In April 2021, Tallink Grupp transported:
- 84,347 passengers (+162.1%)
- 29,493 freight (+6.3%)
- 26,823 passenger vehicles (+642.0%)
Tallink Grupp Publishes 2021 First Quarter Financial Results
- Net loss amounted to EUR 34.4 million (net loss of EUR 30.2 million in Q1 2020)
- -65.3% Revenue EUR 53.7 million
- EBITDA EUR -6.3 million (EUR -1.3 million)
- Despite the significant drop in revenue in Q1, Tallink managed to avoid as significant a decline in EBITDA. This is the result of significant efforts in cost control, increasing efficiencies and also the various support measures the company has been able to utilise.
- The company continues to maintain a strong liquidity buffer of EUR 96.4 million, combined in cash and unused credit lines.
- In addition, the company also has EUR 90.0 million of undrawn part of a working capital loan from Nordic Investment Bank.
- Major investments were all carried out in 2020, so the company expects the level of investments required for the rest of 2021 to remain low.
- Number of Tallink Grupp’s shareholders has continued to grow in these challenging times, reaching a total of 25702 shareholders to date = shareholders’ faith and trust.
In February 2021 AS Tallink Grupp transported:
-88.9% passengers 74,129
-24.1% cargo units 26,407
-75.2% passenger vehicles 18,642
Tallink Grupp has filed a legal action against AS Tallinna Sadam (Port of Tallinn) at the Harju County Court with a claim in the total amount of EUR 15.4 million. With the action Tallink Grupp is demanding that the Port of Tallinn reimburses the company a part of the excessively high fees that were paid for the port services in the Old City Harbour (Tallinna Vanasadam).
Tallink Grupp reported an unaudited net loss of EUR 108.3 million for the 2020 financial year (net profit of EUR 49.7 million in 2019), resulting from travel restrictions, border closures and states of emergency due to the global COVID 19 pandemic.
Consolidated revenue amounted EUR 442.9 million (949.1 million)
EBITDA EUR 8.0 million (171.1 million)
Gross profit EUR -43.5 million
-62% passengers
-5.2% cargo units
-20% trips
Attempts to boost its operations by setting up various temporary routes during summer 2020 and by operating a number of special cruises where possible. These attempts were once again curbed in autumn 2020 by travel restrictions.
Investments EUR 100.1 million.
Mainly prepayment instalments for the new LNG-fuelled vessel MYSTAR (2022).
Also increasing the company’s cargo capacity by acquiring roro SAILOR.
The group ended the year with a total liquidity buffer of EUR 147.1 million (EUR 128.9 million in 2019).
Employee numbers: from 7240 at the end of 2019 to 4237 at the end of 2020.
Tallink Grupp’s CEO Paavo Nõgene: “As we wait for the COVID storm to pass and borders to reopen for travelling, we continue to develop business areas we feel will give us a strategic advantage going forward and enable us to spread risks, make preparations for offering our services again with an even stronger focus on safety and sustainability and get ready to provide safe and happy journeys and to reunite people around the Baltic sea after a year of separation.”
Tallink Grupp will require passengers travelling to Finland to present a negative COVID-19 test result certificate or a certificate from the GP evidencing that the passenger has recovered from coronavirus. The new requirement follows a strong recommendation from the Finnish Health Authority (Terveyden ja hyvinvointilaitos) to all shipping companies operating passenger ferries between Finland and neighbouring countries to introduce such a requirement.
In January 2021 AS Tallink Grupp transported
- -80.4% passengers (121,116)
- -8.4% cargo units (27,283)
- -48.7% passenger vehicles (37,453)
“Having started the year with over 7,200 dedicated employees in the group this year, we are faced with the reality of this number of good employees, dedicated and passionate tourism sector people in our company falling below the 5,000 mark by the end of this year.”
Tallink Grupp’s CEO Paavo Nõgene
Q3 is normally the high season for Tallink Grupp. This year it has been heavily affected by the pandemic and its travel restrictions.
- -7% Trips
- -55.8% Passengers
- -1.9% Cargo units
- -50.0% Consolidated revenue
EBITDA was EUR 5.7 million (EUR 83.2 million in Q3 2019)
Net loss was EUR 23.9 million (EUR 54.6 million in Q3 2019).
Q3 financial result was impacted by the following factors:
- Significant decrease in operating expenses
- Negative impact from one-off costs related to redundancies process in the amount of EUR 3.1 million
- Positive impact from support measures, including the temporary salary compensation measure in Sweden and exemption from ships’ fairway dues in Estonia.
Outlook: “Due to the ongoing Covid-19 situation the earnings outlook has become uncertain and continues to be largely subject to external factors such as the states’ decisions regarding the timing of lifting of the travel restrictions, allowing passenger traffic as well as the duration of the recovery period.”
Tallink: Freight Status Quo, Passengers Dropped Sharply
September
- -1% Cargo Units 32,672 units (32,843 in September 2019)
- -66% Passengers 243,215 passengers (718,354)
- -25% Cars 62,138 vehicles (83,089)
Q3
- -2% Cargo Units 91,578 (93,329)
- -56% Passengers 1,314,301 (2,974,790)
- -22% Cars 275,735 (353,725)
Paavo Nõgene, CEO of Tallink Grupp said that Tallinks business model needs cargo AND passengers. “Putting travel restrictions in place for passengers strongly affects the operators’ income base. This is why it is important that support mechanisms are put in place by the Finnish government, who has introduced the new restrictions, for all passenger ferry operators to ensure that cargo transportation can continue smoothly and without incurring losses.”
Tallink Grupp has appointed Joonas Joost as the group’s Finance Director with effect from Monday, 7 September 2020.
