OREANDA-NEWS. January 08, 2010. In December 2009 AS Tallink Grupp transported 580 534 passengers which is 7.4%  decrease compared to December 2008. The number of trucks and trailers increased by 9.7% to 19 376 units in December 2009.

Tallink Grupp's passenger, cargo unit and passenger car numbers for December 2009 were the following:

  December 2009   December 2008  change
Passengers  580 534  627 055   -7,4%
 Finland-Sweden           208 069  242 596   -14,2%
 Estonia-Finland            275 067  274 881  0,1%
 Estonia-Sweden  53 290   72 431   -26,4%
 Latvia-Sweden  40 247   31 476   27,9%
 Finland-Germany  3 861  5 671   -31,9%
 Cargo Units  19 376   17 670  9,7%
 Finland-Sweden  7 224   5 442   32,7%
 Estonia-Finland  7 440   7 020    6,0%
 Estonia-Sweden   2 103   2 226   -5,5%
 Latvia-Sweden  1 164    1 101   5,7%
 Finland-Germany  1 445    1 881  -23,2%
 Passenger Vehicles  64 794  59 458  9,0%
 Finland-Sweden  10 424   9 986   4,4%
 Estonia-Finland  43 606  38 993  11,8%
 Estonia-Sweden  3 954   4 405 

 -10,2%

 Latvia-Sweden  6 067   4 458 

 36,1%

 Finland-Germany  743   1 616 

 -54,0%

The following operational factors influenced the development.

FINLAND-SWEDEN
M/S Silja Europa did not operate until 19th of December due to the repair works. She was temporarily replaced by newer, but slightly smaller M/S Baltic Queen.

ESTONIA-SWEDEN
New cruise ferry Baltic Queen started operations in April 2009 and replaced smaller M/S Romantika which moved to Riga-Stockholm route.

Cruise ferry Baltic Queen was not operating between Estonia-Sweden in the first 19 days in December 2009 as she was temporarily replacing M/S Silja Europa between Finland-Sweden.

LATVIA-SWEDEN
Since May 2009 cruise ferry Romantika has replaced smaller M/S Regina Baltica.