In April 2017 AS Tallink Grupp transported 807 616 passengers, which is a 14.6% increase compared to April 2016, the Group's statistics says. The number of cargo units decreased by 0.8% to 28 464 units and the number of passenger vehicles increased by 6.5% to 91 063 units in the same comparison.
AS Tallink Grupp passenger, cargo unit and passenger vehicles numbers for April 2017 were the following:
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April 2017 |
April 2016 |
Change |
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Passengers |
807 616 |
704 642 |
14.6% |
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|
Finland - Sweden |
250 306 |
214 112 |
16.9% |
|
|
Estonia - Finland |
406 353 |
376 552 |
7.9% |
|
|
Estonia - Sweden |
88 039 |
77 850 |
13.1% |
|
|
Latvia - Sweden |
62 918 |
36 128 |
74.2% |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cargo Units |
28 464 |
28 702 |
-0.8% |
|
|
Finland - Sweden |
6 263 |
6 645 |
-5.7% |
|
|
Estonia - Finland |
17 734 |
17 729 |
0.0% |
|
|
Estonia - Sweden |
3 585 |
3 631 |
-1.3% |
|
|
Latvia - Sweden |
882 |
697 |
26.5% |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Passenger Vehicles |
91 063 |
85 530 |
6.5% |
|
|
Finland - Sweden |
11 122 |
9 141 |
21.7% |
|
|
Estonia - Finland |
67 532 |
66 925 |
0.9% |
|
|
Estonia - Sweden |
5 889 |
5 397 |
9.1% |
|
|
Latvia - Sweden |
6 520 |
4 067 |
60.3% |
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The following operational factors influenced the development in April 2017:
ESTONIA - FINLAND
On 12 December 2016 the cruise ferry Silja Europa started operating the Tallinn - Helsinki route cruise service, during the period of 13 March to 29 August 2016, the route was operated with two ships, the Baltic Queen and Silja Europa.
On 29 January 2017 the new LNG fast ferry Megastar started operating Tallink Shuttle service on the Tallinn - Helsinki route and replaced fast ferry Superstar.
LATVIA - SWEDEN
The cruise ferry Romantika started operating on the Riga - Stockholm route on 12 December 2016 as second ship on the route next to cruise ferry Isabelle.