Much newer vessel to replace Regina Baltica on growing line
The Estonian shipping giant Tallink says that it plans to expand its business
in the Latvian market and to this end is replacing the ferry Regina Baltica,
built in 1980, with the much newer Romantika. The Romantika was built in 2002
and has been sailing between Tallinn and Stockholm.
The company hopes that two “modern ferries” – the Romantika and the Silja
Festival, which was built in 1986 – will attract more people to the
Riga-Stockholm line. Tallink Latvija’s turnover was LVL 600,000 (EUR 38,000) in
2008, a period in which 357,533 people travelled on the route, almost 40 percent
more than the previous year. Cargo also grew rapidly during the year, by 56.4
percent.
