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In February 2007 AS Tallink Grupp transported 455,727 passengers which is 137.2% more than in February 2006. The number of transported cargo units increased by 181.6% and number of transported passenger vehicles by 101.8%.
AS Tallink Grupp's passenger, cargo units and passenger car numbers for February 2006 and second quarter of the 2006/2007 financial year were the following:
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Feb
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II Q
06/07 |
II Q
05/06 |
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| Passengers |
455,727 |
192,088 |
137.2% |
1,361,946 |
598,208 |
127.7% |
| Estonia-Finland |
161,419 |
156,005 |
3.5% |
485,497 |
475,315 |
2.1% |
| Estonia-Sweden |
34,333 |
36,083 |
-4.8% |
131,919 |
122,893 |
7.3% |
| Latvia-Sweden |
9,061 |
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32,045 |
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| Finland-Germany |
6,273 |
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19,779 |
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| Finland-Sweden |
244,641 |
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692,706 |
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| Cargo Units |
28,844 |
10,243 |
181.6% |
83,021 |
32,054 |
159.0% |
| Estonia-Finland |
7,971 |
6,879 |
15.9% |
22,642 |
20,893 |
8.4% |
| Estonia-Sweden |
3,556 |
3,364 |
5.7% |
10,474 |
11,161 |
-6.2% |
| Latvia-Sweden |
611 |
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1,766 |
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| Finland-Germany |
6,099 |
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17,146 |
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| Finland-Sweden |
10,607 |
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30,993 |
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| Vehicles |
30,037 |
14,888 |
101.8% |
95,533 |
50,647 |
88.6% |
| Estonia-Finland |
15,558 |
10,755 |
44.7% |
43,810 |
35,665 |
22.8% |
| Estonia-Sweden |
2,711 |
4,133 |
-34.4% |
11,090 |
14,982 |
-26.0% |
| Latvia-Sweden |
1,735 |
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6,451 |
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| Finland-Germany |
2,094 |
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6,260 |
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| Finland-Sweden |
7,939 |
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27,922 |
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The capacities in low-season are usually affected by several scheduled dry-dockings of vessels. There are some differences in on different routes compared to previous periods arising from the fact that the number of vessels and the days in dry-docking differ from year to year.
The following operational factors influenced the developments during the second quarter.
ESTONIA-FINLAND:
M/S Galaxy, larger in capacities, operates Helsinki-Tallinn route instead of M/S Romantika.
M/S Meloodia was chartered out from the beginning of the January 2007 and was not operating on the Tallinn-Helsinki route. The lower capacity was partly off-set by the operations of M/S AutoExpress 2 during 1st to 9th January 2007 and by the operations of M/S Vana Tallinn starting from the 10th of January 2007. Since the middle of January 2007 Superfast vessels started operating on the Tallinn-Helsinki route with one round-trip per day.
In the beginning of January the cargo capacity was smaller on the Estonia-Finland route because M/S Meloodia was not in operations. The cargo capacity was increased later from the middle of January as the Superfast vessels started to operate one round-trip per day. The higher capacity and increasing cargo demand led to higher number of cargo units in January and February 2007.
Cargo vessel M/S Regal Star was in the dock in December 2006. The vessel did not operate for 20 days.
ESTONIA-SWEDEN:
M/S Romantika, larger in capacities, operates Tallinn-Stockholm line instead of M/S Regina Baltica.
Resulting from the swap of M/S Regal Star and M/S Kapella the car deck capacity in December 2006 was smaller on Estonia-Sweden routes which resulted lower volumes. The cargo and vehicle volumes on Estonia-Sweden routes are partly affected also from the fact that some Latvian and Lithuanian customers are using Latvia-Sweden route instead.
M/S Vana Tallinn was not operating on the Paldiski-Kapellskär route in January and February 2007 and both the passengers and cargo capacity was thereby smaller than in January and February 2006.
M/S Victoria was in dry-dock in February 2007 and did not operate for 12 days.
The cargo and passenger vehicle volumes on Estonia-Sweden routes are partly affected also from the fact that some Latvian and Lithuanian customers are using Latvia-Sweden route instead.
FINLAND-GERMANY:
In January 2007 M/S Superfast VII was out of operations for 6 days during repair-works in the harbour.
FINLAND-SWEDEN:
M/S Silja Europa was in scheduled dry-docking and the ferry did not operate for 6 days.
In January 2007 M/S Sea Wind did not operate for 5 days because of repairs.
Janek Stalmeister
Financial Director
AS Tallink Grupp
Tel. +372 6409 800
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