Rauma, Finland News

Millville, June 12, 2009: Current Atlantic Championship Markus Niemela produced a significant wet session qualifying result for tomorrow's Mazda Formula X Atlantic feature event.

Current Atlantic Champion Markus Niemela is helping to organize and promote an innovative street-circuit karting round September 5-6 in Rauma Finland.

This got lost in the commotion of the holiday, but right wing Jakub Petruzalek, who shared the Albany River Rats' team scoring lead with Jerome Samson, has signed with the Lukko Rauma team of the SM-Liiga league in Finland.

Tooele, May 17, 2009: Current Atlantic Champion Markus Niemela found himself in a dog fight as soon as the green flag flew at Miller Motorsports Park today.

Tooele, May 15, 2009: Current Cooper Tire Atlantic Powered By Mazda Champion Markus Niemela finished his second practice session at Miller Motorspors Park, with a series of quick laps that produced a best time of 1:37.626 . The performance placed him 4th on the final speed charts in preparation for tomorrow's Larry H. Miller Dealerships Atlantic ...

Tooele, May 15, 2009: Markus Niemela posted a Top 5 performance in this morning's first practice at a best time of 1:38:250, in preparation for tomorrow's Larry H. Miller Dealerships Atlantic Championship event.

Dana Point, May 9, 2009: Three weeks ago Newman-Wachs Racing's Markus Niemela participated as a featured driver in an episode of Rick Graves' OnCars.com series entitled "Rev - Stepping Stones." To watch the episode in its entirety please click "Play." Markus Niemela was born and raised in Rauma Finland in 1984.

Finns' energy consumption dipped slightly on Saturday night between 8.30 p.m. and 9.30 p.m. when lights went out across the country during the worldwide Earth Hour campaign for global climate change.

The production of the first of the two huge ferries ordered by P& O Ferries started on the 3rd of March 2009 by cutting its first steel plate on STX Europe's yard in Rauma, Finland.

Jan. 7, 2009 - Botnia today announced plans for significant cuts in pulp production during 2009 which will affect 678 employees at its five mills in Finland.

Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Group today announced it sold about a 30-percent stake in its European ports business to two outside investors for around $170 million as it sheds assets to shore up its balance ...

Sweco Industry has won an engineering assignment from STX Finland Cruise. The assignment includes hull and machinery engineering for a car-passenger ferry and its sister ship for the British shipping company ...

On show are documents linked with the personal history of the architect Alvar Aalto.