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Ferry service destination(s) Abruka Abruka, Saaremaa Parish (Abruka) Gulf of Riga: AS Saarte Liinid Roomassaare: Aegna* Kesklinn, Tallinn Gulf of Finland: Tallinn Transport Department Tallinn (Patareisadam) Bekker Põhja-Tallinn, Tallinn: Gulf of Finland OÜ Tallinna Bekkeri Sadam Dirhami Dirhami / Derhamn, Lääne-Nigula Parish: Väinameri
The company is a fully owned subsidiary of the Port of Tallinn (Estonian: Tallinna Sadam, "TS"), [3] which is in turn 70 percent owned by the Estonian state. [4] The state subsidises the ferry routes with a sum of over €20 million per annum. [5]
In 1995, Hansatee brought the first large ferry into Helsinki–Tallinn traffic when they chartered MS Mare Balticum from EstLine and renamed her MS Meloodia. [18] Following various disputes between ESCO and Inreko (most notably about the charter price of Vana Tallinn), Inreko sold their shares of AS Hansatee to ESCO in December 1996. [11]
MS Megastar is a fast ro-ro/passenger (ro-pax) ferry built by the Meyer Turku shipyard in Turku, Finland, for the Estonian shipping company Tallink. The 230 million euro vessel is the first ship in Tallink's fleet to use liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel.
So the ferries started trafficking from Helsinki to Stockholm in 1972 to lengthen a two-way trip to over 24 hours. The first ferries to depart from Helsinki were Silja Line's MS Aallotar and MS Svea Regina, and in 1974 Viking Line brought their own ships to the route, the German-built Viking 5 and the Canadian-bought 1967 ship Viking 6. [28]
MS Vana Tallinn (Old Tallinn in Estonian) was a cruiseferry owned by the Estonian ferry company Tallink and operated on the line between Kapellskär and Paldiski.She was built in 1974 by Aalborg Skibsværft AS, Aalborg, Denmark for DFDS as MS Dana Regina, and has sailed under the names MS Nord Estonia and MS Thor Heyerdahl.
In the Faroe Islands, wild, unpredictable weather — fierce winds and rain, and thick fog that settles like a curtain — can sometimes make travel by car or ferry problematic.
Port of Tallinn (Estonian: Tallinna Sadam) is the biggest port authority in Estonia. Taking into account both cargo and passenger traffic, it is one of the largest port enterprises of the Baltic Sea. Port seen in the morning in 2010. Port of Tallinn is a publicly listed company managing five constituent ports (two of them in Tallinn):