Tallink Grupp

Earnings Release • Jan 5, 2015

Statistics for December 2014 and the fourth quarter of the 2014 financial year

Statistics for December 2014 and the fourth quarter of the 2014 financial year

Tallinn, 2015-01-05 08:50 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

Statistics for December 2014 and the fourth quarter of the 2014 financial year

In December 2014 AS Tallink Grupp transported 682 455 passengers which is more

than a 6% decrease compared to December 2013. The number of passenger vehicles

decreased by almost 2% to 81 080 and the number of trucks and trailers

increased by almost 3% to 22 908 units in same comparison.

In the fourth quarter of the 2014 financial year (October-December) AS Tallink

Grupp transported 2 051 410 passengers which is nearly a 5% decrease compared

to the previous year. The number of passenger vehicles decreased by almost 2%

to 244 018 units transported and the number of trucks and trailers decreased

over 1% to 77 816 units in same comparison.

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

2014 and fourth quarter of the financial year were the following:

December December change IV Quarter IV Quarter change

2014 2013 2014 2013

Passengers 682 455 729 753 -6.5% 2 051 410 2 148 204 -4.5%

Finland-Swede 204 132 214 519 -4.8% 636 056 656 344 -3.1%

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Estonia-Finla 363 466 374 456 -2.9% 1 081 973 1 101 822 -1.8%

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Estonia-Swede 77 856 82 741 -5.9% 217 093 218 475 -0.6%

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Latvia-Sweden 37 001 58 037 -36.2% 116 288 171 563 -32.2%

Cargo Units 22 908 22 285 2.8% 77 816 78 771 -1.2%

Finland-Swede 6 708 7 536 -11.0% 22 711 24 942 -8.9%

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Estonia-Finla 12 787 10 852 17.8% 42 507 39 271 8.2%

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Estonia-Swede 2 814 2 669 5.4% 10 656 9 847 8.2%

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Latvia-Sweden 599 1 228 -51.2% 1 942 4 711 -58.8%

Passenger 81 080 82 472 -1.7% 244 018 248 131 -1.7%

Vehicles

Finland-Swede 9 364 10 001 -6.4% 26 031 25 675 1.4%

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Estonia-Finla 62 436 60 028 4.0% 189 332 186 613 1.5%

nd

Estonia-Swede 5 008 5 409 -7.4% 15 052 14 282 5.4%

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Latvia-Sweden 4 272 7 034 -39.3% 13 603 21 561 -36.9%

The following operational factors influenced the development in December 2014:

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.

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