The key highlights were the following:
- All-time high annual passenger number and higher revenue
- New LNG fast ferry MEGASTAR started shuttle service on the Tallinn – Helsinki route
- New passenger terminal opened in Helsinki
- Lower chartering revenues
- Scheduled maintenance of five ships during the Q1 low season
- Increased competition on the Tallinn – Helsinki route
- Lower operating costs from the termination of the charter of fast ferry SUPERSTAR
- Effects from the re-routing of vessels in December 2016
- Renovated cruise ferry SILJA EUROPA returned to the Tallinn – Helsinki route
- Two ships on the Riga – Stockholm route
- Sale of two Superfast vessels in December 2017
- Group-wide ship renovation programme continued
