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Published: 2012-04-04 08:50:00 CEST
Tallink Grupp
Company Announcement

Statistics for March 2012 and the first quarter of the 2012 financial year

Tallinn, 2012-04-04 08:50 CEST -- Statistics for March 2012 and the first quarter of the 2012 financial year

In the first quarter of the 2012 financial year (January-March) AS Tallink Grupp transported 1 984 735 passengers which is slightly more compared to the previous year. The number of passenger vehicles increased by almost 4% to 210 141 and the number of trucks and trailers increased over 9% to 72 671 units in same comparison.

In March 2012 AS Tallink Grupp transported 712 054 passengers is nearly an 8% increase compared to March 2011.

AS Tallink Grupp’s passenger, cargo unit and passenger car numbers for March 2012 and first quarter of the financial year were the following:

  March 2012 March 2011 change   I Quarter 2012 I Quarter 2011 change
Passengers 712 054 662 043 7.6%   1 984 735 1 980 069 0.2%
Finland-Sweden 248 590 250 112 -0.6%   709 270 738 645 -4.0%
Estonia-Finland 329 399 299 380 10.0%   909 012 878 882 3.4%
Estonia-Sweden 83 443 65 944 26.5%   221 811 221 411 0.2%
Latvia-Sweden 50 622 46 607 8.6%   144 642 141 131 2.5%
Finland-Germany 0 0 -   0 0 -
               
Cargo Units 25 409 24 751 2.7%   72 671 66 635 9.1%
Finland-Sweden 9 513 9 105 4.5%   25 213 24 894 1.3%
Estonia-Finland 11 157 9 877 13.0%   33 705 25 908 30.1%
Estonia-Sweden 3 131 3 984 -21.4%   9 260 11 107 -16.6%
Latvia-Sweden 1 608 1 785 -9.9%   4 493 4 726 -4.9%
Finland-Germany 0 0 -   0 0 -
               
Passenger Vehicles 75 427 70 591 6.9%   210 141 202 856 3.6%
Finland-Sweden 7 462 8 025 -7.0%   22 982 24 765 -7.2%
Estonia-Finland 56 326 51 486 9.4%   155 491 147 310 5.6%
Estonia-Sweden 4 919 4 531 8.6%   13 240 13 306 -0.5%
Latvia-Sweden 6 720 6 549 2.6%   18 428 17 475 5.5%
Finland-Germany 0 0 -   0 0 -

The following operational factors influenced the development in March 2012:

 

LATVIA-SWEDEN

In March 2012 The cruise ferry M/S Romantika did not operate for 4 days because of a scheduled maintenance, the vessel was not replaced during that time.

 

FINLAND-GERMANY

Operations on the route were ended. The ships that previously operated there are chartered out of the group.
 

         Harri Hanschmidt
         Head of Investor Relations
         
         
         
         AS Tallink Grupp
         Sadama 5/7. 10111 Tallinn
         Tel +372 640 8981
         E-mail harri.hanschmidt@tallink.ee


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