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In January 2010 AS Tallink Grupp transported 491 393 passengers which is 15% decrease compared to January 2009. The number of trucks and trailers decreased by 19.2% to 16 061 units in January 2010.
The operations were affected by the maintenance works of Superfast vessels and cargo vessel Sea Wind. Thus there were no operations on the Germany-Finland route and the cargo capacity was smaller in the Finland Sweden operations. On a comparable basis, excluding the above operational changes the like for like growth in cargo units was 1%.
Tallink Grupp's passenger, cargo unit and passenger car numbers for January 2010 were the following:
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January 2010 |
January 2009 |
change |
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Passengers |
491 393 |
579 141 |
-15,2% |
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Finland-Sweden |
187 724 |
229 167 |
-18,1% |
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Estonia-Finland |
218 263 |
238 598 |
-8,5% |
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Estonia-Sweden |
51 815 |
75 461 |
-31,3% |
|
Latvia-Sweden |
33 472 |
29 195 |
14,6% |
|
Finland-Germany |
119 |
6 720 |
-98,2% |
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Cargo Units |
16 061 |
19 871 |
-19,2% |
|
Finland-Sweden |
5 703 |
6 776 |
-15,8% |
|
Estonia-Finland |
6 750 |
6 840 |
-1,3% |
|
Estonia-Sweden |
2 533 |
2 837 |
-10,7% |
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Latvia-Sweden |
1 028 |
965 |
6,5% |
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Finland-Germany |
47 |
2 453 |
-98,1% |
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Passenger Vehicles |
55 582 |
54 160 |
2,6% |
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Finland-Sweden |
8 430 |
8 963 |
-5,9% |
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Estonia-Finland |
36 991 |
34 888 |
6,0% |
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Estonia-Sweden |
4 690 |
4 550 |
3,1% |
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Latvia-Sweden |
5 445 |
4 298 |
26,7% |
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Finland-Germany |
26 |
1 461 |
-98,2% |
The following operational factors influenced the development.
FINLAND-SWEDEN
M/S Sea Wind did not operate due to the scheduled maintenance works.
ESTONIA-SWEDEN
New cruise ferry Baltic Queen started operations in April 2009 and replaced smaller MS Romantika which moved to Riga-Stockholm route.
Cruise ferry Victoria was in charter in the first week of January 2010.
LATVIA-SWEDEN
Since May 2009 cruise ferry Romantika has replaced smaller M/S Regina Baltica.
Cruise ferry Silja Festival was in charter in the first week of January 2010.
FINLAND-GERMANY
There were no operations on the route due to the scheduled maintenance works.
Janek Stalmeister
CFO
AS Tallink Grupp
Tel. +372 6409 800
e-mail: janek.stalmeister@tallink.ee |