Helsinki Airport

FINAVIA: Fly to the Happiest Country in the World, Finland, With Five Direct Connections

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Thursday, March 21, 2024

Finland is a unique travel destination, and you can fly there with five direct connections from the United States.

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  • Finland is a unique travel destination, and you can fly there with five direct connections from the United States.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240321975944/en/
    According to the international World Happiness Report, Finland is the happiest country in the world in 2024.
  • Finland has been named the happiest country in the world in 2024 for the seventh year in a row.
  • “The past winter season 2023–2024 was record-breaking and European airlines opened almost 20 new direct flight connections to airports in Lapland.

Helsinki Airport once again selected as the best airport in Europe

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Monday, March 11, 2024

Passengers have selected Finland’s Helsinki Airport as the best airport in Europe in terms of customer experience in the 15–25 million passenger size category.

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  • Passengers have selected Finland’s Helsinki Airport as the best airport in Europe in terms of customer experience in the 15–25 million passenger size category.
  • Customer experience was at the heart of the most extensive development programme in the history of Helsinki Airport, which resulted in the airport being completely revamped.
  • The award has been given to Helsinki Airport for its merits in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023.
    Business travellers also rated Helsinki Airport among the best in the world.
  • Helsinki Airport was ranked among the top five airports in the world in the ranking published at the end of February.

The Finnish airport recognised as the best in Europe − Helsinki Airport's historic development programme is now complete

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Thursday, October 12, 2023

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  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231012320499/en/
    Finavia is delighted to announce the successful completion of the most extensive development programme in the history of Helsinki Airport.
  • In June 2023, the international airport organisation ACI (Airports Council International) awarded Helsinki Airport the recognition of the best airport in Europe in its size category.
  • In June 2023, the international airport organisation ACI (Airports Council International) awarded Helsinki Airport the recognition of the best airport in Europe in its size category.
  • The development programme had a significant impact on Helsinki Airport becoming carbon neutral as early as 2017.

Neste celebrates the opening of the Singapore expansion and establishes a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) supply chain to Changi Airport

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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

The EUR 1.6 billion Singapore Expansion project has been successfully completed, the start-up of the refinery expansion has been completed after mid-April, and Neste is celebrating its opening today.

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  • The EUR 1.6 billion Singapore Expansion project has been successfully completed, the start-up of the refinery expansion has been completed after mid-April, and Neste is celebrating its opening today.
  • The Singapore refinery expansion doubles Neste's production capacity in Singapore and brings the refinery's total capacity to 2.6 million tons annually of which up to one million tons can be sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
  • "We celebrate today our Singapore refinery expansion opening with our customers, partners and employees.
  • In order to be able to offer blended Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel™ directly to airlines at Singapore Changi Airport, Neste has agreed to acquire a stake and become a minority shareholder in Changi Airport Fuel Hydrant Installation Company Pte Ltd (CAFHI), the fuel storage and infrastructure joint venture in the airport.

Neste celebrates the opening of the Singapore expansion and establishes a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) supply chain to Changi Airport

Retrieved on: 
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

The EUR 1.6 billion Singapore Expansion project has been successfully completed, the start-up of the refinery expansion has been completed after mid-April, and Neste is celebrating its opening today.

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  • The EUR 1.6 billion Singapore Expansion project has been successfully completed, the start-up of the refinery expansion has been completed after mid-April, and Neste is celebrating its opening today.
  • The Singapore refinery expansion doubles Neste's production capacity in Singapore and brings the refinery's total capacity to 2.6 million tons annually of which up to one million tons can be sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
  • "We celebrate today our Singapore refinery expansion opening with our customers, partners and employees.
  • In order to be able to offer blended Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel™ directly to airlines at Singapore Changi Airport, Neste has agreed to acquire a stake and become a minority shareholder in Changi Airport Fuel Hydrant Installation Company Pte Ltd (CAFHI), the fuel storage and infrastructure joint venture in the airport.

Trimble Announces Tekla Global BIM Awards 2022 Winners

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Tuesday, October 4, 2022

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble (NASDAQ; TRMB) announced today the winners of its 2022 Tekla® Global Building Information Modeling (BIM) Awards. In this biennial competition, the world's most impressive structural construction projects that use Tekla solutions are judged in eight categories. The criteria the projects are judged on include Use of BIM and Collaboration, Innovative Use of Tekla software, Constructibility, Environmental Benefits and Cool Factor. The overall winner for the best BIM project of 2022 is T2 Alliance, for their Helsinki Airport expansion project.

