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Kotka

(kōt`kä), city (1998 pop. 55,551), Southern Finland prov., SE Finland, on the Gulf of Finland. It is a major export center for paper, pulp, and timber, and it has chemical industries. It was chartered in 1878.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Kotka

a city in Finland, situated on the islands at the mouth of the Kymi River, near the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland. Adminstrative center of Kymi Province. Population, 34,-000 (1970). It is connected by rail with the mainland. Kotka is a major port for the export of timber products. The city has a sawmill, a pulp and paper plant, a sugar refinery, chemical enterprises (including a superphosphate plant), and factories producing equipment for the timber industry.

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Logistics services provider Nurminen Logistics Oyj (Nurimen) (HEL:NLG1V) announced on Wednesday the purchase back of cargo handling terminals in Vainikkala, Kotka and Luumaki, which were previously held by Mutual Pension Insurance Company Ilmarinen.

Nurminen Logistics buys back cargo handling terminals for EUR3.5m

LAKKI MARWAT -- Police have arrested four people, including two proclaimed offenders, during an operation in Kotka Shadi Khan village of Naurang town here on Sunday.

Two POs among four held

Bannu -- A friend was shot dead by his friend and the alleged killer escaped from the scene in Kotka Habibian.

Friend kills friend in Bannu

PESHAWAR -- Two persons including a woman were killed while a women and a child received bullets injuries in a firing incident by some 25 armed men raided a house of Tori Haji situated in Tajori Kotka, Tabak Sagai area of District Lakki Marwat on Saturday.

Two killed including a woman, two other injured in Lakki Marwat firing

Noha Adly, the First Deputy to the Minister of Communications and Information Technology signed on Monday a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Tvi Kotka, the Estonian Deputy Secretary Generalat the information and communications technology (ICT) department at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications.

MCIT signs MOU with Estonia

"Artist Peter Kotka was looking for a place to work along with fellow artists Cheryl Weaver, Liz Fletcher and Phil Webb," Mr Lawrence said.

New gallery puts art into heart of town

KOTKA, Finland (TAP) - Finland has allowed a British ship carrying dozens of Patriot missiles to leave port, after determining no wrongdoing was involved in the shipment.

Embargoed missiles leave Finland

Private equity firm OpenGate Capital has completed the buyout of the Kotka Mills division and the laminating paper operations in Malaysia of Finnish paper and packaging group Stora Enso (HEL:STEAV), OpenGate said Thursday.

OpenGate Capital finalises buyout of Kotka Mills

LLC has provided financing to John Nurminen Oy, a 119-year-old Finnish company that provides logistics and related transport services to companies in Finland, Russia and the Baltic region, through the sale-teaseback of its two warehouse/logistics facilities located in the Port of Kotka, Finland.

W.P. Carey acquires Finnish properties

Honeywell, Phoenix, Arizona, USA has received a contract to supply and install a manufacturing execution system (MES) and a Web-based data reporting solution at the Sunila pulp mill, Kotka, Finland.

Honeywell wins it system contract

efficiency, air laid nonwovens supplier UPM-Kymmene/Walkisoft, Kotka,

Walkisoft consolidating air laid operations

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