OREANDA-NEWS. September 06, 2016. In August 2016 AS Tallink Grupp transported 961 851 passengers, which is a 2.7% increase compared to August 2015. The number of cargo units increased by 7.4% to 26 775 units and the number of passenger vehicles increased by 3.5% to 125 911 units in the same comparison.

AS Tallink Grupp passenger, cargo unit and passenger vehicles numbers for August were the following:

  August 2016 August 2015 change
Passengers 961 851 936 247 2.7%
Finland - Sweden 289 581 287 112 0.9%
Estonia - Finland 521 048 496 692 4.9%
Estonia - Sweden 101 081 101 811 -0.7%
Latvia - Sweden 50 141 50 632 -1.0%
       
Cargo Units 26 775 24 941 7.4%
Finland - Sweden 5 067 5 132 -1.3%
Estonia - Finland 17 848 16 269 9.7%
Estonia - Sweden 3 430 3 035 13.0%
Latvia - Sweden 430 505 -14.9%
       
Passenger Vehicles 125 911 121 664 3.5%
Finland - Sweden 23 924 22 333 7.1%
Estonia - Finland 87 529 85 308 2.6%
Estonia - Sweden 8 057 8 023 0.4%
Latvia - Sweden 6 401 6 000 6.7%

The following operational factors influenced the development in August 2016:

ESTONIA-FINLAND

The cruise ferry Silja Europa operated on the Tallinn-Helsinki route from 13 March 2016 to 29 August 2016.