Old City Harbour

The Old City Harbour (Estonian: Vanasadam) is the main passenger harbour in Tallinn, Estonia. Regular lines serve routes to Helsinki (Finland), Stockholm (Sweden) and St. Petersburg (Russia).

Old City Harbour
(Vanasadam)
Old City Harbour, Tallinn, Estonia
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Location
CountryEstonia
LocationTallinn
Coordinates59°26′40″N 24°46′00″E
Details
Operated byPort of Tallinn
Type of harbourpassenger harbour, cruise harbour, marina
Size of harbour75.9 ha (aquatory)
Land area52.9 ha
No. of piers27
Statistics
Passenger traffic10.6 million passengers (2019)[1]
Website
http://www.portoftallinn.com/old-city-harbour

Overview
After arriving at the Tallinn Passenger Port, most tourists often walk along Sadama street to the Old Town.

Old City Harbour is one of the five ports within the state-owned company Port of Tallinn. It is one of the biggest and busiest passenger harbours in the world and also the biggest passenger harbour in Estonia.[2] 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.[3][4] In 2019, the port served 10.64 million passengers.

Cruise ships berthed at cruise terminal

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.[4]

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, Intel 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 cruise ships at the port.[5]

Carriers and destinations

Regular carriers
Carriers Destinations Terminal
Eckerö Line Helsinki A[6]
Tallink Helsinki, Mariehamn, Stockholm D[7]
Viking Line Helsinki

Seasonal: Stockholm

 A[6]

Cruise carriers (incl. all cruise ports)
Carriers Destinations
MSC Cruise[8] Aarhus, Alesund, Barcelona, Bergen, Copenhagen, Cork, Dover, Dublin, Flaam, Genoa, Gibraltar, Gothenborg, Greenock, Gdynia, Hamburg, Hellesylt/Geiranger, Helsinki, Haugesund, Ivergordon, Kiel, Klaipeda, Kotka, A Coruña, Le Havre, Lisbon, Marseille, Olden, Riga, Rotterdam, Saint Petersburg, Stavanger, Stockholm, Valencia, Visby, Warnemunde, Zeebrugge
Norwegian Cruise Line Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Gdynia, Helsinki, Klaipeda, Le Havre, Riga, Rostock, Saint Petersburg, Southampton, Stockholm, Warnemunde
Royal Caribbean Aarhus, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Fredericia, Helsinki, Klaipeda, Oslo, Riga, Saint Petersburg, Skagen, Southampton, Stavanger, Stockholm, Visby, Warnemunde

Statistics
Annual passenger statistics for Tallinn Passenger Port
Year Total passengers
2001 5,739,573
2002 5,944,942
2003 5,862,485
2004 6,737,926
2005 7,007,558
2006 6,760,149
2007 6,514,294
2008 7,247,366
2009 7,257,646
2010 7,915,113
2011 8,478,929
2012 8,841,679
2013 9,236,429
2014 9,569,313
2015 9,793,049
2016 10,173,297
2017 10,560,000
2018 10,619,000
2019 10,639,000
2020 4,333,000
2021 3,665,759
2022 7,213,655
  • A-terminal in Old City Harbour
    A-terminal in Old City Harbour
  • Tallinn Passenger Port, seen from the rooftop of Portus hotel
    Tallinn Passenger Port, seen from the rooftop of Portus hotel
  • Harbour in 1941.
    Harbour in 1941.

See also

References
  1. "Port of Tallinn 2019 Q4 and full year passenger and cargo flows". Port of Tallinn. 10 January 2020. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  2. "Helsinki set to become world's busiest sea passenger port". Yle.fi. 3 August 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  3. "In 2013 Port of Tallinn served record number of passengers, cargo handling declined slightly". 6 January 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  4. "New cruise ship quay was opened in Port of Tallinn on Saturday". 16 May 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  5. "5G goes live in the Port of Tallinn". Ericsson. 29 September 2017. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  6. "Terminal A".
  7. "Terminal D".
  8. "MSC Cruise: Find Cruise".
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