SustainCase: How Tallink ensures onboard safety

Case study: How Tallink ensures onboard safety


As the largest ferry operator in the Baltic Sea region, offering high quality mini-cruise and passenger transport services on various routes between Finland and Sweden, Estonia and Finland, Estonia and Sweden, and Latvia and Sweden, with a fleet of 16 vessels, ensuring onboard safety is a top priority for Tallink.


Abstract


With 9.5 million passengers carried in 2016, keeping its ships and passengers safe is Tallink’s first priority. In order to ensure onboard safety Tallink took action to:

• comply with safety laws and regulations

• carry out safety training and exercises

• ensure emergency preparedness


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