The shipping company also transported 624kt of non-unitised freight over this year's first half, a downtick of 1.9% on the H1 2017 result.

In addition, Finnlines' fleet carried 82k vehicles (+26.2% year-on-year; excl. passenger cars).

Some 304k private and commercial passengers (+6.7% yoy) travelled on-board the company's ships in the reported period, too.