About half of this is officially designated wilderness and a quarter national parks. Lapland is well integrated into Finland s road, railway and air networks. There are 8,000 kilometers of public roads, in addition to many more built for private and forestry. Lapland has two ports, in Kemi and Tornio. They handle a tenth of Finland s total exports, the main categories of good being kraftliner, paper, pulp, sawn timber, ore and mine concentrates.
Icebreakers ensure that the ports remain open all year around.
Lapland has five major airports. There are air service to many points further south, and also to Murmansk in Russia and Lule in Sweden. The flight time from Rovaniemi to Helsinki is 1 h 20 min. The livelihood is based on both nature and high technology. On the one hand, there are wood processing, steel and building materials industries that export to markets all over the world, in addition to energy producers.