page_title: Birka Cruises
section_title: Birka Cargo
hierarchical_section_title: Birka Cruises / Fleet / Birka Cargo
caption_attribution_description: English: Birka Cargo ro-ro freighter MS Birka Exporter at Sompasaari Harbour, Helsinki. IMO Number: 8820860 MMSI Number: 230204000 Callsign: OJDA Length: 122 m Beam: 18 m Suomi: Birka Cargo -yhtiön ro-ro rahtilaus MS Birka Exporter Sompasaaren satamassa Helsingissä.
context_page_description: Birka Cruises is an Ålandian shipping company that operates a cruise ship on the Baltic Sea with Stockholm as the starting point under the name Birka Cruises. Birka Line has a cargo-shipping subsidiary, Birka Cargo. During the 1970s the company was often marketed as Ålandslinjen. Since May 2007 Birka Line has been a daughter company of Rederiaktiebolaget Eckerö.
  In July 2020 Eckerö Line announced that it was shutting down its Birka Cruises subsidiary after 49 years of operation.
caption: MS Birka Exporter, a Birka Cargo ship, in Helsinki.
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