The Baltic Sea ports of Helsinki and Tallinn have received EUR 29.3 million from the European Union for their jointly developed TWIN-PORT II project to improve the infrastructure and the maritime links between the two ports.
The Port of Helsinki together with the Port of Tallinn and AS Tallink Grupp, the ferry operator on this route, obtained the EU funding within the 2014 CEF (Connecting Europe Facility) program. The total cost of the planned investments is EUR 97.6 million.
At this stage the support to develop Helsinki-Tallinn maritime link in the period 2015-2018 is allocated as follows:
The CEF program is a continuation to TEN-T, where the initial TWIN-PORT project was started. The follow-up project is called TWIN-PORT II.
Helsinki-Tallinn line serves about 8 million passengers per year, while trucks and trailers carry over 3 million tons of cargo per year. The flows of traffic and passengers between the two ports have been constantly growing for a decade already.
”The continuing effective cooperation with Port of Helsinki and Tallink helps us to develop the link as a whole. It also supports the Twin-City idea and the Rail Baltic project,” said Ain Kaljurand, CEO of the Port of Tallinn.