The Finnish Transport Agency is responsible for safety radiocommunications in Finnish territorial waters. The objective of the coast station Turku Radio is to maintain distress and safety radiocommunications, including transmission of navigational warnings, weather forecasts, ice reports and ship reports.

Turku Radio transmits pilot requests through PortNet, maintains a database on hazardous cargoes to prevent environmental damage and supplies data for IBPLOTT, the joint Finnish-Swedish icebreaker information network.

The station also transmits reports on fishing quotas from vessels fishing in the Finnish and Baltic fishing zones, as required by EC legislation, and receives data on disturbances in the DGPS system, which it passes on to ships.

Broadcasting times
UTC BROADCAST

0233 NAVIGATIONAL WARNINGS

0633 WEATHER FORECAST, NAVIGATIONAL WARNINGS

0803 POSITIONS OF ICEBREAKERS

1033 NAVIGATIONAL WARNINGS, ICE REPORT

1433 NAVIGATIONAL WARNINGS

1833 WEATHER FORECAST, NAVIGATIONAL WARNINGS, ICE REPORT

2233 NAVIGATIONAL WARNINGS 

WEATHER MESSAGES

0633, 1833
Including wave height information for the Northern Baltic Gale warnings on receipt and 0233, 0633, 1033, 1433,1833, 2233

Navigational warnings
0233, 0633, 1033,1433, 1833, 2233 Coastal and local warnings (local warnings in Finnish and Swedish)

Ice Reports
1033, 1833 In English. Including positions of icebreakers
0803 icebreaker positions only