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Transportation / Storage Land, Water And Air Transportation Water Transport 50 - Water transport
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
8 April 2008
Employment effect (start)
21 April 2008
Foreseen end date
Description
Tallink Grupp, one of the leading European ferry operators and subsidiary of Tallink Superfast Ltd., announced the creation of approximately 200 new jobs in April 2008 by operating on the Helsinki-Tallinn route with M/S Superstar, a new generation high speed vessel. On 8th of April, M/S Superstar was delivered from Fincantieri Cantieri Navali S.p.A. shipyard in Ancona (Italy) to Tallink Grupp. M/S Superstar will start servicing the passengers on bases of the Tallink Shuttle high speed ferry service, which was launched in 2007.Tallink Group serves more than 7 million passengers every year and offers high-quality mini-cruise and passenger transport services in the Northern Baltic Sea region. The company is also the leading provider of ro-ro cargo services on selected routes.
Sources
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Tallink Grupp, Business expansion in Estonia, factsheet number 66575, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66575.
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