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The Port of Tornio ( Finnish: ''Tornion satama'',
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: ''Torneå hamn''), also known as the Port of Röyttä, is a cargo port located in the city of Tornio, Finland, at the end of the Bothnian Bay and close to Finland's border with
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. It is near the
Port of Kemi The Port of Kemi is a cargo port in the city of Kemi, Finland, on the northern shore of the Bothnian Bay. The port comprises three facilities: *Ajos harbour: the main facility at Kemi, handling both containerised and bulk cargo; four piers and ...
, with which it shares part of the shipping lane. The port is operated by Outokumpu Shipping, and its main user is the adjacent Outokumpu
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. The annual international cargo throughput of the Port of Tornio was 3.0 million tons in 2018, fairly evenly split between exports and imports, making it the tenth biggest port in Finland by tonnage. The port has a maximum depth of .


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