Silja Line
Silja Line is one of the brand names for the passenger and freight services of the Tallink Group (based in Tallinn , Estonia ) owned shipping company Tallink Silja Oy , based in Espoo , Finland. This emerged from Silja Oy AB , which was taken over 100% by the Estonian Tallink Group on July 19, 2006 . Silja Line currently operates a fleet of four ships, the subsidiary SeaWind Line operates another ship.
history
Today's Tallink Silja Oy was founded in 1883 as Finska Ångfartygs Ab - Suomen Höyrylaiva Oy - FÅA / SHO for short ( Finnish Steamship Company ). In 1957, together with Stockholm's cooperation partners Rederi Ab Svea and Ångfartygs Ab Bore, Turku, the company founded the Siljarederiet - Siljavarustamo shipping company for the steadily increasing car ferry traffic . From 1961, the Skandia, built in Helsinki near Wärtsilä, was the first car ferry built in Finland for this purpose. In 1972 the shipping company Silja became the marketing company Silja Line and the ownership and management of Silja's own ships was transferred to the three parent companies Bore, Svea and SHO / FÅA. In 1992, the Silja Line took over the complete management of the fleet under its logo from the parent company EffJohn (today Silja Oy AB ). In 2003, the parent company Silja Oy AB and the subsidiary Silja Line Oy were merged . With SeaWind Line , founded in 1988 , the company operates a subsidiary specializing in freight and simple transport. In 1999 the British Sea Containers Ltd. bought the majority of the Silja Line and from 2002 owned all shares. On June 12, 2006 the sale of the Silja Line for 450 million euros and five million shares to the Estonian AS Tallink Group was announced. After the necessary approvals from the competent competition authorities in Finland, Sweden and Estonia, Silja Oy AB was sold to Tallink on July 19, 2006 . This reduces the fleet from 11 to six ferries, as several ferries remained in the possession of the previous owner Sea Containers.
On December 1, 2006, the Finnish subsidiaries of Tallink ( Tallink Finland Oy , Silja Oy AB and Superfast Finland ) merged under the umbrella of Silja Oy AB , which changed its name to Tallink Silja Oy on December 1 . The company remained based in Keilaniemi / Kägeludden in Espoo / Esbo near Helsinki. The Swedish subsidiaries were merged under the name Tallink Silja AB , Stockholm.
Company data
The company carried a total of 5.4 million passengers in 2003 with 3558 employees, the market share on the popular connections between Finland and Sweden was 57% (24% on the fast growing market between Helsinki and Tallinn ). In the freight sector, Silja has a 35% share between Finland and Sweden and 25% between Finland and Estonia . The annual turnover was 517 million euros (2003).
In 2017, Tallink Silja carried 9,755,720 passengers (2016: 9,457,522) and 364,296 freight transport units (2016: 328,190).
The biggest competitors in Sweden-Finland traffic are Viking Line , Finnlink and Eckeröline .
Routes
Silja operates the following routes in scheduled and cruise traffic:
fleet
Current fleet
Ferry ships for combined freight and passenger traffic:
- Helsinki - Mariehamn / Långnäs - Stockholm route
- Silja Serenade (since 1990) (renovated in January 2006 and February 2014)
- Silja Symphony (since 1991) (renovated in January 2006 and September 2014)
- Route Stockholm - (Mariehamn / Långnäs) - Turku (partly direct connections)
- Galaxy (since 2008)
- Baltic Princess (since 2013)
Selection of former ferries
- Silja Europa (built in 1993) has been chartered to Australia as a barge from August 2014
- Bore Star / Silja Star , wrecked in Aliaga in 2013
- Vasa Express , later Color Traveler , now Tjelvar at Destination Gotland
- Wasa Jubilee (1998)
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Fennia , 1966–1983
1990–2003 (since 2001 as Casino Express with RG Line ) - Silja Festival , 1992–2008 (ex Wellamo built in 1986, now as Silja Festival near Tallink )
- Skandia , 1980–1983, ex BORE I 1973–1980
- Silja Star , 1990/1991 (then Wasa King until 1993, Estonia from 1994, sunk in 1994)
- Finlandia 1981–1990 (now Moby Dada )
- Stena Saga 1981–1991 (formerly Silvia Regina at Stena Line )
- Svea Corona 1984/1985
- Svea 1985–1992 (afterwards Silja Carnival until 1994, Color Festival until 2008, today Mega Smeralda )
- Silja Scandinavia 1994–1997 (today's Gabriella from Viking Line AB )
- Seacat Danmark 2000
- Silja Opera 2002–2006 (ex Sally Albatross , transferred to the SeaContainers Ltd. fleet, sold to Greek Louis Cruise Lines in May 2007 after being laid up in Tilbury, cruise ship, new name: Cristal ; now Celestyal Crystal )
- Finnjet 1977-2006 (transferred to the fleet of SeaContainers Ltd. (subsidiary Finnjet Bermuda Ltd. ), sold to the Dutch shipping company Club Cruise at the end of 2007, renamed Da Vinci on January 16, 2008and Kingdom in May, was changed from September 2008 scrapped in Alang )
- Superseacat Four 2000–2006 (transferred to Seacat Finland Oy's fleet after the sale of Silja )
- Superseacat Three 2003-2006 (transferred to Seacat Finland Oy's fleet after the sale of Silja )
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Bore Star / Silja Star 1975–1980
1980–1986 ( chartered to Finnlines as Finnpartner between 1975 and 1977 )
Former Seawind Line ferries
- Sea Wind 1989-, Stockholm - Turku (operated under the Tallink brand since 2010)
- Star Wind 1999-2005 (ex Rostock , today Kopernik for Unity Line on the Ystad – Swinoujscie route)
- Sky Wind 2002–2007 (sold to Unity Line in August 2007, Wolin there )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank Binder: Over 9.5 million passengers · More goods transported · Another record year for AS Tallink Grupp . In: Daily port report of January 11, 2018, p. 15
- ↑ Bore Star. October 5, 2013, accessed June 17, 2014 .
- ^ Travemünde - Sally Star - Wasa Express - Thjelvar - Color Traveler. Retrieved July 30, 2013 .
- ↑ Valab Jubilee. September 22, 2013, accessed June 17, 2014 .
- ^ Fennia - Casino Express. September 22, 2013, accessed June 17, 2014 .
- ↑ Bore Star. September 22, 2013, accessed June 17, 2014 .
