{"id":80110,"date":"2026-06-16T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/?p=80110"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:30:22","slug":"sweco-involved-in-the-general-planning-phase-of-the-east-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/insight\/news\/sweco-involved-in-the-general-planning-phase-of-the-east-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweco involved in the general planning phase of the East Railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"block fwmb\" >\n\t<div class=\"block__inner editor-content fwmb__inner fwmb__inner--right fwmb__inner--image\">\n\n        <div class=\"fwmb__media col col-12\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1680\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/06\/itarata.jpg\" class=\"attachment-fwmb-image size-fwmb-image\" alt=\"Ilmakuva Korian sillasta.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/06\/itarata.jpg 1680w, https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/06\/itarata-200x67.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/06\/itarata-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/06\/itarata-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/06\/itarata-520x173.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/06\/itarata-800x267.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/06\/itarata-900x300.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/06\/itarata-1350x450.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/06\/itarata-652x217.jpg 652w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1680px) 100vw, 1680px\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\n        \n        \n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"block cb block--white\" >\n\t<div class=\"block__inner cb__inner cb__inner--one\">\n\t<div class=\"col--12 col--center col--wrapper\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col col--6 editor-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Photo: It\u00e4rata Oy<\/p>\n<h1>Sweco involved in the general planning phase of the East Railway<\/h1>\n<p>16 June, 2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u00e4rata Oy has selected Sweco and Finnmap Infra (part of the Solwers Group) to prepare the general plan for the Porvoo\u2013Koria section of the East Railway. The planning agreement was signed on 16 June.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The East Railway project aims to create a high-speed rail connection from the Lentorata line via Porvoo to Kouvola, improving connections to eastern Finland. The project will serve approximately two million residents and forms part of the European TEN-T core network.<\/p>\n<p>Together with Finnmap Infra Oy, Sweco\u2019s experts will deliver the general planning services for Section B of the Eas Railway from Porvoo to Kouvola. Sweco\u2019s areas of expertise include railway engineering design, geotechnical engineering, structures engineering, transport planning, and the integration of environmental and land use considerations.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Sweco will carry out ground investigations for one section of the railway alignment.<\/p>\n<p>During the general planning phase, the approximate alignment and land requirements of the railway, as well as its relationship with the surrounding land use, are defined. The final alignment will be refined in the subsequent railway planning phase, which begins after completion of the general plan. The general plan is scheduled for completion by the end of 2028.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the general planning phase, we are laying the foundations for the East Railway by developing solutions that combine efficient connections, sustainability and the effective integration of land use in collaboration with various stakeholders. Together with our alliance partners, we are advancing the project in a determined manner towards feasible solutions that create long-term value,\u201d says <strong>Juho Siipo<\/strong>, Division Director, Infrastructure and Transportation, Sweco Finland.<\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Inquiries:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:130,&quot;335559740&quot;:260,&quot;469777462&quot;:[0,567,1276,2552,3828,5103,6379,8364],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]}\"><br \/>\nJuho Siipo, Division director, Infrastructure and Transportation at Sweco Finland, tel. +358 40 076 4890, juho.siipo@sweco.fi<br \/>\nTiina Varhee, media contact, Sweco, tel. +358 40 723 1231 ext.tiina.varhee@sweco.fi<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"buttons-wrapper buttons-wrapper--left\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e4rata Oy has selected Sweco and Finnmap Infra (part of the Solwers Group) to prepare the general plan for the Porvoo\u2013Koria section of the East Railway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":80109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"Sweco involved in the general planning phase of the East Railway","_seopress_titles_desc":"It\u00e4rata Oy has selected Sweco and Finnmap Infra (part of the Solwers Group) to prepare the general plan for the Porvoo\u2013Koria section of the East Railway.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[1344],"class_list":["post-80110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-rail-design"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80113,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80110\/revisions\/80113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}