AS Tallink Grupp says it transported 1 188 226 passengers in July, achieving the record of ever highest passenger volumes per calendar month, announced AS Tallink Grupp. Compared to the results of the last year, the passenger volumes increase by 5 percent and the volumes of cargo units and passenger vehicles by 3.5 and 7.2 percent respectively.
The passenger volumes increased the most, by 10.6 percent to 661 234 passengers on Finland-Estonia route. The increase can be linked to the passenger ferry Silja Europa being added to the route from March this year. The increase of passenger volumes was seen also on Latvia-Sweden route by 3.1 percent to 53 318 passengers. On the routes between Finland and Sweden there was a slight decrease of 2.5 percent to 368 527 passengers and on Estonia-Sweden route by 0.7 percent to 105 147 passengers.
The company also transported altogether 23 835 cargo units and 160 754 passenger vehicles during last month.
AS Tallink Grupp is one of the leading passenger shipping companies on the Baltic Sea, transporting up to 9 million passengers annually and employing almost 7000 people. There are 15 vessels in the fleet and the company operates 6 different routes. In the beginning of 2017, the company will launch the environmentally friendly, LNG high speed ferry Megastar on Tallinn-Helsinki route.