Tallink is seeing a busier summer period so far as July proved to be a productive month for the company.

The Estonian owner carried 1.19m passengers in July, an increase of 5% year-on-year.

The biggest improvement was seen on the Estonia-Finland service, which rose by 10.6%.

Tallink deployed the 59,914-gt Silja Europa (built 1993) to the Tallink-Helsinki route and this boosted the company’s performance.

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