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Logistics and Distances

Since the Race Centre is in the very Centre of Helsinki, all services needed, traffic and both public and cargo transportation connections are close by.

  • The Helsinki-Vantaa Airport 20km
  • The ferries from Rostock, Stockholm and Tallinn 1km
  • The cargo ferries to Port of Helsinki 16km
  • Main Railway Station 1km
  • Subway 1km
  • Citytrain and buses

Public Transportation

"The City of Helsinki will be happy to provide free public transportation for the official teams during the official championship days."
Jussi Pajunen, Lord Mayor of Helsinki

There are many Restaurants in the racing area, as well as in the vicinity. With in 1,5km there is about 50 restaurants. Most of the major Hotels are located within 1-2km distance from the Race Centre. Camping area in Pihlajasaari, with regular timetable traffic boat connnections. Rights to the free public transportation with Race Pass will be obtained. Shuttle buses and shuttle taxiboats will help to connect to the hotel and other city service locations.

Helsinki - Vantaa Airport has hundreds of direct connections per week from every continent and capitol cities. It has been chosen 3 times to be the best airport in the world in its category. On daily basis there are multiple daily connections per day to all major European Cities.

Car + Passengerferries

Stockholm SWE Helsinki 14x/w
Stockholm SWE Turku c.30x/w
Tallinn EST Helsinki >100x/w 1h40m-2h30m
Rostock GER Helsinki 7x/w 24h


Finnlines RoRo and RoRo+passengers

Finnlines POL Helsinki 6x/w 28h
Gdynia GER Helsinki 10x/w 26h
Lybeck/
Travemunde GER Helsinki 1x/w 26h
Malmö SWE Helsinki 1x/w 34h
Århus DEN Helsinki 3x/w 36h
Oslo NOR Helsinki 1x/w 63h
Amsterdam NED Helsinki 1x/w 60h
Antwerp BEL Helsinki 2x/w 65h
Zeebrugge BEL Helsinki 1x/w 66h
Hull GBR Helsinki 2x/w 85h
Bilbao ESP Helsinki 1x/w 119h


Containership Containers

Hamburg GER Helsinki weekly 44h
Rotterdam NED Helsinki 2x/w 57h
London GBR Helsinki weekly 72h

In addition to these there is container and RoRo traffic to ports all around the world.

Helsinki Vantaa Airport in Brief

Around 120 destinations over the year: 100 international destinations, 20 domestic destinations Around 1800 scheduled departures / week: 1100 to international destinations, 700 to domestic destinations. Over 40 regular operating Airlines: 30 scheduled Airlines, 10 regular charter Airlines, Up to 100 of nonregular operators.

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