Western Harbour (Mariehamn)
The Western Harbour, known in Swedish as Västerhamn, is one of the two harbours in Mariehamn, the capital of Åland in Finland. It serves major ferry routes between southern Finland and Sweden, and between Estonia and Sweden, in part because Åland ports can offer duty-free shopping outside the EU.
The harbour handles about 15 ferry sailings each day and is visited by roughly 20 international cruise ships a year, making it the third-busiest international passenger port in Finland. In 2018, it saw around 1.25 million arriving passengers (2.5 million passenger movements in total). The port’s maximum depth is 9.2 metres, with at least 200 metres of navigable width, and it is usually ice-free in winter or only thinly iced.
In the Western Harbour sits the museum ship Pommern, a four-masted sailing ship from 1903, part of the Åland Maritime Museum. The Eastern Harbour (Österhamn/Itäsatama) nearby mainly serves smaller leisure boats and yachts, and is one of the Nordic region’s largest leisure marinas.
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