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The 23-year history of the Boeing MD-80 in Finnair's blue and white colours came to a close on July 3, 2006. The MD-80 fleet, which numbered 25 at its peak, has flown almost a million hours and carried an estimated 60 million passengers on Finnair scheduled and leisure flights to different parts of Europe.

Vladimir Yakunin (president of Russian Raiways) said that the Pendolino was designed for the high-speed line between Saint Petersburg and Helsinki and that traffic would be organised on the existing infrastructure, but that this would require diverting freight traffic and constructing a 42-kilometer stretch through the Priozersky district of Leningrad region to the Finnish border at a cost of 400 billion roubles (at current prices).

The Company, which already transports selected vehicles of its 911, Boxster/Cayman and Cayenne model series for key overseas markets by rail, is now also moving component deliveries to its Finnish production partner Valmet Automotive from road to rail. On June 26th, 2006 the first train has been loaded at the container terminal in Kornwestheim with the newly developed mega trailers before setting out for Rostock. The trailers mainly contain engines, which will be built into Porsche's Boxster and Cayman models at Valmet Automotive.

Russian Railways expects state support from Russia’s Investment Fund to build freight branch lines as part of the high-speed passenger train project between St. Petersburg and Helsinki, according to Oleg Morozov, Vice-President of Russian Railways. Morozov rejected press reports that Russian Railways and Lukoil would build and finance the branch lines jointly, emphasising that the cooperation between the two companies in Russia’s North-Western region was on a completely different project, namely developing railway access lines to the distribution and shipping terminal Lukoil 2 on the island of Vysotsky in Leningrad oblast.