Sea trials for Suomenlinna ferry begin in Helsinki, Finland
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Sea trials for the wayward ferry Suomenlinna II began Monday off Helsinki. The ferry runs between mainland Helsinki and the Suomenlinna island belonging to Helsinki.
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OSLO -- Nearly 60 years after Thor Heyerdahl sailed his Kon-Tiki balsa raft across the Pacific to prove a theory about ancient mariners, a team that includes his grandson plans to re-create the 101-day epic voyage to Tahiti -- although the craft will have solar panels, a satellite navigation system, and a link to the Internet.
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Trial, which is voluntary, aims to enroll 2,000 travelers on selected routes to and from the U.K.
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Finnair will enable passengers to send mobile text messages and e-mails on flights to the Far East starting next month.The service will become possible on satellite telephones provided at each seat of the airline's new Airbus A340 aircraft, to be delivered in June. It will first be available on routes from Helsinki to the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Nagoya, and Shanghai, China.Passengers will be able to read and answer messages and mail sent from the ground. Each sent or received message will cost $2, the Finnish carrier said. Passengers will be able to call each other during flights. Read more
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A rescue operation has been launched off the west of Scotland to help the crew of a Latvian cargo ship in trouble in heavy seas.
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The first trial in France over a major environmental disaster will open on Monday  to decide whether oil giant Total and other parties bear responsibility for the massive oil spill from the Erika shipwreck in 1999.
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A replica Viking ship heads across the North Sea as it tries to recreate the voyages of early Norsemen.
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Europe's 20-tonne supply ship for the International Space Station will have its maiden flight on Saturday 8 March.
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A Finnish town near the Arctic circle, already covered by snow for most of the year, is planning to build the country&#39;s biggest ski jumping hill -- indoors.
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Senior Indonesian officials and leaders of the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) started arriving in Helsinki for talks aimed at hammering out a truce for the area worst hit by last month's tsunami.
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GLASGOW looks set to win Scotland's first direct flight to the Baltics. An airline has filed for the right to fly from the city to the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, one of Europe's fastest-growing shortbreak ...
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Finnish consulting and engineering group Poyry Plc said on Monday that it has been commissioned by the Finnish Rail Administration to improve the service standard on the Lahti - Luumaki railway track. via Customer Interaction Solutions
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Finland&#39;s Tanja Poutiainen clears a gate during the women&#39;s slalom World Cup race in Zauchensee, Austria, on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2004.
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The safety or otherwise of the new Suomenlinna II passenger ferry has become the most important current topic on the former fortress island of Suomenlinna, just off the coast of Helsinki.
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President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Jean Lemierre is to meet top Finnish government representatives and business chiefs during his two-day Finland visit, which began on Monday.
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The Cosmos 1 team announced today that the worldâs first solar sail spacecraft will be set for launch on March 1, 2005 from a submerged submarine in the Barents Sea.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Helsinki on a working visit Thursday, the day before a Russia-EU summit in the Finnish capital.Comment