Old City Harbour

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Old City Harbour
(Vanasadam)
Old City Harbour, Tallinn.jpg
Old City Harbour, Tallinn, Estonia
Location
Country Estonia
Location Tallinn
Coordinates 59°26′40″N24°46′00″E / 59.44444°N 24.76667°E / 59.44444; 24.76667
Details
Operated by Port of Tallinn
Type of harbour passenger harbour, cruise harbour, marina
Size of harbour75.9 ha (aquatory)
Land area52.9 ha
No. of piers 27
Statistics
Passenger traffic10.6 million passengers (2019) [1]
Website
http://www.portoftallinn.com/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).

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Overview

After arriving at the Tallinn Passenger Port, most tourists often walk along Sadama street to the Old Town. Sadama in Tallinn.jpg
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 MSC Poesia Vision of the Seas & Mein Schiff 2 in Tallinn 13 June 2012.JPG
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

CarriersDestinationsTerminal
Eckerö Line Helsinki A [6]
Tallink Helsinki, Mariehamn, Stockholm D [7]
Viking Line Helsinki

Seasonal: Stockholm

A [6]

Cruise carriers (incl. all cruise ports)

CarriersDestinations
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
YearTotal passengers
20015,739,573
20025,944,942
20035,862,485
20046,737,926
20057,007,558
20066,760,149
20076,514,294
20087,247,366
20097,257,646
20107,915,113
20118,478,929
20128,841,679
20139,236,429
20149,569,313
20159,793,049
201610,173,297
201710,560,000
201810,619,000
201910,639,000
20204,333,000
20213,665,759
20227,213,655

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