Adam pisze:Akurat Tallin jest niewątpliwym fenomenem. Galaxy to "małe piwo". Szokujący jest ich portfel zamówień, zakup w ostatnich dniach trzech Superfastów razem z liną Rostock - Hanko i plany zakupu Silja Line. Myślę, że za Talliniem nie stoi tylko "mała Estonia", ale zapewne też bogaci inwestorzy ze Skandynawii. Poza tym szczęściem Tallinka jest operowanie w "złotym trójkącie" żeglugi promowej, jaki niewątpliwie tworzą Sztokholm - Helsinki i Tallin.
Poza tym nie leckewarzyłbym "małej Estoni" - to kraj na miarę możliwości (i z takimi ambicjami) Finlandii. Czyli - mały może więcej niż się wydaje
Tallink to firma:
- powstała jako spółka rosyjsko-fińska a nie "natywnie radziecka", więc od początku musiało być w niej trochę kapitalistycznej ambicji / ducha przedsiębiorczości oraz zachodnich standardów businessowych..
- obecnie już (od ładnych paru lat) sprywatyzowana
- obecnie (tez nie od wczoraj) giełdowa...
...to wiele wyjaśnia...
Company History
The origins of the Tallink brand go back to 1989, when a company named Tallink was founded as a Finnish-Soviet joint venture. The business of the venture was primarily intended to transport tourist passengers on the approximately 80 kilometer route between Helsinki and Tallinn. In 1990, its first year of operation, the company operated only one chartered vessel, the ferry Tallink, and transported approximately 166,000 passengers on the Helsinki – Tallinn route. In 1991, Estonia became independent, which rapidly increased interest in visiting Estonia, mostly among the Finnish public. To respond to the growing demand for trips from Finland to Estonia, the company also chartered the ferry Georg Ots in 1993, which was previously competing with the company’s own ferry. During 1993, when the state-owned Estonian Shipping Company (“ESCO”) acquired the remaining shareholdings, the company also marked the milestone of one million passengers annually.
In 1994, an operating company named EMINRE was established, in which [private investors] held a majority and ESCO was a minority shareholder. This operating company acquired the business of the original Tallink company in 1995 and continued to use the Tallink brand. By the mid-1990s, the market for transport between Helsinki and Tallinn had evolved as a growing group of passengers began to prefer a quicker form of transport to the more leisurely cruise concept. As a result, so-called high-speed ferries arrived on the routes. These could transport passengers between the two capitals in approximately one hour and 40 minutes, as opposed to the approximately three and a half hours required for the more traditional cruise ferries. Five cruise ferries and two high-speed ferries were operated between Helsinki and Tallinn and in 1995, we carried 1.8 million passengers on that route.
In 1996, the operating company changed its name to AS Hansatee but continued to operate under the Tallink brand. One of the previous shareholders left to start its competing shipping business. In the same year, a new management team headed by current chairman of the management board Enn Pant was brought in to improve our performance.
We had initially chartered all our vessels, but the new management changed our operating model from chartering to ship ownership. In March 1997, we commenced an investment and fleet renewal program involving expansion to new routes and acquisitions of new ferries starting from one high-speed ferry and two passenger cruise ferries in 1997. During the same year Tallink was subject to management buy-out by our current management, the present group structure was introduced and AS Hansatee became Aktsiaselts Hansatee Grupp, which was then in 2002 renamed Aktsiaselts Tallink Grupp.
In 1998, we marked the milestone of two million annual passengers as well as the introduction of the first route between Sweden and Estonia (Kapellskär – Paldiski in 1998 with the Stockholm – Tallinn route following in 2000). We have continued to implement the growth strategy by acquiring additional cruise and high-speed ferries. We further ordered two high-class cruise ferries the first of which, Romantika, was delivered in 2002.
In 2003, a group of international institutional investors became shareholders of Tallink through an international private placement transaction. The offering amounted in total to EUR 37 million where new shares were issued by Tallink and a part of existing shares were sold by Tallink’s largest shareholder Infortar. The private placement transaction enabled us to continue with our growth strategy. In 2004 we acquired two additional high-speed ferries, our second ro-ro cargo vessel and launched Romantika’s sister vessel Victoria I.
Udziałowcy w 2005:
INFORTAR AS 61 084 808 55,53 %
ING LUXEMBOURG S.A. 13 902 104 12,64 %
CITIBANK HONG KONG / CITICORP INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION 6 997 648 6,36 %
SKANDINAVISKA ENSKILDA BANKEN Ab CLIENTS 5 543 992 5,04 %
KESKINÄINEN ELÄKEVAKUUTUSYHTIÖ ILMARINEN 3 599 996 3,27 %
FIREBIRD REPUBLICS FUND LTD 2 984 304 2,71 %
DANSKE CAPITAL FINLAND OY CLIENTS ACCOUNT 2 493 886 2,27 %
NORDEA BANK FINLAND PLC CORPORATE CLIENTS 1 519 996 1,38 %
HANSABANKAS CLIENTS 1 019 997 0,93 %
KEIJO ERKKI MEHTONEN 957 600 0,87 %
The majority of shares of Tallink Grupp belong to the investment company Infortar with the headquarters in Tallinn, the company is under the supervision of executive managers of Tallink Grupp.
tu trochę historii na pocztówkach...
http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/Tallink.html