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  • SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Trimble (NASDAQ; TRMB) announced today the winners of its 2022 Tekla Global Building Information Modeling (BIM) Awards.
  • The 103,000 square-meter extension to the existing Helsinki Airport is the winner in the Public category and the Best BIM project of the 2022 Tekla Global BIM Awards.
  • "The Tekla Global BIM Awards celebrate the best in structural engineering and BIM," said Jari Heino, vice president and general manager, Trimble Tekla.
  • More information about the Tekla Global BIM Awards projects, submissions, jury and winners is available at: https://www.tekla.com/bim-awards .

Dufry extends its duty-free and duty-paid concession at Helsinki Airport for a further five years

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Thursday, February 17, 2022

Finavia is currently undertaking a considerable restructuring and extension of the Helsinki Airport and will accordingly reorganize passenger flows going forward.

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  • Finavia is currently undertaking a considerable restructuring and extension of the Helsinki Airport and will accordingly reorganize passenger flows going forward.
  • Dufry is proud to be part of and to actively contribute to Finavia's impressive development program at Helsinki Airport.'
  • Speaking on behalf of Finavia, Nora Immonen, Director of Commercial Business at Helsinki Airport, adds: 'We at Finavia look forward to continuing our long-lasting partnership with Dufry.
  • Helsinki Airport is currently undergoing extensive development work and we are excited to see Dufry as part of our upgraded commercial selection in the future.

Major US Airport Authority Contracts with RAD for 6-Units

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Friday, July 23, 2021

Although not disclosed, the end-user for these 6 ROSA180 units is a major US airport authority that owns and operates more than one airport.

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  • Although not disclosed, the end-user for these 6 ROSA180 units is a major US airport authority that owns and operates more than one airport.
  • This order from this major airport authority is very exciting for us, said Steve Reinharz, CEO of RAD.
  • Its very rewarding to see how major organizations are embracing RAD solutions as they seek to enhance their security profile, while at the same time reducing their costs.
  • Through its next-generation robotic product offerings, AITXs RAD and RAD-M companies help organizations streamline operations, increase ROI and strengthen business.

Finnair Executive and Alation Customer Named to Prestigious 2022 Constellation Research Business Transformation 150

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Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Alation , the leader in enterprise data intelligence, today announced Nina Marila, Head of Data Science at Finnair, was recognized by Constellation Research on its 2022 Business Transformation 150, an elite list of executives leading business transformation efforts around the globe.

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  • Alation , the leader in enterprise data intelligence, today announced Nina Marila, Head of Data Science at Finnair, was recognized by Constellation Research on its 2022 Business Transformation 150, an elite list of executives leading business transformation efforts around the globe.
  • Over the past year, by using Alation, cross-functional teams have been able to share information about their data and models to support the airlines Operations Control Center.
  • We are proud to work with Nina and help Finnair build a data culture that empowers their teams to make data-driven business decisions, said Satyen Sangani, CEO and co-founder, Alation.
  • "The pandemic created tremendous opportunities for technology and business leaders to kick off and turbocharge their transformation projects.

DGAP-News: adesso founds adesso Nordics in Finland / Expansion into the Northern European Region

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Tuesday, June 8, 2021

With the newly founded national company adesso Nordics Oy in Helsinki, adesso, as one of the leading IT service providers in German-speaking countries, will now also open up the Northern European countries.

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  • With the newly founded national company adesso Nordics Oy in Helsinki, adesso, as one of the leading IT service providers in German-speaking countries, will now also open up the Northern European countries.
  • adesso Nordics focuses initially on the core industries of banking and insurance as well as manufacturing industry, automotive and lottery in Northern Europe.
  • In addition, adesso Nordics brings the German experience, skills and capacity for SAP S/4HANA transformations available to the Nordic markets.
  • The new subsidiary adesso Nordics in Finland is the eighth foreign subsidiary of adesso in Europe - after subsidiaries in Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Spain, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey (Istanbul).