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Riga port reports 47.5% increase in passenger numbers for January-September
BC, Riga, 10.10.2017.
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Print versionDuring the first nine months of 2017 the number of ship passengers at the port of Riga grew by 47.5% against the same period in 2016 to 659,272 people, according to information available on the port’s official website, cites LETA.
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Of these people, 83,487 were cruise ship passengers. Their number increased
by 21.4% against the first nine months of last year.
As reported, Estonian ferry operator Tallink now has two ferries - the
Isabelle and the Romantika - running on the Riga-Stockholm route.
Previously only one ferry was running on the route every other day but in
December 2016 the cruise ferry Romantika started operating as a second ship on
the Riga-Stockholm route, and now there is daily ferry service between Riga and
Stockholm.
In 2016, the number of passengers served at the port of Riga reached
581,601, growing 10.5% compared to 2015.
Riga is the largest Latvian port in terms of both freight and passengers.
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