     
 
21.11.2007
     
 
19.11.2007
Containers stored in warm warehouse 
   
Dear Customer!
 
In the case of containers stored in warm warehouse we are forced to limit our service times of receiving and handing units over to vehicles stating 23rd November 2007 as following
 
Monday - Friday form 07.00 to 23.00.
 
Best regards
Oy Rauma Stevedoring Ltd
     
 
19.11.2007
Traffic 1.-31.10.2007 Handled by Rauma Stevedoring
   
Export                   373.970 tons
Import                   119.142 tons
 
Total traffic (October) 493.112 tons
 
From the 1st January 2007, 4.692.001 tons
     
 
11.10.2007
UPM to sell its Finnish port operators Rauma Stededoring and Botnia Shipping to Australian firm Babcock&Brown Infrastructure
   
UPM has sold its Finnish port operators Oy Rauma Stevedoring Ltd and Botnia Shipping Ltd to Babcock ?
Oy Rauma Stevedoring Ltd is a port operator based in Rauma. The company's annual sales are about 55 million euros and it has an average of 610 employees. Based in Pietarsaari, Botnia Shipping Ltd's annual sales are about 7 million euros and it has an average of 50 employees.
In connection with the sale, UPM has made a long term logistics service contract with BBI. The sale of the Finnish port operators complies with UPM's strategy to divest non-core businesses.
BBI is a specialist infrastructure entity which provides investors access to a diversified portfolio of quality infrastructure assets. The company owns and operate globally ports handling a total of around 150 million tonnes of various commodities. The company's annual Group Revenue amounts to 1.3 billion Australian dollars (approximately EUR 8.2 billion) and it employs 2,900 people worldwide. For further information, please visit www.bbinfrastructure.com.
For further information please contact (after 14:00 Finnish time):
Mr Jussi Sarvikas, Senior Vice President, Logistic, UPM, tel. +358 400 620896
Mr Jari A. Vainio, General Manager, UPM, Wisaforest, Pietarsaari, tel. +358 40 5465 097
News conferences
A news conference on the transaction will be held today, October 11, 2007 at 14:30 (Finnish time)
- in Rauma, Rauma City Hall, address Kanalinranta 3.
- in Pietarsaari, Botnia Shipping canteen, address Laukontie 3
Both UPM and BBI representatives are present in the news conferences. In addition, representatives from Rauma City will be present at the news conference in Rauma.
     
 
11.10.2007
Traffic 1.-30.9.2007 Handled by Rauma Stevedoring
   
Export                   360.162 tons
Import                      93.136 tons
 
Total traffic (September) 453.298 tons
 
From the 1st January 2007, 4.198.889 tons
     
 
07.09.2007
Traffic 1.-31.8.2007 Handled by Rauma Stevedoring
   
Export                   387.357 tons
Import                      91.654 tons
 
Total traffic (August) 479.011 tons
 
From the 1st January 2007, 3.745.591 tons
     
 
08.08.2007
Traffic 1.-31.7.2007 Handled by Rauma Stevedoring
   
Export                   370.758 tons
Import                   100.409 tons
 
Total traffic (July) 471.167 tons
 
From the 1st January 2007, 3.266.580 tons
     
 
10.07.2007
Traffic 1.-30.6.2007 Handled by Rauma Stevedoring
   
Export                   359.852 tons
Import                      97.967 tons
 
Total traffic (June) 457.819 tons
 
From the 1st January 2007, 2.787.076 tons
     
 
05.07.2007
The Company Image of Oy Rauma Stevedoring Ltd is the third best in Finland
   
 The Finnish research company Taloustutkimus Oy carried out a 7th Survey of Finnish Ports on spring 2007 (first survey was carried out on 1992). One aim of this survey was to find out how the customer companies evaluate the company images of the port operators. According to the survey the August Lindberg Oy (from Raahe) has the best company image of total 32 port operators. Rauma Stevedoring's company image was evaluated as third best.
 
