{"id":154732,"date":"2026-01-15T02:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=154732"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:37:56","slug":"ferries-to-estonia-are-becoming-more-environmentally-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/ferries-to-estonia-are-becoming-more-environmentally-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferries to Estonia Are Becoming More Environmentally Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Both Ecker\u00f6 Line and Tallink, the ferry operators transporting passengers and cargo between Helsinki and Tallinn, have announced measures making crossings of the Gulf of Finland more environmentally friendly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Ecker\u00f6 Line is currently fitting the M\/S Finlandia at the shipyard with a battery solution that reduces carbon dioxide emissions. This will make Finlandia the first hybrid passenger ship in the Gulf of Finland, operating partly on electricity. The battery, installed in a fireproof container on deck 9, will provide power while the ship is in port as well as when arriving and departing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The company says this upgrade will <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eckeroline.com\/blog\/m-s-finlandia-in-dry-dock-6-23-january-2026-m-s-finbo-cargo-23-december-2025-6-january-2026-22-december-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">reduce the Finlandia\u2019s<\/span><\/a><\/span> fuel consumption by about three percent, equivalent to saving 500\u2013600 tons of fuel per year and lowering greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Meanwhile, Tallink Group CEO <b>Paavo N\u00f5gene<\/b> announced last week that the company\u2019s high-speed ships on the Helsinki\u2013Tallinn route will now run exclusively on biomethane. According to N\u00f5gene, this environmentally friendly transition will help Tallink reduce its emissions trading costs. From this year onward, ferry operators must purchase the full amount of emission allowances mandated by EU directives, as the Estonian government does not provide support to companies in the maritime sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/company.tallink.com\/media-centre\/press-releases#12086\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tallink\u2019s passenger numbers<\/span> <\/a>on the Finland\u2013Estonia route grew 1.8% last year compared with 2024. Summer was especially strong, with nearly 1.3 million passengers transported between Helsinki and Tallinn\u2014almost a quarter of Tallink\u2019s total 5.53 million passengers across all routes in 2025. Cargo transport, however, fell 20% year-on-year on the same route.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Both Ecker\u00f6 Line and Tallink, the ferry operators transporting passengers and cargo between Helsinki and Tallinn, have announced measures &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":154666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[309,13294,13624,24853,26674,26675,26677],"class_list":["post-154732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-estonia","tag-tallinn","tag-helsinki-2","tag-tallink-2","tag-environment","tag-fuel-consumption","tag-ferry-operators","tag-ferry-trip"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154733,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154732\/revisions\/154733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}