Estonian Port Passenger Number Up in June, Cargo Volume Down
The ports of the Estonian state-owned port operator Tallinna Sadam (Port of Tallinn) handled in June 1.68 million tonnes of cargo and serviced 1,045,461 passengers.
Compared to the same period last year, the cargo volume dropped by 25% while the number of passengers was by 1.3% higher than last year.
In six months, the ports handled 4.4 million passengers which is 0.6 percent below last year’s level.
The most popular route was Tallinn-Helsinki with 0.82 million passengers, followed by Tallinn-Stockholm line with 90,369 thousand people and Tallinn-St Petersburh line with 11,773 people.
In June traditionally the biggest number of passengers travelled on the Tallinn-Helsinki route, 824,676 people; on the Tallinn-Stockholm route 90,369 people and the Tallinn-St Petersburg route 11,773 people travelled.
Cruise vessels brought 118,523 cruise tourists to Estonia in June.
In June, 59% of passengers were serviced by Tallink, 20% by Viking Line, 15% by Eckerö Line and 1% by St. Peterline. Cruise tourists formed 5% of all passengers.
In six months, 4.39 million people have used the ports, by 0.6% less than at the same time last year.
Liquid cargo was down 39 percent to 861,400 tons, dry bulk decreased 13 percent to 262,400 tons, number of containers was down 30.8 percent to 14,999 TEU. In six months, cargo handling fell 20.7 percent to 12.1 million.
Among cargo groups, the volume of mixed cargo and rolling stock rose compared to the same month last year. The ports of Tallinna Sadam handled in June 60,100 tonnes of mixed cargo and 363,200 tonnes of rolling stock, which is by 66.1% and 8.1% more than last year.
In six months of this year, the total quantity of the goods mediated was 12.08 million tonnes, a fall of 20.7% from last year.
All Baltic ports together handled 65.776 million tons of cargo in the first five months of 2015, which was 4.706 million tons or 6.7 percent less than a year ago, the Latvian national statistics office reported.
Of all cargos reloaded at the Baltic ports in the first five months of this year, 48.5 percent were handled at Latvian ports, 27.7 percent at Lithuanian ports and 23.9 percent at Estonian ports.