The company image was measured with different criteria of service. Rauma Stevedoring placed among the bests in flexibility, willingness to service, service quality and service selection. According to the survey Rauma Stevedoring has to improve the speed of service and reliability. Rauma Stevedoring is already aware of these targets for development and developing actions has been started. 
 
Rauma Stevedoring thanks everyone for answering to the inquiry and giving valuable feedback of the service of Rauma Stevedoring.
     
 
11.06.2007
Traffic 1.-31.5.2007 Handled by Rauma Stevedoring
   
Export 389.016 tons
Import   101.663 tons
 
Total traffic (May) 490.679 tons
From the 1st January 2007, 2337.594 tons
     
 
22.05.2007
Appointment in the technology and production department
   
Jarkko Lainio has been appointed as production manager on 21st May 2007.
He has earlier worked in the company as a supervisor and in different projects. 
Lainio is responsible for coordinating operative actions of production, controlling of productive resources and developing the operative processes. 
 
Lainio reports to the Director of Production, Mr. Juha Rehmonen.
 
For more information contact:
Juha Rehmonen, Director of Production, +358 40 588 3035
     
 
11.05.2007
Traffic 1.-30.4.2007 Handled by Rauma Stevedoring
   
Export 337.857 tons
Import   101.827 tons
 
Total traffic (April) 439.684 tons
From the 1st January 2007, 1838.590 tons
     
 
12.04.2007
Traffic 1.-31.3.2007 Handled by Rauma Stevedoring
   
Export 378.932 tons
Import   101.578 tons
 
Total traffic (March) 480.510 tons
From the 1st January 2007, 1407.230 tons
     
 
14.03.2007
Traffic 1.-28.02.2007 Handled by Rauma Stevedoring
   
The export of chemical forest industry was heavy as in January and added to this the biggest growth was in the export of sawn timber and in the import of containers.
   
Export 379.234 tons
Import   85.050 tons
 
Total traffic (February) 464.284 tons
From the 1st January 2007, 926.720 tons
     
 
01.03.2007
Environmental License to Oy Rauma Stevedoring Ltd
   
The Environment Office of West Finland has on 28th of February granted Environmental Licenses to the port of Rauma and Oy Rauma Stevedoring Ltd to operations in the ports of Rauma and Pikisaari. 
In the environmental license of Oy Rauma Stevedoring Ltd has given instructions among others to reduce the dust nuisance caused by the handling of china clay by the end of year 2008 with technical solutions and avoiding the discharging of china clay from vessels in windy conditions.    
     
 
12.02.2007
Summer Jobs of Rauma Stevedoring
   
Application period to all summer jobs of Rauma Stevedoring ends up 28th February. 
All applications (also 15 - 17 years old applicants) should be made online. From our homepages under the heading "Personnel" you can find a link to the internet pages of UPM Kymmene where the application can be made.
The selection will be made during March and appointees will be informed during April.
 
For more information, please contact Personnel Training Manager 
Kari Suominen +358 2 8312 221.
     
 
08.02.2007
Traffic 1.-31.01.2007 Handled by Rauma Stevedoring
   
Export 374.075 tons
Import   88.361 tons
 
Total traffic (January) 462.436 tons
From the 1st January 2007, 462.436 tons
     
 
05.02.2007
Certificate for washing and repairing operations of IMDG containers
   
Arctic Container Ltd that carries out washing and repairing of containers in the Port of Rauma as a subcontractor of Oy Rauma Stevedoring Ltd has certificated its washing operations of IMDG containers. Certificate is accordant with SQAS (Safety & Quality Assesment Systems). 
     
 
30.01.2007
Trainings to machine stevedores has started
   
To develop our production of service and to prevent congestion, especially on summer and other holiday seasons, we have started to train new stevedores to operate machines. 
During this year 15 new stevedores will be trained to machine work starting on week 5. 
Also 7 employees, who have worked in different tasks, will be trained to machine stevedores during this spring.   
     
 
09.01.2007
Traffic 1.-31.12.2006 Handled by Rauma Stevedoring
   
Export 337.610 tons
Import   81.379 tons
 
Total traffic (December) 418.989 tons
From the 1st January 2006, 5446.157 tons