OREANDA-NEWS. February 05, 2010. 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:
Passengers - 491 393 (Finland-Sweden -187 724, Estonia-Finland  - 218 263, Estonia-Sweden  - 51 815, Latvia-Sweden - 33 472, Finland-Germany - 119), Cargo Units - 16 061 (Finland-Sweden - 5 703, Estonia-Finland - 6 750, Estonia-Sweden - 2 533, Latvia-Sweden - 1 028, Finland-Germany – 47), Passenger Vehicles - 55 582 (Finland-Sweden - 8 430, Estonia-Finland - 36 991, Estonia-Sweden - 4 690, Latvia-Sweden - 445, Finland-Germany – 26). 
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 Victoria 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.