2021 Newsletter week 42

La Méridionale made a 12.7 million negative operating result in the first half of 2021, better than the 15.9 million negative in the first half of 2020.

La Méridionale is bringing the whole STEF group (specialised in temperature-controlled transport and logistics services for food products) into a loss.

• Health restrictions on passenger and freight transport continue to weigh on all of La Méridionale’s activities.
• However, La Méridionale has recorded a positive change in turnover through its service to the main port of Ajaccio and the departmental port of Propriano as part of a 22-month public-service delegation between Corsica and the continent, which began on 1st March 2021.
• Despite market interest, the new Marseille-Tangier (Morocco) maritime line has experienced erratic swings in activity due to the pandemic.

Tallink Grupp has recently signed a charter agreement for its ropax ROMANTIKA, which has also been hired to provide accommodation at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), taking place in Glasgow on 31 October – 12 November this year.

The company announced only a few weeks ago that it signed a charter agreement for its Tallinn-Helsinki route cruise vessel SILJA EUROPA to provide accommodation services at the global climate conference in Glasgow during the period 21 October to 14 November 2021.

ROMANTIKA has been chartered for the period 15 October – 15 November 2021 and will provide accommodation and catering services to the charterer’s personnel and guests. The vessel has been chartered via specialist company Landry & Kling Global Cruise Services with full technical and service crew from Tallink Grupp for the duration of the charter.