The Old City Harbour ( et, Vanasadam) is the main passenger harbour in
Tallinn
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,
Estonia
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. Regular lines serve routes to
Helsinki
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(
Finland
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),
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St. Petersburg
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).
Overview
Old City Harbour is one of the five ports within the state-owned company
Port of Tallinn
Port of Tallinn ( et, Tallinna Sadam) is the biggest port authority in Estonia. Taking into account both cargo and passenger traffic, it is one of the largest port enterprises of the Baltic Sea.
Port of Tallinn is a publicly listed company manag ...
. It is one of the biggest and busiest passenger harbours in the world and also the biggest passenger harbour in Estonia. The port operates three passenger terminals (A, B and D), total length of its berths is 4.2 kilometres. Vessels with maximum length of 340 metres, 42 metres wide and draught of 10.7 m can enter the port.
In 2019, the port served 10.64 million passengers.
The port is operating 339-metre long quay intended for cruise ships. It was completed in spring of year 2004 and its cost at the time was over 80 million
kroons. The number of the cruise passengers is increasing steadily, also by the implementing of
turnarounds in cooperation with Tallinn Airport. In order to cope with that numbers and increasing size of the cruise ships arriving in Tallinn, Port of Tallinn started in May 2013 the construction of the new quay next to the existing cruise ships quay in the Old City harbour. The total length of the quay built by the Estonian branch of BMGS is 421 metres. With the new quay, the Port of Tallinn is able to moor cruise ships up to 340 metres in length, up to 42 metres in width, and with the draft of up to nine metres. The total cost of the project was 9.34 million euros.
Also Old City Marina - a new marina for recreational vessels established in 2010 - is a part of Tallinn's Old City Harbour.
On 29 September 2017 at the EU Digital Summit in Tallinn, a partnership of
Ericsson
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,
Intel
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and
Telia Estonia announced that they had implemented the first live public
5G network in Europe at the Tallinn Passenger Port to connect with
Tallink
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cruise ships at the port.
Carriers and destinations
Regular carriers
Cruise carriers (incl. all cruise ports)
Statistics
Gallery
File:Ships in the port of Tallin.jpg,
File:The passenger harbour of Tallinn in autumn.jpg,
File:Port of Tallinn (by Pudelek).JPG, A-terminal in Old City Harbour
File:Tallink Star in 2013.JPG, Tallinn Passenger Port, seen from the rooftop of Portus hotel
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 141-0154, Reval, Hafen.jpg, Harbour in 1941.
See also
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Baltic Sea cruiseferries
The Baltic Sea is crossed by several cruiseferry lines. Some important shipping companies are Viking Line, Silja Line, Tallink, St. Peter Line and Eckerö Line.
Eastern Baltic
Tallink and Viking Line operate competing cruiseferries on the routes ...
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Transport in Estonia
Transport in Estonia relies mainly on road and rail networks.
Roads
*Total: 57,565 km (including 16,465 km of national roads)
*Paved: 12,926 km (including 99 km of limited-access roads)
National roads
National roads for ...
References
External links
Old City Harbour web pagePassenger ship scheduleMap of harbour area
{{Ports of Estonia
Kesklinn, Tallinn
Ports and harbours of Estonia
Transport in Tallinn
Water transport in Estonia
Buildings and structures in Tallinn