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

Tallink Grupp 

04.04.2012 08:50
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Tallinn, 2012-04-04 08:50 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 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      March      change  I Quarter    I Quarter     change
                  2012       2011               2012         2011               
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           75 427     70 591    6.9%      210 141       202 856    3.6%
 Vehicles                                                                       
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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