Tallinn, 2012-01-04 08:50 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Statistics for December 2011 and the last four months of the 2010/2011 financial year
Due to changing the Group’s financial year to the calendar year the 2010/2011 financial year was extended to 16 months, 01.09.2010 - 31.12.2011. Therefore, this report displays the unusual four months extension period September to December.
In the last four months of the 2010/2011 financial year (September-December) AS Tallink Grupp transported 2 750 344 passengers which is nearly a 3% increase compared to the previous year. The number of passenger vehicles increased by almost 1% to 313 700 and the number of trucks and trailers decreased over 4% to 95 004 units in same comparison.
AS Tallink Grupp’s passenger, cargo unit and passenger car numbers for December 2011 and last four months of the financial year were the following:
| December 2011 | December 2010 | change | Sep - Dec 2011 | Sep - Dec 2010 | change | ||
| Passengers | 711 125 | 681 287 | 4.4% | 2 750 344 | 2 674 580 | 2.8% | |
| Finland-Sweden | 225 244 | 220 915 | 2.0% | 906 907 | 916 556 | -1.1% | |
| Estonia-Finland | 354 550 | 332 016 | 6.8% | 1 367 235 | 1 299 642 | 5.2% | |
| Estonia-Sweden | 78 099 | 73 490 | 6.3% | 272 167 | 251 114 | 8.4% | |
| Latvia-Sweden | 53 232 | 51 859 | 2.6% | 204 035 | 190 286 | 7.2% | |
| Finland-Germany | 0 | 3 007 | -100.0% | 0 | 16 982 | -100.0% | |
| Cargo Units | 21 016 | 22 523 | -6.7% | 95 004 | 99 431 | -4.5% | |
| Finland-Sweden | 7 102 | 7 121 | -0.3% | 31 996 | 32 765 | -2.3% | |
| Estonia-Finland | 9 438 | 8 444 | 11.8% | 42 102 | 35 615 | 18.2% | |
| Estonia-Sweden | 3 061 | 4 150 | -26.2% | 14 303 | 17 032 | -16.0% | |
| Latvia-Sweden | 1 415 | 1 296 | 9.2% | 6 603 | 5 647 | 16.9% | |
| Finland-Germany | 0 | 1 512 | -100.0% | 0 | 8 372 | -100.0% | |
| Passenger Vehicles | 76 351 | 74 777 | 2.1% | 313 700 | 311 032 | 0.9% | |
| Finland-Sweden | 9 215 | 9 645 | -4.5% | 37 677 | 39 713 | -5.1% | |
| Estonia-Finland | 55 233 | 52 634 | 4.9% | 227 244 | 218 894 | 3.8% | |
| Estonia-Sweden | 5 443 | 5 489 | -0.8% | 20 326 | 20 316 | 0.0% | |
| Latvia-Sweden | 6 460 | 6 387 | 1.1% | 28 453 | 27 446 | 3.7% | |
| Finland-Germany | 0 | 622 | -100.0% | 0 | 4 663 | -100.0% |
The following operational factors influenced the development in December 2011:
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
