# Old City Harbour

The Old City Harbour (Estonian: Vanasadam) is the main passenger harbour in Tallinn, Estonia. Regular lines serve routes to Helsinki (Finland) and Stockholm (Sweden)

## Overview

Old City Harbour is one of the five ports within the state-owned company Port of Tallinn. 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 Ericsson, Intel and Telia Estonia announced that they had implemented the first live public 5G network in Europe at the Tallinn Passenger Port to connect with Tallink cruise ships at the port.

## Terminals
### A-terminal

Shipping companies Eckerö Line and Viking Line operate scheduled services from A-terminal to Helsinki. 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:
| Company | Ship | Route |
| Eckerö Line | MS Finlandia | Tallinn – Helsinki |
| Viking Line | MS Viking XPRS | Tallinn – Helsinki |
| Viking Line | MS Viking Cinderella / MS Gabriella (during the summer season) | Tallinn – Helsinki |

### D-terminal

The shipping company Tallink operates scheduled services from D-terminal to Stockholm and Helsinki. Over 6 million passengers travel through this ferry terminal annually. The terminal building was renovated in 2020 and the cost was 18.5 million euros.
The terminal is served by bus lines 20, 20A and 66
Ships serving the terminal include:
| Company | Ship | Route |
| Tallink | MS Megastar | Tallinn – Helsinki |
| Tallink | MS MyStar | Tallinn – Helsinki |
| Tallink | MS Silja Europa | Tallinn – Helsinki |
| Tallink | MS Baltic Queen | Tallinn – Mariehamn – Stockholm |
| Tallink | MS Victoria I | Tallinn – Mariehamn – Stockholm |

## Carriers and destinations
### Regular carriers

| Carriers | Destinations | Terminal |
| Eckerö Line | Helsinki | A |
| Tallink | Helsinki, Mariehamn, Stockholm | D |
| Viking Line | Helsinki Seasonal: Stockholm | A |

### Cruise carriers (incl. all cruise ports)

| Carriers | Destinations |
| MSC Cruise | Aarhus, Alesund, Barcelona, Bergen, Copenhagen, Cork, Dover, Dublin, Flaam, Genoa, Gibraltar, Gothenborg, Greenock, Gdynia, Hamburg, Hellesylt/Geiranger, Helsinki, Haugesund, Ivergordon, Kiel, Klaipeda, Kotka, A Coruña, Le Havre, Lisbon, Marseille, Olden, Riga, Rotterdam, Saint Petersburg, Stavanger, Stockholm, Valencia, Visby, Warnemunde, Zeebrugge |
| Norwegian Cruise Line | Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Gdynia, Helsinki, Klaipeda, Le Havre, Riga, Rostock, Saint Petersburg, Southampton, Stockholm, Warnemunde |
| Royal Caribbean | Aarhus, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Fredericia, Helsinki, Klaipeda, Oslo, Riga, Saint Petersburg, Skagen, Southampton, Stavanger, Stockholm, Visby, Warnemunde |

## Statistics

Annual passenger statistics for Tallinn Passenger Port :
| Year | Total passengers |
| 2001 | 5,739,573 |
| 2002 | 5,944,942 |
| 2003 | 5,862,485 |
| 2004 | 6,737,926 |
| 2005 | 7,007,558 |
| 2006 | 6,760,149 |
| 2007 | 6,514,294 |
| 2008 | 7,247,366 |
| 2009 | 7,257,646 |
| 2010 | 7,915,113 |
| 2011 | 8,478,929 |
| 2012 | 8,841,679 |
| 2013 | 9,236,429 |
| 2014 | 9,569,313 |
| 2015 | 9,793,049 |
| 2016 | 10,173,297 |
| 2017 | 10,560,000 |
| 2018 | 10,619,000 |
| 2019 | 10,639,000 |
| 2020 | 4,333,000 |
| 2021 | 3,665,759 |
| 2022 | 7,213,655 |

## Gallery

* A-terminal in Old City Harbour
* Tallinn Passenger Port, seen from the rooftop of Portus hotel
* Harbour in 1941.