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 MS 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. Janek Stalmeister CFO AS Tallink Grupp Tel. +372 6409 800 e-mail: janek.stalmeister@tallink.ee
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