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The company is active in Finland’s mining sector, including work for Terrafame Ltd harvesting nickel and zinc by bioheap leaching at its mine, located at Sotkamo in the Kainuu region of Central Finland. Tallqvist currently has up to 50 machines at the facility, taking care of up to 700,000 tons per month of nickel ore and waste material.Hydraulic engineering and port construction is a special area of infrastructure construction for Tallqvist, which requires solid expertise and special equipment tailored to the task. The company’s most memorable special project was construction of the port of Kokkola’s All Weather Terminal, which is unique in the Nordic region. lBaltic Tank’s Kokkola terminal offers 22,000 m3 of storage capacity including 5,500-10,900 m3 of shore tanks, truck loading with weighbridge services and 9.5 m of alongside deepwater draft.Baltic Tank OyBaltic Tank Oy, founded in 1980s, is the largest independent family-owned terminal operator in the Nordic Countries, offering clients cost-efficient logistics services for liquid storage andThe company brings added-value to its customers’ logistics processes by offering a comprehensive service, covering storage and handling services for liquid chemicals and oil, as well as railway freight forwarding. Baltic Tank’s diverse experience and high technical know-how is transferred to its customers as flexible, reliable service, always on time, 24/7.HANDBOOK & DIRECTORY PORT OF KOKKOLArelated matters with eight terminals in Finland and one in Estonia.Baltic Tank strongly believes that when handling products such as bulk chemicals, it is necessary to make the most of economic transportation methods such as ships and rail services to minimise one-way road traffic. The company believes that by doing this, organisations reap significant savings from their logistics chains.PORT OPERATIONS & SERVICESPresident, Mikael Tallqvist. “In our operations, we rely on our professional and service-oriented staff, who are aware of the importance of their own occupational safety and contribute actively to it. We expect our subcontractors to be reliable and co-operative and to internalise our system of operating.”Tallqvist offers experience in the stringent requirements of environmental construction and is ready to meet new challenges. The company has implemented demanding soil renovation projects in various parts of Finland, established new, and decommissioned old, landfill sites and constructed, among other things, containment areas for industry.customers efficiently in ports all around the Northern Baltic Sea area. The company’s tanks store hazardous chemicals and various oils processed for sea, rail and road transport – all of which are available in its Kokkola terminal which also houses its modern railway unit handling facilities.Thanks to its central location in the port of Kokkola, the company servesThe company has been classed an ISO9001 and 14001 accredited storage operator and is a member of European Petrochemical Association and the Chemical Industry Federation of Finland. l65Baltic Tank brings added-value to its customers’ logistics processes through its comprehensive storage, handling and rail freight forwarding service for liquid chemicals and oil.