Tallink Grupp

Earnings Release • Apr 2, 2015

Statistics for March 2015 and the first quarter of the 2015 financial year

Statistics for March 2015 and the first quarter of the 2015 financial year

Tallinn, 2015-04-02 08:50 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

Statistics for March 2015 and the first quarter of the 2015 financial year

In March 2015 AS Tallink Grupp transported 643 700 passengers which is more

than an 8% decrease compared to March 2014. The number of trucks and trailers

decreased over 2% to 27 730 units and the number of passenger vehicles remained

on the same level with 77 673 units transported.

In the first quarter of the 2015 financial year (January-March) AS Tallink

Grupp transported 1 793 414 passengers which is nearly a 6% decrease compared

to the previous year. The number of trucks and trailers decreased over 2% to 75

172 units transported and the number of passenger vehicles decreased by almost

2% to 211 429 units in same comparison.

AS Tallink Grupp?s passenger, cargo unit and passenger car numbers for March

2015 and first quarter of the financial year were the following:

March March change I Quarter I Quarter change

2015 2014 2015 2014

Passengers 643 700 701 180 -8,2% 1 793 414 1 905 555 -5,9%

Finland-Sweden 202 798 222 357 -8,8% 584 799 592 253 -1,3%

Estonia-Finland 336 453 342 493 -1,8% 918 296 935 248 -1,8%

Estonia-Sweden 72 560 76 214 -4,8% 195 569 216 985 -9,9%

Latvia-Sweden 31 889 60 116 -47,0% 94 750 161 069 -41,2%

Cargo Units 27 730 28 422 -2,4% 75 172 76 791 -2,1%

Finland-Sweden 6 449 8 816 -26,8% 17 032 23 022 -26,0%

Estonia-Finland 17 258 13 826 24,8% 47 003 38 753 21,3%

Estonia-Sweden 3 348 4 033 -17,0% 9 232 10 305 -10,4%

Latvia-Sweden 675 1 747 -61,4% 1 905 4 711 -59,6%

Passenger 77 673 77 821 -0,2% 211 429 215 013 -1,7%

Vehicles

Finland-Sweden 7 297 7 400 -1,4% 20 293 20 888 -2,8%

Estonia-Finland 60 822 59 497 2,2% 164 916 162 711 1,4%

Estonia-Sweden 5 198 4 407 17,9% 13 870 12 976 6,9%

Latvia-Sweden 4 356 6 517 -33,2% 12 350 18 438 -33,0%

The following operational factors influenced the development in March 2015:

FINLAND-SWEDEN

In December 2014 the cargo ferry Sea Wind stopped operating on the

Turku-Stockholm route.

ESTONIA-FINLAND

In August 2014 the cruise ferry Baltic Queen started operating on the

Tallinn-Helsinki route, replacing the cruise ferry Silja Europa. The cargo

ferry Sea Wind started operating on the Tallinn-Helsinki route in January 2015.

ESTONIA-SWEDEN

In August 2014 the cruise ferry Romantika started operating on the

Tallinn-Stockholm route, replacing the cruise ferry Baltic Queen.

LATVIA-SWEDEN

In August 2014 the cruise ferry Romantika stopped operating on the

Riga-Stockholm route, the cruise ferry Isabelle continues operating on the

route.

Harri Hanschmidt

Head of the Finance Department

AS Tallink Grupp

Sadama 5/7. 10111 Tallinn

Tel +372 640 8981

E-mail harri.hanschmidt@tallink.ee