AS Tallink Grupp statistics for December’17 and in QIV’17
AS Tallink Grupp has published its statistics for December 2017 and the fourth quarter of the 2017 financial year.
In December 2017 AS Tallink Grupp transported 815 255 passengers, which is a 6.2% increase compared to December 2016. The number of cargo units increased by 10.0% to 28 315 units and the number of passenger vehicles increased by 0.6% to 87 672 units in the same comparison.
In the fourth quarter of the 2017 financial year (October – December) AS Tallink Grupp transported 2 316 144 passengers which is a 4.0% increase compared to the previous year. The number of transported cargo units increased by 14.1% to 97 345 units and the number of passenger vehicles decreased by 0.8% to 253 896 units in same comparison.
AS Tallink Grupp passenger, cargo unit and passenger vehicles numbers for December 2017 and the fourth quarter of the financial year were the following:
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December 2017 |
December 2016 |
Change |
IV Quarter 2017 |
IV Quarter 2016 |
Change |
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Passengers |
815 255 |
767 630 |
6.2% |
2 316 144 |
2 226 320 |
4.0% |
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Finland - Sweden |
232 347 |
222 693 |
4.3% |
694 884 |
685 113 |
1.4% |
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Estonia - Finland |
435 511 |
412 850 |
5.5% |
1 217 468 |
1 186 508 |
2.6% |
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Estonia - Sweden |
86 537 |
81 177 |
6.6% |
236 739 |
223 025 |
6.1% |
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Latvia - Sweden |
60 860 |
50 910 |
19.5% |
167 053 |
131 674 |
26.9% |
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Cargo Units |
28 315 |
25 742 |
10.0% |
97 345 |
85 350 |
14.1% |
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Finland - Sweden |
5 976 |
5 647 |
5.8% |
20 098 |
18 737 |
7.3% |
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Estonia - Finland |
17 893 |
15 936 |
12.3% |
61 674 |
53 113 |
16.1% |
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Estonia - Sweden |
3 292 |
3 359 |
-2.0% |
11 457 |
11 326 |
1.2% |
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Latvia - Sweden |
1 154 |
800 |
44.3% |
4 116 |
2 174 |
89.3% |
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Passenger Vehicles |
87 672 |
87 155 |
0.6% |
253 896 |
255 827 |
-0.8% |
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Finland - Sweden |
9 963 |
9 050 |
10.1% |
26 980 |
26 288 |
2.6% |
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Estonia - Finland |
66 966 |
67 267 |
-0.4% |
195 931 |
200 690 |
-2.4% |
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Estonia - Sweden |
5 176 |
5 408 |
-4.3% |
14 909 |
15 677 |
-4.9% |
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Latvia - Sweden |
5 567 |
5 430 |
2.5% |
16 076 |
13 172 |
22.0% |
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The following operational factors influenced the development in December and in the fourth quarter of 2017:
ESTONIA – FINLAND
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.
In December 2016 the cruise ferry Silja Europa started operating on the Tallinn - Helsinki route, replacing the cruise ferry Baltic Queen.
ESTONIA-SWEDEN
In December 2016 the cruise ferry Baltic Queen started operating on the Tallinn - Stockholm route, replacing the cruise ferry Romantika.
LATVIA – SWEDEN
Cruise ferry Romantika started operating on Riga - Stockholm route in December 2016 as a second ship on the route next to cruise ferry Isabelle.
