The Old City Harbour () is the main passenger harbour in

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Overview

Old City Harbour is one of the five ports within the state-owned company

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. It is one of the biggest and busiest passenger harbours in the world and also the biggest passenger harbour in Estonia. The port operates two passenger terminals (A 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. In 2019, the port served 10.64 million passengers. 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. 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

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and Telia Estonia announced that they had implemented the first live public 5G network in Europe at the Tallinn Passenger Port to connect with

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cruise ships at the port.

Terminals

A-terminal

Shipping companies

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operate scheduled services from A-terminal to

. The A-terminal and the old ''B-terminal'' are connected to each other to provide more efficient passenger flow. Terminal is served by bus line nr. 2 Ships serving the terminal are:

D-terminal

The shipping company

operates scheduled services from D-terminal to

and

. Over 6 million passengers travel through this

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annually. The terminal building was renovated in 2020 and the cost was 18.5 million euros. Silegna leaving Tallinn 14 June 2023

The terminal is served by bus lines 20, 20A and 66 Ships serving the terminal include:

Carriers and destinations

Regular carriers

Cruise carriers (incl. all cruise ports)

Statistics

Gallery

File:Ships in the port of Tallin.jpg, File:The passenger harbour of Tallinn in autumn.jpg, File:Port of Tallinn (by Pudelek).JPG, A-terminal in Old City Harbour File:Tallink Star in 2013.JPG, Tallinn Passenger Port, seen from the rooftop of Portus hotel File:Bundesarchiv Bild 141-0154, Reval, Hafen.jpg, Harbour in 1941.

References

External links

Old City Harbour web page

A-terminal

Passenger ship schedule

Map of harbour area

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